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[Tarver Family Christmas Card, 1965]

Christmas postcard from the Tarver family including a photo of the children and their cousin on the left of the card. To the right of the photo, there is a color illustration of two lit candles in a candelabrum, a stained-glass window depicting Mary and baby Jesus, and the words "Paz y Prosperidad." In the photograph, the Tarver siblings are wearing their school uniforms and are sitting together in a line on a cement step; part of a building is visible behind them, including windows. They are, from left to right: Paula (Daniels), John Arthur, Byron Lee, Carol Lynn, and Lawrence Alden. A handwritten note under the illustration says, "Paula, Arthur, Byron, Lynn, Larry, Wendell & Janie. 1965."
Date: December 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Espectacular Magnifica Gradiosa Maravillosa Estupendo Colosal

Postcard from the 1968 World's Fair known as HemisFair '68, held from April to October 1968 in San Antonio, Texas. The image on the card shows the head of a mustachioed man wearing a tall sombrero that covers his eyes and a scarf. The text "Espectacular Magnifica Gradiosa Maravillosa Estupendo Colosal" appears above the image.
Date: 1968
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lone Star Pavilion

Advertising postcard featuring an architectural illustration of the Lone Star Pavilion, one of the many exhibit halls at Hemisfair '68. It includes people standing at various points on the two-story building, the Tower of the Americas in the background (at left), and boats in the waterway in front of the building.
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History