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1963 Easter Sunday Presbyterian children

Photograph of children. Photograph of eight children from the Van Horn Presbyterian Church of Van Horn, TX on Easter Sunday, April 14, 1963. Front row-Biff Bell, ? Wychel, Ann Sourmore, Mildred Noron. Back row-Betty McMorris, ? McMorris, Barbara Noron, Kim Bell.
Date: April 14, 1963
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People washing cars at Joe's Quick Car Wash]

A view from across a street of Joe's Quick Car Wash. There are two men washing a car to the left. A bus is approaching on the right. A man is waiting at the bus stop.
Date: May 14, 1954
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sharyland party at Shary Yacht Club - Port Isabel, Lower Rio Grande Valley of Tex.

Excursion party posing in front of the Shary Yacht club
Date: October 14, 1931
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Street car, Matamoros, Mexico]

Postcard of a streetcar drawn by a mule or donkey. The streetcar is being pulled along a track in the center of a street that is bordered by buildings. The picture shows Matamoros, Mexico across the border from Brownsville, Texas. There is a letter on the back of the postcard addressed to "Miss Maria Sanchy" from "E. M." that reads, "Ni la ausencia y la distancia, ni el tiempo de no [v]erte; por ningunas sircustancias he de dejar de quererte, yours for ever." (Loosely: "Neither the absence and the distance, nor the time since I have seen you; under no circumstances have I stopped loving you.")
Date: August 14, 1911
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three men and a woman dressed in formal attire at an airport]

Four people wearing formal wear at an airport. There are three men dressed in suits and one woman wearing a dress. A man and a woman in the group are conversing about an object that they are both holding. There is a plane in the background labeled "Braniff Internation Airways." A woman and a young boy are leaning against a railing in the background.
Date: May 14, 1961
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Wedding Invitation for Shirley Townsend and Mr. Murray Courtney Howell] (open access)

[Wedding Invitation for Shirley Townsend and Mr. Murray Courtney Howell]

Invitation to the wedding of Shirley Jeannine Townsend to Murray Courtney Howell. (Handwriting on the front of the invitation) Courtney was my godson. I baptised his elder Bro while Vicar of Escondido, California. in 1924-25 - Wm. Blackshear. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.
Date: July 14, 1951
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History