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[Photograph of Fountain and Sculpture at Women's Museum]

Description: Photograph of a fountain display with a sculpture of a naked woman standing on a tall cactus. The fountain has several streams coming out of three pairs of concrete rectangles lined up on either side of the fountain pool, and is surrounded by small shrubs and several trees. Behind the sculpture is a light-colored building with a wall alcove, which has a Texan-themed mural. There is a woman wearing a calf-length, short-sleeve dress, a flower hat, and light-colored pump heels. There are handwritt… more
Date: 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.782184 -96.765407
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of Pan-American Casino at Texas Fair]

Description: Photograph of the Pan-American Casino exhibit at the Texas State Fair grounds , a three-story, light-colored building with two domed turrets on either side of the front of the building, and a wide portico with columns at the front. There is a large sign between the two turrets with the casino name, a long, narrow sign advertising for a show inside below the first sign, and the words, "The True The Good and The Beautiful" on the face of the building below the other signs. In front of the buildin… more
Date: 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.781042 -96.765630
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of a Small Boy Driving a Goat-Cart]

Description: Photograph of a small boy sitting on a two-wheel cart, holding the reins to a large goat. The goat has long, light-colored hair and two long horns, and is attached to the cart. The boy has short hair and is wearing a small coat with a large collage, shorts, tights, and lace-up boots. The cart is parked right alongside a house with wood siding, and there is a wooden fence behind the cart.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of People Beside Automobiles Outside Brick Building]

Description: Photograph of a group of men and women standing with two cars on the grassy lawn in front of a tall brick building with a circular-arch entrance. The women are wearing dresses or skirts and blouses, and the men are wearing light-colored dress shirts with slacks (some are also wearing hats). The cars, which are old and dusty, are parked facing the building, and one of them has a wheel on the back. There is a note on the back of the photo that says, "Hightower Baptist Church."
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of Dinosaur Exhibit at Texas State Fair]

Description: Photograph of a diorama depicting two dinosaurs facing off against each other. The dinosaur on the left is a Triceratops, while the dinosaur on the right is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. A small sign on the base of the exhibit (fake rocks) gives information about the T-Rex. A rectangular building with small cross-hatch windows and a skinny tree are visible in the background. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo indicate the model was part of the Sinclair Oil Company Exhibit at the State Fair of T… more
Date: 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of People on South St. Paul Sidewalk in Dallas]

Description: Photograph of people walking up and down the sidewalk along a street with parking meters. A woman, wearing a long jacket with a fur collar and a hat with a feather, is walking towards the camera on the left and carrying wrapped parcels under her left arm. Two men in hats, one wearing a long coat and one in a sweater, walking away from the camera on the right. There are other multi-story building in the background, on either side of the street, including a skyscraper in the distant background. T… more
Date: 193X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.780289 -96.795359
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of H. L. Desmond with Colt and Dog]

Description: Photograph of a thin older man sitting on a bench next to an upturned wash tub, with his legs crossed, holding a shallow, dented pan for a small colt to put its head into. The man is wearing round glasses, a light-colored shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and light-colored pants. There is a light-colored, short-furred dog with floppy ears and dark spots sitting to the right of the man's legs. In the background, the corner of a wooden shed and thin, wood picket fence. There is a handwritten note… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of Concession Stand Vendors at Texas Fair]

Description: Photograph of two men in aprons and shirts with rolled up sleeves (one with a newsboy cap on), leaning on either side of the corner of a covered, wooden shack. The shack has a counter that wraps around the whole structure, except where the man on the left has opened a small door and is leaning. There are Coca Cola advertisements painted all the way along the front of the counter. On the back wall of the shack (at left) there are hanging and standing cabinets of various shapes and sizes. There i… more
Date: 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of Art Deco Building at Texas State Fair]

Description: Photograph of an art deco building at the Texas State Fair grounds, taken at an angle from across the Esplanade fountain (a long, narrow pool of water arranged parallel to the building). There are two portico entrances sticking out from the building - one in the center, and one on the left - each of which has two rectangular columns and an alcove in the center of the front wall of the portico. In front of the building are small shrubs, flags lined up along the fountain, a tall pillar in between… more
Date: 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.781756 -96.764054
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of State Fair of Texas Ride]

Description: Photograph of an amusement ride at the State Fair of Texas. The ride has two cars attached by long, metal poles to two large, flat rotating wheels, which are, in turn, attached to either side of metal T-frame. The cars themselves are oval-shaped and have flat, metal, semi-circular frames attached to either side. Nothing is visible in the background. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says the ride might have been called "The Giant's Foot."
Date: 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of Tall Building at State Fair of Texas]

Description: Photograph of a light-colored art-deco style building, which has a tall, squared-off tower with decorative circular windows near the top. On the ground in front of it, there are several people walking towards and to the left of the building, including a man on a horse. A smaller building with a multi-gable roof sits to the front right of the tall building. There is a leaf-bare tree in front of the building, a larger tree covered in leaves directly to the left, and a clear sky behind the tower. … more
Date: 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of a Young Boy and His Dance Partner]

Description: Photograph of a young boy and a young girl standing in front of a curtain on a stage. The boy, standing on the left, is wearing a light-colored silk costume with billowy sleeves and long pants, and the girl, on the left, is wearing a light-colored silk costume with shorts and a billowy shirt. Both are wearing loose, floppy hats and are standing with their left hands extended out to the side. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photo identifying the boy as Fisher Lloyd Forrest.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of the John N. Bryan Cabin]

Description: Photograph of the John N. Bryan wood cabin, sitting in front of the Old Red Courthouse in Dallas, Texas. The cabin has a stone chimney on the left side, two windows on either side of the front door, and a wooden shingle roof. The Courthouse, which is partially visible behind the cabin, is a sandstone building with a turret and windows, as well as a more modern unit of windows built onto a balcony. A man and woman stand before the cabin, looking at it from either side (the woman on the left and … more
Date: September 9, 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.778397 -96.807351
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of GE Four-Blade Standing Fan]

Description: Photograph of a small GE four-blade, standing, caged fan, with a hand reaching towards it. The fan is resting on some kind of stand or table, and behind it, there is a map on a wall. To the left, there is a bolt of striped fabric standing upright, just in shot, and on the lower portion of the wall, there are photos, including one of a roller-coaster. On the back of the photograph, there are handwritten notes about the photo's subject, a high school teacher touching a fan.
Date: 1975
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of Grace Lorraine Conner's Family Outside House]

Description: Photograph of a group of twenty-four men, women, and children standing in the grass lawn outside a light-colored, one-story house with wood-siding, and a small porch on the right half of the front. The people are almost all wearing winter coats, and most of them are wearing hats. There is a tall tree beside the house on the left, the branches of which are seen at the top of the photo, and ivy growing up the right side. On the back, there are handwritten notes about the photo.
Date: 1930~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell
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