[Cantata "The Prince of Peace"]

Photograph, mounted on board, of Cantata "Prince of Peace" group, including Annie Belle Emery Bright, on a stage in front of a pipe organ. The men wear tuxedos and women wear full-coverage white dresses. Behind the group is a banner reading "Prince of Peace." On the back of the mounting board is handwritten text reading "Cantata "The Prince of Peace" / Ninth St. Christian Church, Washington, D.C. / Organ on which I learned to play. (ABE) / Annie Belle Emery."
Date: 190X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Annie Emery's students at Cumberland Hill School]

Photograph of elementary aged students arranged in three rows on steps in front of a building. The male students wear white button-down shirts and either black pants or light breeches with dark socks pulled above the knee. The female students wear smock dressed with large square collars. All of the students have short hair, with most of the girls having short bobs with straight bangs. The photograph is mounted to black cardstock.
Date: [1900..1919]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Diptych of Cathinka Venth playing piano, left, and portrait of Cathinka Venth with nine young women, right]

Two photographs mounted side by side on card stock. The mount has broken vertically into two pieces, with one image on each piece. The image on the left shows Carl Venth and seventeen young female music students gathered in a parlor around Cathinka Finch Myhr Venth, who is seated at a piano. The image on the right shows a group portrait of nine young women with Cathinka Finch Myhr Venth in the center.
Date: [1920..1939]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of teenaged Eva Stirman]

Cabinet card studio portrait of Eva Stirman as a teenager. The image shows her left profile from the waist up. She has a curly fringe and her long hair is only partially pulled back, with it flowing down her back and over her left shoulder and arm. The card has shallow scallops along the edges, a hole above the studio imprint, and various water stains throughout. The studio imprint at the bottom reads "Kaufman, Peery." An inscription on the back reads "Sister of grandmother Elizabeth Jane Emery. Daughter of Aunt Dolly Stirman. Eva Stirman."
Date: 189X
Creator: Peery
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Uncle Rollin and Aunt Dolly Stirman]

Tintype photograph of and man and woman seated next to each other. The man has his legs crossed with his ankle resting on his knee. He wears an oversize suit jacket, light pants, and boots. The woman has one arm resting on the back of her chair. She wears a long white dress and dark jacket buttoned up to her collar. She has a ribbon tied in a bow at her collar. The photograph is inside of a paper folder, which has a gold boarder around the image window. At the bottom of the folder is the handwritten inscription, "Uncle Rollin & Aunt Dollie Stirman."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ready for Austin: The Stirmans, Daisy Emery Allen and Annie Emery Bright with car]

Photograph of a group of people with a 1920s style car. One woman sit behind the steering wheel, one woman sits on the runner, a woman stands on the other side of the hood propping a small boy on the hood, and two men stand in front of the car. The women all wear round glasses and bucket hats. The men and boy also wear hats of different styles. A house and trees are visible behind them. The snapshot has a decorative stripped boarder around the edges, and the back has the following inscription, "Ready for Austin / "The Stirmans" / DEA. / AEB. / Oct. 1927."
Date: October 1927
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Allen Family and friends photograph album] (open access)

[Allen Family and friends photograph album]

Photograph album of Allen family and friends ranging from the 1890s through the 1920s. Images include snapshots of people participating in outdoor activities and recreation, outdoor scenes, houses and industrial buildings, travel, group portraits, and some studio portraits. None of the images are labeled with names, locations, or dates, although a few of the beach and swimming images are recognizable as Galveston, Texas.
Date: [1890..1929]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aunt Dollie Stirman laid to rest in Kaufman, Texas]

Photograph of three women and two men standing next to a mounded grave, which is covered in flowers and wreaths. They all look down at the grave, and wear dark clothing. The women wear hats while the men hold their hats at their sides. A fence and foliage is visible to the right and behind them. The snapshot has a white boarder and the image is hazy around the edges. An inscription on the back reads, "Aunt Dollie Stirman laid to rest / Kaufman Tex. / Mrs P[illegible] / Maggie Hale / Eva Stirman Smith / Uncle Rollin / Fred Stirman."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man with child on each knee]

