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Nellie Sellers Earl and Family

Description: Copy negative of the family of Nellie Sellers Earl. She is seated in an armchair and wearing a dress and pearls. In her lap is a small boy and a baby in a blanket. On the arm of the chair is another small boy and leaning on the back is a man wearing a suit, tie and glasses. In the background is a brick fireplace with a painting above the mantel.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

The Tiffany Family Holiday Card

Description: Copy negative of the Robert Tiffany family holiday portrait. The family is standing in the living room of a house, in front of a fireplace. Two teenage boys are lined up next Mr. Tiffany, dressed in a suit and glasses. Mrs. Tiffany is measuring their heights with a yardstick and a small girl in a dress is standing on the right side of the frame. In the foreground is a dog. Written on the card is, "Season Greetings 1959, The Tiffanys".
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

People Standing Around Statue

Description: Copy negative of a few members of the McMurry Band looking at a portrait painting on the wall. The painting is of la princesa Carlota. The doorways are ornately decorated and in the background the outside is visible.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Museum of Fine Arts

Description: Photograph of an art museum on Cedar Street in Abilene, TX. The gallery walls are lined with paintings of various shapes, sizes, and orientations. A long row of chairs splits the room with chairs back to back to view both walls. A single table is in the back.
Date: 1958
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Museum of Fine Arts

Description: Photograph of an art museum on Cedar Street in Abilene, TX. The gallery walls are lined with paintings of various shapes, sizes, and orientations. A long row of chairs splits the room with chairs back to back to view both walls. Two paintings hang on a dark curtain at the back of the room.
Date: 1958
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Art Forum Pressbook, 1938-1939]

Description: Scrapbook that documents art events over the year with emphasis on local events and those of the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs Sixth District of which Abilene, Texas, was a part. This scrapbook won first place at the Sixth District Convention. Included are 49 pages of prints purchased from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and made available for ten cents a piece by the American Committee for Art Appreciation. The brochure includes a history of the different painters. These prints were exhibit… more
Date: 1938/1939
Creator: Carpenter, Allie Mae
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Glass Slide of “Venetian Night” (painting)

Description: A glass slide showing a painting titled "Venetian Night." The painting shows people in a Venetian gondola under a night sky. The slide frame has the words "Economic Series" printed on it and the paper label accompanying the slide had this text on it: "T. H. McAllister, Manufacturing Optician, 49 Nassau Street, N. Y."
Date: [1882..1929]
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Painting of Enterior of Church

Description: Copy negative of the painting of the Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church in Abilene. In the painting the church has a Cross on top of the main doors, it also seems to have two windows to each side of the doors. Out front one can see trees and grass as well as a walkway leading to the front doors.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Painting of Interior of Church

Description: Copy negative of the painting of the Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church in Abilene. The painting depicts the inside of the church, an altar can be seen with a chair on each side and a cross and candles are depicted on top of a table. In the back Three windows with religious art is seen.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Indian Rock Paintings

Description: 1 copy negative of a section of bluff painted by an unknown group of American Indians on their camp grounds. The town of Paint Rock is associated with this genre of painting.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Art Work at the Paramount Theater

Description: Photograph of a painting inside the Paramount Theatre in Abilene. The painting is of a man and woman sitting at a table in a house. It is hung under a vent in a gold frame with a mounted light. A purple patterned couch is under it.
Date: 1955
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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