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[Damaged photograph of Dr. J. W. Allen]
Photograph of Dr. James Walter Allen wearing a suit and tie. The photograph is damaged around Dr. Allen's face. The photo is mounted to a white board with scalloped edges. Red printed text at the bottom reads: "J. E. Daniel, Fort worth, Texas." Handwritten in the lower right corner is the date "1892."
Date:
1892
Creator:
Daniel, J. E.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Road and numbered buildings in downtown Fort Worth skyline]
Snapshot photograph taken from a road and looking east to the downtown Fort Worth skyline. Drawn onto the photo, in black ink, are arrows pointing down at buildings with numbers at the top.
Date:
[1910..1939]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Sue Lottie Emery at piano]
Tintype photograph of Sue Lottie Emery seated at a piano. She sits facing sideways with one hand on the keys. She wears a long black dress with long sleeves and white lace at the cuffs. She wears a white lace collar that covers her chest, shoulders and back. A piece of white paper with blue handwritten inscription is taped to the back of the photograph. The inscription reads, "(Sue) Lottie Emery / Daughter of / James Wallace Emery."
Date:
[1880..1899]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of a woman related to the Emery family]
Full-length tintype photograph of a woman related to the Emery family. She wears a long sleeve, long dark dress with a lace collar and lace at the cuffs of the sleeves. She wears her hair in an up-do on the top of her head. It appears that her cheeks may have been hand colored a very light pink. She has one hand to her cheek, her elbow and other hand resting on a tasseled stand. The painted backdrop shows carved stone pillars, steps, and foliage.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Group photo outdoors with elderly Uncle Rollin and Aunt Dollie Stirman]
Photograph of a group of people standing outdoors posing for a photo together. An old man with a mustache and thinning hair stands behind a wheelchair occupied by an old woman wearing a long white dress. A young boy stands next to the wheelchair while another stands in front. Two men and a woman stand to the right of the woman in the wheelchair. Trees, the top of a covered bridge, and a house can be seen in the background. There is a white border around the snapshot.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Gem tintype portrait of young girl 1]
Gem tintype photograph of a young girl from the chest up. She wears a striped jacket buttoned to the collar, and a black hat that covers only the very top of her head. She has shoulder-length light colored hair with straight bangs. She looks directly at the camera and does not smile. Her eyes and mouth are slightly blurred. The photograph has cracks in the emulsion layer in the upper right corner, and at the very corner a section has flaked off.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Gem tintype portrait of young girl 3]
Gem tintype photograph of a young girl from the shoulders up. She wears a striped jacket buttoned to the collar, and a black hat that covers only the very top of her head. She has shoulder-length light colored hair with straight bangs. She looks directly at the camera and does not smile. The image is slight off center, skewed to the lower right corner. There are spots along the bottom of the image where the emulsion layer is damaged.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cassie Brown with hair up]
Cabinet Card photograph of Aunt Cassie Brown seen from the chest up. She wears a dark blouse with a diagonal row of embroidery and diagonal decorative buttons making a V on her chest. She wears a key as a brooch. Bellow the image is the studio imprint reading, "Barron's Studio / Opera Block, Terrell, Texas." The back of the card has an inscription reading, "Aunt Carrie [sic] Brown / (Mrs. Harper Brown.)"
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Barron's Studio
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Harper Brown seated]
Cabinet card photograph of Harper Brown seated in a lattice chair with decorative swirls coming off the top of the back. He wears a dark three piece suit and tie, holds a fedora style hat. He looks to the side of the camera and crosses his legs at the knee. At the bottom of the card is written, "Harper Brown," and the studio imprint is embossed reading, "Hudson / Paris, Texas." Small decorative circular patterns are embossed around the edges of the card.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Hudson
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Eve Brown Houghton]
Carte de visite photograph of Eve Hougton from the chest up. She wears a dark blouse with puffed up shoulders, and a high collar. The collar and a section of the dress are made from a different darker fabric. She wears a brooch of a bouquet of five flowers, and a white ribbon under her collar which is tied in a bow at the side of her neck. Her head and gaze is turned slightly away from the camera, and her hair is pinned up. the back of the card has an inscription that reads, "Eve (Brown) Houghton / mother's sister."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Sybil Brown]
Cabinet card photograph of Sybil Brown, Uncle Harper's Stepdaughter. She is visible from the waist up and wears a white lace dress with a metal guitar brooch at her throat and a cross necklace. Half of her hair is pulled up and tied with a ribbon, and she looks to the left. The card has decorative scalloped edges, and at the bottom is the studio imprint in brownish ink which reads, "Barron, Terrell, Texas." On the back is the following inscription: "Sybil - Brown / Uncle Harper's step daughter."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Barron
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Archie Tucker]
Photograph of Archie Tucker, Ada Wren's son. He is visible from the chest up and wears a dark suit and tie. The photo is cut into a narrow oval and mounted on a cream colored board which has the studio imprint at the bottom right reading, "Gentry / Dallas." The back of the card has many inscriptions reading, "F.D. Emery / Ada Waa's son / Archie Tucker Dallas / Granma Emery's (cousin Mug's) grandson."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Gentry
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Five young women in a row, possibly the Wren sisters]
Photograph of five women on a diamond shaped photograph. The women are in a row stacked with one behind the other, their heads going from the bottom corner of the photo to the top. Each wears a ruffled, high collared dress, and has their hair pinned back with small curls around their faces. on the two bottom edges of the cream colored board the photograph is mounted to is the studio imprint reading, "Leffler / Fort Worth, Texas." On the back of the board is the inscription, "Possibly the Wren sisters."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Leffler
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fred R. Stirman]
Cabinet card photograph of a young boy, standing next to a chair with a blanket with geometric designs draped over it. He leans towards the chair with one arm resting on the chair back and one foot crossed over the other. He stands in front of a backdrop showing part of a window or doorway. The studio imprint is on the bottom of the card and reads, "Peery's Studio, Kaufman, Texas." An inscription on the back reads, "Fred Stirman."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Peery's Studio
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Annie Belle Emery Bright seated in front of Allen house on Heaton Avenue in Fort Worth]
Snapshot photograph of a woman, Annie Belle Emery Bright, seated on stone steps slightly below and in front of the Allen home on Heaton Avenue in Fort Worth. The two story house has wood siding and a two story corner tower or turret. Handwritten blue ink inscription across verso top reads "Annie B. Emery, Heaton Ave., Fort Worth."
