12,503 Matching Results

Search Results

[Portrait of H. W. Greer]

Description: Portrait of Henry Wise (H. W.) Greer, in a bust pose. He has a moustache and is wearing a dark jacket and a striped tie with a tie pin. The photograph is mounted inside a folded display folder. According to accompanying information, he died on March 14, 1942 (b. December 8, 1858).
Date: unknown
Creator: Gentry
Partner: Richardson Public Library

[Portrait of Ida Huffhines Greer]

Description: Portrait of Ida Huffhines Greer, in a bust pose. She is wearing an embroidered jacket over her dress with a pearl necklace and earrings. The photograph is mounted inside a folded display folder. According to accompanying information, she died on March 10, 1964 at age 94 (b. August 7, 1869).
Date: unknown
Creator: Gentry
Partner: Richardson Public Library

Portrait of Tom McKamy

Description: Photograph of a bust-length portrait of a man identified as Thomas Frankin (Tom) McKamy. He is wearing a suit jacket with a pin on the right lapel and a tie. He was born October 9, 1889, and died March 31, 1959.
Date: unknown
Partner: Richardson Public Library

J. O. Schulze at Desk in Tent, c. 1902

Description: J. O. Schulze, head of a Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway survey crew, at work in his field tent, c. 1902. The survey crew worked in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. In Texas, they worked a ten-mile stretch between Dallas and Fort Worth. Schulze and fellow crew member Otis Brown remained in the area and founded the town of Irving along the tracks between Dallas and Fort Worth in 1903.
Date: 1902~
Partner: Irving Archives

[Man Beside Train Engine #641]

Description: Photograph of Bill Bray, a T&P fireman, later an engineer, standing beside the wheels of train engine #641 on railroad tracks. Handwritten text below the image says, "East Dallas, Texas Yard 1929 Bill Bray - T&P Fireman (Later Engineer)."
Date: 1929
Creator: Bray, Bill
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Photograph of Goodyear Tires Blimp at Trinity River]

Description: Photograph of a Goodyear Tires blimp on the dry, grassy Trinity River bottom. The blimp is facing left and there are eight people standing under the front. In the background, a bridge and some buildings are visible. On the back of the photo are handwritten notes with the year and location at which the photo was taken.
Date: 1936
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of Pump House Near Union Station in Dallas]

Description: Aerial photograph of a pump house in Dallas, with the Union Station railroad in the background. The photo was taken at night, and there are three buildings visible: the pump house building, a long two-story building, and a large building that is mostly hidden by darkness. There is a road between the large building and the other two buildings, and the lights of the city of Dallas can be seen in the distant background. There are handwritten notes about the photograph on the back.
Date: 1937
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of Goodyear Tires Blimp in the Air]

Description: Photograph of a Goodyear Tires blimp flying over the dry, grassy Trinity River bottom. In the background, a bridge and billboard signs are visible, and at the right of the photo, cars are just barely visible. The sky is covered in clouds and there are trees to the right. There are handwritten notes on the back of the photo.
Date: 1936
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

Portrait of Gene Lawler

Description: Photograph of a portrait of a man identified as Gene Lawler. He is standing in right side-view with his face looking away from the camera and his hands behind his back. He is standing to the right of a tree. In the background, there is a wooden fence and buildings. Lawler was born on October 4, 1886, and died December 11, 1970.
Date: 1909
Partner: Richardson Public Library

Portrait of Thomas V. Wheeler

Description: Photograph of a portrait of a man identified as Thomas V. Wheeler, age seventy-two. He is holding the newspaper telegram telling the death of Abraham Lincoln. Wheeler is the grand-nephew of the founder of Richardson, Texas, Billy Wheeler.
Date: 1980
Creator: Matula, Eva
Partner: Richardson Public Library

Portrait of Jesse M. Harben

Description: Photograph of a bust-length portrait of Jesse M. (Jess) Harben. He is wearing a suit and tie, and is the son of Raymond Park Harben. Text below the image says "Jesse M. Harben, Druggist 1910" and "Jesse Monroe Harben."
Date: 1910
Partner: Richardson Public Library

[Class Prophecy for the 1907 Class of Texas Baptist University]

Description: Class prophecy describing a person's eventful day dream that included a woman creating pictures in the room of different individuals; the pictures continue to appear and then disappear and showing different women in different locations. The last line of the piece comes after the person had awoken: "I was forced to turn from the glamers into the future and come back to the tasks of the present."
Date: 1907
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.
Back to Top of Screen