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[Photograph of Laboratory Dance Band Performing at Perrin Field Air Base]
Photograph of the 1952-1953 North Texas State College Laboratory Dance Band performing at Perrin Field Air Base in Texas. The group of young men are situation on a stage behind music desks and a standing microphone. Club signs and a painting of a man in a suit with a woman decorate the wall behind them. To the left of the photo, a young woman, in a dress sits by a potted plant.
Date:
April 20, 1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Photograph of Laboratory Dance Band Performing at Perrin Field Air Base]
Photograph of the 1952-1953 North Texas State College Laboratory Dance Band performing at Perrin Field Air Base in Texas. The group of young men are situation on a stage behind music desks and a standing microphone. Club signs and a painting of a man in a suit with a woman decorate the wall behind them. To the left of the photo, a young woman, in a dress sits by a potted plant. Handwritten notes on the back of the photograph identify the band members, their instruments, and the young woman (Shirley Murray).
Date:
April 20, 1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Beverly Watson at Perrin Field Air Force Base]
Photograph of Beverly Watson and the North Texas State College Laboratory Dance Band performing on stage at Perrin Air Force Base in Texas. She is wearing a white blouse and dark skirt and is singing into a microphone while musicians are playing a guitar and saxophone behind her. Handwritten text beneath the photo says "Beverly Watson - Perrin Field Air Base 1-12-53."
Date:
January 12, 1953
Creator:
United States. Air Force.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Shirley Murray on Stage at Perrin Field Air Force Base]
Photograph of Shirley Murray and the North Texas State College Laboratory Dance Band performing on stage at Perrin Air Force Base in Texas. She is wearing a floral pattern dress and singing into a microphone while musicians are playing their brass instruments behind her. Gene Hall is conducting the band in the background of the photo to the right. A spade shaped tear mars the photo just left of its center, obscuring part of Murray's dress. A handwritten note at the bottom of the photo says "Shirley Murray - Perrin Field Air Force Base - 4/20/53."
Date:
April 20, 1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lab Band - 1952-53
Photograph of the 1952-1953 North Texas State College Laboratory Dance Band. Their director, Gene Hall, stands on the left side of the photo and addresses the young men who are arranged around music stands and playing a variety of instruments. A wide curtain serves as a background. "1953" is handwritten on the bottom of the photograph. Further handwriting appears on the back of the picture notes that this is a photograph of the Lab Band taken on April 1, 1953, and then lists the people as they appear from left to right.
Date:
April 1, 1953
Creator:
North Texas State College. News Service.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Travis County Home Demonstration Club Women's General Exhibition]
Photograph of women and a child standing in front of a display with a sign that says "Travis County Home Demonstration Club Women's General Exhibition."
Date:
November 1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Weatherford, Texas city square]
Photo of Weatherford City Square. Included are the Palace Theater and Citizen's National Bank building. There is snow on the ground and several automobiles are parked and driving by on the street. Photo circa 1940: Weatherford, Texas.
Date:
1953~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inauguration Day parade held in front of the Capitol building in Austin
Inauguration Parade: People and automobiles in a parade moving down the street towards the Capitol building. The people next to the automobiles are dressed in white military uniforms and holding firearms.
Date:
January 20, 1953
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Military groups marching in a parade held in front of the Capitol building]
Groups of military personnel in a parade moving down the street towards the Capitol building. There are several people standing to the side watching the parade. The Capitol building is at the end of the street.
Date:
January 20, 1953
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[J.W. Edgar reading The Austin Statesman newspaper]
J.W. Edgar reading The Austin Statesman newspaper at a desk. The headline of the newspaper says "High Court Throws Out Segregation in Schools."
Date:
May 18, 1953
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A boy leaning on a memorial table at Camp Ben McCullouch]
A boy sitting at a table at Camp Ben McCullouch. The boy is leaning on a table created as a memorial. Most of the writing on the table is illegible, but the table was created as a memorial for a man with the last name of Puckett. The memorial was dedicated by his children. Camp Ben McCullouch was created as a reunion site for Confederate war veterans.
