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A Brief History of Dodd City, Texas

Description: Booklet providing a brief history of Dodd City in Fannin County, Texas, including a summary biography of namesake Major E. H. Dodd as well as information about important people and families, businesses, churches, newspapers, schools, and other aspects of the city's history
Date: 1962
Creator: Brent, Millard Doan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Fannin County Historical Commission

A History of Bonham, Texas

Description: Book outlining the early history of Bonham, Texas, including information about people, businesses, development of municipal services and government, and other related topics, organized into four main sections: Early Pioneer Days (1836-1861), War Period (1861-1865), Period of Reconstruction (1865-1875), and Later Development (1875-1929).
Date: 1929
Creator: Bonham High School. American History Class.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[Edgefield Baptist Church Congregation, 1910]

Description: Photograph of a congregation posing in front of the Edgefield Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. The congregation is seated in several rows, and most of the people in the arrangement are children, with men and women mostly packed on the steps of the church at upper center. A boy, denoted in pen as Delman[?] holds a banner reading "EDGE FIELD"; on his left is another individual specified as "Andy". Along the bottommost row is a girl pointed out as "Billie". A note in the top left corner states that … more
Date: 1910~
Creator: Gildersleeve
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.546505 -97.110612
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Parkers at Funeral, First Presbyterian Church]

Description: Photograph of the Parkers during the first funeral held at the First Presbyterian Church in Abilene, Texas. They stand on the threshold of the uncompleted south entrance to the church, with temporary wooden planks installed between short brick walls. Sallie Ann Parker Willis stands with two of her children at left. Her mother, Sallie Ann Clarke Parker, stands second from right, and Margaret Parker Cox stands at far right, seated against the right short brick all. All face forward.
Date: 1923/1924
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.453098 -99.738099
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Baptist Church, Pittsburg]

Description: Photograph of a large Baptist church, in Pittsburg, Texas. The church, designed by James Edward Flanders, has a large distinctive steeple with a mansard pyramidal roof, with entryways on two sides of the structure. Windows and entryways are built with distinctive pointed arches. The main chapel, which has a high roof, runs perpendicular to a paved road running left to right in the image. Along the road are dozens of people along the sidewalks on the lawn, leaving the church and heading towards … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Lockett, Julian
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.996492 -94.966381
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

The New 1957 Fort Worth Church Guide

Description: Directory of Black churches in the Fort Worth area with photographs, addresses, congregation sizes, and short histories and descriptions. The churches are organized alphabetically, by denomination, with a table of contents on page 2.
Date: 1957~
Creator: Cook and Royal Advertising Agency
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Pamphlet: "Together We Build"]

Description: Church pamphlet summarizing a fundraising campaign to build a new classroom building for the First Baptist Church of Rockwall, including graphs displaying church growth, floor maps of the proposed building, and soliciting donations to the church. The pamphlet begins with a short history of the church, and includes a frequently-asked-questions page.
Date: 1991~
Creator: First Baptist Church of Rockwall
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Certificate of Registration for Rockwell Baraca]

Description: Certificate of registration issued by the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, certifying the Baraca Sunday school of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall's enrolllment into the convention's Organized Class Department.
Date: December 30, 1921
Creator: Southern Baptist Convention
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Crowd from Parking Lot]

Description: Photograph of a crowd at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church, gathered on a parking lot adjacent to the church building. In front of the crowd are prominent leaders of the church, some wearing hard hats, standing near four shovels wrapped with bows and lodged in the dirt. Inside the church, people watch the ceremony from a window (center right). The church's steeple and the city's water tower are both visible behind the church building.
Date: February 1, 1998
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.925179 -96.462277
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Ceremony Participants]

Description: Photograph of ceremony participants for a new worship center's groundbreaking ceremony at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The participants stand side by side in front of a paved parking lot, with an amplifier on a tripod stand and a microphone placed before them. Two men at right stand near a small pile of upturned dirt.
Date: February 1, 1998
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.925179 -96.462277
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Presentation of a Candle]

Description: Photograph of the presentation of a wide candle from one man to another on the front sanctuary of the Rockwall First Baptist Church. Four men look onward, one seated at far left, and three others standing behind the altar, which is decorated with a flower vase. The choir, seated along the back of the sanctuary under a large stained glass window, watch the event.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.924938 -96.461499
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[1961 Rockwall First Baptist Congregation #2]

Description: Photograph of a congregation of the Rockwall First Baptist Church in 1961. The church members, standing on the church's open lawn across Goliad Street, are arranged in rows, demarcated by ropes attached to stakes in the ground. Children stand closer to the front, and older people stand closer to the back. Two men hold up a paper sign reading "THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH MARCH 1961" in the very back of the gathered congregation.
Date: March 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.924739 -96.460673
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[1961 Rockwall First Baptist Congregation #3]

Description: Photograph of a congregation of the Rockwall First Baptist Church in 1961. The church members, standing on the church's open lawn across Goliad Street, are arranged in rows, demarcated by ropes attached to stakes in the ground. Children stand closer to the front, and older people stand closer to the back. Two men hold up a paper sign reading "THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH MARCH 1961" in the very back of the gathered congregation.
Date: March 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.924739 -96.460673
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Choir Group, Old First Baptist Church]

Description: Photograph of a choir group in the old Rockwall First Baptist Church, standing in the back of the sanctuary, wearing choir robes and holding choir books. The front of the choir section is decorated with a small shrub. A note on the back identifies Gholda McCowlskey in the front row, second from left (the writer's mother).
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.924938 -96.461499
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall
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