Image of an aerial view of the Convention Center construction site for the 1968 World's Fair known as HemisFair '68, held from April to October 1968 in San Antonio.
Aerial photograph of Matthews Ranch (Lambshead) headquarters. In the foreground are several ranch buildings, including the bunkhouse and a house with chimneys on either end. Further up from these buildings and across an open dirt area are other buildings, including a corral, stables, and barn, beside which several trucks are parked. Above these buildings is a triangle-shaped area created by fences. At the top of the photograph is open ranch land dotted with vegetation.
Image of an aerial view of the HemisFair construction site for the 1968 World's Fair known as HemisFair '68, held from April to October 1968 in San Antonio.
Image of an aerial view of the construction site and Convention Center for the 1968 World's Fair known as HemisFair '68, held from April to October 1968 in San Antonio.
Photograph of a woman with a portrait of the two men sitting in front of her. She has curly brown brown hair, wears a striped blouse, and is sitting on a wooden chair. The portrait in front of her is slightly different from the two men sitting in front of her as the colors of their jackets have been swapped. The man on the left, Watt Matthews, is depicted as wearing a tan jacket and the bespectacled man on the right, Joe B. Matthews, is wearing a red jacket.
Photograph of a herd of cattle drinking from a shallow tank at the Matthews Ranch (Lambshead). In the distance four cowboys riding horses watch over the herd in front of a grove of mesquite trees.
A view of a construction site for HemisFair '68, in downtown San Antonio, Texas. Two tractors are shown moving dirt out of a large hole in the ground. Two buildings of downtown San Antonio can be seen in the background.
Image of the Convention, theatre, and exhibit buildings under construction for the 1968 World's Fair known as HemisFair '68, held from April to October 1968 in San Antonio.
The well-maintained cottage has a front porch. The overhanging roof at the front of the house is supported by four columns with decorative gingerbread-like trim. The small front yard has several plants and a wrought-iron fence along the sidewalk. The second photo shows the side of the home. The house is located in an area that was redeveloped because of HemisFair ’68.
Photograph of three cowboys wearing chaps and cowboy hats. They are standing in a pen with several horses at the Matthews Ranch, located north of Albany, Texas. The three horses in the foreground are wearing western saddles. Tall grass forms the floor of the pen. In the background is a horse trailer and a wide expanse of sky.
Photograph of Richard Ballard and an unidentified ranch hand serving themselves lunch in the cookshack at the Matthews Ranch. In the background, four unidentified men sit eating at two picnic tables. Carrol Martin stands next to one of the tables.
Photograph of a crowd seated in folding chairs watching a mini Fandangle sampler in the side yard of the Reynolds Bend cookshack at Lambshead Ranch. Midge Rogers and Clifford Teinert are standing in front of a microphone in Western dress. To their left, a woman is seated behind an upright piano. To their right, a man in a suit and tie is getting up from behind an organ that has been positioned in front of a low stone wall. In the background the sun is setting behind a sparse grove of trees.
Photograph of a performance ("a mini Fandangle") staged in the side yard of the Reynolds Bend cookshack. Performers are standing behind a low stone wall facing the audience, which is seated in folding chairs. The backs of the performers, four men and a woman in western dress, are facing the photographer. On the left Alice Reynolds is seated behind an upright piano beside the cookshack. On the right a man is seated behind an organ. The image is framed by leaves and branches of trees.
Photograph of four cowboys unloading three cows from a small trailer inside a covered pen on the Matthews Ranch, located north of Albany, Texas. One cowboy stands on the pen fence, leaning over the side of the trailer, and uses a cattle prod to coax the cows from the trailer.
Photograph of a building identified as Golden Arrow Drive-In on Seventh Street. Signs on the side of the building say "Townsend's Ice Cream" and "Hot Fudge Sunday 30 [cents]." One man and one woman are standing in a doorway. The top of the front of the building says "Golden Arrow." A man is in a phone booth and two cars are parked outside the building.
Photograph of Harry S. Truman and Lyndon Johnson seated together. Johnson holds some papers and is seated between a recording device, a cowboy hat, and scattered papers. The face of a man is partially visible to the right.
Photograph of a wet cow wading through a dipping vat at the Matthews Ranch, located north of Albany, Texas. The vat is narrow with metal siding. Two other cows are walking through the entrance to the pen in the background.
Image of the construction of the Hilton Palacio del Rio for the 1968 World's Fair known as HemisFair '68, held from April to October 1968 in San Antonio.
Photograph of James Martin riding a horse named Blondie and moving a herd of cattle through a grove of mesquite trees. The branches of a mesquite tree in the foreground partially obscure the scene.
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