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Unidentified Homes

Description: Several houses are pictured in the background. A man and a small child are standing in front of an area where houses or a large building had been torn down. A horse and buggy are in the lower left corner.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Wooden Wall and Doorway

Description: A dirty wooden wall has trash on the floor in front of it in an unknown derelict house. On the left side of the image is a doorway into another room that was painted white, but the paint is now peeling and cracking. The house is one of many moved by Denton County House Movers around 1970. They (DCHM) think that it could have come from one of two area: near the University of North Texas campus, or from Pacific Street, which was moved to make way for the expansion of South Carroll Boulevard.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bennett, Doug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Corner in a Derelict House

Description: A corner where trash lies on the floor and the wallpaper has fallen down in an unknown derelict house on an unknown site. This house had been abandoned for some time and "squatters", students, and others had lived in it. The location was somewhere near the University of North Texas campus and it was moved for their expansion. The time was around 1970.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bennett, Doug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Wooden Ceiling and Window

Description: The beams of a wooden ceiling take up the top half of the image while the bottom half is comprised of a white window with no screen or glass and door off of its hinges laying next to the entry-way in an unknown house.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bennett, Doug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Door and Two Windows

Description: Interior view of a room in a house at an unknown location. The house had been located near the University of North Texas campus, but was moved to make way for further expansion. It was moved by Denton County House Movers around 1970, possibly to area on far south Locust St (and may still be there). At that time an entire house could be purchased for $50. This home was bought by someone to be turned into a rental property. A closed door is in the center of the frame and there are rectan… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Bennett, Doug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Portrait of Wiggs' Family Home at the corner of Blount and McKinney Streets in Denton, Texas]

Description: Frame home with Mr. and Mrs. Z. Wiggs and three children, Rua, Noah, and Grace, in the yard. Written on the back, "The Wiggs family home located at 218 Blount St. in 1912 with Mr. & Mrs. Wiggs and 3 of their children Rua, Noah, and Grace (Grace who was later killed in 1925 in an early car wreck in the western part of Denton County). Blount St. no longer exists, but it used to run north-south from McKinney to Sycamore Street.
Date: 1912
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Unidentified Girl Standing on a Baluster]

Description: Snapshot of a girl acting silly while balancing on the concrete baluster of a Victorian home. In the background two more women can be seen on the porch.The library has numerous photos (A-155 through A-165), all of the same size, that appear to have been removed from a scrapbook with black pages. The photos are taken all on the same front porch. The others are taken in the yard. The girls appear to be friends and of student age. We believe that this same girl appears in photo A-164 "Unidentified… more
Date: 1917~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Sycamore Street Before Bridge

Description: Sycamore Street in anticipation of the construction of the Sycamore Street Bridge. The road has been blocked off, but construction on the bridge has not yet started. Homes line either side of Sycamore Street which recedes back into the image down the center of the frame.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Frame House with Horse and Buggy

Description: Snapshot of a frame house behind a picket fence with a horse-drawn buggy and two unidentified individuals in the yard. A horse-drawn wagon is in the foreground in front of the picket fence. We have a second photo of this house taken from a different perspective. A note on the back of it says "Cure's home". After looking through the census for anyone with the last name of "Cure" we did find a family living near Sanger, one J. H. Cure with a wife, Neomi. This is just speculation on our part, howe… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Cure's Home

Description: Snapshot of frame house surrounded by picket fence. An unidentified person can be seen standing on the porch. Labelled "Cure's Home" on the back of the photograph. After looking through the census for anyone with the last name of "Cure" we did find a family living near Sanger, one J. H. Cure with a wife, Neomi. This is just speculation on our part, however.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Unidentified Man and Woman with Guitars

Description: An unidentified man and woman hold and strum guitars in a side yard next to a frame house (house is on the right edge of the image). A tree is behind the couple and beyond that a wooden fence. in the distance to the left, the roof of a building can be seen peeking above the fence.
Date: 1922~
Creator: Carruth Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library
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