[Side Exterior of 5328 Surrey Circle]

Photograph of 5328 Surrey Circle, in Dallas, Texas. This photograph is of the side exterior. The house has a low roof, a brick chimney, and tall windows. Hedges are planted between the sidewalk and the driveway, along the contours of the house. A Cadillac is parked under a canopy ceiling on a driveway.
Date: 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rear View of 5328 Surrey Circle]

Photograph of 5328 Surrey Circle, in Dallas, Texas. This photograph is of the rear view. The back of the house contains a plain grass lawn, accessible by a short set of stairs and demarcated from the house with short hedges and bushes. A young tree is planted behind the hedges, closer to the house. The house has tall windows, a short roof, and a brick chimney.
Date: 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Interior of 5328 Surrey Circle]

Photograph of the interior of 5328 Surrey Circle, Dallas, Texas. A living space is depicted through a rectangular arch opening, lined with wooden moulding. Inside the room are couches, framed portraits, a lamp set on a round desk, a cabinet, and a fireplace with a dark marble mantel. Outside the living room are two cushioned chairs on both sides of the arch doorway, decorated with figures set in relief in oval portrait frames hanging above them, and a small cabinet with a flower vase and a mirror at far left.
Date: 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Front of 5328 Surrey Circle]

Photograph of 5328 Surrey Circle in Dallas, Texas. This photograph is of the front exterior. The main entrance is at left, with a brick and stone walkway leading up to it as well as a small lamp to the left of the double doors. A short metal barrier decorated with flower and plant motifs is attached on the very short, elevated brick platform leading up to the house. A hedge is set in front of the main window at the front of the building, along which the stone walkway runs past. The roof is short and a chimney is visible in the background. Thick bushes are to the right of the house.
Date: 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Home of H. D. Fillers]

Photograph of the house of H. D. Fillers in Wichita Falls. The house is a simple, one-story suburban house, with a chimney, a doorway with a decorated entry, and two garage doors. Short trees and shrubs line the front of the building, and a large tree is partially visible at right. This photograph is addressed to Mrs. R. M. Packer.
Date: December 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Porch of 5328 Surrey Circle]

Photograph of 5328 Surrey Circle, Dallas, Texas. Depicted here is the porch behind the house, accessible by two dark-colored doors. A glass table, decorated with a small flower vase, is joined by six cushioned metal chairs. Cushioned furniture, including sofas and seats adjoined with smaller glass tables, is lined against the wall of the porch, which has a tiled stone floor. A short metal screen separates the porch from the rest of the back lawn.
Date: 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1951 Portrait of Marion Jackson Brooks]

Photograph of Marion Jackson "Jack" Brooks, a Fort Worth civil rights leader. He is pictured here around the time he completed his Doctor of Medicine at the Howard University School of Medicine, circa 195. He has eyeglasses, combed hair, and a suit and neck tie.
Date: 1951~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Midland Woman's Club, Rodeo Coffee]

Photograph of "rodeo coffee" meeting arranged by the Midland Woman's Club. Women with cowboy hats are seated behind a table with a selection of food and small cups throughout. Another row of women stand behind, looking towards the photographer. A list of names is written on the back of the photograph.
Date: July 1955
Creator: Birdwell, Joe V.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Midland County Sheriff's Posse]

Photograph of the Midland County sheriff's posse, depicted in two rows in front of a long stable-like wooden building. The back row stands and the front row sits below, and all men wear hats, a ribbon around their necks, and white shirts.
Date: 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Opening of First National Bank, Midland]

Photograph of the opening of the First National Bank in October 1959, on the corner of West Wall and Colorado Street. People stand, converse, and walk around the main lobby of the bank, where there are tables set up with flowers and stacked programs and sheets, as well as escalators moving up and down.
Date: October 1959
Creator: Rubin's Studio of Photography
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Downtown Midland at Night]

Photograph of downtown Midland at night, taken along the center of a street. Cars between the road, with moderately-tall buildings on both sides and power lines and Christmas lights hanging across the streets. The Crawford Hotel is partially visible on the left side of the street, and a building with a sign reading "THE OIL AND GAS BUILDING" is on the right side.
Date: 1959-12~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[North Main Street, Northeast View, 1950]

Photograph of the 100 block of North Main Street in Midland, along which are multiple storefronts and cars parked obliquely along the curb of the road. Some stores visible include the Dunlap Department Store and Ritz Theatre, (left), S&Q Clothiers, J. C. Penny, Freeman Shoes, and F. W. Woolworth (right). A group of people cross the road at center left.
Date: Summer 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[North Main Street, Southeast View, 1950]

