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[Costumed Performers at Market Hall Stage Show]

Description: Fisheye photograph of costumed performers at a music show in the Dallas Market Hall. A drummer and his drumset are placed on stage along the back of the room. Above them is a banner indicating sponsorships by the National Bank of Commerce and Dr. Pepper. The costumed performer, an individual in a giant parrot suit, holds up a woman in a dotted dress. A singer with a microphone, standing at right, watches from afar.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803256 -96.829365
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[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

[Sign for Clyde Chesser and His Texas Village Boys]

Description: Paper poster for Clyde Chesser and His Texas Village Boys, a country band whose performances were broadcasted on KCEN in Temple, Texas. Members are identified from left to right: Gaylon Christie, with a lap steel guitar; Okie Davis, with a fiddle; Eddie Spradley, with a fiddle; Clyde (barefooted) Chesser, seated at center; Arnold Williams, with an acoustic guitar; Alvin Berry, with a double bass. This poster advertises the "Blue Bonnet Barn Dance", telecasted each Saturday.
Date: [1953..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[China Grove Picnic Group]

Description: Photograph of a large gathering of people having a group picnic in China Grove, south of Warfield in Midland County. The group is gathered in a large clearing along a dirt road, and includes a small musical band (at right), and people who have scaled the local windmill (at left).
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Concert Band]

Description: Photograph of a Midland concert band standing together on the steps of the Midland County Courthouse. They wear matching dark coats with beret-like caps, have a large kick-drum with the "Midland Concert Band" name, and are arranged in three rows. Back row, from left to right: 1. unidentified man (euphonium), 2. Dee McCormick (oboe or piccolo), 3. J. M. Gilmore (baritone horn?), 4. Oliver Luther (euphonium), 5. Carol Holloway (euphonium), and 6. Arthur Taylor (trombone). Middle row, from left: 7… more
Date: 190X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Band at Warfield]

Description: Photograph of a band from Midland at Marfield, Texas, a flag stop on the T&P railway between Midland and Odessa. The band is seated in front of a two-storied wooden building, seated on the front porch with instruments such as horns, trumpets, and drums, in their laps. The band may have been in Marfield for the opening of a new town, residential section, or any "big day" event accompanied by a band.
Date: 190X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Postcard to E. D. Merrill - August 6, 1911]

Description: Postcard to E. D. Merrill in Big Spring discussing visiting an unspecified female friend. The front of the postcard portraits a lively scene with two men dancing with each other, a band of musicians with two fiddlers and a guitarist (identified as Paul), another crowd of men watching from behind the musicians, and a woman holding a baby (Nellie holding Henley).
Date: August 6, 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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