Date:
July 21, 1953
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Arlington Police Chief A.B. (Ott) Cribbs with the 1953 Police Department, description on matte]
Photograph of the 1953 Arlington Police Department arranged in three rows in front of a police station garage door. All the men are in uniform except for the Highway Department Dispatcher and Chief Cribbs. [L to R] Back row: Fred Rupert, Harold White, Pop Schroeder, Herman Cantrell, Richard Strokel, John D. Dennehy. Middle row: Hwy. Dpt. dispatcher Dan Haggan, Chief Ott Cribbs, Bill Taylor, Minor Moore, Frank Kelly. Front row: Henry Cartwright, Roy "Rabbit" Cantrell.
Date:
1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Arlington Police Chief A.B. "Ott" Cribbs with the 1953 Police Department, description on photo]
Photograph of the 1953 Arlington Police Department arranged in three rows in front of a police station garage door. All the men are in uniform except for the Highway Department Dispatcher and Chief Cribbs. [L to R] Back row: Fred Rupert, Harold White, Pop Schroeder, Herman Cantrell, Richard Strokel, John D. Dennehy. Middle row: Hwy. Dpt. dispatcher Dan Haggan, Chief Ott Cribbs, Bill Taylor, Minor Moore, Frank Kelly. Front row: Henry Cartwright, Roy "Rabbit" Cantrell.
Date:
1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Arlington Police / Fire Station, 401 W. Main Street, 1953]
Photograph of the Arlington Police/Fire Station at 401 W. Main Street taken in 1953. It shows four police cars and two fire vehicles parked in front of the building with an officer or a firemen beside each vehicle and two people standing in the front entrance. This photograph was taken from the Arlington Police Department Commemorative Book, 1994. This building also housed the jail and a courtroom. Later, in 1964, the Police Department moved to a newer station at 717 W. Main Street.
Date:
1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Parade Queen]
Photograph of Barbara Putnam sitting on the back of a convertible during a parade in Port Arthur, Texas. A crowd of people stand in front of the building in the background.
Date:
1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman Sitting on Small Car]
Photograph of a woman in a long dress with flowers in her hair sitting on a small car driven by a young boy in a cowboy hat, during a parade in Port Arthur, Texas. A man walks beside them, and a crowd of people stand in front of the building in the background.
Date:
1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Plaque on Chamber of Commerce Building]
Photograph of a plaque on the Chamber of Commerce building in Port Arthur, Texas.
Date:
1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Decorated Stores]
Photograph of decorated stores on a road in Port Arthur, Texas. A few cars are parked in front of the buildings.
Date:
1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texaco Main Gate 1953
Photograph of the main gate of Texaco in 1953. The gate is attended by a single guard. To the left of the gate is a building bearing a large sign declaring that there has been 1,594,538 man hours since the last "lost time injury." There is also a sign requesting that no reading material be carried inside, and other sign on the gate that requests that no matches be carried inside. Two boxes written with the words "Red Head Matches" stand in front of the building.
Date:
1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["The Black Gold" arriving in Dallas]
Frisco's "The Black Gold Champion" train No. 517, southbound, headed by Diesel locomotive No. 2022, arriving at Dallas Junction, which is the wye near Irving, Texas, on June 18, 1953.
Date:
June 18, 1953
Creator:
Plummer, Roger S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Sunset Limited" departing from Houston's Grand Central Station]
Southern Pacific's "Sunset Limited" train No. 2, eastbound, headed by diesel locomotive No. 206, departing from Grand Central Station in Houston enroute to New Orleans on July 13, 1953.
Date:
July 13, 1953
Creator:
Plummer, Roger S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["The Texas Eagle" entering Houston]
Missouri Pacific's "Texas Eagle" train No. 1-21, arriving in the Houston Union Station on July 12, 1953.
Date:
July 12, 1953
Creator:
Plummer, Roger S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Santa Fe train crossing the Trinity River Bridge]
Santa Fe's train No. 111, eastbound, diesel powered, crossing the Texas and Pacific Railway's Trinity River Bridge, enroute from Fort Worth to Dallas.
Date:
1953
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Valley Eagle" departing from Houston]
Missouri Pacific's "Valley Eagle" train No. 11, southbound, headed by diesel locomotive No. 8005 , departing from the Houston Union Station, enroute to Brownsville, Texas on the morning of July 12, 1953.
Date:
July 12, 1953
Creator:
Plummer, Roger S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History