[Portrait of Four Men and a Child]

Photograph of four men and a child. The older men are seated in the front, a young boy standing near the lower left man. Two young men stand behind the chairs, looking forward.
Date: unknown
Creator: Cummings Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of an African American Family]

Photograph of an unidentified African American family posing for a portrait together. The father (left) stands behind the family with the older child (center left) in front of him. The mother (center right) sits with the younger child (right) in her lap. This photo is from the estate of T. B. Wilson in Waco.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Three Unknown Children]

Photograph of three unidentified children posing together. The eldest child stands behind his younger siblings while holding a hat, with the middle child seated in a dark-colored coat at right also holding a hat, and a baby in white gown seated at left, looking forward.
Date: unknown
Creator: Wright, W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Women and Girl on a Bench]

Photograph of two women, in light-colored long sleeves shirts and black skirts, on a bench, holding the hand of a child between them. Behind the bench stands a woman in a dark-colored dress. In the background is a house with porch steps and a porch railing. Creeping ivy obscures most of the house. A handwritten note on the back reads, "Seated at bench: person on left: Hettie Baker Tobin of Burkesville, KY. Person on right: Isadore Elizabeth Causey Sleeper (wife of Gardner Southworth Sleeper). Young woman and child in center are unknown. Photo taken in Waco, TX."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Several Unknown Children]

Photograph of several children, arranged in two rows. Two older girls stand behind a group of four children on chairs. Two boys, first and third from left, hold hats, a toddler in a white gown placed on a chair in between them. The fourth child is on a tall wooden chair at far right.
Date: unknown
Creator: Chalmers, Richard Leon
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tom Culp and Family]

Portrait of Tom Culp and his family posing in front of a painted backdrop; he is wearing a dark suit and standing behind a child wearing a white gown, who is standing on a chair, and his wife is wearing a blouse and dark skirt and standing on the left.
Date: unknown
Creator: Weatherington
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Children in a School Play]

Photograph of a school play in Waco, Texas. Several children stand in costume on a stage decorated with three cardboard cutouts of buildings. At left, near a hut of some sort, is a girl in a plaid dress, another in a black dress and bonnet, a child held by another girl in a white hat, and another girl holding a toddler in her arms, followed by a boy looking out of a window in the hut. All near the hut watch the proceedings with shock and interest. At center is a judge with a wig and gavel, his hand on a low wooden desk. Behind the judge is "J. Mason Barber", with a boy covered in shaving foam looking at a barber, dressed in a plain white shirt. At far right is "Donaldson Grocer", with a police man with a painted mustache holding a baton, a witch with a pointed hat sitting on a barrel, and a grocer boy in an apron looking to the left. The autographs of the actors are written on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hubbard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Medicine Man in Texas (open access)

The Medicine Man in Texas

Book outlining the early history of medicine and of medical societies in Texas, along with brief biographical sketches of prominent physicians by county. It includes excerpts of newspaper articles, association meeting minutes, and other sources documenting practices over time.
Date: 1930
Creator: Red, Mrs. George Plunkett
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quarterly Review, Volume 1, Number 3, Easter 1915 (open access)

Quarterly Review, Volume 1, Number 3, Easter 1915

Easter edition of a quarterly publication discussing upcoming events, sports scores, poetry and creative works, news, and statements on various topics of interest to students at Saint Basil's College, a boys' boarding school in Waco.
Date: Spring 1915
Creator: Saint Basil's College
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Austin Avenue Methodist Church Scrapbook] (open access)

[Austin Avenue Methodist Church Scrapbook]

Scrapbook documenting the history of the Austin Avenue Methodist Church including newspaper clippings, photos, letters, event programs, and other items.
Date: 1950~/2022~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History