Monday, February 18, 2019

Austin Texas

Austin, Texas.  We are headed to the Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Library.  It is located in Austin, Texas.  On the campus of University of Texas.
Replica of San Lorenzo Monument 1
this sculpture weighs 16 tons,
exact copy of the colossal head discovered at the Olmec site in Mexico.

The Belo Mural
history of Belo-owned Texas newspaper
between 1842 - 1949
1842 the Galveston Daily News, receives printing press

mid-twentieth-century post Civil War Texas
Emancipation Proclamation

Newspaper boy delivers the newspaper
signifying free press

desk of the Morning News editor is modern, lit by an electrical lamp 
and home to a telephone, rather than a telegraph.
represents Texas overcoming a checkered past and powering toward
a more equitable future. 

arrival of the railroad and the printing press in Dallas 1885.



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