Tintype photograph of a man with a young girl on each knee. He wears a white button down shirt with a tie and vest, and a dark wide-brimmed hat. He has a large moustache and holds a long pipe in his mouth. The girls on the left wears a white dress with a dark jacket over the top. The jacket has two sets of buttons going from bottom to collar, and decorative embroidery on the cuffs and collar. She wears a white hat. The girl on the right wears a white dress with an open black jack which is ruffled along the edges and cuffs. She wears a black hat. Both girls claps their hands on their laps, and everyone looks directly at the camera. All four corners are cut off diagonally.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Annie Belle Emery Bright's 7th grade students]

Photograph of Annie Emery Bright's seventh grade students at Colonial Hill Public School in Dallas, Texas. The students stand on steps outside of the school building. The boys wear dark suits with breeches and long socks, while the girls wear light dresses. The photograph is mounted on black cardstock, and an inscription on the back reads, "Colonial Hill Public School, Dallas / 7th Grade / My pupils (Miss Annie Bell Emery)."
Date: [1900..1919]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of people in front of the P. Warnica House]

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.
Date: 1904
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aunt Cassie Brown]

Carte de visite photograph of Aunt Cassie Brown seated sideways in a wooden chair with one arm over the chair back. She wears a long sleeve dress with small checkers, buttons up the chest, a lace collar, and dark brooch. She looks to the side of the camera, and has her hair pulled back from her face, but hanging long over her shoulders and back. The card has a printed border about the image, and the back has the following inscription: "Aunt Cassie Brown / sister of of [illegible] / Brown (my mother) / who became Mrs. J W Emery / Aunt Cassie died / young. never married / DEA."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three men: Brown, Barry, and Mulford]

Photograph of three men all wearing dark suits, vests, and hats. Two men are seated and visible from the chest up, while the third man stands behind and between them with his hands resting on the seat back. The men all have moustaches and look to the left of the photo. The photograph is mounted on a dark board with an embossed studio imprint which reads, "Hudson." The back of the board has the following inscription: "F.D.E. / J. [illegible] Brown , Billy Barry, & C. R. Mulford / probably 98 / Elizabeth Brown Emery's brother on right. / DEA's uncle Harper married Aunt Ella ([illegible])."
Date: unknown
Creator: Hudson
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Effie Wren]

Cabinet card photograph of Effie Wren standing before a backdrop with a river, bridge, and trees, and a plant next to her. She wears a long sleeve dark dress with sections of lighter fabric at the shoulders and chest. Along the edges of the lighter fabric are silver circles. She wears a black lace collar tied at her throat, with her hair pinned back. She holds her hands behind her back and looks slightly away from the camera. The studio's imprint is at the bottom of the card and reads, "Works / Norton Block 3rd and Main, FT. Worth, Tex." An inscription at the top of the back of the card reads, "Effie Wren 1892." and a longer inscription describing Effie's life.
Date: 1892
Creator: Works
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Daughter of Ada Wren Tucker and husband]

Photograph of a woman and man wearing fine clothing. The woman is positioned behind the man with one hand resting over his shoulder, their heads in line with each other. She wears a large hat with a short embroidered veil atop her pinned up hair, and a white blouse with lace collar. The man wears a dark suit jacket with a flower on the lapel, a light vest, and patterned tie. The photo is mounted in a cream colored folder with an oval window. A piece of onion skin paper folds over the image from the left, and has an inscription at the top reading, "Daughter of Ada Wren Tucker." The left interior cover of the folder has a mirror transfer of the photograph, and the right folder flap has an inscription that reads: "[illegible] Tucker & husband."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aunt Lizzie Emery]

Photograph of Aunt Lizzie Emery viewed from the chest up. She wears a dark high-collared dress with puffed out sleeves and a small decorative pattern and embroidery around the collar. She wears a white bow made out of a thin fabric at her neck, with a brooch directly underneath of a star with a wreath around it. She look austere with her gaze slightly away from the camera, hair tied back, and round wire-framed glasses. The photo is mounted to an off white board, which has a studio imprint at the bottom reading, "Leffler / Fort Worth, Tex." An inscription on the back reads, "Mrs. J W Emery / Aunt Lizzie Emery."
Date: unknown
Creator: Leffler
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen snapped one night in front of Will Rogers Auditorium]

