- A1999-030.0011
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Interior wall of a hand-dug well at Randado lined with “sillarea” (caliche blocks.) Nearly 90 feet deep. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0012
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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"Noria con buque" (hand-dug waterwell for watering livestock) Los Olmos Ranch, Duval County, dug in the 1850s, lined with caliche blocks. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0013
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Early hand-dug well, Mota de Olmos Ranch, Duval County, lined with “sillares” (caliche blocks). Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0014
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Hand dug cistern at Villa Nueva, Mexico. A hand dug cistern was part of a water collection system designed to save rainwater for household use. This was necessary where surface water was brackish or heavily mineralized. Photo by Joe Graham
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- A1999-030.0015
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Wife of a “vaquero” and child at home altar. The wife made clothes, cooked, tended gardens, and the house, nutured and nursed the children, and like the "Duenos" often had her own home altar where she worshipped and where she taught her children to worship. Russell Lee Collection, University of Texas-Austin.
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- A1999-030.0016
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Water tank made of “sillares” (caliche blocks) on the Armstrong Ranch, Jim Hogg County. Built in the 1880s it is still in use, although two watering troughs have recently been added to the sides. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0017
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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A “noria con buque” (well with bucket) located on the Armstrong Ranch near Hebbronville, in Jim Hogg County. Built in the 1980s, it has recently dried up due to a drop in the sub-surface water table. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0018
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Windmill over hand-dug well, as was the procedure when windmills first arrived in South Texas about 1880. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0019
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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“Sillar” ranch house. Mota de Olmos, Duval County, built in the early 1850’s (square with flat roof) When Indians were in the area, the family gathered food and water, secured the doors, and climbed to the flat "Chipichil" roof. Photo by Ruben Escobar Family
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0020
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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One of two similar houses built on the El Guajillo Ranch in Duval County, TX, in the early 1860's by Antonio Hinojosa. Unlike most Tejano houses of the times, these had a pitched roof made of machine-cut lumber and factory-made wooden shingles hauled from Corpus Christi, TX, on wagons. |
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- A1999-030.0021
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Early corrals, Norias Division, King Ranch, with cowboys working, made of cut lumber. In the 1870s these began to replace "corrales de lena"1 on Anglo ranches in South Texas. Photo taken 1n 1913. Photo from King Ranch Archives
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- A1999-030.0022
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Half “jacal”/half board-and-batten structure from the period between 1890-1920, with six people and goats. Photo from John Conner Museum
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0023
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Beginning in the 1890s the simple board-and-batten house gradually replaced the "jacals" of the working class. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0024
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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An Artesian well on the King Ranch, drilled in about 1903 produced several thousand gallons of water per day. Photo from King Ranch Archives
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0025
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Between 1905 and 1910, on the first and third Tuesday of each month, Special Excursion trains took perspective Anglo home seekers and farmers to explore the "Magic Valley" and other irrigational areas of South Texas. Photo from Hidalgo County Historical Museum
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- A1999-030.0026
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Flyer advertising South Texas farm lands for sale. Flyers like this one attracted farmers from the midwest. From John E. Conner Museum. |
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- A1999-030.0027
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Man with a team of tree mules drawing a “Fresno” building earthen dams. Photo from Doc McGregor Photo Collection
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0028
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Two early automobiles on the Alta Vista Ranch in southern Jim Hogg County. The car and the pickup brought a new mobility to South Texas ranch people. Ca 1925. Photo from W.W. Jones Family Archives
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- A1999-030.0029
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Early irrigation canal system under construction showing teams of mules. 1915.Irrigation canals made possible a boom in cultivated lands along the Rio Grande. Photo from Hidalgo County Historical Museum
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- A1999-030.0030
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Five workers and two mules with hay bailing machine in hay field. Modern ranching methods led to a decline in the number of cowboys required to care for the cattle, but ranchers also needed field hands to raise hay and other feed crops for their livestock. Photo from Hidalgo County Historical Museum
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- A1999-030.0031
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Field workers picking root crops – onions. A new type of labor force was created in South Texas, migrant labor, which followed the crops from the lower Rio Grande Valley northward toward the Nueces River and eventually into other states. Photo from Hidalgo County Historical Museum
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- A1999-030.0032
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Mexican laborer in fields as it is being irrigated. Photo from Hidalgo County Historical Museum
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0033
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Mexican vaqueros, Encarnacion Morales, five sons, stepson, two sons-in-law, began working on the Kenedy ranch in 1882. Photo from Roberto Villarreal
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- A1999-030.0034
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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“Presa” *(dam) at El Randado, built in about 1830. After 150 years, the reservoir is still used to water cattle. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0035
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Early handmade cement watering trough. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0036
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Old dipping vat on el Cameron Ranch in Zapata County. Built ca 1930, used to kill ticks that caused "Texas Fever." B/W. Photo by Joe Graham
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- A1999-030.0037
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Wooden feed trough for cattle on the Armstrong Ranch in Jim Hogg County. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0038
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Typical round-up on a South Texas ranch, about 1920, cowboys with cattle. Photo from King Ranch Archives
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- A1999-030.0039
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Oil rig blowout west of Corpus Christi, Nov. 8, 1922. Cattle raising often became secondary when ranchers experienced an oil blowout. Photo from Doc McGregor Photo Collection
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- A1999-030.0040
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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John F. Camp Drilling co., men and trucks at oil rig in south Texas. Ca 1920. Photo from Doc McGregor Photo Collection
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- A1999-030.0041
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Deserted oil tanks from the 1920’s and 1930’s. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0042
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Ranch entranceway built of castaway oil field pipe and drill stems. Bustamante’s in Zapata County. Photo by Joe Graham
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- A1999-030.0043
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Ranch entranceway built of castaway oil field pipe in Zapata County. (Six Pack Ranch) Gateways have become a folk art in South Texas. Photo by Joe Graham
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- A1999-030.0044
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Modern corral made of used oil field pipe and drill stem, Rancho el Nono Feliz in Zapata County. Photo by Joe Graham
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- A1999-030.0045
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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The electric pump and pressure tank have replaced the windmill as a source of water for both cattle and humans. B/W. 9.5 x 6.5. Photo by Joe Graham
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- A1999-030.0046
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Fiberglass pressure tank with pump on the Armstrong Ranch, which has replaced the windmills and hand-dug wells as a source of water for cattle. Photo by Joe Graham
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- A1999-030.0047
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Modern fiberglass watering trough. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0048
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Caterpillar completing an earthen dam, Rancho el Niño Feliz, Zapata County.When the water is too deep to use windmills or electric pumps, ranchers dam up "arroyos." Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0049
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Machine made lake at Rancho El Niño Feliz, with a windmill pump. This fifteen acre lake supplies water for ranch livestock and drilling companies in the region, often being piped over 20 miles. Photo by Joe Graham
photos found in book El Rancho in South Texas |
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- A1999-030.0050
- Collection: Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
- Location: A1999-030 STA Photo File
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Cattle quarantine sign near the dipping vat on U.S. Highway 83 in Starr County. Photo by Joe Graham
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