Drought Committee Surveys Sand Dunes near Dalhart, Texas In 1936

Life in Dallam County Texas 1850 - 1950

Dallam County, Texas 1800's -1940's as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers. If you like these images, you can browse and view more than a thousand images of early life in Dallam County and throughout the state in eBay's Historical Texas Collection. .

It seemed the dunes might consume the whole county.

While fewer than half of the FSA images survive, the collection remains one of the most extensive pictorial records of life in Texas between 1935 and 1944. Original FSA photos and negatives are archived in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.