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A Texas Journey: The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith. By Evelyn Barker. Dallas, TX: Dallas Historical Society, 2008. 216 pp. Photographs, appendix, bibliography, index. $49.95.
Polly Smith showed her love for Texas through the lens of her Graflex camera. The photographs Smith made to publicize the state for the 1936 Centennial Exposition portray a positive image of Texas's business and industry, everyday life, and natural scenes. Although she began her work in late 1935, about the same time the Farm Security Administration photographers started to document the United States during the Great Depression, Smith's photographs sought to entice people to come to Texas, not to document the plight of those suffering from the economic disaster of...