LAMESA / CREDITS

Image credits

Every production image is stored locally and documented here with its creator, source institution, rights statement, context, and crop status.

A broad cultivated field beneath an open sky west of Lamesa, with a farmhouse and trees on the horizon.

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photograph / 23 March 2014

Farmland west of Lamesa

A contemporary Dawson County view used to establish the cultivated horizon around Lamesa. It is not presented as an image of the land before settlement.

Creator: Carol M. Highsmith
Institution: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Rights: No known restrictions on publication.
Crop: true

Carol M. Highsmith. The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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Curving furrows cross a field east of Lamesa toward a farmhouse and a low, open horizon.

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photograph / 23 March 2014

Farm furrows east of Lamesa

A contemporary view of worked land east of Lamesa. The composition connects the horizon to survey and agricultural lines without treating the photograph as evidence of the pre-city landscape.

Creator: Carol M. Highsmith
Institution: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Rights: No known restrictions on publication.
Crop: true

Carol M. Highsmith. The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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Brick paving and a row of historic commercial storefronts in downtown Lamesa under a clear sky.

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photograph / 23 March 2014

Street scene in downtown Lamesa

A 2014 view of the built street grid and commercial fabric of downtown Lamesa. It accompanies the town-founding chapter but does not depict the 1903 settlement.

Creator: Carol M. Highsmith
Institution: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Rights: No known restrictions on publication.
Crop: true

Carol M. Highsmith. The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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A tall white concrete grain elevator rises against a deep blue sky in Lamesa.

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photograph / 23 March 2014

Grain elevator in Lamesa

A contemporary agricultural landmark reserved as a visual bridge into the researched railroad, cotton, and industry chapters.

Creator: Carol M. Highsmith
Institution: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Rights: No known restrictions on publication.
Crop: true

Carol M. Highsmith. The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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map / 1903

Original or early Lamesa town plat — document required

The interface uses abstract survey geometry until an attributable document is cleared.

Creator: Unknown
Institution: —
Rights: Reuse status remains unresolved; this record is not a production asset.
Crop: Undetermined

Archive record and reuse status under research.

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