Photograph of the 100 block of North Main Street in Midland, along which are multiple storefronts and cars parked obliquely along the curb of the road. Some stores visible include the S&Q Clothiers (left), Harris-Luckett Stores (center), Midland Hardware and Furniture Company (center, three-story building), and a jewelry store (right).
Date: 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Petroleum Building, Midland, 1959]

Photograph of the Petroleum Building in Midland, which has a Gothic-like facade with short spires and textured elements along the top edge of the building. Between each window are small ornamental relief pieces, and along the ground floor, the windows and entryways are widely arched with subtle and decorative tracery elements surrounding each arch. The similarly-styled Yucca Theater, to the north of the Petroleum Building, is far shorter but also has Gothic-like decoration along its front facade. Numerous cars are parked along the streets and in the parking lot in front of the Petroleum Building, which is for the county courthouse.
Date: 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mesquite Control Project Demonstration]

Photograph of of a mesquite control project demonstration, at "J.E. (Bob) Hill's Old Pan Place". Several workers and businessmen stand in front of a turned-up dirt field, construction equipment behind them.
Date: May 20, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Scharbauer Hotel and Wall Street, 1950]

Photograph of the Scharbauer Hotel and the 200 block of West Wall Street in Midland, along which are numerous storefronts and cars parked along the curb. The Scharbauer Hotel, the six-story building in the background, has a large sign bearing the hotel's name along the northwest corner of the structure. The storefronts contain a furniture store, a bowling alley (center), an office supply building (two-story building with the Masonic square and compasses symbol above the "1909" sign), and an office building (rightmost).
Date: 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial of Midland Memorial Hospital]

Aerial photograph of the Midland Hospital, the multistory building on Illinois Avenue at center-left. The curving road that spans the image is the Andrews Highway, along which are multiple buildings. A large baseball diamond is at right, down Illinois Avenue. Suburbs spread out across the background.
Date: [1950..1954]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Woods #1", Oil Well]

Photograph of industrial implements around a large oil well in Midland, Texas. Notes on the back indicate that the well is being re-fracked. Numerous trucks loaded with equipment are piped to each other in front of the well. Caption on the back: "Woods #1 5/56 Re-Frac. 40,000 gals @ 3# sd. Cost about $12,000. Tubing standing in work-over rig. Dowells 6 or $800,000 worth of equipment Not all equipment shown 4-500 Bbl. tanks not shown. Tank batter right hand (upper corner." [sic]
Date: May 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First National Bank Building Groundbreaking, 1957]

Photograph of the groundbreaking ceremony for the First National Bank building on the corner of Wall and Colorado streets in Midland. Two men, A.N. Hendrickson (left) and John P. Butler (right), bend down and hold shovels thrust into the dirt of an empty building lot, surrounded by a crowd of men in hats, ties, and suits. The Petroleum Building with its Shell sign is visible in the background. The men in the crowd, from left to right, are: E. B. Dickenson, Joe Crump, O. C. Harper, Foy Proctor, Frank Cowden, Mrs. M C. Ulmer, Dr. John B. Thomas, J. T. Baker, C. J. Kelly, Mrs. Clarence Scharbauer, Paul Davis, W. F. Hejl, Clarence Scharbauer, Jr., a contract member, Jack Wood (assistant architect), and George Dahl (main architect).
Date: June 25, 1957
Creator: Frank Miller Studio
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Junior Department, Rockwall First Baptist Church]

Photograph of the junior department in the Rockwall First Baptist Church, seated together in fours in a small room. Two rows of adults stand in the back. Numerous children make up the front four rows, smiling and facing the camera. A paper attached to the back numbers and identifies the people in the image.
Date: January 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rockwall First Baptist Pastor Class Deacons, 1955]

Photograph of the deacon body and a class of pastors of the Rockwall First Baptist Church in 1955. Several men, dressed in suits and arranged in two rows, are seated on couches and chairs in a decorated room.
Date: 1955~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Midland County Sheriff's Posse, On Horseback]

Photograph of the Midland County sheriff's posse on horseback, depicted in three rows on a large fenced-in field. Each officer wears hats, a ribbon around their necks, and white shirts.
Date: 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ralph W. Thornton with His 1954 Ford Sunliner]

Photograph of Ralph W. Thornton posing with his coupe, possibly a 1954 Ford Sunliner, parked in the driveway of his house. He leans against the passenger-side door and smiles widely, suburban homes visible behind him.
Date: November 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Visitors in Botanic Garden Maze]

Photograph of visitors in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden hedge maze. Three adults are accompanied by a child and walk along a hedge wall. An empty barrel and a small wooden covering is beside them. An advertisement billboard and a streetlight is visible behind the hedges. The former site of the hedge maze is currently occupied by the botanical garden's vegetable garden.
Date: 1956~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History