C.C. Casteel Photograph Collection ca. 1920s-1960s

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C.C. Casteel Photograph Collection ca. 1920s-1960s

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The collection, comprising prints, negatives, photo-masks, and receipts from the studio’s operations, documents Texarkana and its citizens. The shots tend to be traditional studio portraits, but candid and commercial outdoor shots exist as well. There are also photographs of local businesses, aerial shots of the city, images describing before-and-after medical procedures, and photographic duplications of documents. The collection represents a valuable research aid for those interested in the history of Texarkana, and the United States in general in the 20th Century. Its imagery is decidedly quotidian for the most part, but because of this, one gets a real sense of the everyday America, and how these everyday Americans sought to represent themselves. There are also glimpses of how society viewed “others” in the early to mid 20th century, exemplified by photographs (and particularly their descriptions) of minorities or the physically impaired.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Cyril C. Casteel (1898-1973) was a photographer working in Texarkana from ca. 1925-1960. He operated a photography studio by the name of C. C. Casteel Photo Studio ca. 1931-1960. From the guide to the C. C. Casteel Photograph Collection 94-361., ca. 1920s-1960s, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) ...