Champion Angus Steer - Southwestern International Livestock Show

Two men and a woman displaying the Champion Angus Steer at the Southewestern International Livestock Show in El Paso, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Junior Award Winning Angus Steer - Southwestern International Livestock Show

A man and a boy with the Junior Award Winning Angust Steer at the Southwestern International Livestock Show in El Paso, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cowgirl Mazny F. Stroud

Cowgirl Mazny F. Stroud rides a bucking bronco during a rodeo in El Paso, Texas. Written on the image is "Typical Cowgirl of the West."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
By-laws, rules, regulations and names of members of the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas. (open access)

By-laws, rules, regulations and names of members of the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas.

A publication from the 1903 annual meeting of the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas which includes proceedings, by-laws, regulations, and a list of members.
Date: 1903
Creator: Cattle Raisers Association of Texas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Reserve Champion Herford Heifer and Linda Daugherty

Photograph of Linda Daugherty with her Reserve Champion Hereford Heifer. Ms. Daugherty is wearing a vest and bow tie and is standing next to a man in a suit, tie and cowboy hat who is holding a banner.
Date: 1966
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jessie N. to Lela Smith, August 2 1913] (open access)

[Letter from Jessie N. to Lela Smith, August 2 1913]

Letter from Jessie N. to Miss Lela Smith of Granbury, Texas. The letter is dated August 2, 1913.
Date: August 2, 1913
Creator: N, Jessie
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Jo Ramsey Decker

Jo Ramsey Decker - queen of the S.W. Fat Stock Show in El Paso, TX - on her horse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Round-up at Bar O-T-O Ranch

Photograph of a big round-up held on the Bar O-T-O Ranch in Dawson County in 1898. The ranch consisted of about 200,000 acres and extended to within six miles of present day Lamesa. About 12,000 cattle were in the herd when this picture was taken. In the picture L-R: Gip Akins, Charlie Nivvins of El Paso, Eldridge Ingle of Ensby, Alabama, Paul Dalmont of Lamesa, V.P. Baker of Lamesa, Eulis Dalmont of Lamesa, Harry Morgan of Lamesa (12 mi. north), Bill Oden and other unnamed cowpunchers.
Date: 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Spring Palace. (open access)

The Texas Spring Palace.

This pamphlet includes a guide to the Texas Spring Palace including particular sites and places in Texas. Additionally, the Texas and Southwestern Railway Guide starts on page 59 with printed timetables for the train schedules.
Date: May 1890
Creator: Rose, John R.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth, Texas : "where golden West and sunny Southland meet" (open access)

Fort Worth, Texas : "where golden West and sunny Southland meet"

A book promoting Fort Worth for business and development.
Date: 1923
Creator: Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cattle Raisers Association of Texas, 36th Annual Convention, Fort Worth, Texas, March, 1912 : official souvenir magazine. (open access)

The Cattle Raisers Association of Texas, 36th Annual Convention, Fort Worth, Texas, March, 1912 : official souvenir magazine.

Souvenir booklet from the 1912 annual meeting of the Cattle Raisers Association.
Date: 1912
Creator: Cattle Raisers Association of Texas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Makers of Fort Worth (open access)

Makers of Fort Worth

Each leaf contains a biographical note with photographic portrait and a caricature by Heppner Blackman, first cartoonist of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, or W.K. Patrick, cartoonist of the Fort Worth Record.
Date: 1914
Creator: Newspaper Artists' Association, Forth Worth.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Directory of the City of Fort Worth 1905-06. (open access)

Directory of the City of Fort Worth 1905-06.

Directory to the city of Fort Worth, Texas includes lists of important institutions and locations as well as address listings for businesses and individuals. Index to Advertisements is on page 5; Table of Contents is on page 8.
Date: 1905
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy Directory Co.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Fort Worth 1899-1900. (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Fort Worth 1899-1900.

