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[1924 Waco High School Football Team]

Description: Photograph of the 1924 Waco High School football team. Players are seated in three rows with striped shirts and socks, facing forward. Some wear coats and neckties. Players are identified along the bottom of the image in pen, corresponding to their position in the photograph. Paul L. Tyson, the head coach, stands in the back row at center in a coat and tie.
Date: 1924
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[1976 Rockwall First Baptist Members: Howland Family]

Description: Photograph of the Howland family, members of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall, standing outside the church building. Several family members are named, including their method of membership into the church: Mr. and Mrs. Jerry (Phyllis) Howland, by letters (transfer from another Baptist church), and Tracy Howland, by baptism.
Date: April 18, 1976
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[3rd Anniversary for Rev. C. A. Holliday]

Description: Photograph of a 3rd anniversary celebration for Reverend C. A. Holliday at the Greater St. James Baptist Church. Rev. Holliday is standing in front of a wooden pulpit along other church leaders and choir members standing in rows behind him. A thermometer measuring cash donated for the church building fund has been placed between large bouquets of flowers in front of the pulpit, and a banner for Rev. Holliday is hung along the back wall of the church.
Date: 1955
Creator: Turner, John
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Apparel Mart Docks]

Description: Photograph of the docks at the Apparel Mart. Depicted is a large storage room with platform trucks and dollies situated in a niche at center, and stacks of lumber and boxes at right alongside the entrance for a shipping and receiving office. Two workers stand next to the platform trucks, one walking towards the back of the room, where there is an entrance to the post office.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Apparel Mart Elevators]

Description: Photograph of elevators in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. The elevator at right is open, and the one at left, partially obscured, is closed. A sign above the elevator button points directions towards the "market time check-in desk" on the fourth floor and the "post office".
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Apparel Mart Entrance Signage]

Description: Photograph of the front entrance to the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. The front entrance is covered by a large rectangular canopy held up on white pillars with lights shining down into the entrance. The text "THE APPAREL MART" is installed in black serif font along the canopy. The Apparel Mart building is across the background, and a flagpole is visible to the right of the canopy.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Apparel Mart Exhibition Showroom]

Description: Photograph of a showroom in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. At right, several people show multicolored gowns and dresses to producers with papers seated at tables in front of them. A similar group of producers and industrialists listen to a man in a plaid suit talking in front of their table. The room is decorated with potted plants, chandeliers, and small paper posters.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Apparel Mart Front Entrance]

Description: Photograph of the entrance to the Dallas Apparel Mart. At left center is the entrance's white canopy, reading "APPAREL MART". A tractor hitched to a wheeled, narrow covered platform is parked in front of the entrance to the building, and in front of it are three people talking. Other people, including possibly a police officer, walk and sit around the entrance. Cars, partially visible at right, are parked in front of the building.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Apparel Mart Great Hall Concession Booth]

Description: Photograph of a large, square concession stand in the Great Hall of the Dallas Apparel Mart. The stand has a striped fabric roof and a square paper sign reading "SALAD BOWLS" currently placed atop it. Employees work the counter below, preparing and serving food to customers. Soda dispensers and condiments are visible on the square counters running along under the stand. Outside the stand are arrangements of circular tables, and the Great Hall's large stage, accessible by stairs and decorated by… more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Apparel Mart Lobby, Information Desks]

Description: Photograph of an information desk in the lobby of the Dallas Apparel Mart. A man at a desk speaks to an employee on the other side of a long and mostly-empty desk, under a sign reading "INFORMATION". Pamphlets distributed by the local Chamber of Commerce are displayed on a pillar adjoining the lobby desks. At right are escalators and lounge chairs, with people walking along the building's hallways.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Apparel Mart Maintenance Offices]

Description: Photograph of a maintenance office in the Apparel Mat, located a long, dark corridor. Inside the office, two workers view a paper on a wooden desk, one standing at left and the other seated at right. An ashtray, a lamp, and other papers are laid on the desk. Around the office is a paper organizer and a chair, with a door along the back wall.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Apparel Mart Office Hallways]

Description: Photograph of a hallway leading to business offices in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. A sign on the front wall at center refers to "men's hair styling". At right is an elevated chair with a footrest, placed on a platform with cups, bottles, and a floor mat. Below the platform are normal red and yellow chairs.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Apparel Mart Showroom Closets]

Description: Photograph of a clothing showroom in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. Numerous salespeople, holding dresses and gowns from a rack of clothes along the wall, show clothes to seated producers and business people, who watch attentively. They are visible in the room's open door frame, and outside is a sign listing various companies and brands holding exhibitions in the showroom.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

The Apparel Mart Tapestries in Dallas by Bjørn Wiinblad

Description: Series of folded pages that describe the tapestries commissioned to hang in the great hall of the Dallas Apparel Mart, based on the Arabian Nights stories. The first page provides background, with the handwritten text of the letter written by artist Bjørn Wiinblad describing the inspiration for the images; the second page discusses the process and shows images of the illustration versus the tapestry. The other pages provide text from the Arabian Nights for each of the five themes selected for… more
Date: October 1973
Creator: Wiinblad, Bjørn
Partner: Dallas Market Center
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