Resource Type

Grand Champion Steer of Show, San Antonio, Texas, 1958

Photograph three men and three women standing behind a steer wearing a harness, a tag in it's ear with the number 591 on it, and a banner hanging on it's back that reads, "Buyer Grand Champion Steer of Show, San Antonio Livestock Exposition, San Antonio, Texas 1958". A young girl wearing a western shirt and bow tie is holding the steer's lead rope. Next to the girl is an old couple, the man wearing a light-colored blazer and bolo tie and the woman wearing a hat and large coat. Behind the older woman stands a man in a jacket and bolo tie. Another couple stands behind the steer, both wearing scarves and cowboy hats.
Date: 1958
Creator: Zintgraff
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1312.0066]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "IN UNFORM 50YEARS, M-Sgt. Horst W. Tittle, right, is probably the oldest man on the nation's active military list. He is 74. He completed 50 years of service last week at Lackland Air Forca base, San Antonio. Here he's conferring with Brig. Gen Robert W. Stillman base commander at Lackland."
Date: 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0383.0551]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "THREE OKC golf professionals, left, to right, Chris Gers, a part-time PGA tourist ; Duffy Martin, operator of Brookside, and Jack Martin, now pro at Liberal, Kan., left Thursday for San Antonio where they will play in the Texas Open tournament next week."
Date: February 4, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0344.0254]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Seems like fat lambs got to be worth from $1,000 upward at the San Antonio Junior Livestock Show, with an Oklahoman taking a slice of it. Glenn Kunneman, Kingfisher FFA boy, third from left, had the champion medium wool lamb with his Hampshire, sold it to Hilton hotels for $1,100."
Date: February 25, 1958
Creator: Zintgraff Photographs
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Taxidermy Museum]

Photograph of the interior of Buckhorn Museum featuring taxidermied animals. To the left is a display with a long-horn cow and an owl on a branch. In the background is an entrance way through which a wall with taxidermied animal heads can be seen. Above that entrance way are several taxidermied deer heads on display. In the left foreground, a sheep's head can be seen hanging over a chair made from animal hide and horns.
Date: June 11, 1958
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Taxidermy in Museum]

Photograph of several taxidermy displays within Buckhorn Museum. Both the wall on the right and the wall with archways to the left are covered with dozens of taxidermied animal heads- mostly wild, African species. Four chairs made of animal parts can be seen surrounding the archway columns and a horse posed in a bucking position can be seen in the next room. At the end of the hallway, a stuffed lion can also be seen.
Date: June 17, 1958
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Audie Murphy waves to fans at world premiere of "To Hell and Back"]

Photograph of Audie Murphy riding a horse and waving to the crowd at the world premiere of "To Hell and Back" at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: August 18, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unknown Men at the Alamo]

Photograph of two unknown men captured on the grounds of the Alamo. Both men are pictured wear patterned shirts and with dark colored pants. The younger of the men is standing to the left with the older on the right. They are positioned standing in the open gates with part of the Alamo seen behind them.
Date: September 21, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Leopoldo Lemus, MD]

Portrait of Dr. Leopoldo Lemus, a pediatrician and graduate from Escuela Medico Militer, wearing a suit and tie. His name and a date are handwritten on the back of the photo.
Date: November 17, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History