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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 8, 1973
THE BATTALION
MSC Shows Houston Displays
A few months before his death
in 1863, Sam Houston was visited
by S. M. Penland, an admirer.
Penland brought to the aging
hero a miniature picture made of
Houston when he lived with the
Cherokees, many years earlier.
Now nearing 70, Houston had
been 37 years old when the little
picture was made.
“Damn!” said Houston, looking
at the picture of himself in an
Indian turban. “Was I ever as
handsome as that?”
The Penland picture, embellish
ed now with Republic of Texas
symbols, is greatly enlarged and
is among dozens of photographs
and paintings included in a Sam
Houston travelling exhibition
scheduled to open in the Memorial
Student Center on August 10. It
will be shown until September 15.
The show is believed to be the
most comprehensive pictorial dis
play ever put together on the
Texian soldier-statesman, who is
called the most photographed and
painted man in Texas history. It
requires about 490 square feet of
display space provided by 20 large
panels. Pictorially, it consists of
both contemporary and historical
photographs and paintings, plus
copies of a few rare documents
connected with Houston.
Before its opening in the MSC,
the show was exhibited in the
state capitol in Austin, the First
City National Bank in Houston,
the Sam Houston Memorial Mu
seum in Huntsville, and in se
lected institutions in Dallas, East-
land, Liberty, Waco, Tyler and
Bay City.
It was designed and built by
The University of Texas Institute
of Texan Cultures in San Antonio.
Other travelling exhibits from the
institute include “Vaquero: Gen
esis of the Texas Cowboy,” “The
Spanish Texans,” “The Negro
Texans” which comes in three
versions, “The Japanese Texans,”
and a smaller Sam Houston show
called a sampler. All are lent to
public schools, libraries, and other
institutions and organizations at
no cost, except freight charges
to and from the Institute.
A Spanish-language version of
“Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas
Cowboy” is on a year’s tour of
major museums in Mexico, under
an arrangement with the Institute
National Antropologia e Historia,
a division of the Department of
Education of the Mexican govern
ment. This agency operates all of
Mexico’s regional museums as
well as the world-famous museum
in Mexico City familiar to En
glish speaking travellers as the
National Museum of Anthropol
ogy and History.
THE INTRODUCTORY PANEL is part of the Sam Houston travelling exhibit which
will be in the MSC August 10 through September 15.
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There are about three ways to buy textbooks
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