Swisher County, Texas from 1850 to 1950 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers. This was life in Texas as our parents, grandparents and ancestors Tulia, Kress, Happy, Love and Vigo Park saw it.

Beautiful portrait of an unidentified woman in Tulia Texas in 1910 taken at the Dallas Studio in Tulia

Photo of the Swisher County Courthouse as it appeared in 1950 in Tulia Texas with vintage cars and a man visiting with someone in one of the cars.

Sometime in the early 1900s tje Tulia Drug Company produced this postcard to advertise their store and the goods they sold

Mary, Jack and Vida Williams in Kress Texas in 1943. The old grain elevator can be seen in background. Photo courtesy Jack Williams

This entry in the 1911 Swisher County Parade appears to feature a monkey perched above two young ladies riding in a carriage won first place, and represented Tulia Bank and Trust
 

Swisher County Pioneers James Madison Clayton and Mary Elizabeth Barnes were married in October 1865 in McNairy County, Tennessee. They moved to the Plains in 1890, homesteading several sections northeast of Tulia.

The Montgomery Motor Company offered Chevrolet's and fuel pumped from a visual pump to customers in Happy Texas in the 1930s ...

Sometime In the 1920s customers and a man on an early motorcycle posed at the the L. C. Klein Land Company located on the south side of Main Street in Happy Texas it was later used as the post office

In 1907 staff and students turned out for this amazing old class photo of the Tulia Texas School District.

In July 1909 decorated early cars and horse drawn wagons paraded on the dirt streets of Tulia Texas past the South Plains Land Company and the Plaza Restaurant

In the 1920s an unknown man posed with his Model T for this huge highly-detailed photo in Tulia Texas

Sometime in the early 1900s the City of Tulia Texas fire department parked their first fire truck in front of the A.G. McAdams Lumber Company and proudly showed off their new truck while a woman in the background rode by on a bicycle.

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Sometime in the 1910s at 7 o'clock, two men posed for this remarkably well defined photo inside their print shop in Tulia Texas. Behind them is their book press and examples of their work pinned to the wall.

Downtown Tulia Texas was a busy place when this photo of was taken showing well dressed people and Model T cars on the dirt street.

Large photograph of the Tulia High School with students walking on the grounds and windmill and tank that supplied water for the facility.

Some time in the 1930s, firemen and a couple of admiring young boys posed in front of City Hall with their fire truck in Tulia for this wonderful capture of the history of Tulia Texas

In 1935 a family tries to flee the inevitable onslaught of a sand storm near Tulia Texas before it overtakes their car.

Great old photo of a man and his daughter posing in front of a school bus parked in front of his home in Tulia Texas in 1947

In 1947 a man, his mother, little girl and family dog posed on their front porch in Tulia Texas.

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