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[J.E. "Jim" Fitzgerald]

Description: Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.
Date: unknown
Partner: Palestine Public Library

[A portrait of a young Helen Edmunds Moore]

Description: A portrait of Helen Edmunds Moore as a teenager. She wears a long-sleeved white blouse with large cuffs over her long sleeves and a long white skirt. A pocket watch is pinned to her blouse and a small piece of jewelry is pinned at her neck. She stands with her right hand held behind her back. On the matte frame of the photograph is printed "Naschke 15th & Church Sts. Galveston, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: Naschke
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

J. F. Dawkins

Description: Portrait of Austin attorney J.F.Dawkins, wearing a three-piece suit.
Date: unknown
Partner: Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum

Four unidentified men holding insignia

Description: Photograph of four unidentified men holding an insignia . The men are standing in a yard in front of a house. Two of the men are wearing overalls.
Date: unknown
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Unidentified members of W. O. W.]

Description: Photograph of a large group of unidentified men and a few women and children posing in a field with trees. The men are wearing suits, fedoras, derby hats, and military uniforms. The women are wearing formal dresses and tea hats. Several ribbons and banners that read "W. O. W." are visible.
Date: unknown
Partner: Denton Public Library

["Yankee Clipper" in Forest Hills, Mass]

Description: The New Haven Railroad's "Yankee Clipper" headed by Engine No. 1396 - a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, enroute through Forest Hills, Massachusetts, on June 11, 1934. Operating between Boston and New York on a 4-hour and 45-minute schedule, this All-Pullman train comprised Club car, two Parlor cars, Dining car, and Sun Parlor Observation car. The "Yankee Clipper" rolled over the New Haven's main line rails - between Grand Central station (New York) and Back Bay, South Station (Boston) - a rail… more
Date: June 11, 1934
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Ranger" in Ardmore, Oklahoma]

Description: Santa Fe Railway's train No. 6 "The Ranger" northbound, departing from the Ardmore, Oklahoma depot. The city of Ardmore is in the background.
Date: June 1916
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Pennsylvainia Limited" westbound]

Description: This scene became commonplace by 1929 - Pennsy passenger trains headed by famed K4s Pacifics on first-class passenger runs - because the Atlantics had been retired. In this view, "The Pennsylvania Limited" train No. 5 westbound, headed by a K4s Pacific, type 4-6-2 locomotive, Engine No. 5375 rolls on the high iron at more than a mile a minute with ten cars of standard varnish.
Date: 1930~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["C.P. Huntington" locomotive]

Description: Southern Pacific's No. 1 locomotive - the C.P. Huntington - type 4-2-4T, built in the shops of Danforth, Cooke and Company of Paterson, New Jersey, in 1863. This diminutive steam engine was the first to cross the Huey P. Long Bridge spanning the Mississippi River during opening ceremonies on December 16, 1935.
Date: unknown
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[The "Banner Limited"]

Description: Wabash Railway's The "Banner Limited" dating from the turn of the century, traverses the 286 mile route between St. Louis and Chicago. It was a daylight train - No. 11 southbound and No. 10 northbound - operating on a schedule of about seven hours. In this photograph the "Banner Limited" is headed by an Atlantic type 4-4-2 locomotive, engine No. 602, with a consist of old wooden cars which have underbody truss rods and open platforms. As early as June 1916, this train was cited in the Official… more
Date: 1900~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Robert Evans, Sr. at Camp Bowie]

Description: Photograph of Robert Warren Evans, Sr., standing at Camp Bowie in his military uniform. He is holding a rifle upright in front his body. Behind him is a row of pitched army tents and a fellow soldiers.
Date: December 2, 1917
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Leona Beck and Others]

Description: Photograph of two women and a young girl standing outdoors amongst some plants. The woman on the left is Leona Dodgen Beck, who was the wife of W. Earl Beck, according to a handwritten note on the back of the photo.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

["The Green Diamond"]

Description: Illinois Central's original train "The Green Diamond" which went into service between Chicago and St. Louis in 1936. The consist included a combine baggage-mail car, four coaches, dining car, and observation parlor car.
Date: 1936~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Mardigras Car]

Description: Mardigras car in the consist of the Illinois Central's "The Panama Limited" operating between Chicago and New Orleans, circa 1925.
Date: 1925~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Unidentified clerks in general store]

Description: Photograph of three unidentified men standing around the counters of an unidentified general store. A variety of goods are positioned throughout the store. The two men behind the counters are wearing waistcoats and neckties. The other man, standing in front of the counter, is wearing a bow tie and three-piece suit.
Date: unknown
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Unidentified fire engines]

Description: Photograph of some unidentified fire engines. Several unidentified men are riding two different motor-operated vehicles and are riding a horse-drawn vehicle.
Date: unknown
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Several men and women at unidentified building]

Description: Photograph of several unidentified men and women on the stairs, in the windows, and on the balcony of an unidentified three-story brick building. A tower and spire of the building is visible, and several trees are visible in front of the building.
Date: unknown
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Denton County jail built in 1891]

Description: Photograph of the Denton County jail built in 1891 and is located at 406 North Elm. This was Denton's fourth jail. The brick used in the construction was made by R. B. Harris at the old bushey brick plant southeast of Denton. The windows of the two-story brick building are barred.
Date: unknown
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Horse-drawn carriage and man in white suit]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified man in a white suit standing in front of a horse-drawn carriage carrying two unidentified women. Several buildings are visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Denton Public Library

[The Milling Sanatorium]

Description: Dr. H. H. Milling was the first of Mineral Wells' "rubbin' doctors." He operated the Mineral Wells Sanatorium at 315 NW 1st Avenue before building this sanitarium in the 2500 block of SE 6th Avenue - the old Millsap Highway) about 1929. The building was later sold and renamed Irvine Sanitarium. It now [2010] belongs to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is located at 1400 SE VFW Highway (a branch of SE 6th Avenue), and houses VFW Post 2399. Dr. Milling also owned 60 acres on Pollard C… more
Date: 1935?
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Blind Nellie]

Description: Blind Nellie was brought to Mineral Wells by a cowboy, who sold her at auction for a dollar and a half. She eventually came into the possession of Colonel W.R. Austin, who used her to turn the wheel of the pump at the Austin Well. The horse became a tourist attraction in that capacity. When she was retired, she continued to walk in circles in her pasture. She was given a ceremonial burial when she died in 1912, a burial attended by a large crowd of admirers. The story may be found on page … more
Date: unknown
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Many round bales of cotton at Selz Cotton Gin]

Description: Photograph of several rows of round bales of cotton at Selz Cotton Gin in Pilot Point, Texas. Several buildings and a water tower are visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Denton Public Library

["The Meteor"]

Description: St. Louis and San Francisco Railway's oldest name train "The Meteor" operating between Chicago, St. Louis, Springfield, Sapulpa, Denison, Sherman, Fort Worth and Dallas - a rail distance of 976 miles. This famous train made its first run on March 17, 1902. Even in this early era "The Meteor" was one of the nation's de Lux long-distance passenger trains. Its dining car service was comparable to that on the Santa Fe, being under the supervision of Fred Harvey.
Date: 1910~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
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