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[600 W. Campbell]

Photograph of the front and side of a one-story green house with white trim, located at 600 W. Campbell in Palestine, Texas.
Date: June 1991
Creator: Hardy, Heck, Moore
System: The Portal to Texas History

Beach Front Scene

Copy photograph of a beach front scene in Casablanca, Morocco. Visible are several swimmers, water slides and a tall clock. In the background is a building labeled, "Brasserie Restaurant." There are several children sitting near the water.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Book open to photograph of Valère basilica]

Photograph of an easel holding a book open to show two pictures of landscapes of the municipality of Sion in Switzerland. On the right is a picture of Valère basilica, a fortified church on a hill. The captions for the two pictures are in French and German.
Date: April 6, 1950
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cafe Royal

Only a caption on the photograph identifies it as the Cafe Royal. This building that houses it, on the N.W. corner of NW 1st Avenue and 3rd Streets, was known as the W.E. Mayes Building. Upstairs rooms were rented under the name of the "Carlsbad Hotel" in recognition of the nearby Carlsbad Drinking Pavilion at the opposite (or NE) corner of the block: 700 NW 2nd Avenue. (The first edition of "Time Was in Mineral Wells", page 105, identifies it as the Wells Hotel.)
Date: 1900?
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carcassone Cemetery]

Photograph of a cemetery in Carcassone, France. In the foreground, two angels sit atop a tomb decorated with crucifixes and a book. Another grave is partially visible on the left side. The fortified city wall is visible in the background behind the graves.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Le Chaperon Rouge]

Photographs of "Le Chaperon rouge" (The Red Riding Hood), held by UNT Special Collections. The cover of the book contains an illustration framed an intricate gold frame. The illustration is of a young girl with red cap and dress, holding a basket filled with goodies. In front of her is a wolf. They are standing in the woods, the title at the top. Image 2, illustration of the young girl in red, retracting with a scared look from the wolf wearing a night cap in front of her in the bedroom they're in. The page on the left of it contains text with a sketch of a wolf in the top left and a sketch of the girl and wolf on the bottom right.
Date: March 2, 2020
Creator: Gellner, Megan
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Charlyne Creger, Woman, and Strawberry Man]

Photograph of Charlyne Creger wearing a blue checkered blouse and white shorts (center) with an unidentified woman wearing a short-sleeved blouse and shorts (left), and a man in a hat and white shirt selling strawberries from a box that reads "Louisiana Strawberries" (right). On the left the silhouettes of several people and a carriage in an alley are visible in the background and on the right part of a sign that reads "chateau" can be seen.
Date: June 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

['Les Chats' title page]

Photograph of the title page of the book 'Les Chats' by François Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif. Beneath the title is a crest-like illustration, possibly by Anne-Claude-Philipe de Tubieres. Beneath that is text that reads "A Paris, Chez Gabriel-François Quillau; Fils, Imp. Lib. Jur. de l'Univesité, rue Galande, à l'Annonciation. M. DCC. XXVII. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roy."
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Cotton Baling Inside Mill]

Two near-identical images of a cotton baling press in use at a mill. A bale is at the front and a man is standing just behind it at left, near the machinery. There is a blur where the man moved during the exposure. Descriptive text printed below the images in the lower-right corner: "7722- Baling Cotton--a powerful press just releasing a 500-lb. bale--at a mill in Texas." The same text is printed on the back in six languages
Date: 1905
Creator: Sun Sculpture Works and Studios
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Echoes of France]

Photographs of "Echoes of France" by Amy Robbins Ware, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is dark blue with a rubricated title and illustration enclosed in a black-stamped frame. Image 2, inscription on inside of cover written in pencil. On the left page is a stamped design. This image in Echoes from France by Amy Robbins Ware, an American nurse in France during WWI, demonstrates the kind of tensions generated by the coexistence of photographs and text. Image 3, pages 40 and 41. The page on the left has a black and white photo of a woman in a dress and gas mask, the page on the right a poem titled "J'attends, C'est la Guerre." Although the book contains no photographs of abject gore, it does feature this photo of a woman with a gas mask as a haunting reminder of such horror and an effacement of the familiar, such that the woman now wears the large dark eyes and proboscis reminiscent of insect life. The text at the bottom works against the tone of estrangement by way of the domesticating rhetoric of “little tin derby” in the place of “helmet.” The diminutive qualifier is not supported by the …
Date: October 12, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Engraving and text in 'Les Chats']

