Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009 Page: 6
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6 WHAT'S THE POINT? WHY THE FOLK COME IN THE FIRST PLACE
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because, aside from the Texas picture, they each preserve a bit of
Texas history and record through vignettes of daily life. For exam-
ple, I recently obtained a card mailed shortly after the turn of the
20th century in San Antonio, and coincidentally about the time of
the founding of the Texas Folklore Society. The card was sent by a
sixteen-year-old young lady who wrote of moving to the city and
working in the dry-goods department at Joske's.
I really enjoy the cards I call "Texas exaggeration," which fea-
ture Texas' biggest this or that, and I've donated many to the TFS
in hopes they may be preserved and/or used in the annual book. I
search for the cards and use them to develop, illustrate, and supple-
ment my repertoire of Texas-themed stories. I think there is a lot
of Texas history, folklore, culture, humor, exaggeration, and Tex-
ana in general that can be preserved and shared through collecting
and preserving Texas postcards.
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Texas Folklore Society. Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009, book, December 15, 2009; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271470/m1/19/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.