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

[Four Members of Palm Family by Water]

Photograph of four unidentified members of the Palm family, two women and two men, posing sitting and standing in front of large boulders on the side of a small body of water. The women are standing in the back and the men are sitting down by the water's edge. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.
Date: 1912-09-07/1912-09-08
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four Men by an Automobile]

Photograph of four unidentified male members of the Palm family wearing light-colored shirts, ties, and hats, posing standing in front of an automobile with a hill covered in shrubs in the background. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.
Date: 1912-09-07/1912-09-08
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four Men on Boulder]

Photograph of four unidentified members of the Palm family wearing light-colored shirts and ties sitting on top of a large boulder with smaller boulders in the foreground and plants and trees in the background; three of the four men's heads are cut off at the top of the photograph. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.
Date: 1912-09-07/1912-09-08
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four Men Sitting on Rock]

Photograph of four unidentified members of the Palm family wearing shirts, ties, and hats, sitting with their legs hanging off the front of a large rock; in the foreground the tops of trees are visible below them and more trees and the side of a cliff are visible in the background. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.
Date: 1912-09-07/1912-09-08
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lola and Bob and Baby]

Photograph of Lola and Bob with their baby; she is wearing a dark dress, coat, and hat and he is wearing a dark suit and hat and holding the baby, and there is a tree in the background.
Date: September 30, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lola and Bob's Baby]

Photograph of Lola and Bob's baby sitting on a carpet on the floor with a doll and other toys; a chair and two doors are visible in the background.
Date: September 30, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bob and Lola and Baby]

Photograph of Bob and Lola sitting with their baby in front of several trees; Lola is wearing a dark dress and sitting a chair on the left with the baby on her lap and Bob is wearing a suit and tie and sitting in a chair on the right.
Date: September 30, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bob and Lola with Baby]

Photograph of Bob and Lola sitting in a yard with their baby; Lola is wearing a dark dress and is sitting in a chair with the baby on her lap and Bob is partially visible on the left. Behind them a wooden fence and tree are visible in the background.
Date: September 30, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Baby and Chickens]

Photograph of Bob and Lola's child wearing a light-colored dress and standing outside with a group of chickens and turkeys; there are bushes and trees visible in the background.
Date: September 30, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Baby with Cat]

Photograph of a Lola and Bob's child wearing a light-colored gown playing with a cat in the grass in a yard with a wooden fence and trees in the background.
Date: September 30, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Baby with Doll]

Photograph of Bob and Lola's child wearing a light-colored dress and holding a doll standing in a yard with a wooden fence and tree in the background.
Date: September 30, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Palm Family at Blue Springs]

Photograph of a several clusters of unidentified members of the Palm family posing sitting and standing on large boulders during a trip to Blue Springs; most of them are clustered in two groups on the left side with several smaller groupings of 2-3 people on the right. There are other boulders and plants in the foreground and the side of a cliff covered with trees and other vegetation is visible in the background.
Date: 1912-09-07/1912-09-08
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Palm Family by Water]

Photograph of nine unidentified members of the Palm family standing and sitting on boulders on the side of a shallow body of water with large boulders in the background. The three women are wearing dresses and hats or bonnets and the five men are wearing shirts, ties, and hats; a boy wearing a hat is sitting on a rock on the far right. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.
Date: 1912-09-07/1912-09-08
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Palm Family in Front of Boulders]

Photograph of unidentified members of the Palm family posing sitting and standing in two large groups in front of large boulders in a canyon; one group of people is standing in several rows in the front and above them a smaller grouping of people is sitting and standing on the sides of several boulders. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.
Date: 1912-09-07/1912-09-08
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Palm Family in Wagon]

Photograph of six unidentified members of the Palm family sitting in an uncovered wagon; the three women (left and center) are wearing dresses and bonnets and the men (center and right) are wearing light-colored shirts, ties or bandanas, and hats. The picture was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.
Date: 1912-09-07/1912-09-08
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History