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[Poster for The Drifting Texans of Waco]

Description: Poster advertising "The Drifting Texans of Waco", with the subtitle "Sweet, Sad and Swing Music". Attached is an image of the band posing together for a photograph: from left to right, the instruments the players hold are a lap steel guitar, an acoustic guitar, a drumset, a classical guitar, and a fiddle-like instrument. A microphone stands in the center of the stage.
Date: 195X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Texas Benny Doss Promotional Picture]

Description: Promotional picture of Texas Benny Doss holding a guitar and leaning forward while wearing a cowboy hat. He is given the subtitle "The Original Cass County Kid", and further contact information is listed below the photograph in the bottom right corner. The photograph has been signed by Texas Benny Doss in faint green-blue marker on the left half of the image.
Date: 196X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Flyer for Bicentennial "Spiritual Awakenings" Events]

Description: Flyer promoting "Spiritual Happenings" to celebrate the American bicentennial and promote Black culture. Two events are listed: a soul music festival in the Will Rogers Auditorium, and a spiritual jubilee in the Fort Worth Convention Center.
Date: Spring 1976
Creator: Black Citizens Concerned with the Bicentennial
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Program for "Battle Stars and Battle Scars of the Black Man in America" Event]

Description: Program for a "Spiritual Jubilee" event held during the national bicentennial in Fort Worth, Texas, titled "Battle Stars and Battle Scars of the Black Man in America". Featured in the program is an overview of Black literature and folk music, related events, and an itinerary of songs to be performed during the event.
Date: 1976
Creator: Sojourner Truth Players, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Location: 32.750762 -97.328621
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Watson School of Music]

Description: Photograph of the Watson School of Music, standing outside the entrance of a brick building. Ned Watson stands at left, dressed in a white tuxedo and holding a small cello and bow. Lydie Watson, his sister, stands in the back row with a white hat, third from right. Other students are not identified, but most hold instruments, including trombones, two violins, a woodwind instrument, possibly a viola, and a trombone. A tube is placed on the concrete floor at right, and a child sits on a large dru… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Concert at the Botanic Garden]

Description: Photograph of a concert stage at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The stage, large and prominent in the background of the image, is flanked on both sides by covered structures containing sound amplifiers and is covered by a roof-like sheet. Banners advertising Budweiser hang from the middle of the stage. Multiple seats are placed on the stage, which stands in front of a large white covered tent. In the lower half of the image, people of various ages are visible wandering through plastic lawn chai… more
Date: 1995
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.737050 -97.363973
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Spring Festival Taiko Performance]

Description: Photograph of the Spring Festival at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Depicted is a kumi-daiko performance with an ensemble of drummers performing with multiple drums of various sizes. At right, there are two large drums placed on stands, played with wooden sticks, and at left, there are about four smaller slanted drums placed on smaller stands with accompanying performers. An audience at left, seated on the concrete footsteps of the open space, view the performance.
Date: Spring 1995
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.737496 -97.366188
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Midland Christian College Musicians]

Description: Photograph of musicians from the Midland Christian College, arranged in two rows, facing forward. Front row, from left to right: Dewey Wile (holding violin) and Lydie Watson; back row, from left: Mabel Shaw and Ned Watson (holding violin, brother of Lydie).
Date: 1919
Creator: Miller Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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