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Directory of the City of Fort Worth 1907-08 (open access)

Directory of the City of Fort Worth 1907-08

Directory for Fort Worth, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "the Present State, County and City Governments, County Officials of Texas, Giving Date of Organization of of Each County as also County Seat; List of Counties, Judicial Districts, District Judges and Clerks, and Time of Holding Courts in all Counties in Texas; Representative, Senatorial, Congressional and Supreme Judicial Districts; Court of Civil Appeals, Court of Criminal Appeals, U.S. Judicial District and U.S. Circuit Courts, where Returnable; a Complete List of all Postoffices and money Order Offices in Texas; also an Index of Societies, Associations, Churches, Corporations, Educational Institutes; Full Name and Address of all Residents, Their Occupations or Pursuits, and a Complete Classified Business Directory, also a Valuable Street and Avenue Guide, Numerically Arranged."
Date: 1907
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy Directory Co.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Second Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church South (open access)

Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Second Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church South

Journal proceedings of Central Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, reports of boards and committees, appointments, memoirs, statistical tables, and advertisements. Indexes to the journal and advertisements are on page 98.
Date: November 1911
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Session of The Northwest Texas Conference, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Forth Worth, Texas, November 11 to November 16, 1903. (open access)

Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Session of The Northwest Texas Conference, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Forth Worth, Texas, November 11 to November 16, 1903.

Minutes of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the conferences, condensed minutes, resolutions, reports from committees, selected biographies, and statistical tables.
Date: November 1903
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Street Scene in Ft. Worth, Texas

Photograph of a street scene in Ft. Worth, Texas. The street is full of horse-drawn buggies, a boy on a bicycle, and a trolley. Lining the street are electricity and telephone poles and tall commercial buildings. There is a sign on a building on the right side of the street that reads, "Ticket Office" and another that reads, "Hotel Worth".
Date: unknown
Creator: Smith Photo Co.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston Street Looking North in Ft. Worth, Texas c. 1907

Photograph of Houston Street looking North in Ft. Worth, Texas. In the center of the street is a boy riding a bicycle between trolley tracks towards trolleys and horse-drawn buggies. On either side of the street are tall buildings with signs such as, "Lyric Theatre", "A.J. Anderson Co Gun Store" and "Hotel Melba". Lining the street are telephone and electric poles. This photo is dated 1907 or later because the Flatiron building, constructed in 1907 can be seen on the left.
Date: 1907~
Creator: Smith Photo Co.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Street Scene in Ft. Worth, Texas

Photograph of a street in Ft. Worth, Texas. The street is dirt and inlaid with trolley tracks with a trolley. On either side of the street are one and two-story commercial buildings with "Drug Store" painted on one of them. On the road are horse-drawn buggies and people. In the foreground are electric poles.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ft. Worth Street Scene

Photograph of a street in Ft. Worth, Texas. The street is inlaid with trolley tracks with a trolley on them. On either side of the street are businesses and boardwalks with people on them. Lining the boardwalk are horses and horse-drawn buggies and in the foreground is a street lamp and an electric pole. Written at the top of the building on the right side of the frame is, "Drug Store".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

7th Street Looking West, Ft. Worth, Texas

Photograph of 7th Street looking West in Ft. Worth, Texas. On the right side of the street is the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank with a clock over its doorway and many tall buildings next to it. Inlaid in the brick road are trolley tracks and overhead are electricity and telephone poles. On the road are many old cars, a horse-drawn buggy, and people.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

North Main Street, Ft. Worth, Texas, 1914

Photograph of North Main Street in Ft. Worth. The road is dirt with trolley tracks leading to trolleys in the center background. Lining the road are electricity and telephone poles and wires. Behind those are buildings and trees. Written across the bottom of the photograph is, "North Main St. from foot of Padlock Viaduct Looking North."
Date: 1914
Creator: Smith Photo Co.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Main Street Looking North, Ft. Worth, Texas

Photograph of Main Street looking North in Ft. Worth, Texas. On the left side of the street is the Ft. Worth National Building which is many stories tall and has other business signs in the upper windows, such as, "Dr. J.T. Edwards DENTIST". There are several buildings next to the bank leading north towards the Courthouse. On the right side of the street are more businesses, and on the right side of the frame is a street light and two signs, one that says, "DRUGS" and "$15". The street is lined with trolley tracks, horse-drawn buggies, old cars and people, mostly men dressed in black with hats.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Main Street in Ft. Worth, Texas

