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[Photograph of El Paso Union Station]

Photograph of the El Paso, Texas Union Station Amtrak waiting area, with several benches below the tall ceiling and windows high on the walls.
Date: 2013
Creator: Latimer, Rosa Walston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of El Paso Union Station Tower]

Photograph of the El Paso, Texas Union Station tower exterior.
Date: 2013
Creator: Latimer, Rosa Walston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Fred Harvey Bar Entrance]

Photograph of the original entrance to Fred Harvey Bar at Union Station in El Paso, Texas. The entrance is a wooden doorway that extends from the wall.
Date: 2013
Creator: Latimer, Rosa Walston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Harvey Girl Uniform]

Photograph of a staged Harvey Girl bedroom with a uniform displayed next to a dresser with a mirror on top, taken at the Brownwood, Texas Harvey House.
Date: 2009
Creator: Latimer, Rosa Walston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Harvey Girls]

Photograph of Manie Kopisch and Marie Ozment, both wearing Harvey Girl uniforms, standing near a garden outside of a building.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Harvey Girls of El Paso Re-enactment Group]

Photograph of eight women dressed in black clothes with white aprons, all part of the Harvey Girls of El Paso re-enactment group.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Harvey House Cook and Harvey Girl]

Photograph of a Harvey House cook standing outside of a building with a Harvey Girl, both wearing uniforms as employees of the Somerville Harvey House. They have been identified at Dee Mackey (left) and Annie Mabel Sexton (right).
Date: [1901..1940]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Harvey House Dining Room]

Photograph of the stenciled details on the walls of the dining room in the Brownwood, Texas Harvey House.
Date: 2009
Creator: Latimer, Rosa Walston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Maxine Cockerell Wilson Johnson and Harold Wilson]

Photograph of Maxine Cockerell Wilson Johnson and Harold Wilson of Canadian, Texas standing outside with a horse between them. Maxine is wearing a Harvey House uniform.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Mrs. Laura Worsham]

Photograph of Mrs. Laura Worsham, who lived at the Temple Harvey House as a newlywed, at 98 years old sitting on a couch with a dog next to her.
Date: 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Prestene Dehrkoop and Jose Ornales]

Photograph of Prestene Dehrkoop of the El Paso Harvey Girl group wearing a black dress with a white apron, sitting next to Jose Ornales, a former salad boy at the El Paso Harvey House.
Date: 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Slaton Harvey House Dining Room]

Photograph of the dining room of the Slaton Harvey House, with ceiling fans suspended from the tall ceiling and several long tables set with silverware and menus.
Date: [1912..1942]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Slaton Harvey House Dining Room]

Photograph of the dining room of the Slaton Harvey House, with ceiling fans suspended from the tall ceiling and several long tables set with silverware and menus.
Date: [1912..1942]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Slaton Harvey House Interior]

Photograph of the interior of the dining room of Slaton Harvey House, with the tables set and a man standing behind a counter under a "cashier" sign.
Date: [1912..1942]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Slaton Harvey House Interior]

Photograph of the interior of the Slaton Harvey House dining room, with pictures on the walls and a sign that says "Fred Harvey."
Date: [1912..1942]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Slaton Harvey House Interior abd Harvey Girls]

Photograph of the interior of the dining room of Slaton Harvey House, with Harvey Girls in uniform setting the tables.
Date: [1912..1942]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Slaton Harvey House Staff]

Photograph of a group of men and women from the Slaton Harvey House, most in Harvey House uniforms, with a family of husband, wife, and child sitting in the front row. They are identified as (left to right) front row: W. H. Bowman, manager, Virginia Bowman, Mrs. W. H. Bowman, N. A. Miller, W. O. Shelton, F. L. Wells, and H. T. Carr, and back row: Ira McCarver, Jimmy McCarver, John Shelton, Roybe Hill, Cleo Wolf, Jo Short, Verna Tabor, Mable Reno, and Blanche Tabor.
Date: [1912..1942]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Somerville Harvey House and Employees]

Photograph of the Santa Fe Somerville Depot Harvey House Restaurant and Hotel, with Harvey Girls and other employees standing on the porch outside of the two-story building. According to a typed note on the photograph, the restaurant was at the north end of the first floor of the depot, with the hotel on the second floor. The people in the photo are identified as, left to right, Mrs. Ella White (supervisor), Maggie Bell Mackey, Annie Huebner Tonn, Adline Balke, a maid, Bessie Balke, Dee Mackey, Mrs. Ed Mackey, Ello Woods, Wilson Woods, and Jessie Woods.
Date: 1913~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Somerville Harvey House Employees]

Photograph of employees of the Somerville Harvey House, three men and seven women all wearing uniforms.
Date: [1901..1940]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Temple Harvey House]

Photograph of three women and two men standing on the sidewalk in front of the Harvey House in Temple, Texas
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Windows in Brownwood Harvey House]

Photograph of stained-glass windows inside the Brownwood, Texas Harvey House.
Date: unknown
Creator: Latimer, Rosa Walston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard for "Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City"]

Postcard advertising an advanced screening of a PBS documentary: "Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City," in El Paso, Texas. Daniel Burnham designed the Union Depot Passenger Terminal and El Paso and Southwestern Freight Depot in El Paso, Texas.
Date: 2010~
Creator: KCOS-TV
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from Madge Saenz to Rosa Walston Latimer - February 11, 1992]

Post card from Madge Saenz of Galveston, Texas to Rosa Walston Latimer of Lubbock Texas, in which she talks about an upcoming Grand Canyon reunion.
Date: February 11, 1992
Creator: Saenz, Madge
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Questionnaire filled out by Cleo Wolf] (open access)

[Questionnaire filled out by Cleo Wolf]

Questionnaire created by Rosa Walston Latimer and filled out by Cleo Wolf with questions about the life and work of Harvey Girls at Harvey Houses. Included at the end is a note from Jo Delaney, also a former Harvey Girl.
Date: January 21, 1993
Creator: Latimer, Rosa Walston
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History