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[Church Interior During Service]

Description: Photograph of the interior of St. James Catholic Church during a service. The audience is standing in the pews, and two lines are leading up to the altar. Writing on the back of the photograph identifies the service as the first Holy Communion Class, in 1941.
Date: 1941
Creator: Trost Studio
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Woman with Bouquet]

Description: Photograph of a woman, identified as Mrs. Dorothy Joffrion Collins, wearing a white fur coat and standing next to a bouquet of pink and white flowers. A mirror hangs on the wall to the right.
Date: unknown
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Elementary School Classroom]

Description: Photograph of a classroom at Carver Elementary School. The children are seated in their desks and smiling towards the camera. There is a table with miniature buildings on it at the back of the room. The teacher is standing in the opposite corner of the room, behind the children.
Date: [1940..1950]
Creator: Briscoe
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Children Reading in Classroom]

Description: Photograph of a small group of children reading in a classroom. Some of the children are seated in a semicircle, two of which are raising their hands. One child is writing on the chalkboard. The teacher is seated on the right side of the photograph, holding a book.
Date: [1940..1950]
Creator: Briscoe
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Dorothy Ingram Riding in Convertible Car]

Description: Photograph of Dorothy Ingram in the passenger seat of a convertible. The car is driving in a parade and says "Centennial Queen" on the front bumper. A man with gray hair and a gray mustache is driving the car. There are more cars with people standing up in them in the background, and spectators are watching from the side of the road.
Date: 1998
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Group Marching Across Intersection]

Description: Photograph of a group of people marching across an intersection in Port Arthur. A man in jeans and a blue-green shirt is at the front of the crowd. Another man near the front is holding a white flag, and people in the middle of the group are carrying a large white banner. There are houses in the background.
Date: 1970~
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Elementary School Drill Team]

Description: Photograph of the Lamar Elementary School Drill Team. The drill team is made up of children in uniforms holding batons. Two girls in the back of the line are holding drums, and a few girls in each line are doing the splits. Handwriting on the border of the photograph dates it from 1952.
Date: 1952
Creator: Watkins, J. C.
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[First Annual Baby Contest in Port Arthur]

Description: Photograph of a group of people and babies, from the First Annual Baby Contest in Port Arthur. There is handwriting identifying each person, and the baby on the far left is labeled as the winner of the contest. The baby is wearing a while outfit and bonnet, and is in the lap of a man in a suit. The image is dated March 6, 1955.
Date: February 6, 1955
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Carver Elementary School Teachers]

Description: Photograph of a group of Carver Elementary School teachers inside a large room with brick walls. They are dressed in formal attire with flowers at their shoulders, and smiling towards the camera. They are aligned in three rows, with the first row seated in chairs.
Date: unknown
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Third Grade Classroom]

Description: Photograph of a third grade class at Carver Elementary School. The children are seated in their desks and facing towards the camera. The teacher is standing on the opposite side of the classroom with her hands on the back of two students' chairs.
Date: [1940..1950]
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Front Door of a House]

Description: Photograph of the front of a house during a flood in Port Arthur, Texas. A door is visible at the front of the building, but the porch is covered with water. The top of a tree is visible to the right.
Date: unknown
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Officer on Motorcycle]

Description: Photograph of an officer, identified as Tommy Baxter, on his motorcycle. He is wearing a full uniform and sunglasses, and driving towards the camera. Writing on the back of the photograph reads, "Seawall 1942-1949."
Date: [1942..1949]
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Staff Posing in Front of Cafe]

Description: Photograph of the staff of the Longhorn Cafe posing outside the restaurant. There are four women in white dresses in the front row, one in a light-colored dress, and four in shirts and jeans. Two men wearing suits stand on either side of the front row. The second row is a combination of men and women, with some looking away from the camera. A sticker on the back of the photograph identifies the photographer as James Everett from Groves, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Everett, James
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Children in a Car]

Description: Photograph of two young African-American children wearing capes and crowns sitting on the back of a convertible in front of a building. A man drives the car, and a banner on the driver's side door reads "King-Queen Carver".
Date: unknown
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Annual Red Cross Meeting Officers]

Description: Photograph of two men in suits and one woman in a dress, at the Annual Red Cross Meeting. They are Officers identified from left to right as Vice Chair Bernis W. Sadler, Treasurer Ross James, and Secretary Dorothy Ingram. Handwriting on the back of the photograph dates it June 24, 1964.
Date: June 24, 1964
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[First CavOilCade Dinner]

Description: Photograph of rows of dinners seated and eating with a head table in the background. On the curtain behind reads "We Appreciate Your Faith in Port Arthur". Handwritten on the reverse of the photograph: "1st celebration of CavOilCade" "Oct. 14, 1952 - dinner to salute oil industry. Became CavOilCade in 1953." "Valuable, return picture to: Lyle Vickers, 300 Plaza Circle, Port Arthur, TX."
Date: October 14, 1952
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Ship Passing Under Drawbridge]

Description: Photograph of the C. B. Watson Ship passing through a drawbridge. There is dark smoke coming out of the ship's smokestack and a few of the crew members are visible on board. "C. B. Watson" is written in the bottom left corner of the photograph, and a sticker on the back identifies the photographer as Phil Richards.
Date: unknown
Creator: Richards, Phil
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast
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