Unaddressed and unposted Ansco photographic postcard of Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen at night. She is wearing a hat, gloves, and long coat. Sideways blue ink handwritten inscription on verso middle reads "Snapped, one night, in front of Will Rodgers [sic] Auditorium. Is awful. F. has been in Dallas 2 weeks. S. went over on Bus this morn. am expecting them back about 3 P.M. neighbor (Boyd) [illegible] [illegible] in living room. I'm trying to suppress a cough."
Date: 194X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sheila Emery Allen in downtown snow]

Snapshot photograph of a woman, Sheila Emery Allen, standing in snow in downtown Fort Worth. She is wearing a hat, one glove on her left hand, and a long winter coat. Her right hand is bare and she is holding an object up to her face. Various buildings, storefronts, signs, and an automobile in the street are visible in the background. There is an illegible black ink stamp on the verso upper middle for a photofinishing company. Black stamped text below reads "JAN 31 194X." The last numeral of the date is illegible. Sideways black ink stamp at the verso right edge is "403J."
Date: 194X-01-31
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sketch of Dr. James Walter Allen based on damaged J. E. Daniel photograph]

Sketch of Dr. James Walter Allen on top of a reproduction of on a damaged photograph taken by J. E. Daniel in 1892. The sketch shows a portrait of Dr. Allen wearing a suit and tie, and clean shaven. Printed text at the bottom of the image reads: "J. E. Daniel, Fort Worth, Texas," and a handwritten "1892" is in the bottom right corner. The image is mounted to a board, and a piece of onion paper taped to the back of the board, folds over the top to protect the sketch.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Season's Greetings card from the Allens]

Holiday card featuring a photograph of Sheila, Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen, and Dr. Frances Marion Allen. Below the photo is printed text reading, "Season's Greetings from our house to your house" around an illustrated image of a person wearing winter clothing pulling a sled with a second person and wrapped gifts. The card has scalloped edges all the way around. An inscription on the back in blue ink reads, "The Allens / Sheila, Dr. Allen, Frances."
Date: 194X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Annie Belle Emery Bright as a young girl]

Tintype photograph of Annie Belle Emery Bright as a young girl. She is seated on a chair with fringe along the bottom of the seat. She has one leg crossed under the other and her left arm resting on the chair back to her side. She wears a light color kneed length dress with a large white lace collar, a wide black sash across her body, and horizontally stripped tights and boots. A plant is partially visible behind her. A white piece of paper with handwritten inscription is taped to the back of the photograph. The inscription reads, "Daughter J. W. Emery / Annie Belle Emery / (Mrs. J. W. Bright)."
Date: [1870..1889]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Annie Belle Emery with class]

Photograph of a middle school aged class of students seated on steps outside of a building. The teacher, Annie Belle Emery Bright sits at the center in the top row, wearing a high collared white blouse. The male students wear white button-down shirts and some wear blazers and ties. The female students wear various patterns of dresses with long sleeves, and the all have large bows in their up-styled hair. The photograph is mounted to black cardstock. An inscription on the back reads: "Stephen F Austin School - Dallas Tex. / Miss Annie Emery - (teacher)."
Date: [1900..1919]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sheila Emery Allen and Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen Elko book prints]

Yellow paper album, bound with red plastic spiral, containing three snapshots of Sheila Emery Allen and Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen. The snapshots are square with shallow, scalloped edges and rectangular holes in the top borders for the binding spiral. The first photograph shows the two women seated together on what appears to be a living room couch, with a crocheted or knitted blanket on the couch back and a side table holding a lamp and books. The second photograph shows Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen seated alone on the couch, looking at the camera with her left hand raised. The third photograph shows Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen seated alone on the couch and looking down at a glove she is holding in her hands.
Date: 195X
Creator: Elko Photo Finishing Co.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[R. Vickery School fourth grade class]

Photograph of the R. Vickery School's fourth grade class standing on steps outside of the building. The girls wear skirts and dresses, and the boys wear button up shirts and breeches that go to the knee. One boy in the front row does not wear socks or shoes. The teacher stands at the top of the steps towards the center of the group. At the bottom of the photo is a photographers inscription, on the left reading, "Vickery L S" and on the right reading, "Kennedy Photo Co." Both bottom corners of the board are damaged and missing pieces. The back of the photo is inscribed with a list of students according to row, and "Teacher - Miss Ely K. Wilkerson / 7/ 4th Grade."
Date: unknown
Creator: Kennedy Photo Co.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History