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New Braunfels [Lithograph]Description
Lithograph of New Braunfels from the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company’s 1876 book “A Description of Western Texas” providing an extensively illustrated guide for prospective immigrants to western Texas.Context
By the early 1880s, with a population estimated at 2,000, New Braunfels was linked by telegraph and rail lines with Austin and San Antonio, and textile factories along the Comal River were shipping cotton and woolen products.