Date:
1907~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen Sweet Sixteen]
Cabinet card photograph of Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen wearing a blouse with a large ruffled collar and a large bow at the center of the collar. Her hair is styled in an up-do and she has small dangling earrings. At the bottom of the card, printed in gold ink is "Daniel, Ft. Worth, Texas," and in very light handwriting the words "Dr. Daisy." Handwritten on the back of the card in blue ink is ""Sweet 16" Daisy."
Date:
1892~
Creator:
Daniel
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Retouched image of Dr. J. W. Allen based on 1892 photograph]
Print of a retouched image of Dr. James Walter Allen which was created using a damaged photograph by J. E. Daniel from 1892. The image shows Dr. Allen wearing a suit and tie, and a clean shaven face. Text at the bottom reads: "J. E. Daniel, Fort Worth, Texas."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Final Plat of Lot 1, Block 1, J.K. Allen Farm: Being a Tract of in the Jud Rowland Survey, A-1294
Text of an official abstract describing a tract of land in White Settlement, Texas, with a plat map of the property and a vicinity map of the area.
Date:
January 1984
Creator:
SureTex, Inc,
Object Type:
Technical Drawing
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Stirman infant in bowl with hidden mother holding him upright]
Cabinet card photograph of a baby sitting in a white porcelain bowl on a table. The baby is being held up by his mother hidden behind him. Her hair and hands are visible supporting the baby's back. The photo is on a dark card with studio's imprint at the bottom, which reads, "Peery, Kaufman, Tex." The back has an imprint reading, "? Stirman," as well as a lot of pencil markings throughout and line of numbers along the bottom.
Date:
189X
Creator:
Peery
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Uncle Rollin and Aunt Dolly Stirman in the flowers at top of high school]
Photograph of an old woman seated in a wheelchair wearing a long white dress, and an old man standing to the right and behind her, with one hand on the back of the wheelchair and the other on his hip. He has a moustache and wears a dark three-piece suit and hat. They are in a garden next to flowers and foliage. A building is visible in the background. There is a white boarder around the snapshot, and an inscription on the back reads: "In the flowers / top of High school - / Uncle Rollin & Aunt Dollie - Stirman."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photographic postcard of three Stirman boys]
Photographic postcard of three young boys outdoors. The oldest boy sits cross legged on the grass, while the middle boy stand behind him, and the youngest stands to the left of him. They all wear white shirts and dark pants. The oldest boy has dark hair, while the younger boys have blonde hair. The card has a white boarder around the photo. The back of the postcard has a green one cent stamp and is postmarked Oct 25 1909, 7:30p. There is a long handwritten message on the correspondence side from Eva.
Date:
October 25, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Marvin Stirman at Capitol Building, Austin, Texas]
Photograph of a young boy standing on a balcony with a large column and balustrade behind him. He leans on what looks like a large spot light on the ground, and is about half as tall as the balustrade. He wears light colored shirt and shorts. The edges of the snapshot have a decorative stripped border. A handwritten inscription on the back reads, "Marvin Stirman / Capitol Building / Austin, Tex. / Oct. 1927."
Date:
October 1927
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Tintype of a woman related to the Emery family]
Tintype photograph of a woman from the waist up. Her arms rest on a fringed object in front of her. She wears a long sleeve dark dress, with buttons up the side of the forearms. She wears a lace collar that hangs down her chest, and a silver chain with pendant. It appears that her cheeks may have been hand colored a faint pink. The cuffs of her sleeves have dark lace and white lace below. She wears a large dark hat with feathers on it, over her up styled hair. The image has small scratches throughout.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Elementary to middle school aged students in classroom]
Photograph of students seated at their desks in a classroom. The desks are in a grid pattern with a teacher's desk at the far right of the photograph. The students all look at the camera and hold books open on their desks or have notebook and pencil in hand. There are two windows at the back wall, and chalkboards with writing and math equations line the two visible walls, and have lines of papers clipped along the tops. The photo is printed on a cream colored board, and the image is oval shaped with points sticking out at the upper and lower left and right corners.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History