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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[1928 Midland Football Team]

Description: Photograph of the 1928 Midland football team, organized in three rows on the front steps of a school building. The players wear long-sleeve shirts with striped sleeves and have their arms crossed, while coaches and staff wear suits. Red Johnson is identified in the second row, last one on the right. The coaches stand on the left, unspecified: assistant coach Walton Hinds (one of two coaches on left), Coach D. D. Shiflett (first row, first from right with hat), and assistant coach H. B. Lane (on… more
Date: 1928
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Aerial of Downtown Midland, 1927]

Description: Aerial photograph of Midland, Texas, in 1927, north facing up. The Midland County Courthouse is visible at center left, with the county jail along the east side of Loraine Street. A large water tower is placed on the city block northeast of the courthouse. In the bottom right corner, Front Street and the railroad is visible.
Date: 1927
Creator: Fairchild Aerial Survey, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Baptist Sunday School Convention, Rockwall]

Description: Photograph of a convention of Baptist adult Sunday schools in Rockwall organized by the Philathean Society. Several women stand on the steps of a church building, arranged in four rows. Two groups of women along the front row each hold a sign, a pennant at left reading "Philathea" and a flag-shaped banner at right reading "First Annual Convention Banner." Names of attendees is listed on the back of the photograph.
Date: 1926
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.924938 -96.461499
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[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

[Charles W. Norris in a Barber Shop]

Description: Photograph of Charles W. Norris (left), a tailor in Fort Worth, standing in a barbershop with a tape measure around his neck and a clipboard in his left hand. At right, there are three barbers each standing behind a chair, two with customers. The chairs are placed in front of mirrors with desks and have lightbulbs hanging above. Handwritten on back: "Charles W. Norris, tailor, Fort Worth circa 1924-1925."
Date: 1924~/1925~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Corporation Courtroom, Midland County Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of the "corporation courtroom" in the Midland County Courthouse, containing three arched sections of seating, a low bar, and wooden tables and chairs for trial participants. A pyramidal roof, decorated with relief flourishes, is visible above, and windows around the courtroom let in bright light from outside.
Date: 1928
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.998051 -102.076234
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[F. W. Woolworth Store with Employees, Bonham]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the F. W. Woolworth store on the south side of the courthouse square in Bonham. Employees and customers are scattered around the aisles of the store. Fans hang from the ceiling, as well as signs that read: "nothing on this counter over 15 cents." At center is another sign reading "Jewelry Department", with two women standing behind a register. A handful of customers are gathered along the left aisle, including a woman and a young girl facing away from the photograp… more
Date: 1925~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[F. W. Woolworth Store with Group of Women, Bonham]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the F. W. Woolworth store on the south side of the courthouse square in Bonham. A group of women pose for a photograph along an aisle of merchandise. Fans hang from the ceiling, as well as signs that read: "nothing on this counter over 15 cents." On the left displays are jewelry and flat papers, and on the right aisles are rolls of material and a cash register. There are eight women standing together, facing the photographer; two watch from across an aisle on the … more
Date: 1925~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[First National Bank, After 1928]

Description: Photograph of the First National Bank on the corner of Main and Wall Street in Midland. The bank is a two-storied building with a Neoclassical facade, Doric pillars, a wide and narrow pediment, and a rectangular entablature, on the front reading "FIRST NATIONAL BANK". Cars are parked near the front of the building, along the curb of the sidewalk. The J. B. Barron Company clothing store is adjacent to the bank at left, and the Hotel Scharbauer's sign, partially obscured, is visible behind the ba… more
Date: [1929..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997413 -102.074490
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Four Generations of the Parker Family]

Description: Photograph of four generations of the Parker family posing for a photograph together. From left to right is Sallie Ann Clarke Parker holding a fan, Sallie Ann Parker Willis holding a book, Neva Willis Hudson, and Margaret Ann Hudson, held in Neva's lap.
Date: [1922..1924]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Freshmen Running the Gauntlet]

Description: Photograph of freshmen running "the gauntlet" in front of the Old Main Building of the Texas Lutheran College, with cheering upperclassmen flanked along the sides of the concrete path that runs in front of the building. A running freshman approaches another student whose right arm is raised and in motion towards the freshman.
Date: 1924
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.572439 -97.982025
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

A History of Bonham, Texas

Description: Book outlining the early history of Bonham, Texas, including information about people, businesses, development of municipal services and government, and other related topics, organized into four main sections: Early Pioneer Days (1836-1861), War Period (1861-1865), Period of Reconstruction (1865-1875), and Later Development (1875-1929).
Date: 1929
Creator: Bonham High School. American History Class.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History
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