Questions to Answer
- What happened? What does this photograph document?
- Where did this event happen? Or where on campus would this content likely be pinned? (We need to pin this to a map!)
- When did this event happen?
- Who is in the photograph?
- Why is this event important?
- How did this event impact Texas State then?
- How does this event impact Texas State now?
Historical Events
LBJ & Flowers - Coronary Club
May commencment 1961
Signing Higher Education Act 1965
Higher Education Act - signing moved because of rain
1972 Homecoming
1971 LBJ at San Marcos exhibit
Soapbox Derby
First African-American women to enroll
2003 Special Olympics
Falls Hall Decommissioning
San Marcos 10
1971 Snowballs
1968 Snowball fight
1995 LBJSH groundbreaking
Events
Additional resources include (but are not limited to):
- Pedagogs
- Connections: Lyndon B. Johnson in San Marcos
- Publications gathered as part of the LBJ Common Experience
- Texas Archive of the Moving Image (search for "San Marcos" to see relevant videos)
- Other tabs on this guide, including 1963 Desegregation and 1965 Higher Education Act
- Finding aid for commencement (additional finding aids are in Digital Collections)
This group of photographs was selected by the University Archives to represent historical events. For this assignment, you must select from the images provided above in the slide show. To copy an image, right-click and select "Save Image As..."
Other Resources for LBJ Research
- LBJ TimelineIn the LBJ Student Center, 3rd floor
- Official LBJ Visits at SWTSUDates compiled by the News Service.
Cite as: [document title], LBJ Collection, University Archives, Texas State University-San Marcos