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[Train Engine and Car - Silvis, Illinois]

Photograph of a train engine and attached car on railroad tracks, viewed from a front side angle. Text is visible on the side of the car. Additional tracks lay to the side in front. Handwritten text below the image says, "Silvis, Ill. May 25th 1924 (ex T&P #552)."
Date: May 25, 1924
Creator: Carlson, R. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Howard Wood Building]

Photograph of the Howard Wood building. It is a two-story building on the corner of a city block. There are power lines in front of the building. There is a sign on the pole at the corner that says "R. F. Ball, General Contractor, First National Bank Room 28."
Date: May 1924
Creator: Winkelmann's Studio
System: The Portal to Texas History

1924 Confirmation Class

Photograph of the 1924 Danevang Ansgar Lutheran Church confirmation class, consisting of a group of adolescent boys and girls. They are standing on the front steps of the church, wearing formal attire and separated into rows by gender, with the girls in the front and the boys in the back. Additionally, there is an unidentified man behind the boys standing in front of a set of double doors. The girls, from left to right, have been identified as Marie Brodsgaard, Dagny M. Hansen, Ester Juhl, and Esther Knudsen. The boys have been identified from left to right as Hans F. Hansen, Ejolf Larsen Wind, J. C. Theodor Jensen, Harry Lauritsen, and Eddie Petersen.
Date: May 25, 1924
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

1924 Confirmation Class

Photograph of the 1924 Danevang Ansgar Lutheran Church confirmation class, consisting of a group of adolescent boys and girls separated into two rows. The back row is composed of the boys, who wear similar dark three-piece suits. The front row consists of the girls, who wear light-colored dresses. Their hair has been styled in short bobs. Names have been provided, but have been matched properly in another photograph where they were in different positions (see note).
Date: May 25, 1924
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Battle of Flowers]

Photograph of the Battle of Flowers parade in San Antonio. A group of women in white is sitting atop a float being pulled by horses down a crowded street. The man at the bottom center, smiling into the camera is William Donald Stephenson.
Date: May 1924
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Knights of Columbus Initiation]

Photograph of a large group of unidentified men posing sitting and standing in two rows on a lawn in front of a large multi-story building. The men are wearing suits and ties and holding hats and a man in the back row on the far right is holding a large American flag. In the background several other buildings and trees are visible and a handwritten note on the front of the photograph reads "Knights of Columbus. Initiation May 25- 1924."
Date: May 25, 1924
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of United States National Bank Building Construction, #12]

Photograph of the construction phase for the United States National Bank Building. Construction workers work in a large a steel beam structure with people walking along the street. Wood structures and building materials are placed a long the construction barrier with established buildings in the background.
Date: 1924-05~
Creator: Westlake Construction Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of United States National Bank Building Construction, #13]

Photograph of the construction phase for the United States National Bank Building. Construction workers work in the large lot with a steel beam structure with people walking along the street. Wood structures and building materials are placed a long the construction barrier with established buildings in the background.
Date: May 10, 1924
Creator: Westlake Construction Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

Nurses Alumnae Baquet

Handwritten title: "Nurses Alumnae Baquet May 7-1924 Episcaple Parish House." Photo in a dining room with the well-dressed group sitting at a large square table, 34 women and 2 men. Each person is numbered. On the side is the list of their names.
Date: May 7, 1924
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History