Tag: Texas

Confiscated Donkeys, 1920’s

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‘Donkeys used to smuggle sotol across the border during prohibition (Sotol is a liquor similar to tequila).’ Photographed by U.S. Border Patrol Agents, Texas 1920’s    

Sniffing Nike, 1994

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‘Nike’, 1994 U.S. Customs Service/ Treasury Department issued Drug Sniffing Dogs trading card  

EPA Smoke Spot, 1973

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the Cedar Woods of Lankey, Texas 1973 EPA Approved Smoke Spot “In the 1970s, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency commissioned nearly 100 photographers to document environmental issues around the country. Marc St. Gil was assigned to record images related Read More …

Intercept at Falcon Lake, 1969

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‘At sunset, Customs agents, armed with shotguns, scour the darkening waters of Falcon Lake, looking for marijuana smugglers during Operation Intercept.’  Falcon Lake, Texas 1969  

To Farm Insanity Plant, 1909

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To Farm Insanity Plant Deadliest Vegetable Known to be introduced into Texas. “The deadly marihuana plant is to be introduced into Texas from Mexico by special permission of the state agricultural department. Ernest Love, who conducts an agricultural experimental station Read More …

Marihuana Smokers Arrested, 1913

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Marihuana Smokers Arrested Even before cannabis became illegal under a local El Paso city ordinance in 1914, El Paso police found a way to enforce the imaginary… My favorite form of cannabis measurement…   The “Bucket”   Marihuana Smokers Arrested Charged Read More …

Visions of America, 3780 BC

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“The root is of nearly medium size, sending forth no branches or leaves above the ground, but with a certain woolliness adhering to it on account of which it could not aptly be figured by me. Both men and women Read More …