The Will Beauchamp Collection

SWEETWATER, TEXAS VINTAGE PHOTOS
Sweetwater, Texas
Nolan County

Photographer - Paret, circa 1910
Captions from photo album

Making "tortillas" for dinner, by grinding corn moistened with water.

A Mexican family at the T&P section house in Sweetwater

Looking north towards the Paret's house -
Thickly covered with sharp, yellow spikes, this is one of the most dreadful species of cactus, and teh cowboys name for is is "hell-on-a-stick, a name justified by their fearful experiences with its terrors.

Sampling cotton at the compress, Sweetwater

Some 4,000 or 5,000 bales of cotton are being stored in the "cotton yard", besides the rest on the compress platform.

Loading cotton bales on the compress platform

Sweetwater compress

Sweetwater High School, Sweetwater, Texas

Sweetwater High School, Sweetwater, Texas
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