[Pamphlet: "Together We Build"] (open access)

[Pamphlet: "Together We Build"]

Church pamphlet summarizing a fundraising campaign to build a new classroom building for the First Baptist Church of Rockwall, including graphs displaying church growth, floor maps of the proposed building, and soliciting donations to the church. The pamphlet begins with a short history of the church, and includes a frequently-asked-questions page.
Date: 1991~
Creator: First Baptist Church of Rockwall
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Eastern Fuller Garden Construction Work]

Photograph of the Fuller Garden and the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden undergoing work. The courtyard's elevated concrete planters, with yellow shrubs and flowers planted inside, are visible in the lower left half of the image. The veranda of the Garden Center is visible on the left side of the image. Construction workers and gardeners, scattered across the garden, work on stone pathways embedded into the grass. A man in a hat gestures towards an empty patch of dirt to another worker. Work cars are parked across the edge of the image towards the background, covered by trees.
Date: 1990-06~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fuller Garden Gazebo Footpaths]

Photograph of a footpath leading up to a gazebo in the Fuller Garden. The footpath is elevated and concrete, with a stone brick wall along its outer edge with shrubs and grasses below. On the right of the path is another, larger elevated plant bed that follows the contour of the curving footpath, and contains thick drooping bushes of flowers. A couple walks along the footpath, which leads to a round gazebo, partially obscured by a small tree.
Date: 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Horseshoe Garden Benches]

Photograph of benches in the Horseshoe Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The benches are located along concrete footpaths under the shade of large trees. Tall grasses, flower bushes, and bushes are visible around the benches.
Date: July 1995
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Men with Shovels]

Photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. Two men hold shovels on a pile of of upturned dirt, looking to the left and smiling. A microphone on a stand is placed in front of them.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Breaking Ground #1]

Photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. Two men, holding shovels, dig out clumps of soil from a field of dirt on the church grounds while a handful of people watch from nearby, looking onward.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Breaking Ground #2]

Photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. Two men, holding shovels, dig out clumps of soil from a field of dirt on the church grounds while a handful of people watch from nearby, looking onward.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Crowd from Parking Lot]

Photograph of a crowd at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church, gathered on a parking lot adjacent to the church building. In front of the crowd are prominent leaders of the church, some wearing hard hats, standing near four shovels wrapped with bows and lodged in the dirt. Inside the church, people watch the ceremony from a window (center right). The church's steeple and the city's water tower are both visible behind the church building.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Ceremony Participants]

Photograph of ceremony participants for a new worship center's groundbreaking ceremony at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The participants stand side by side in front of a paved parking lot, with an amplifier on a tripod stand and a microphone placed before them. Two men at right stand near a small pile of upturned dirt.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Speech #1]

Photograph of a speech being delivered at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The speaker holds a book in his right hand and stands behind a microphone on a stand. Members of the church staff stand behind the speakers, including two men holding shovels driven into the dirt.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Speech #2]

Photograph of a speech being delivered at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The speaker holds a book in his right hand and stands behind a microphone on a stand and a loudspeaker set on a large tripod. Members of the church staff stand behind the speakers, including two men holding shovels driven into the dirt.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Speech #3]

Photograph of a speech being delivered at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The speaker holds a book in his right hand and stands behind a microphone on a stand. Members of the church staff stand behind the speakers, including two men holding shovels driven into the dirt.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Speech #4]

Photograph of a speech being delivered at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The speaker holds a book in his right hand and stands behind a microphone on a stand and a loudspeaker set on a large tripod. Members of the church staff stand behind the speakers, including two men holding shovels driven into the dirt.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Prayer #1]

Photograph of a prayer being held at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. Two individuals, standing behind a microphone and a loudspeaker, bow their heads. Members of the church staff standing behind also bow in prayer.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Speech #5]

Photograph of a speech being delivered at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The speaker holds a book in his right hand and stands behind a microphone on a stand. Members of the church staff stand behind the speakers, including two men holding shovels driven into the dirt.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Prayer #2]

Photograph of a prayer being held at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. Two individuals, standing behind a microphone and a loudspeaker, bow their heads. Members of the church staff standing behind also bow in prayer.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Speech #6]

Photograph of a speech being delivered at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The speaker holds a book in his right hand and stands behind a microphone on a stand. Members of the church staff stand behind the speakers, including two men holding shovels driven into the dirt.
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fourth of July Celebration: Costumed Couple #1]

Photograph of a costumed couple at a celebration for Independence Day in the Rockwall First Baptist Church. They stand in the front end of the church's worship center, in front of the choir section, the pulpit, and the clergy chairs. At left, a woman wears a white satin dress with red and blue stripes, and at right, a man wears a hat with a puffy white feathers and a dark coat with a black stele, round buttons, and long sleeves. A large American flag is draped over the back wall of the worship center.
Date: July 4, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fourth of July Celebration: Couple and Choir]

Photograph of a celebration for Independence Day in the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. A woman stands next to the worship center's pulpit, churchgoers in front of them. A man in a suit faces the choir section with his back turned towards the seated singers. A large American flag is draped on the wall over the top of the choir section.
Date: July 4, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fourth of July Celebration: Choir Performance]

Photograph of a choir performance during a Fourth of July celebration in the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The choir stands at the back end of the worship center, dressed in red and white, singing from their choir books. A man conducts them from behind the pulpit. The sanctuary is decorated with flowers and American flags, with one large prominent flag hanging on the wall above the choir singers.
Date: July 4, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Congregants in Choir Section]

Photograph of congregants seated in the choir section at the Rockwall First Baptist Church. Two women in the back row have American flags, one with a pair of flags resting above her earlobes. Other people, seated in the rows below, are mostly stationary and unoccupied.
Date: June 30, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fourth of July Celebration: Costumed Couple #2]

Photograph of a costumed couple at a celebration for Independence Day in the Rockwall First Baptist Church. They stand in the front end of the church's worship center, in front of the choir section, the pulpit, and the clergy chairs. At left, a woman wears a white satin dress with red and blue stripes, and at right, a man wears a hat with a puffy white feathers and a dark coat with a black stele, round buttons, and long sleeves.
Date: July 4, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lecture Hall Seasonal Planter]

Photograph of a decorative planter outside the lecture hall in the Garden Center of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The planter is placed on a circular stone platform, containing multiple multicolored bundles of flowers that rise vertically to surround a statue of a small, stone cherub, which is covered by a short tree. This planter sits prominently in front of furnishings such as house plants and covered tables.
Date: April 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[October 1999 Fun Fest]

Photograph of a festival event at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A man stands upon a raised wooden stage situated in front of dense tree cover, which contains microphones, sound amplifiers, and white wooden fences in the background. A cut-out picture of a cartoon scarecrow lays against the wooden fence behind the speaker. A crowd of people, including adults, children, and small babies, watch along the bottom edge of the picture, most sitting on the grass below.
Date: October 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History