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Childress Co.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Childress County, Texas landowners, block and tract numbers, land patents, railroads, and towns. Scale [ca. 1:66,667].
Date: 1892
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[The Train That Brought FDR to Childress, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a steam engine traveling across an open field. There are parked cars waiting along both sides of the train tracks and the drivers are waiting outside their cars. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is a passenger on the train according to the handwriting on the edge of the photograph.
Date: 1938
Creator: Stanford Studio
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Partner: Childress County Heritage Museum

[Fort Worth & Denver City Roundhouse Built at Childress Shop Yards in 1910]

Description: Photograph of the Forth Worth & Denver City Railroad roundhouse and shop yards in Childress, Texas. This photograph contains two images. The top image is of the roundhouse and the bottom image is of the shop yard. The roundhouse is made of brick and mortar and is surrounded by several train tracks and wheels. The shop yard is full of buildings, structures, and steam engines labeled "Fort Worth & Denver".
Date: unknown
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Partner: Childress County Heritage Museum

[The "Silver Chief" Texas Zephyr]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Zephyr known as the "Silver Chief". The zephyr is traveling along the Fort Wort & Denver- Burlington Route. There is another set of train tracks in front of the moving zephyr and power lines are present in the top right hand corner of the photograph. The name "Silver Chief" is visible on the side of the zephyr.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Childress County Heritage Museum

FDR Speaks in Childress, Texas

Description: Photograph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt giving a speech from the back of a train in Childress, Texas. On either side of him from left to right is a security guard, Governor James Allred, another guard, Marvin Jones and Tom Connally. Both of Mr. Roosevelt's hands are on the podium and he speaks into a microphone. All the men wear suits and ties, Mr. Connally wears a bow tie. There is a railing in front of the men. In the immediate foreground is the back of somebody's head and a typed piece … more
Date: unknown
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Partner: Childress County Heritage Museum

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for improvements in rail joints. A patent for a boltless, interlocking rail joint that is noiseless.
Date: February 3, 1914
Creator: Bell, Silas D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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