Photograph of the book "Les Chats" by François Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, resting in a cradle with the pages held open to a fold-out, full-page engraving done by Anne-Claude-Philipe de Tubieres. Some of the cats in the engraving are dressed as humans would be during the time-period while others are in the posture of everyday cats. They are in a scene on the roof of a building. The page next to it is in French and includes footnotes for the text.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Engraving in 'Les Chats']

Photograph of an engraving in the book "Les Chats" by François Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif. The engraving is a fold-out, full-page piece done by Anne-Claude-Philipe de Tubieres. Some of the cats in the engraving are dressed as humans would be during the time-period while others are in the posture of everyday cats. They are in a scene on the roof of a building. The pages are held open with a clear, plastic band.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Fire Station 8's Assistant Chief's Fire Engine]

Photograph of 4 uniformed firefighters standing in front of the Assistant Chief's fire engine. From left to right, the firefighters are: Clay, Watson, Cody, and Chief Meador. The fire engine is parked in the driveway of Dallas Fire Station 8, a brick building which is just barely visible on the left of the photograph. There are several trees beyond the fire engine, and beyond those, a residential neighborhood is visible. There are two small holes in the top of the photograph, one on the left and one on the right, as well as a yellow sticky note on the back, giving information about the photo.
Date: 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[French Club Parade Float]

Photograph of the French Club float in the Midwestern University parade in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The float is labeled, "Le Cercle Francais." A large crowd is gathered on both sides of the street watching the parade as it passes in downtown Wichita Falls.
Date: unknown
Creator: Cochran, Jimmy W.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Group of Veterans and Wives at Besançon, France]

Photograph of a group of veterans with their wives seated in wooden chairs around a table in an unidentified room. Behind them, a pair of double doors (right) has restroom signs above it and a n advertisement for "Tropico" is on the wall (left); empty tables are partially visible in front of the group. Handwritten text on the back of the photo says: "Besançon 4-22-85. Waiting for TGV to Paris."
Date: April 22, 1985
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group Portrait in Front of Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel]

Photograph of a large group of uniformed soldiers posing in several lines in front of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, with those in the front crouching down and others standing in loose lines behind them.
Date: 1939~/1945~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Henri Matisse, Jazz]

Photographs of Henri Matisse's "Jazz", held by UNT Special Collections. Jazz is a series of works by artist Henri Matisse, which shows circus scenes cut out of colored paper. This is the first example of Matisse working in this way, which would eventually be his main method of creating art. The cover contains the title in pink lettering, and one of his works on the right with different blocks of color. Image 2, the page shown is titled “Nightmare of the White Elephant” and shows a circus elephant performing a trick. Matisse described the elephant as dreaming of his long-lost childhood in the jungle, with the red flames symbolizing his anguish.
Date: November 27, 2017
Creator: Sylve, Joshua & Merrill, Jeffery
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jean de Lattre Wearing Dress Uniform]

Photograph of Jean de Lattre wearing a dress uniform with metallic buttons, ribbons over his left breast pocket, and patches along his left shoulder. He is wearing a kepi hat with a thin brim.
Date: February 1945
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Johny L'accordéoniste

Advertisement for L'accordéoniste on one side, and Club des Barbus [Bearded] in Brussels, Belgium on the other. Two men on either side of Johny are both wearing hats and long beards. The one on the left is holding a euphonium or similar instrument, while the one on the right is holding a bugle.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Kidd-Key College building]

Photograph of a Kidd-Key College building in Sherman, Texas. The building is red in color. Several of the building's windows can be seen. Trees and shrubs can be seen around the building.
Date: 197X
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lamar Fleming Jr. seated at formal breakfast with unidentified men]

Lamar Fleming Jr. (third from left) seated at formal breakfast with unidentified men, partion doors and sign reading "Rue des Patisseries" in background.
Date: 1953~
Creator: Bourdon, Edward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lions Basketball 5]

Photograph of a basketball game in progress. Opposing team player "40" is shooting the basketball into the net. Lion players can be seen in front of player "40."
Date: unknown
Creator: Cochran, Jimmy W.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Man outdoors with camera

Photograph of a man standing outdoors, holding a camera. The sign for "Plage Miami" may situate this photo in Nice, France.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A medallion depicting a man with a scythe]

Photograph of a medallion depicting a man with a scythe. The man is depicted as having a long beard and wearing a partially open robe as he holds an hourglass in his left hand and a scythe in his right. Along the right edge of the medallion are the words "L'amour fait passer le temps."
Date: 195X
Creator: Rogers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library