Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0256]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mayor elect George Roy Clough (standing) thinks it will be a good idea to make Galveston, Tex. a wide open town in order to attract tourist's."
Date: May 14, 1955
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[M.W. Grand Lodge of Texas Representatives]

Photograph of seven men standing together by a brick wall at the Clear Creek High School dedication. They are representatives, or Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of the M.W. Grand Lodge of Texas and their duties are to confer dedicatory services. A few of them have masonic aprons tied around their waist. A handwritten note on the back provides a thorough narrative of the subjects.
Date: November 12, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd Inside T.A. Kilgore Grocery Store]

Photograph of a crowd of customers inside the T.A. Kilgore Grocery Store in League City. Several people are leaned over a counter on the left. To the right, a young boy is standing in an empty metal shopping cart.
Date: 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Williams-Tucker House Photograph #1]

Photograph of the Williams-Tucker House in Galveston, Texas.
Date: 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lipton tea factory production lines]

Photograph of the Lipton tea factory in Galveston, Texas, and the workers on the production assembly line. The woman in the foreground is setting up the production line with the lipton boxes, the two women in the back are packaging the lipton boxes in larger boxes for shipment.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Finished tea flows on conveyor belt]

Photograph of finished tea flows from the blending department moving on a conveyor belt in the tea factory in Galveston, Texas.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lipton tea worker filling tea boxes]

Photograph of a Lipton tea worker seated at a square table and counting out the tea bags to added to the tea boxes for shipment, each box contains 100 tea bags. This facility is located in Galveston, Texas.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lipton workers packaging tea boxes]

Photograph of Lipton tea workers in the tea factory in Galveston, Texas. Two women in the foreground can be seen holding Lipton tea boxes and putting them into larger boxes to be shipped out. Other workers can be seen around the facility doing their own portion of the production line job.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[System of conveyors and spiral chutes]

Photograph of Lipton's air-conditioned tea factory in Galveston, Texas, with their conveyors and spiral chutes that carries the finished tea production from the production line for warehouse storage.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Raw tea passing through cutting machine]

Photograph of a Lipton tea worker standing next to a cutting machine, where raw tea passes from the machine into the large mixing drums that can hold over a thousand-pounds of raw tea. This facility is located in Galveston, Texas.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lipton tea worker opening crate]

Photograph of a Lipton tea worker opening a crate of raw tea in their warehouse facility as it was transferred to the tea factory in Galveston, Texas.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Workers in Lipton Tea factory]

Photograph of four women seated around a square table and filling Lipton Tea boxes with the tea bags in the tea bag production line. A fifth women is standing by the large machine that is moving the tea bags at the end of their table, and holding one of the cartons. This facility is located in Galveston, Texas.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lipton Tea building exterior]

Photograph of the Lipton Tea building exterior in Galveston, Texas.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Women workers at Lipton production]

Photograph of two women workers standing at a high-speed Lipton machines during the Lipton tea production at the Galveston, Texas facility.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Woman holding tea samples]

Photograph of a Lipton tea worker holding up aluminum containers of tea samples and examining the leaves within the container. This facility is located in Galveston, Texas.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lipton's high-speed packing machines]

Photograph of a woman worker, employed with Lipton seen standing next to one of Lipton's high-speed packaging machines in the middle of their facility in Galveston, Texas. Multiple Lipton cartons can be seen on the conveyor belt as the women inspects them.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Chauncey D. Leake and Elizabeth Leake]

Photograph of Dr. Chauncey D. Leake and his wife Elizabeth standing in front of a memorial bust at the University of Texas Medical Branch, around the time Dr. Leake resigned from his position as Executive Director at UTMB.
Date: August 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dr. Chauncey D. Leake and Elizabeth Leake]

Photograph of Dr. Chauncey D. Leake and his wife Elizabeth at their home in Galveston, Texas. Both are seated on either side of a garden table with a potted plant on top.
Date: 1955~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Commencement Excercises, University of Texas Medical Branch, June 3, 1955]

Photograph of UTMB Commencement Exercises on June 3rd, 1955. At center, Dr. Chauncey D. Leake shakes hands with student Melvyn Schriber on an auditorium stage, while a man stands behind them at a table with rolled diplomas on it. D. Bailey Calvin stands at a microphone in the background, while at least 26 other faculty and guests are seated onstage, and at least six students wait in line at the stage's edge. All except three are wearing graduation robes. A young girl is visible in a gallery at top-left, and a piano is in front of the stage at bottom-left. On the photo's reverse is an address, taped over which is a descriptive note.
Date: June 3, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a close-up of Angleton grass that has been grazed properly. Note even the grazing of the grass. TX-163-1.
Date: August 24, 1955
Creator: Huckabee, DeWitt
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History