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[Austin Avenue Methodist Church Chancel]

Description: Photograph of the chancel and the altar of the Austin Avenue Methodist Church in Waco, Texas. Most of the chancel is raised on a platform. At the very back is the raised choir loft and the Kilgen organ console (mostly obscured). The back wall contains wooden paneling, tracery and facade organ pipes. A short upper wooden screen separates the choir from the main part of the chancel, on which are clergy seats, the pulpit, decorated with a parament, and the altar. This portion is accessible by stai… more
Date: December 22, 1953
Creator: Willis Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.549818 -97.138852
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Certificate of Registration for Rockwell Baraca]

Description: Certificate of registration issued by the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, certifying the Baraca Sunday school of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall's enrolllment into the convention's Organized Class Department.
Date: December 30, 1921
Creator: Southern Baptist Convention
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Check Written to the Grand Lodge F&AM]

Description: Personal check from the Fraternal Bank & Trust Company of Fort Worth, made out to the Grand Lodge, F&AM (Free and Accepted Masons) for $850.00 and signed by William McDonald. McDonald was the Grand Lodge's Grand Secretary, and was a leader in the Black Masonic movement. His Fraternal Bank and Trust Company was located in the Grand Masonic Temple on East 9th Street.
Date: December 3, 1934
Creator: McDonald, WIlliam Madison
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Christmas in Downtown Midland, 1892]

Description: Photograph of downtown Midland during Christmas in 1892. Numerous storefronts line Abilene (now Main) Street, including a meat market, while crowds of people and covered carriages puled by horses walk across the frozen ground. People stand on sidewalks and in the street, some looking towards the photographer.
Date: December 1892
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Conservatory Christmas Flower Arrangement]

Description: Photograph of a Christmas-themed flower arrangement in the Conservatory at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. At center are roughly bowling pin-shaped figurines of people dressed in uniforms, resembling nutcrackers. They sit in a patch of red poinsettias among other leafy floral plants. Hanging plants in vases are visible across the background, and a water fountain is partially visible at left.
Date: 1992-12~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.739921 -97.363916
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Downtown Midland at Night]

Description: Photograph of downtown Midland at night, taken along the center of a street. Cars between the road, with moderately-tall buildings on both sides and power lines and Christmas lights hanging across the streets. The Crawford Hotel is partially visible on the left side of the street, and a building with a sign reading "THE OIL AND GAS BUILDING" is on the right side.
Date: 1959-12~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997492 -102.074729
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[F. C. Olds' Residence, Waco]

Description: Postcard of Frederick Charles Olds' residence on Austin Avenue, Waco. The house here is a two-storied house with a large portico set on stone pillars and balconies on both floors extending in both directions for the house's front facade. A covered driveway juts out from the house's side at left, with a paved pathway leading up to the side of the house.
Date: December 24, 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Home of H. D. Fillers]

Description: Photograph of the house of H. D. Fillers in Wichita Falls. The house is a simple, one-story suburban house, with a chimney, a doorway with a decorated entry, and two garage doors. Short trees and shrubs line the front of the building, and a large tree is partially visible at right. This photograph is addressed to Mrs. R. M. Packer.
Date: December 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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