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An eclectic display in Luckenbach Poster
by Carol M Highsmith
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An eclectic display in Luckenbach poster by Carol M Highsmith. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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A piece of Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas, made famous by the country song about Waylon (Jennings), Willie (Nelson)... more
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A piece of Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas, made famous by the country song about "Waylon (Jennings), Willie (Nelson) and the Boys." Its oldest building is a combination general store and saloon reputedly opened in 1849 (1886 is more likely, based on land improvement records of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission) by Minna Engel, whose father was an itinerant minister from Germany. The community, first named Grape Creek, was later named after Minna's husband, Carl Albert Luckenbach, who was then her fiancé. The town'ss population increased to a high of 492 in 1904, but by the 1960s, Luckenbach was almost a ghost town.
An ad in the paper offering "town — pop. 3 — for sale" led Hondo Crouch, rancher and Texas folklorist, to buy Luckenbach for $30,000 in 1970, in partnership with Kathy Morgan and actor Guich Koock. Crouch used the town's rights as a municipality to govern the dance hall as he saw fit. Today the town maintains a ghost to...
About Carol M Highsmith
Carol M. Highsmith Influenced by Frances Benjamin Johnston and Dorothea Lange Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. [1] Photography Career “Is Carol Highsmith the most...
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