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[Street Scene of Ranger, Texas]

Photograph of a street scene in Ranger, Texas. Several women and children are walking by local stores and businesses.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Railroad Station in Ranger, Texas]

Photograph of a large crowd of people waiting outside of a train station. A large building and train tracks are visible in the photograph.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Railroad Station in Ranger, Texas]

Photograph of a large crowd of people waiting outside of a train station. A large building and train tracks are visible in the photograph. Handwritten at the top of the photograph is, "L. Swagerty: R.R. Station at Ranger, Tex during oil boom of 1918". Typed on the back of the photograph is, "Ten times a day, trains of the Texas & Pacific Line pulled into Ranger to disgorge their load of passengers who had packed the coach seats, stood in the aisles and, in some cases, ridden atop the cars".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Street Scene of Ranger, Texas]

Photograph of a street scene in Ranger, Texas. There are several horse drawn carriages and people crowded in the middle of a busy street. There are local stores and businesses visible in the background. Printed on the bottom of the photograph is, "End of the Rainbow", "Fields of Liquid Gold", and "Ranger, Texas".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Worth Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1905

Photograph of the Worth Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas. The buiding is five stories tall with arched windows and awnings and a store with display windows on the bottom floor. The sign in front of the store reads, "August's" and a sign further down the sidewalk reads, "Hotel Worth". In the foreground are telephone poles and wires.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Metropolitan Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1905

Photograph of the Metropolitan Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas. The building is brick and three-stories tall . On the front side of the building is a small balcony. On the side of the building is a sign that reads, "Metropolitan Hotel". The building is surrounded by a sidewalk and brick street with a few horse-drawn carriages. On the corner of the sidewalk is a street lamp.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Market House in Houston]

Photograph of the Market House in Houston, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Delaware Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas

Photograph of the Delaware Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas. The building is four stories tall and there is a storefront that reads, "Winter Daniel Co." There are three horse-drawn carriages and two men in hats surrounding the building along with telephone poles and wires.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Co., 1881

Photograph of the Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co., 1881. The building is three stories tall with stairs on the side and a covered sidewalk with a banner. The building is surrounded by a dirt road and many large telephone poles and wires. Written at the top of the frame is, "Fox Newspaper" and at the bottom is, "Office and East 2nd Sts, Fort Worth."
Date: 1881
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hurley Building in Ft. Worth, Texas

Photograph of the Hurley Building in Ft. Worth, Texas. The building is stone and many stories tall. It has three arched stoops and a pillar. Next to it is a smaller buiding with a sign that reads, "G.Y. Smith & Co." It is surrounded by a street and sidewalk that is lined with horse-drawn buggies and men in hats. In the foreground is a telephone pole and wires.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

State Juvenile Training School in Gatesville, Texas

Photograph of the entrance to the State Juvenile Training School. In the foreground is a circular garden with lined shrubs, plants and trees. In the background are two multiple-storied buildings with an American flag flying in-between them. Behind the taller building is a water tower. Written on the bottom left hand side of frame is written, "Gildersleeve -Waco" and on the bottom right hand side is, "Entrance - State Juvenile Training School - Gatesville, Texas -."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Small Boys Dormitory at the State Juvenile Training School

Photograph of the small boys dormitory at the State Juvenile Training School in Gatesville, Texas. The dorm is two-stories tall with white-trimmed windows and a short awning over the front door. Above the door is the word, "DORMITORY".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

State Cadet Battalion Marching

Photograph of the State Cadet Battalion marching. The young men are in uniform and lined up on a paved road. Most of the young men are holding guns except for a group of boys at the front holding instruments and a man on a horse. In the background are several large buildings and trees. In the foreground is a large circle of plants. Written across the bottom of the photograph is, "State Cadet Battalion on the March."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Galveston, Texas After Storm in 1915

Photograph of Galveston, Texas after a storm. In the foreground on the right is a large pile of debris, mostly wooden beams. On the left side of the frame is a man walking beside a building with a covered sidewalk. On the awning it reads, "Cafe Hotel, Seawall Cafe". Further down the sidewalk are more buildings and a few people on the wet sidewalk. On the right side in the background are parked cars.
Date: 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Street Scene in Ft. Worth, Texas

Photograph of a street scene in Ft. Worth, Texas. The street has trolley tracks, old cars and horse-drawn buggies. Tall commercial buildings line the road and there are street lamps and people on the sidewalks. A sign on the left side of the frame reads, "CAFE". The building on the right has "F & M Nat'l Bank Building" on it and has been identified as the Hoxie Building located at 714 Main St. Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wood Burning Engine on the Texas and St. Louis Railway

Photograph of an old wood-burning locomotive, the "John Krauss" of the Texas and St. Louis Railway, also known as the Cotton Belt Route. This engine pulled the first train on the Tyler Tap Railroad.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas and Pacific Railway Terminal

Photograph of the Texas and Pacific Terminal at Main and Front Streets in Fort Worth, Texas taken from a postcard. It opened on Dec 16, 1889. The red brick building with a fountain in a foreground was designed by architect O.H. Lang. It served Fort Worth until 1931, when a new larger terminal opened.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

Views of the Texas and Pacific Railway in Fort Worth, Texas

Photograph with various railroad scenes from Fort Worth Texas. Included are pictures of the T&P Railway station's exterior, interior and round house. Also included is a view of the Santa Fe Union Station's exterior, a Texas Cowboy on a horse, and the Diminutive Perfect Locomotive built by R.S. Costan.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

LFD Ranch

Photograph of cowboys catching horses on the LFD Ranch near Midland. The cowboys stand holding ropes near a large herd of horses. A pile of fire wood is next to the cooking pots on the right of the photo.
Date: 1890~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cowboys Having Dinner at Unknown Ranch

Photograph of ten cowboys having dinner on a ranch near Clarendon, Texas in May 1904. Most of them sit on the ground to eat.
Date: May 1904
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cowboys at the Bar S Ranch

Photograph of cowboys dancing to a fiddle at the Bar S Ranch which was located in Reagan and Irion Counties out in west Texas. A wagon and building stand in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cowboys Chapping another Cowboy on the Bar S Ranch

Photograph of eleven cowboys on the Bar S Ranch located in the west Texas counties of Reagan and Irion. The men appear to be horsing around after work, giving one man a "chapping." The cowboy on his stomach is restrained while the man on the far right prepares to strike him with the leather chaps laying over his shoulder.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Street scene in Haskell]

Photograph of a street scene in 1905 Haskell, Texas. There are various stores and other places of business on the street.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men near gallows]

Photograph of four men standing near the gallows. Jim Toots and Joe McMillan are shown along with two other men.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History