Category: Vintage

Root For The Home Team

48Cactus UTAggieA young Michael Landon can’t help but hoot and holler during the 1947 football season.

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Male cheerleaders lunge and make one jazz hand as a show of support.

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After the “eighth straight victory over Farmers,” the Longhorn football players rejoice as they hit the showers.

Meanwhile, at the basketball game, Hank Williams, Sr appears to be ornery as heck. Come on, fellas! You need to have the ball rest on the side of the thumb rather than on the tip of the thumb on every shot! Move it on over! 

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Yearbook Artwork 1930

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These images all come from the 1930 University of Texas yearbook. While they reflect some aspects of the culture at the time, you would never know the country was in a depression.

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Very little of the yearbook was in color, other than these images. I imagine most students could not afford them at the time, under the circumstances. I know I was never able to afford a university yearbook during my four years.

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Here you see a student sweating over his impending exams.

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And if you look closely enough at the inside of the yearbook, you can read the date Irene received it!

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