City public schools of Canyon, Texas (open access)

City public schools of Canyon, Texas

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Date: 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students' Army Training Corps, Canyon, Texas]

Photograph of members of the Students' Army Training Corps at West Texas State Normal College marching on the streets of Canyon, Texas. The uniformed men are marching in formation, led by a small band. A small cluster of residences is visible in the background.
Date: 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students at a Canyon, Texas school]

Photograph of students and teachers at a school in Canyon, Texas. Students pose in rows at the entryway of a frame building. The youngest children as seated in the front Two adults are stand in the middle of the group. Some of the children are identified on the reverse: J. P. Hix, Rob Campbell, Vince Reeves, and Nash Hix.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
First annual commencement of the Canyon High School, Canyon, Texas, at the Methodist church, Monday night, May nineteenth, nineteen hundred two (open access)

First annual commencement of the Canyon High School, Canyon, Texas, at the Methodist church, Monday night, May nineteenth, nineteen hundred two

Program for commencement exercises for Canyon High School, which involved a single graduate, Vera Evans Odell.
Date: 1902
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from A.B. Davidson to R.A. Terrill, September 2, 1909] (open access)

[Letter from A.B. Davidson to R.A. Terrill, September 2, 1909]

Letter from Texas Lieutenant Governor A.B. Davidson, chairman of the committee to locate the new West Texas State Normal College, to R.A. Terrill of Canyon City, informing him of the decision to locate the college in Canyon City.
Date: September 2, 1909
Creator: Davidson, Asbury Bascom
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Teachers College football game]

Photograph of football game at West Texas State Teachers College. A play is in progress and the football is visible in the air. The goalpost and a fence that surrounds the field are visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Basketball banquet served by the girls in the home ec dept. in the early 20s

Photograph of attendees at a dinner for the West Texas State Normal College men's basketball team. Team members are seated table set for dinner. Most are wearing suits and ties, with a few wearing sweaters with a college insignia. Standing at the back of the room are four women wearing white dresses.
Date: 192X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Program of the dedicatory exercises of the education building (open access)

Program of the dedicatory exercises of the education building

Program of events held October 19-20, 1928 in connection with the dedication of the new education building on the campus of West Texas State Teachers College.
Date: 1928
Creator: West Texas State Teachers College
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Teachers College football game]

Photograph of a football game at West Texas State Teachers College. A play is in progress on the field, watched by two referees wearing white. A few spectators are visible on the near sideline.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

West Texas State Normal, Canyon City, Tex.

Halftone color postcard showing the original building of West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. The postcard reproduces a painting of the building, showing the front facade and pedestrians walking along a circular walkway in front of the building. On the back of the post card there is a written message to Miss Loura Dozier in Kress, Texas, postmarked June 18, 1911 and signed "Your friend Ruth."
Date: 1911
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Home Economics Club tea]

Photograph of a group of women at a Home Economics Club tea at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. They are shown standing and seated while holding tea cups and conversing. In the foreground is a table set with candleholders and a flowering plant.
Date: 1922~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Teachers College football team]

Photograph of the West Texas State Teachers College football team during the 1924-1925 year. The players pose in three rows wearing jerseys with striped sleeves, football pants, striped socks and cleats. A coach wearing a suit stands in the back row. The players are identified on a separate sheet: back row: Cleatice Crump, Floyd Golden, Otello Herm, Evart Adams, Frank Brown, Weldon Thompson. Middle row: Oscar Gamel, Carl Scott, Davis Hill, Ray Bivens, Hugh Hancock, Finis Vaughn. Front row: Herschel Jennings, Odus Mitchell, Grady Burson, Mitchell Jones, Virgil Santy.
Date: 1924~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Teachers College football game]

Photograph of a football game at West Texas State Teachers College in Canyon, Texas. A placekick attempt is in progress, with the just-kicked ball visible on its way toward the goalposts. A few spectators stand at the end of the field before a wooden fence that runs the width of the field.
Date: 192X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Edna Graham and Jessie Rambo]

Photograph of Edna Graham and Jessie Rambo of the home economics faculty at West Texas State Normal College. They are posed informally on the exterior steps of a brick building.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students' Army Training Corps drills]

Photograph of Students' Army Training Corps recruits participating in a drill on the West Texas State Normal College campus. A line of soldiers stand in formation before the college main building, with a small group of soldiers holding musical instruments standing to one side.
Date: 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Miss Hudspeth

Photograph of Mary Elizabeth Hudspeth, professor of Spanish, Mathematics, and German at West Texas State Teachers College from 1910-1943. She also served as the Dean of Women.The bust portrait shows Hudspeth in profile, looking to the viewer's left. She is wearing a black dress with a lace collar and round eyeglasses.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College students]

Photograph of a group of West Texas State Normal College students posing in front of the college president's home. The majority of the group are women, who are standing and seated in long rows. Two men are reclining in the front, one identified as M.B. Johnson. The two story frame house features a covered front porch.
Date: 1919~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

West Texas State Normal Building, Canyon, Texas

Postcard showing the original West Texas State Normal College building in Canyon, Texas. The front facade of the three-story brick building is shown, with a water tower and a small building visible to the right.
Date: 191X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Demonstration school classroom at West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of 19 elementary age school children in a classroom at the training school at West Texas State Normal College. Several students stand or sit at small tables along one wall, while others sit on the floor. Several are wearing paper hats. A chalkboard runs the length of one wall.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[High jumper clearing the bar]

Photograph of a man clearing the bar while high jumping at West Texas State Teachers College. Two other athletes look on in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College building]

Photograph of the main building of West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. The front and east facades of the three-story brick building are shown. The grounds around the building are largely undeveloped.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Canyon High School 1907 graduating class]

Photograph of the 1907 class of Canyon High School, consisting of two men and four women The graduates are posed before a studio backdrop. The four women, all dressed in white, are seated in a row, each holding a rolled document tied with a ribbon. The two men are standing behind them and are dressed in suits and ties.
Date: 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The West Texas State Normal College, Canyon, Texas : prospectus (open access)

The West Texas State Normal College, Canyon, Texas : prospectus

Pamphlet that describes the new West Texas State Normal College, including a history of its creation, a list of faculty, the curriculum, policies and regulations, and a description of the Canyon, Texas area.
Date: 1910
Creator: West Texas State Normal College
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

Snake dance at W.T. in the early 1920's

Photograph the Snake Dance, an early student tradition at West Texas State Teachers College. A long line of students, joined hand-to-hand, form a spiral on the college football field. Spectators fill the grandstands in the background, and automobiles are parked along one end of the field. Several college buildings are visible in the background.
Date: 192X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History