By Sahar Chmais

Open a window to a snapshot in time, capsuled in black and white, where a 20-year-old woman tells a friend about her ordinary day working at the telephone office – and in that same shot the woman had forgotten to wear her trademark glasses. A simple postcard, one sentence and one photo, but this image taken in 1911 captures a shift in time and becomes witness to history in the making.

Kenneth “Ken” Wilson, of Dripping Springs and author of “Snapshots and Sho...