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[Annie Belle Emery Bright's Fort Worth High School graduation class, 1897]

Photograph of the Fort Worth High School graduating class of May 1897. The fifteen individuals wear formal attire, men in tuxedos and women in white, full-coverage dresses. The photograph is mounted to a board, and below the photograph an additional strip of board with handwriting listing the names of the individuals is attached to the backing board. Top row, left to right: Ronnea Wilson, Walter Sudarth, Emma Griffith, Sam Truplett, Mary Young, Mable Simpson, Salby Atwell. . Middle and bottom row: Georgia Prackett, Lyman Barber, Edith Ellis, Maggie McLean, Annie Emery, Lita Ryan, Jewell Weaver, Ada Brattlion.
Date: May 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[High School Diploma: Annie Belle Emery] (open access)

[High School Diploma: Annie Belle Emery]

Diploma for Annie Belle Emery from Fort Worth High School. There is an illustrated banner at the top of the certificate including decoration around the name and an image of three women surrounded by books, musical instruments, and other objects related to art, music, science, and other educational topics.
Date: May 21, 1897
Creator: Fort Worth (Tex.). Public Schools.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[James W. Emery's house at 415 Wheeler Street, now College Avenue, where Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen first hung her shingle]

Mounted photograph of the front of a house with various women and children posing on the porch and front steps, the front yard, and the second floor balcony. Handwritten blue and black ink inscriptions below the image read: "(Annie, Daisy, Lottie Emery.) 415 Wheeler St. (now College Ave.) Bertha Preuitt, Sybil Wilson, Lois Wilson holding Aline, Fannie with Paul, Bess Wilson, and Grandmother Emery (Dr. D. Emery Allen's mother.) It was at this home I hung out my 'shingle' 1897."The recto bottom left corner of the mount is missing and the mount has overall abrasions and staining. There are water stains running along the recto bottom of the mount and extending partway up the front right edge. Brown adhesive stains are visible along all four verso edges.
Date: 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History