presidio county

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Spudder was a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1940s. Since Marfa is replete with art galleries and outdoor art, this could wel... More

Tipi-themed rest stop in arid Big Bend Ranch State Park in Brewster Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

A grain elevator in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Surprising because, unlike most surrounding farming and ranching towns in the high desert of the Texas "Trans-Pecos" region, Marfa ha... More

Fortin de Cibolo, Cibolo Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-3118 Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Upper facade of the Texas Theatre in Marfa, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was a secondary movie theater (to the larger Palace), frequented primarily by the town's Mexican-American residents. It had a mo... More

The community church in tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

A onetime bank buiding, now an architect's headquarters, in Marfa, a s...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Surprising because, unlike most surrounding farming and ranching towns in the high desert of the Texas "Trans-Pecos" region, Marfa ha... More

Scene in arid Big Bend Ranch State Park in Brewster County, Texas. The...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

Prickly-pear catci growing in Marfa in Presidio County, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Fortin de Cibolo, Cibolo Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-3118 Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Presidio County Courthouse in Marfa, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1886, it is an example of Second Empire style, with projecting surfaces and Mansard-style roofs that were in fashion in Euro... More

Nostalgic sign announcing the Marfa Hill House, or Marfa House on the ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Surprising because, unlike most surrounding farming and ranching towns in the high desert of the Texas "Trans-Pecos" region, Marfa ha... More

Wild javelinas, or peccaries, scurry across a field in rural Presidio ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Javelinas, which are native to the Americas, are often confused with the pig family that originated in Afro-Eurasia, especially since... More

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

An old grocery store in Marfa, Texas, which was converted into a "Marf...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The name is ironic, since Marfa, a little town in the high desert of Presidio County, is famous for the spooky "Marfa Lights" that ar... More

Headquarters building of the Chinati Foundation, or La Fundacion China...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

Swimming pool at the Thunderbird Motel in Marfa, a community known for...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a swimming pool, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Headquarters building of the Chinati Foundation, or La Fundacion China...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

Fortin de Cienega, Cienega Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-52 Survey number: HABS TX-3119

Fortin de Cibolo, Cibolo Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-3118 Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scene in arid Big Bend Ranch State Park in Brewster County, Texas. The...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

A onetime gas station, now an art gallery, in Marfa, a surprising city...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Surprising because, unlike most surrounding farming and ranching towns in the high desert of the Texas "Trans-Pecos" region, Marfa ha... More

Fortin de Cienega, Cienega Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-52 Survey number: HABS TX-3119

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio Cou...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

A couple of concrete structures sitting on top of a dirt field Untitle...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fortin de Cibolo, Cibolo Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-3118 Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

The community church in tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

An art installation in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Te...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The First Christian Church in Marfa, in Presidio County, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Headquarters building of the Chinati Foundation, or La Fundacion China...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

Modernist sign for the Thunderbird Motel in Marfa, a community known f...

Prickly-pear cacti outside a modernist adobe residence in Marfa, in Pr...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The Presidio County Courthouse in Marfa, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A group of concrete structures sitting in a desert Untitled box-like a...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

Fortin de Cienega, Cienega Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-52 Survey number: HABS TX-3119

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

At first glance, this scene looks out of place in modernist Marfa, a c...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio Cou...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

Modernist sign for the Thunderbird Motel in Marfa, a community known f...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

Fortin de Cibolo, Cibolo Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-3118 Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

A rusted old truck in Marfa, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The beam stretching righward near the roof of the truck is a remnant of a "Fort Worth Spudder" a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1... More

A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio Cou...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

The First Christian Church in Marfa, in Presidio County, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

A structure whose owner has identified with the Jumano Apache people, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Jumano Indians were a prominent indigenous tribe or several tribes that inhabited a large area of western Texas, adjacent New Mex... More

The Presidio County Courthouse in Marfa, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old restaurant with a clever "welcome" sign in Marfa, the seat of Pres...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

[Doorway in adobe building, Marfa, Texas]

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints ... More

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Headquarters building of the Chinati Foundation, or La Fundacion China...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sign for an old, now-vanished, motel in Marfa, a surprising city in Pr...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Surprising because, unlike most surrounding farming and ranching towns in the high desert of the Texas "Trans-Pecos" region, Marfa ha... More

The bedraggled look of this old billboard along a lonely highway in re...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

City hall in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Surprising because, unlike most surrounding farming and ranching towns in the high desert of the Texas "Trans-Pecos" region, Marfa ha... More

Fortin de Cienega, Cienega Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-52 Survey number: HABS TX-3119

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Prizes won at Great Western Livestock Show by the "Walking X" Ranch. M...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fortin de Cienega, Cienega Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-52 Survey number: HABS TX-3119

[Map of portions of Jeff Davis County and Presidio County, Texas].

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

An old billboard in remote Presidio County, Texas, for the Motel Thund...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sign would lead one to believe that the hotel, like the sign, would be a decrepit shell of its former self from the days of roman... More

Map of parts of Presidio, Brewster and Foley Counties : Texas and Paci...

Shows landownership. LC Land ownership maps, 1100 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Philosophy discussion on the side of a building in Marfa, in Presidio ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Spudder was a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1940s. Since Marfa is replete with art galleries and outdoor art, this could wel... More

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Spudder was a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1940s. Since Marfa is replete with art galleries and outdoor art, this could wel... More

Scene in arid Big Bend Ranch State Park in Brewster County, Texas. The...

Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scene in arid Big Bend Ranch State Park in Brewster County, Texas. The...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Fortin de Cibolo, Cibolo Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-3118 Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Detail from a downtown bank building in Marfa, in Presidio County, Tex...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Fortin de Cibolo, Cibolo Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-3118 Public domain photograph of ruins in United States, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fortin de Cibolo, Cibolo Creek, Shafter, Presidio County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-3118 Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description