urn:taro:utexas.cah.01653 A Guide to the Lynn Bell Postcard Collection Original EAD encoding by Linda Peterson according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. June 2010 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Bell, Lynn Lynn Bell Postcard Collection Materials are written in English. 2003-179 52 postcards Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Postcards portray many Texas subjects including a bird’s eye view of Austin from 1906, rodeo scenes, the Amarillo Hotel in Amarillo, Texas Memorial Museum in Austin, and scenes of Galveston, Gatesville, Dallas, Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Fort Concho, Texas. Biographical Note

Lynn Bell is the curator of exhibits and material culture at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

 Scope and Contents

Postcards portray many Texas subjects including a bird’s eye view of Austin from 1906, rodeo scenes, the Amarillo Hotel in Amarillo, Texas Memorial Museum in Austin, and scenes of Galveston, Gatesville, Dallas, Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Fort Concho, Texas. Also included are a postcard depicting the Kennedy assassination site, various motels and restaurants, museums, a limestone house in Fredericksburg, an “Austin Generic Postcard,” an image of two Lone Star Beer can-shaped silos in San Antonio, an image of the Alamo surrounded by portraits of all the U. S presidents through Ronald Reagan, and a humorous postcard with the caption, “I am in Texas with my Ass in Mexico.”

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 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 Subjects Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) Postcards--Texas Presidents—United States Places Amarillo (Tex.) Austin (Tex.) Dallas (Tex.) Fort Concho (Tex.) Fort Worth (Tex.) Galveston (Tex.) Gatesville (Tex.) Lubbock (Tex.) San Antonio (Tex.) Preferred Citation

Lynn Bell Postcard Collection, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Processing Information

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 3S109.1 Postcards