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June 26, 2014

Dazed in Documerica: Photos Outside San Antonio Circa 1973

By San Antonio Current Staff

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Photographer Marc St. Gil spent the year of 1973 capturing life around San Antonio and nearby Leakey, Texas for Project DOCUMERICA, a program sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the U.S. 
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Photos by St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
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Miss Junior Texas Shown with Friends in Leakey, Texas, Her Home Town, near San Antonio, 05/1973
St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Miss Junior Texas Shown with Friends in Leakey, Texas, Her Home Town, near San Antonio, 05/1973
Area Young People Gather in the Cedar Woods by the Frio Canyon River near Leakey, Texas, and San Antonio, 05/1973
St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Area Young People Gather in the Cedar Woods by the Frio Canyon River near Leakey, Texas, and San Antonio, 05/1973
Teenage Couple Embrace on the Bank of the Frio Canyon River near Leakey, Texas, and San Antonio 05/1973
St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Teenage Couple Embrace on the Bank of the Frio Canyon River near Leakey, Texas, and San Antonio 05/1973
Young Man Picks Leaves from His Girl's Hair after They Had Embraced on the Banks of the Frio Canyon River near Leakey, Texas and San Antonio 05/1973
St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Young Man Picks Leaves from His Girl's Hair after They Had Embraced on the Banks of the Frio Canyon River near Leakey, Texas and San Antonio 05/1973
Teenage Girls Wading the Frio Canyon River near Leakey Texas, While on an Outing with Friends near San Antonio 05/1973
St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Teenage Girls Wading the Frio Canyon River near Leakey Texas, While on an Outing with Friends near San Antonio 05/1973
Teenage Girls Wading the Frio Canyon River near Leakey Texas, While on an Outing with Friends near San Antonio 05/1973
St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Teenage Girls Wading the Frio Canyon River near Leakey Texas, While on an Outing with Friends near San Antonio 05/1973
Hands of a Leakey, Texas, Resident Holding a Can of Beer, near San Antonio, 05/1973
St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Hands of a Leakey, Texas, Resident Holding a Can of Beer, near San Antonio, 05/1973
Workers from Mexico at a Cedar Mill near Leakey, Texas, and San Antonio 12/1973
St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Workers from Mexico at a Cedar Mill near Leakey, Texas, and San Antonio 12/1973
Man Who Prepares Fur Skins for Market in a Buyers' Shed Has Skins Hanging Overhead in Leakey, Texas, near San Antonio, 12/1973
St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Man Who Prepares Fur Skins for Market in a Buyers' Shed Has Skins Hanging Overhead in Leakey, Texas, near San Antonio, 12/1973
Trees at Sunset near Leakey, Texas, and San Antonio 12/1973
St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Trees at Sunset near Leakey, Texas, and San Antonio 12/1973

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