First unit, Alice Landergin School, Amarillo, Texas

Photograph of Alice Landergin elementary school in Amarillo, Texas, probably taken soon after the building was completed. The building is of brick and has a clay tile roof. It has three decorative arched doorways and a decorative band around the building. In front of the building is the flagpole. The architect of the school, Guy A. Carlander, is named on the verso.
Date: September 1928
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Marshall to R.A. Terrill, September 8, 1909] (open access)

[Letter from John Marshall to R.A. Terrill, September 8, 1909]

Letter from Texas state representative John Marshall, member of the committee to locate the new West Texas State Normal College, to R.A. Terrill of Canyon City, responding to a letter of thanks for the decision to locate the college in Canyon City.
Date: September 8, 1909
Creator: Marshall, John Wesley
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from A.B. Davidson to R.A. Terrill, September 2, 1909] (open access)

[Letter from A.B. Davidson to R.A. Terrill, September 2, 1909]

Letter from Texas Lieutenant Governor A.B. Davidson, chairman of the committee to locate the new West Texas State Normal College, to R.A. Terrill of Canyon City, informing him of the decision to locate the college in Canyon City.
Date: September 2, 1909
Creator: Davidson, Asbury Bascom
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College student and faculty picnic in Palo Duro Canyon]

Photograph of a group of students and faculty from West Texas State Normal College posing at a picnic in Palo Duro Canyon. The back of the photograph reads: "Dear Mamma: This is a photo of the Normal students, and teachers that attended the picnic at the canyon Sept. 26, 1910. There is crosses on some. Fair, Lortti & I are crossed. We are to the right. Guess you will find us. The man crossed right close in front & in the middle is Mr. Cousins. The one crossed at the top, above us girls is Mr. Lowry. The man & woman crossed on the left & to the top is Mr. Crawford & Miss Evans. The man crossed at the center & near the top is Mr. Allen, the walking geometry. Jessie."
Date: September 26, 1910
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd assemblng for cornerstone ceremony, West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of spectators gathered in and around a wooden grandstand for the cornerstone ceremony for the new West Texas State Normal College administration building. The grandstand is decorated with bunting, flags, and college pennants. Railroad tracks, constructed to allow delivery of building materials, run to one side of the grandstand, and a stationary train sits on the tracks in the background. A house and outbuildings are also visible in the background.
Date: September 15, 1915
Creator: Lusby, Maidens Stennett
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd assemblng for cornerstone ceremony, West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of spectators gathered for the cornerstone ceremony for the new West Texas State Normal College administration building. Several men stand on a platform facing the crowd. Several people are holding umbrellas and men wearing Masonic regalia are visible in the crowd. Several automobiles and a horse and buggy are parked behind the audience, and a saddled horse is hitched to a rail fence running along a roadway leading to the site. Houses and other buildings are visible in the background. The date of the event appears on the image.
Date: September 15, 1915
Creator: Lusby, Maidens Stennett
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Laying corner stone of the new West Texas State Normal College, Canyon, Tex., Sept. 15, 1915

Photograph of a crowd assembled for the laying of the cornerstone of the new West Texas State Normal College administration building. A group of Masons are performing a ceremony on a raised platform before the partially completed building while an assembled crowd watches from below and from various points on the building's framework.
Date: September 15, 1915
Creator: Lusby, Maidens Stennett
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cornerstone ceremony, West Texas State Normal College administration building]

Photograph of a crowd assembled for the laying of the cornerstone of the new West Texas State Normal College building. A group of Masons are performing a ceremony on a raised platform before the partially completed building while an assembled crowd watches from below and from various points on the building's framework.
Date: September 15, 1915
Creator: Lusby, Maidens Stennett
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Freshman picnic

Photograph of a group of male and female West Texas State Teachers College students and some adults posing in an outdoor setting, probably at Palo Duro Canyon. They are seated and standing on rock ledges with a hillside rising behind the group. Most of the women wear dresses and hats and most of the men wear coats and neckties.
Date: September 21, 1927
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History