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<\/p>\r\nRemember when Highway 121 was a two lane country road linking McKinney to Ft. Worth?\u00a0 Or when giant pumpkin patches were in downtown Dallas?\u00a0 Anyone that has visited or lived in North Texas for any period of time recently can attest to the extraordinary growth and development that has been occurring throughout the Metroplex.\u00a0 This is made especially clear when viewing photographs of the region\u2019s cities and towns from years past.<\/p>\r\n
The Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection<\/a> offers just such a perspective as the changing landscapes and skylines of North Texas are well documented through the photographs, slides, and negatives of four generations of Texas photographers.\u00a0 Ft. Worth, Dallas, and the towns of Collin County are particularly well represented through the works of Byrd Williams IV and reveal the dramatic changes that have occurred over the past several decades.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember when Highway 121 was a two lane country road linking McKinney to Ft. Worth?\u00a0 Or when giant pumpkin patches were in downtown Dallas?\u00a0 Anyone that has visited or lived in North Texas for any period of time recently can attest to the extraordinary growth and development that has been occurring throughout the Metroplex.\u00a0 This… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p60UnY-p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/southwest-metroplex\/2014\/06\/13\/red-river-showdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":25,"position":0},"title":"Red River Showdown","author":"Morgan","date":"June 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"With the much celebrated announcement this week that the Red River Showdown would remain at the Cotton Bowl until the year 2025, an 85 year-old Dallas tradition was upheld. 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