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Greetings from So Big Texas

Date
c. 1940s
State
Texas
Category
Old Texas
Format
Postcard

The headline plays on Texas’s size, while the letters contain multiple views and the foreground carries a cattle scene. The greeting makes scale part of the joke and part of the design.

The Spindletop discovery well near Beaumont erupted in 1901, helping launch the Texas oil boom. The card’s combination of cattle and oil imagery brings together two industries that shaped how Texas was promoted.

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