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[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
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
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Diptych of Carl and Cathinka Venth with seventeen pupils, left, and eight young women in formal dress with stringed instruments, right]

Two photographs mounted side by side on card stock. The image on the left shows Carl Venth, Cathinka Finch Myhr, Sheila Emery Allen, and sixteen other young female music students lined up in front of a house. Sheila Emery Allen and Cathinka Finch Myhr Venth are standing on either side of a large basket and are holding stuffed toy dogs. An inscription on the vero of the original frame read "Pupils at T. W. C., Mrs. Venth & Sheila Allen with dogs." The image on the right shows a group portrait of eight young women in formal dress posing with stringed instruments. An inscription on the verso of the original frame read "String Group, Acc. - Virfian England [Este], Sheila Allen." A handwritten inscription in pencil on the verso top left reads "Mrs. G. W. Parker, 2432 Colonial Park, Ft. Worth, Texas, 76160, 375-7149."
Date: 192X
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four photographs of musicians mounted on board]

Four photographs mounted on a single board with outlines and decorations drawn in white and black. The left photo is of four nicely dressed violinists holding their instruments and looking at sheet music. Two men are seated and a woman and man stand. At center are two oval photos, the right overlapping the left slightly. The left oval is of a mustachioed man wearing a dark suit and hat and holding a long umbrella under his arm. The right oval photo is a profile view of a woman from the shoulders up. She has light colored hair styled up and wears a large pearl earring. The far right photograph, slightly covered by the right oval photograph is of a woman in a renaissance period style dress and head piece. She stands with her body turned to the side, head facing the camera, and arms slightly outstretched to show the long fabric hanging off her sleeves. The back of the board shows heavy water damage. Various inscriptions on back read: "Ellen Jane Lindsay as Katherine Carr"; "my teacher - Richard Epstein - Mrs. Joan Pratiss's son-in-law"; "the Zollners studying Carl Venth's in [illegible] in Los Angeles"; "The dear girl Nina Lyman …
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History