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Map of valley of Red River in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas between meridian 96°30′ and 98° west longitude: From topographic maps of the U.S. Geological Survey

Description: Map of the Red River in Clay and Montague Counties, showing flood plains, cut banks, and sandy beaches along the river. The map also includes creeks, towns, and railroads (Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad). Scale [ca. 1:63,360] (1 mile to the inch).
Date: 1920
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of valley of Red River in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas between meridian 96°30′ and 98° west longitude: From topographic maps of the U.S. Geological Survey

Description: Map of the border between Oklahoma and Texas, showing the Red River in portions of Montague and Cooke Counties, Texas, and Love County, Oklahoma. Shows flood plains (green), cut banks (dark brown lines), and sandy beaches (tan) along the river. The map also includes creeks, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:63,360] (1 mile to the inch).
Date: 1920
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Matagorda County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Matagorda County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:222,222] (5000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1920
Creator: Atlee, Tom & Giles, J. Bascom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas: New Braunfels Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of New Braunfels, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, water bodies, boundaries, schools, churches, cemeteries, railroads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1927
Creator: Jenkins, B. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Trails made and routes used by the Fourth U.S. Cavalry: Under command of General R.S. MacKenzie in its operations against hostile Indians in Texas, Indian-Territory (now Oklahoma), New Mexico and Old Mexico during the period of 1871-2-3-4 and 5

Description: Military map of the routes used by R.S. Mackenzie and his troops, including New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas as well as parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and Mexico. The map shows routes, trails, railroads, roads, camps, old forts, other landmarks, battles with American Indians, and names and locations of American Indian tribes in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Scale [ca. 1:1,405,436] (23.76 miles to the inch).
Date: 1927
Creator: Dorchester, E. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Unloading Dragline and Garza Dam North]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 24) is of various machinery being unloaded from railroad cars; a horse-drawn wagon is near the railroad tracks. The second image (numbered 20) is of horses hitched to a mechanism in a field. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Unloading Bucyrus Class 24 Dragline" and (bottom) "Garza Dam North from South Bank" both taken 10-17-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Borrow Pits and Wagon Pits]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 309) is of a rocky slope with pools of water at the bottom and a lake in the distance. The second image (numbered 310) is of railroad tracks at the top of a rocky slope. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Looking North over Borrow Pits from Sta. 41" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Looking North from Sta. 16 over Wagon Pits," both taken on 05-17-27.
Date: 1927
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Tresses and Suction Dredge]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 41) is of a crane unloading steel tresses from a train car. The second image (numbered 42) is of a wooden structure being constructed. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Unloading Trusses for Dredge Hull" taken on 11-01-24, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Building Hull for 20" Suction Dredge" taken on 11-04-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Pumping Upstream Blanket]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 323) is of a railroad track near a lake, with men placing rocks on the slope below the tracks. The second image (numbered 324) is of railroad tracks on a slope near a lake. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Looking North from Sta. 29 Pumping Upstream Blanket" taken on 08-05-27, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Looking North from Sta. 31 Pumping Upstream Blanket to El.… more
Date: 1927
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Rock Riprap]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 235) is of a slope covered in neatly-placed rocks. The second image (numbered 236) is of railroad tracks at the top of a hill covered in rocks. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Rock Riprap Northeast from Sta. 106 + 50" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Top Curb of Rock Riprap Northeast from Sta. 106 + 50," both taken on 02-01-26.
Date: 1926
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Unloading Steel and Hauling Parts]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 31) is of steel sheets being unloaded from a train car. The second image (numbered 32) is of steel parts being hauled in a wagon. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Unloading Steel Sheet Piling for Cut-off," taken on 10-22-24 and (bottom) "Garza Dam Hauling Parts for Bucyrus Class 24 Dragline," taken on 10-24-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Loading Rock and Transferring Cars]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 292) is of a crane lifting rocks from a pile into a truck. The second image (numbered 295) is of men moving large stones from one train car to another before going over a spillway bridge. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Loading Local Rock in Trucks for Riprap" taken on 10-08-26, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Transferring Riprap Rock from Standard to Narrow G. Car… more
Date: 1926
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Gravel Blanket and Rock Riprap]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered P-29) is of a field with a rocky slope in the distance. The second image (numbered P-36) is of a field with a dam in the distance and railroad cars at the top of the dam. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Showing Gravel Blanket and Rock Riprap on Upstream Slope Sta. 75 to 106" taken on 02-01-26, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Showing Progress of Rock Riprap on Upstr… more
Date: 1926
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Garza Dam Railroad]

Description: Photograph taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The image is of railroad tracks in a field with a small building in the distance. Handwritten text on the image identifies it as "Garza Dam RR Spur Shop & Material Yard in Distance," taken on 10-17-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Riprap and Railroad Track]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 283) is of a slope covered in rocks, with a pile of rocks at the bottom and a railroad track at the top. The second image (numbered 284) is of railroad tracks at the top of a hill, leading towards a bridge across the spillway of a dam. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Showing Progress of Riprap S.W. from Sta. 63" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Track Arrangement to … more
Date: 1926
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Garza Dam]

Description: Photograph taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The image (numbered 308) is of a car on a dirt road next to railroad tracks on the shore of a lake. Handwritten text on the image identifies it as "Garza Dam Looking South Showing slide Sta. 25 & 28" taken on 04-21-27.
Date: 1927
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Gatehouse and Conduit]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 325) is of a gatehouse being constructed at the top of a dam near railroad tracks. The second image (numbered 328) is of conduits at the base of a dam. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Gatehouse Construction" taken on 08-18-27, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Downstream End of Outlet Conduits" taken on 10-03-27.
Date: 1927
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Gatehouse]

Description: Photograph taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The image is of a brick gatehouse next to railroad tracks near a lake. Handwritten text on the image identifies it as "Garza Dam Gate House" taken on 10-03-27.
Date: 1927
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Rock Riprap]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 233) is of a railroad track near a dirt slope with some rocks laid on it. The second image (numbered 234) is of a hill mostly covered in rocks. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Placing Rock Riprap Southwest from Sta. 100" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Rock Riprap Northeast from Sta. 104," both taken on 02-01-26.
Date: 1926
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[On a train car in Texas City in 1921]

Description: A group of three women and two men pose at the end of a railroad car in Texas City in 1921. The three women and one man (evidently Wlliam R. Blocker) are standing on the balcony or observation platform at the end of the railroad car. One man (evidently Dee Walker) stands on the ground in front of the balcony and the other individuals. The car's sides are unpainted and weathered wood and two windows are boarded up. All five persons are dressed in dark clothes and are wearing hats. In the ba… more
Date: February 1921
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

Map of Andrews County, Texas.

Description: Map shows land ownership, university and public school land, existing and proposed railroad lines in Andrews County, Texas during the early twentieth century. Includes note and listing of abstract companies in various Texas counties. Scale not given.
Date: [1925..1930]
Creator: Logan Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Scurry County Texas

Description: Map shows railroads lines, township boundaries, block and tract numbers, and land ownership, primarily by the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company, for Scurry County and portions of adjacent counties. Includes advertisements for Scurry County Abstract Company and Snyder National Bank. Scale not given.
Date: [1923..1933]
Creator: R. M. Metcalfe Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Southern Pacific lines and connections.

Description: Map shows the continental United States with Southern Pacific railway lines across the southern and western states and Mexico, connecting railroad lines, steamship lines, national parks, and points of interest. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given
Date: 1923
Creator: Rand McNally and Company.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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