Directory to the city of Fort Worth, Texas includes lists of important institutions and locations as well as address listings for businesses and individuals. Index to Advertisements is on page 7; Table of Contents is on page 8.
Date: 1899
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's general directory of the City of Fort Worth, 1896 - 1897 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's general directory of the City of Fort Worth, 1896 - 1897

An 1896 - 1897 directory of Fort Worth.
Date: 1897
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy Directory Co.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Directory of the City of Fort Worth 1907-08 (open access)

Directory of the City of Fort Worth 1907-08

Directory for Fort Worth, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "the Present State, County and City Governments, County Officials of Texas, Giving Date of Organization of of Each County as also County Seat; List of Counties, Judicial Districts, District Judges and Clerks, and Time of Holding Courts in all Counties in Texas; Representative, Senatorial, Congressional and Supreme Judicial Districts; Court of Civil Appeals, Court of Criminal Appeals, U.S. Judicial District and U.S. Circuit Courts, where Returnable; a Complete List of all Postoffices and money Order Offices in Texas; also an Index of Societies, Associations, Churches, Corporations, Educational Institutes; Full Name and Address of all Residents, Their Occupations or Pursuits, and a Complete Classified Business Directory, also a Valuable Street and Avenue Guide, Numerically Arranged."
Date: 1907
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy Directory Co.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Methodist Centennial Yearbook: The Story of Methodism During the Last One Hundred Years in Texas. Illustrated With Some Twenty-five Hundred Portraits of Persons and Places. (open access)

Texas Methodist Centennial Yearbook: The Story of Methodism During the Last One Hundred Years in Texas. Illustrated With Some Twenty-five Hundred Portraits of Persons and Places.

Texas Methodist Centennial Yearbook includes six sections. From the table of contents: Section I: This section deals with the careers of Bishop H. A. Boaz and Bishop A. Frank Smith--The early beginnings of Methodism in England under John Wesley with illustrations of his family and religious life--His experiences in America--Early days in Texas--Pioneer Methodist educational institutions along with present-day ones--Early leaders of Texas Methodism--Sketches of important events--Portraits of various clerical and lay leaders. Sections II-IV: Minutes of the North Texas, West Texas, Central Texas, Texas, and Northwest Texas Conferences including statistical tables and pictures of the ministers. Index to pictures starts on page 790; indexes to various schools, historic scenes and events and to historical sketches start on page 796.
Date: 1934
Creator: Nail, Olin W.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas spring palace city, Fort Worth. A parody on H.M.S. Pinafore (open access)

Texas spring palace city, Fort Worth. A parody on H.M.S. Pinafore

A historical drama of Fort Worth, a parody on the comic opera the H.M.S. Pinafore, by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Date: 1889
Creator: Smith, Edward. J. & Pease, Harry M.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
1918 classified directory : containing the names, addresses and phone numbers of representative manufacturing, business and professional interests of Fort Worth and vicinity. (open access)
Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifty-Second Annual Session (which is the eighth session since division), Methodist Episcopal Church, South (open access)

Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifty-Second Annual Session (which is the eighth session since division), Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Journal proceedings of Central Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, reports of boards and committees, appointments, memoirs, statistical tables, and advertisements. Indexes to the journal and advertisements on page 114.
Date: November 1917
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Forty-third Annual Session, Northwest Texas Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South (open access)

Journal of the Forty-third Annual Session, Northwest Texas Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Journal proceedings of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the proceedings, appointments, reports of boards and committees, memoirs, statistical tables, and advertisements.
Date: 1908
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Session of The Northwest Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Hillsboro, Texas, November 15th to November 20th, 1905 (open access)

Journal of Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Session of The Northwest Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Hillsboro, Texas, November 15th to November 20th, 1905

Minutes of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the conferences, condensed minutes, resolutions, reports from committees, selected biographies, and statistical tables.
Date: November 1905
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texans and their state; a newspaper reference work (open access)

Texans and their state; a newspaper reference work

Biographies of prominent Texans.
Date: 1918
Creator: Warner, Harry T.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Second Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church South (open access)

Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Second Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church South

Journal proceedings of Central Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, reports of boards and committees, appointments, memoirs, statistical tables, and advertisements. Indexes to the journal and advertisements are on page 98.
Date: November 1911
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History