Landscape View of Big Spring, Texas

Big Spring, TX
Landscape View of Big Spring, Texas

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Photo Credit The Grace Museum - The Portal to Texas History
Category Stations & Structures

Description

2 photographs of a landscape view of Big Spring, Texas. There is a small pen in the foreground. Written underneath the image are "Big Spring in the 1890's - This unusual view of Big Springs (as it was known then) was taken from the northwest slopes and includes the T&P shops to the right. The steeple of the courthouse, erected less than a decade earlier may be seen dimly in the centre. Some say the pens in the foreground were on a tract owned by the Earl of Aylesford and operated by his friend, John Birdwell" and "Big Spring Heritage Museum." On the back of the mat is a card with an image of Heneage Finch and a short description of his life, as well as a letter from Joe Pickle to a man named Don.

Big Spring Heritage Museum. [Landscape View of Big Spring, Texas], photograph, 1890~/1899~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth860274/: accessed March 5, 2020), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Grace Museum.