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Close up crop of Baylor (Floyd Casey) Stadium Construction Aerial, circa 1949

The Swigert Construction Company of Waco is hard at work building a stadium in this image. Swigert’s bid of $1,127,188 for the stadium, parking facilities, streets and pavement was the lowest offered. The construction job began in November 1949 and was finished in September of the following year.

 

Photo by Jimmie Willis and digitally scanned from the original 4x5 photo negative. This has been cropped and zoomed in on to show the detail.

 

Looking for this photograph? You'll find it in the Baylor University photo files at The Texas Collection. Rights: Some rights reserved. E-mail txcoll@baylor.edu for information about obtaining a high-resolution file of this image.Visit www.baylor.edu/lib/texas/ for more information about our collections.

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