Photograph of Alvin Mansfield Owsley walking in front of his American Legion with someone beside him. The men are standing at attention to both sides. On the front of the print is a handwritten note that reads "Archives Brochure - Photo A - Enlarge to 115%". On the back is another that reads "Library - Archives (Owsley)".

Side view of wood frame structure with three windows, covered front entry, cross steeple on roof. First church building for St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, established 1902.

West side of Main Street, Irving, Texas, shortly after the founding of the town in December 1903.

Jerry and Della Story. When the post office moved from the Kit community to the town of Irving in 1904, Jerry Story served as temporary postmaster.

Card made of cardstock with spaces to hold 35 small photographs. 22 photographs are still in place within the card, each a portrait. On the back of the card each space is labeled with the names of the individuals pictured. Among the names is the inscription, "Miss Anna / from Vinette / Merry Xmas."

A lady standing on a porch at the Howard home at 318 Iowa (now O’Connor Rd.), believed to be Irving's oldest existing house, built in 1904.

Agnes Sueppel Schulze and a friend sit in a buggy in front of the Schulze home on Hastings Street, Irving, Texas, c. 1904. Agnes Schulze was the wife of Irving's co-founder J. O. Schulze.

Constructed in May 1904 as the home of Joseph B. Howard and his wife, Susan, it stood on 2.5 acres just south of Irving's city limits. Eugene and May Ann Beaufford bought the property in 1919. They operated a truck farm on the acreage. They later divided the land among their children.

J. O. Schulze and his wife Agnes Sueppel Schulze in the doorway of their home, c. 1904. J. O. Schulze co-foundef the city of Irving, Texas, in 1903. He married Agnes Sueppel during that same year. Both were natives of Iowa City, Iowa. Due to Agnes's poor health, the couple left Irving and returned to Iowa City in 1905. The man in the center of the doorway is unidentified.

Home of J. O. and Agnes Schulze in Irving, Texas, c. 1904. J. O. Schulze was the co-founder of the city of Irving in 1903. He and his wife built this house in Irving in about 1904. Due to Agnes's poor health, the couple had to return to Iowa City, Iowa in 1905. The house, which stood on the east side of Ohio Street in the first block south of present-day Irving Boulevard, burned in the mid-1980s.

J. O. Schulze in suit, overcoat, and derby, c. 1904. J. O. Schulze was co-founder of the town of Irving, Texas, in December of 1903. He had been leader of a Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway survey crew that worked a ten-mile stretch between Dallas and Fort Worth. He and fellow crew member Otis Brown decided to remain in the area, and they established the town of Irving in 1903.

W. L. Smith built one of the first business establishements in Irving in 1904. However, in 1905, he sold the building to the Miller brothers, who opened a general store. Chaney Miller, one of the proprietors of Miller Brothers, served as Irving's second mayor and was Justice of the Peace for the precinct from the 1920s-1940s. He had also been a Dallas County Commissioner during the 1890s. His brother, Fletcher Miller, served as mayor in the 1920s before moving to Dallas.

Photograph of fifteen people posing in front of a house. Most, including men, women, and children, are seated or standing on the porch on the right of the photo, while an older and younger man stand in front of shrubs to the left. Dr. James W. Allen and Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen are seated at the bottom right on the porch steps. There is a white wooden fence in the foreground. The photograph is mounted on black cardstock. An inscription in black ink at the top of the photo reads, "P. Warnica home Content Tex. 1904." Inscriptions in black in below the photo identify the individuals, though it's difficult to read.