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[Women at San Esteban Dam]

Description: In this photograph, there are two women in white dresses and bonnets standing on a small outcropping at a lake. Behind them there is the concrete wall of the dam. The shores of the lake appear to be rocky. A note accompanying the photograph says "Mrs. W. W. Bogel, President 1899-1900, 1910-1911, 1922-1923. Date unknown." Related information identifies the area as San Esteban Dam, which was built in 1912.
Date: unknown
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Women Cooking at the Old Borunda Cafe

Description: Photgraph of women working in the kitchen at the Old Borunda Cafe taken in 1953. They were preparing a breakfast for a party using their wood-burning stove.
Date: 1953
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Women Cooking at the Old Borunda Cafe

Description: Photograph of Carolina Borunda Humphries working in the kitchen at the Old Borunda Cafe in 1962. She was preparing a meal for a party of 15 using their wood-burning and gas stoves.
Date: 1962
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Wooden Door]

Description: Photograph of a wooden paneled door, with a wooden frame around it and wainscoting on the walls beside it. This is in an old house in West Texas.
Date: 1972~
Creator: Graham, Val
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Workers on Carrasco Ranch

Description: Photograph of workers that were making a road to the house on the Carrasco Ranch in West Texas. The men are: Rijino Zubiate of Alpine, TX; Abel Delgadillo of Ojinaga; Agopito Zubiate of Pecos, Texas; Mike Montoyo of Alpine, Texas; Juan Young of Cloudcroft, Texas; and G.A. Glenn of El Paso.
Date: 1937
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Wrecked Pecos Plane]

Description: Photograph of a wrecked plane. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph identifies the plane as the "Pecos Plane." The plane is wrecked nose-down on the ground in a field. Its tail is bent and crumpled.
Date: unknown
Partner: Marfa Public Library
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