Amazing images of Folk Art Environment Ray's Ornamental Garden in Texas.

Two images of Ray’s Ornamental Garden in Texas, or I should say formerly of Texas. The color one is a Jumbo format postcard. The other an 8 x 10 wide shot. The giant Folk art environment was in Stephenville, TX but it is nearly gone now. After George Ray passed in 1957, his wife maintained it for a while but she died ten years later. vandals and juvenile delinquents ruined much of it and the rest was bulldozed in the 1980s. Large postcard and original photograph of Ray’s Ornamental Garden Late 1930s to 1940s. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Scenes from a Texas Immersion Baptism Vernacular photographs 1927 San Antonio

Scenes from a Texas Immersion Baptism. Each stamped on reverse 1927 San Antonio.  Photographer Carl D. Newton.  Collection Jim Linderman

Texas Rural Musicians during the Depression Original Photograph c. 1930 Collection Jim Linderman

A rare original image from Depression-era Texas of rural musicians entertaining a small group (and a photographer) in front of their humble home..  Foxtone Border Prints operated out of San Antonio from 1925 or so at least through the 1930s.