Rescuing Texas History, 2022 - 22 Matching Results

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[Check to Ure Drug Store]

Description: Personal check from the Fraternal Bank & Trust Co. of Fort Worth, made out to Ure Drug Store for $4.25 and signed by William McDonald for the purchase of cigars. McDonald was a cigar aficionado.
Date: June 5, 1944
Creator: McDonald, WIlliam Madison
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Dry Garden Base Construction #1]

Description: Photograph of the base of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden, which consists of a rectangular enclosure of concrete stilts stuck into the ground. Numerous trenches have been dug around the concrete stilts, which have steel wires projecting out from them, to be used by the wooden frame to be built on it. Several workers walk around the base, and a white truck is visible parked behind the dry garden at right.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736200 -97.365753
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Dry Garden Base Construction #2]

Description: Photograph of the base of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden, which consists of a rectangular enclosure of concrete stilts stuck into the ground. Wooden planks have been laid across pairs of stilts, each holding joints for wooden ribs to be laid in between. Several wires are laid across the dry garden's gravel space.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736187 -97.365763
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Dry Garden Base Construction #3]

Description: Photograph of the base of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden, which consists of a rectangular enclosure of concrete stilts stuck into the ground. A tractor drives between the stilts, away from the camera, dragging a tool with it and being watched by two workers. An excavator is visible at left between the stilts, and a white truck is parked at right next to a stack of timber.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736205 -97.365777
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Dry Garden Enclosure Construction]

Description: Photograph of the enclosure of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. The enclosure, built on short round concrete stilts, has a completed frame, with narrow wooden strips used for parts of the outside wall of the enclosure. The ceiling and several portions of the outside wall remain incomplete. The dry garden's boulders are visible in the garden itself, as well as a tall power pole.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736211 -97.365753
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Dry Garden Frame Construction]

Description: Photograph of a corner of the wooden frame of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, built on multiple short round concrete stilts. One side has not yet been fully built, with numerous exposed joints in the structure at left. Two saw horses rest near the dry garden's base, while pieces of lumber are scattered under and around the frame.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736265 -97.365676
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Dry Garden Landscape Construction]

Description: Photograph of construction of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Workers dig trenches with pickaxes and other tools alongside the gravel landscape of the dry garden, with a small yellow trencher machine and a small tractor driven by another worker besides them. The construction takes place within the unbuilt enclosure of the dry garden, its concrete stilts visible around the workers.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736054 -97.365736
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Eastern Fuller Garden Construction Work]

Description: Photograph of the Fuller Garden and the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden undergoing work. The courtyard's elevated concrete planters, with yellow shrubs and flowers planted inside, are visible in the lower left half of the image. The veranda of the Garden Center is visible on the left side of the image. Construction workers and gardeners, scattered across the garden, work on stone pathways embedded into the grass. A man in a hat gestures towards an empty patch of dirt to anoth… more
Date: 1990-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.740348 -97.364150
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[First National Bank Building Groundbreaking, 1957]

Description: Photograph of the groundbreaking ceremony for the First National Bank building on the corner of Wall and Colorado streets in Midland. Two men, A.N. Hendrickson (left) and John P. Butler (right), bend down and hold shovels thrust into the dirt of an empty building lot, surrounded by a crowd of men in hats, ties, and suits. The Petroleum Building with its Shell sign is visible in the background. The men in the crowd, from left to right, are: E. B. Dickenson, Joe Crump, O. C. Harper, Foy Proctor, … more
Date: June 25, 1957
Creator: Frank Miller Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997193 -102.077155
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Fuller Garden Gazebo with Floral Arch]

Description: Photograph of a gazebo at the Fuller Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gazebo sits prominently in the background behind a large, metal floral arch that contains pink flower beds and dense vining leaves. The flower arch sits elevated on a wall of stone bricks, under which there is a bed of shrubs and plants bordered by a shorter stone brick wall and a stone footpath. Shrubs and short trees flank the gazebo.
Date: June 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.740195 -97.365187
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Leonard Courtyard Special Event]

Description: Photograph of a gathering in the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The courtyard is filled with round tables with pink fabric tablecloths, decorative flower pots, and adjoining white chairs, some occupied by people. Other individuals are standing up or walking in between the tables. An elevated concrete flower bed with purple, pink, and white flowers is visible in the foreground, while the Garden Center and its veranda are in the background.
Date: June 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.740207 -97.364149
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Mr. Byrd, Heading to New Mexico]

Description: Photographs of a Mr. Byrd, heading west from South Carolina to New Mexico by ox-wagon. He is depicted here resting and eating in the Chickasaw Nation, seated on a stool with a plate in his hands and a cup on a small box in front of him. His covered wagon is behind him, with packages laid to its side. Oxen are seated at left, resting on the grass. Trees and bushes are scattered in the background.
Date: June 1, 1906
Creator: Eichelberger, George W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Harold and Walter]

Description: Photograph of Harold and Walter on June 3, 1888. The younger child sits at right on a large armchair, which is covered in a blanket. The older child, stands on a cushioned platform at left in a dark-colored dress, resting against the chair's armrest.
Date: June 3, 1888
Creator: Chapman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard from Hallie to Mrs. Joe Bigy - June 13, 1911]

Description: Postcard from Hallie to Mrs. Joe Bigy[?] in Coalgate, Oklahoma. Hallie writes about their home and beckons Mrs. B. to write back. The front of the postcard shows a collage of four places in Waco: in clockwise order from the top left, the New Exchange Hotel, its furnished lobby, its large dining room, and the Union Depot station.
Date: June 13, 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard from Julia Estes Rankin to Velma Snelson - June 5, 1908]

Description: Postcard from Julia Estes Rankin in Midland to Velma Snelson in Stone Mountain, Georgia, discussing a parade held in May 1908 where she was crowned "queen" of the May parade. The front of the postcard shows a parade in procession, with cars and small parade floats riding down a dirt road lined with storefronts, with pedestrians, horseback riders, and parked horse-drawn wagons along the sides of the road.
Date: June 5, 1908
Creator: Rankin, Julia Estes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Rock Springs Waterfalls #2]

Description: Photograph of waterfalls in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The cascades are built on tiers, one higher than the other, flowing out from a pond along the top from the image into a lower level lined with walls made of flat boulders. This flat section leads to a second waterfall into a smaller pond below.
Date: June 1983
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.740342 -97.363814
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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