Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train on Its Way to Robstown

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Photograph of a man standing in front of a sponsored wagon participating in the Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train traveling to Robstown, Texas. The man pictured is standing in front of a covered wagon with Copenhagen, Skoal, Billy Bob's Texas, and Fort Worth Stockyards advertisements on the cover. The wagon also has a Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train brand burned into its side.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.

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Cirincione, Nick February 15, 1986.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Tarrant County College Northeast, Heritage Room and was provided by the Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 143 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

The Heritage Room and District Archives were officially established in 2010, but their origins date back to the mid-1970s, with the former opening in 1975. With an emphasis on the cultural heritage of Tarrant County and North Texas, they house thousands of items.

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Photograph of a man standing in front of a sponsored wagon participating in the Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train traveling to Robstown, Texas. The man pictured is standing in front of a covered wagon with Copenhagen, Skoal, Billy Bob's Texas, and Fort Worth Stockyards advertisements on the cover. The wagon also has a Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train brand burned into its side.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.

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Tarrant County College Northeast, Heritage Room

Materials documenting local and state history, including images of businesses, cemeteries, churches, courthouses, lawmen, monuments, outlaws, schools, Native Americans, and early pioneers of Tarrant County.

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  • February 15, 1986

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  • Oct. 9, 2006, 6:10 p.m.

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  • Feb. 28, 2017, 4:15 p.m.

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Cirincione, Nick. Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train on Its Way to Robstown, photograph, February 15, 1986; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18477/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room.

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