The Wendell Lee Tarver Family Collection - 209 Matching Results

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[A&M vs. OU Banner]

Description: Photograph of a banner hanging on a multi=story brick building with a large number of windows. It appears to have an illustration of a football player kicking something at the top and the text "Old Army Kick OU" next to a donkey at the bottom.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Man Standing in Front of a Bush]

Description: Photograph of a young man posing on a lawn in front of a large bush, with his hands clasped behind his back. He is wearing a short-sleeved button-up shirt and dark slacks. A building is partially visible in the background.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Man Standing Near Shrub]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified young man standing on a lawn near a large bush. He is wearing a short-sleeved button-up shirt, slacks, and a cowboy hat, posing with his arms behind his back. In the background, other people are visible, walking in front of a large brick building.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Pair of Striped Pigs]

Description: Photograph of two pigs standing side-by-side in an open field, facing the camera. Both of the pigs are a dark color with a light stripe across their shoulders, including their front legs. Several buildings are visible in the background.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Person Feeding Pigs]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified person wearing loose clothing and a cowboy hat with two dark-colored pigs eating out of troughs in a grassy area. The person is leaning over to pat the pig on the left. Buildings are partially visible in the background.
Date: 1948
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Pigs Eating from Trough]

Description: Photograph of two dark-colored pigs eating from a trough in an open grassy area. Buildings are visible in the background, including one that appears to be a house (center) and a barn (right).
Date: 1948
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Portrait of Wendell Tarver in Uniform]

Description: Photograph of Wendell Tarver, visible from the chest up, wearing a formal, military-style uniform including a button-up jacket with pins on the collar, and a brimmed, flat-topped hat that has a symbol on the front. He is facing the left side of the image and is laughing or smiling broadly.
Date: [1948..1956]
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Robert Tilson Outside of Barracks]

Description: Photograph of a young man -- identified on the back as Robert Tilson "Wrencho" -- standing in front of of the double-screen door entrance with the text "Hotel Welcome Mothers" chalked above it. He is wearing a military-style uniform including a loose jacket and brimmed cap, posing with his hands on his waist, and is visible from the waist up.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Students on Sidewalk]

Description: Photograph of two young men -- identified as "Maholek & Zabcek" -- standing next to each other on a sidewalk leading to a building in the background. The man on the left is wearing jeans and a jean jacket, with a cowboy hat and the man on the right is wearing slacks with a gingham-patterned jacket. Other people are visible outside the building behind them.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Telesforo Ramirez Standing Near Bushes]

Description: Photograph of young man wearing a military-style uniform and holding a towel across his waist, identified on the back as "Ramirez, Teleford, III." He is posing out-of-doors, next to a row of bushes to the left, and several trash cans; on the right, several buildings are partially visible.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Three Men Posing Together]

Description: Photograph of three young men standing together with their arms around one another in front of a large shrubbery. They are wearing short-sleeved button-up shirts and slacks; the man in the center has a cigarette in his mouth. A brick building is partially visible in the background, to the right.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Tommy Martinez in a Field]

Description: Photograph of Tommy Martinez wearing a military-style uniform, standing in a field with his left hand on his hip. Behind him, other people are standing and sitting along a fence, observing something in another field and there is a large, L-shaped building in the background.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Two Pigs on a Farm]

Description: Photograph of two pigs standing side-by-side in an open field. The pig on the right is facing the camera and the pig on the left is looking toward the left side of the image; both of them are a dark color with a light stripe across the shoulders and front legs. A building is visible in the background on the right side of the image.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[William Thomas in Doorway]

Description: Photograph of William Thomas wearing a military-style uniform including a garrison cap and necktie. He is standing with his right hand in his pocket in front of an open door in the double-doorway of a brick building.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Winifred McNair Outside Barracks]

Description: Photograph of Winifred McNair, visible from the waist up, wearing a military-style uniform and standing in front of double screen doors. There is text chalked around the doorway including, "[Welcome] Mothers" at the top, and "[...]ainview Bulldogs | [T]he Best [in] the West" in the lower right.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Young Man with Prizewinning Pig]

Description: Photograph of a dark-colored pig with a light stripe around the shoulders facing the right side of the image, where a young man is partially visible, leaning over to hold a ribbon over the pig. They appear to be standing in a lightly-wooded area.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Young Woman with Three Cows]

Description: Photograph of a young woman wearing loose clothing and a headscarf, standing to the right of three cows, looking toward them and holding their leads. Two are dark-colored cows and the one in the middle is lighter colored. Text written at the bottom says, "How do you like _my_ colors? Nice, aren't they?" Handwritten note on the back: "1 - Wendell or Laura or Emily or me."
Date: 1948
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[A&M Barracks 206 Group Photo]

Description: Photograph of a group of sixteen young men posing together around a sign that says "Brks. 206. A&M Annex, Fall 1948" in three rows, with five of them crouching at the front and two standing rows. They are wearing informal versions of military-style uniforms, although several are wearing T-shirts or have removed their shirts. They are posing inside the barracks and shelving with personal items are visible on either side of the image. Names are handwritten on people and around the edges of the… more
Date: Autumn 1948
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Anton Backholt Outside Barracks]

Description: Photograph of a young man, identified on the back as Anton Backholt, wearing a military-style uniform and standing outside the door to the barracks at A&M College of Texas. The area around the doorway is decorated with lettering that says "Welcome Mothers" over the door, with other messages on either side.
Date: [1949..1954]
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family
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