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This was another of the 170+ historical stories we did for the Old Red Museum. This one tells the story of Sarah Horton Cockrell, one of Dallas’ earliest entrepreneurs. When you watch the video, the reason that her husband’s eyes look strange is because this is the only photo of him and it was taken just after he died. He was a bit of a scoundrel and was shot in the street over a bad business deal. The photographer painted the eyes in, and they didn’t do a very convincing job. This was actually a fairly common practice, at the time. But the technology of photography was very new back then, so we’ll cut them some slack.
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Thank you for the information for my Texas history speech and the picture of Mrs. Sarah Cockrell
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