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One of the victims of the University of Texas tower shooting is carried across the campus to a waiting ambulance on August 1, 1966. Charles Whitman killed a total of 17 that day, including his own wife and mother.
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Mexican lunch wagon serving tortillas and fried beans to workers at a pecan shelling plant in San Antonio, 1939.
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James Hetfield during Metallica's concert in Austin at South Park Meadows. August 6, 1994 (30 years ago today). Sadly this venue was torn down to make way for a large shopping center.
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A young boy poses with H. R. Puffnsttuf, Raunchy Rabbit (from a show called Lidsville), and Ronald McDonald during the Children's Hour carnival for Muscular Dystrophy in Fort Worth. June 6, 1973.
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Charles H. Fry Jeweler and H.N. Conner & Company (guns, books, stationery, gold pens, music), located at 270 Houston Street, Fort Worth, in 1882.
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Looking North on Congress Ave toward the old Capitol Building in Austin, circa 1881. This Capitol Building was destroyed by fire later that year.
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