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[Man playing a banjo]

Description: Photograph of a man sitting while playing a banjo as a microphone hangs in front of his face. The man has short hair combed over his forehead and wears a short-sleeved collared shirt with a striped tie and pants. He also has a pen tucked into his shirt pocket and a metallic band around his left lower arm, possibly a wristwatch or a bracelet, and sits facing the right side of the photo while looking at something off-camera.
Date: [1972,1973]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mine Train amusement ride amongst bushes at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington]

Description: Photograph of the Mine Train amusement ride amongst bushes at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The open-air cars of the amusement ride move along tracks uplifted by wooden supports in the background of the photo, turning a slight curve from the left side of the image and moving towards the right. Tall trees fill the sky behind the ride while bushes and tall grass grow in the foreground. Additional tracks appear in the middle of the photo, amongst bushes and running across the image's width, a… more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mine Train amusement ride amongst trees at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington]

Description: Photograph of the Mine Train amusement ride amongst trees at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The ride includes open-air cars that run on tracks which have been lifted into the air by wooden supports. Bushes and shrubs fill the photo's foreground and obscure the bottom of the wooden supports. Tall trees with bushy foliage growing in the left side of the photo obscure the last few cars of the Mine Train as it turns away from the camera while moving along the tracks. Trees in the right side of … more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People crowded around the Mine Train amusement ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington]

Description: Photograph of people crowded around the Mine Train amusement ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The ride has multiple open-air cars that run in a single-file line centered in the image on rails affixed to the ground. The cars appear in the foreground of the photo and are filled with passengers who sit or stand in the cars as the ride stops between two platforms. The right platform contains onlookers grouped close to the stopped ride while the left platform has no crowd. At the end of th… more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People ending the Mine Train amusement ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, 1]

Description: Photograph of people ending the Mine Train amusement ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The ride has multiple open-air cars that run in a single-file line centered in the image on rails affixed to the ground. The cars appear in the background of the photo and are filled with passengers, moving between two platforms and approaching the camera. The right platform contains onlookers crowded behind railing while the left platform contains two figures without any railing blocking them. At th… more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People ending the Mine Train amusement ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, 2]

Description: Photograph of people ending the Mine Train amusement ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The ride has multiple open-air cars that run in a single-file line centered in the image on rails affixed to the ground. The cars appear in the background of the photo and are filled with passengers, moving between two platforms and approaching the camera. The right platform contains onlookers crowded behind railing while the left platform contains doesn't have the same railing or any people. At the … more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People on a canoe ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, 1]

Description: Photograph of people on a canoe ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The large canoe moves towards the camera as its occupants paddle it forwards, two longhorn skull silhouettes visible on either side of the boat's front end. Everyone inside the boat sits down except for two shirtless men, one standing at each end of the canoe. The man at standing the front of the boat holds a paddle with an abstracted, geometric bird icon in it. There are sixteen seated passengers in the canoe, most of w… more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People on a canoe ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, 2]

Description: Photograph of people on a canoe ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The large canoe moves towards the camera as its occupants paddle it forwards, with everyone inside the boat sitting down except for two shirtless men standing at each end of the canoe. There are sixteen seated passengers in the canoe, many of whom look at the camera while they hold paddles to assist in moving the canoe. The canoe's occupants range in age from young children to older adults, most of whom wear shorts and s… more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People on a canoe ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, 3]

Description: Photograph of people on a canoe ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The large canoe faces away from the camera as its occupants paddle it towards the far end of the pond they occupy. Everyone inside the boat sits down except for two shirtless men, one standing at each end of the canoe. There are fifteen seated passengers visible in the canoe, most holding paddles to assist in moving the canoe. They range in age from young children to older adults, most of whom wear shorts and sleeveless … more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People on the Mine Train amusement ride over water at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington]

Description: Photograph of people on the Mine Train amusement ride over water at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The ride has multiple open-air cars that run in a single-file line on tracks that runs above a pond held aloft by wooden supports. The ride emerges from the background and approaches the foreground, its passengers look ahead. Tall grasses fill the bottom right corner of the image and grow throughout the pond, obscuring where the ride's supports emerge from the water and covering the pond's edg… more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People starting the Mine Train amusement ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, 1]

Description: Photograph of people starting the Mine Train amusement ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The ride has multiple open-air cars with three rows of seating each, running along rails affixed to the ground. The passenger cars emerge from the center of the photo and run through a tunnel opening in a large wooden building, moving towards the right as the tracks curve. Two people sit in each of the cars' rows, most of whom look to the camera as they ride past. One young man in a long-sleeved sh… more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People starting the Mine Train amusement ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, 2]

Description: Photograph of people starting the Mine Train amusement ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The ride has multiple open-air cars with three rows of seating each, running along rails affixed to the ground. The passenger cars emerge from the center of the photo and run through a tunnel opening in a large wooden wall. Two or three people sit in each of the cars' rows, most of whom look away from the camera as the ride approaches. One young boy in the front car's front seat looks directly into… more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People viewing a hippo head statue at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington]

Description: Photograph of people viewing a hippo head statue at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The hippo head statue has a smooth, reflective surface and has its mouth opened wide as it faces the right side of the photo. The head sits on a tall metal base, which two young boys stand in front of to examine the hippo's mouth. One boy, with short hair and dressed in a short-sleeved t-shirt and shorts, stands next to the front right corner of the statue with one hand on the edge of the hippo's mouth. The b… more
Date: [1965..1977]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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