Photograph of Main Street in Ft. Worth, Texas. There are several very tall brick buildings lining the street, most of them with signs. The building on the right side of the frame has an entryway with pillars, a clock and a tall smokestack on the roof. A building on the left has an American flag on the roof. In the street are old cars, some horse-drawn buggies, and people. There are also people on the sidewalks and vending carts. Written on the photograph is, "Main Street City".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston Street on Market Day in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1877

Photograph of Houston Street on Market Day in Ft. Worth, Texas. The frame is full of covered-wagons, horses, parcels and piles of goods, and many men and boys, most in dark jackets and cowboy hats. In the background are many business with signs.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

The 1911 Majestic Theater in Fort Worth

Photograph of Commerce Street in Ft. Worth, Texas. The Majestic Theater is in the center of the frame with many signs and posters on it. Some read, "The St. Louis Limited. Road Through The Ozarks. Frisco Lines" Another poster reads, "Majestic, Venus, Alpha Sextette". This is Fort Worth's second Majestic Theater, built in 1911. Next to the theater is a building with awnings and a sign that reads, "Fisk Tires, Gasoline". Telephone poles and wires and horse-drawn buggies line the road.
Date: 1911?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Commerce Street Scene in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1888

Aerial photograph of Ft. Worth at Commerce Street in 1888. In the center is a large strip of buildings, homes and businesses, surrounded with dirt roads and more homes across those streets. A store on the right corner of the black has a sign that reads, "Black Smith Shop". In the foreground are dirt trakcs, a telephone pole, and a few horse-drawn wagons.
Date: 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mrs. T.C. Bunch, Mayfest, Ft. Worth, Texas in 1895

Photograph of Mrs. T.C. Bunch standing in front of a white horse attached to a decorated carriage. She is wearing white dresses with puffy sleeves, a sash, holding a fan and has a bow in her hair. She is looking at an elderly man who is holding the reins of the horse in one hand and a cowboy hat in the other. Behind the horse and buggy are stairs leading to an open room with streamers in the windows. Across the top of the door are the words, "Mayfest '95".
Date: 1895
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 building is several stories tall with arched windows a balcony full of people. It is surrounded by a sidewalk and brick road that is full of horse-drawn carriages and groups of men, women and children. The men are wearing hats and the women are wearing dresses. Painted near the roof of the building is, "Hotel". Typed at the bottom of the photograph is, "Hotel Worth - Fort Worth, Texas."
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Parade for President Theodore Roosevelt]

Photograph of a parade taking place in the middle of a busy street. Several men and women line the street as soldiers march by the onlookers.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Parade for President Theodore Roosevelt]

Photograph of a parade taking place in the middle of a busy street. Several men and women line the street as men riding horses, men on foot, and President Theodore Roosevelt riding in a carriage pass by the onlookers.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Parade for President Theodore Roosevelt]

Photograph of a parade taking place in the middle of a busy street. Several men and women line the street as men riding horses, men on foot, and President Theodore Roosevelt riding in a carriage pass by the onlookers.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Parade for President Theodore Roosevelt]

Photograph of a parade taking place in the middle of a busy street. Several men and women line the street as men riding horses, men on foot, and President Theodore Roosevelt riding in a carriage pass by the onlookers. Handwritten on the back of the photograph is, "This picture was taken while Rosevelt was president and the soldiers in parade were Spanish-American War Veterans."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Parade for President Theodore Roosevelt]

Photograph of a parade taking place in the middle of a busy street. Several men and women line the street as men riding horses, men on foot, and President Theodore Roosevelt riding in a carriage pass by the onlookers. Printed on the lower side of the photograph is "President Roosvelt at FT. Worth, Tex. 4-8-05" and "Wade & Harmon Photo Dallas, Tex."
Date: unknown
Creator: Wade & Harmon Photo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Teddy Roosevelt Visits Fort Worth]

Photograph of a large crowd surrounding President Theodore Roosevelt as he gives his farewell address from the back of a train. Printed on the lower right hand corner of the photograph is, "Preident Roosvelt's Farewell Address, FT. Worth, Tex. 4-8-05, & D.R.R., Wade & Harmon Photo, Dallas, Tex., Copyright applied for."
Date: unknown
Creator: Wade & Harmon Photo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[A Handwritten Note] (open access)

[A Handwritten Note]

A copy of a handwritten note. The note reads, "T.W. Wren made 1898- Summer in old Bob Maddox Pasture on Sycamore Creek last of Fort Worth, Mrs. T.W. Wren in buggy."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from A. Parks to Milton, April 29 1888] (open access)

[Letter from A. Parks to Milton, April 29 1888]

Letter from A. Parks to Milton Parks. The letter is dated April 29, 1888.
Date: April 29, 1888
Creator: Parks, A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History