Resource Type

[Portrait of Frances K. Prather Darden as a Baby #1]

Photograph of Frances K. Prather Darden (1912–1986) as a baby in 1913, aged six months. She wears a white gown and faces forward, smiling.
Date: May 20, 1913
Creator: Thompson
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Ruby Barnes]

Photograph of Ruby Barnes. She is dressed in a uniform with a hat and a dress, seated behind a bush and smiling. According to a note in the inner left flap of the picture's folder, this photo was "Made from a kodak picture taken from group of high school students, May, 1918."
Date: May 1918
Creator: Stauts
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Flood at Main and Wall Street, Midland]

Photograph of a flood on the corner of Main and Wall Street in Midland. Water flows towards the right on Wall Street (bottom-left corner to center-right side), and people stand on the sidewalks of Main Street examining the flood. In front of the First National Bank, the large Neoclassical building on the street corner, more people have gathered, with stores visible to the left of the bank.
Date: May 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Residence of Lem Baker]

Photograph of the residence of Lem Baker, a small one-story residential home with a porch, large trees planted in the front pawn, and a picket fence around the property. A wagon pulled by two horses is parked near the front gate, where a man and a woman stand. A windmill is visible in the background.
Date: May 1900
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

["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

[Fuller Garden Waterfall Pool #1]

Photograph of the waterfall pool in the Fuller Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The small pool is lined with large brick-like stones from which flowers, vines, and mosses hang to. Lily pads, some flowering, float on the green water as a single small fish swims within. The pond is surrounded by tall, vibrant grasses and small green bushes.
Date: May 1995
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fuller Garden Waterfall Pool #2]

Photograph of the waterfall pool in the Fuller Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The small pool is lined with large brick-like stones from which flowers, vines, and mosses hang to. Lily pads, some flowering, float on the water as a group of fish swims within. The pond is surrounded by tall, vibrant grasses and small green bushes.
Date: May 1995
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Trial Garden Gazebo and Planting Beds]

Photograph of the Trial Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The image contains multiple occupied flower beds surrounding the octagonal wooden gazebo at the center of the garden. The plants on display include shrubs with narrow leaves, white and yellow flowers, irises, and smaller faintly red flowers visible at left. The garden is surrounded by tall trees across the background.
Date: May 1993
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Imagination Vegetable Garden Harvest]

Photograph of a harvest at the vegetable garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Multiple people across the foreground and background, including several young children, are visible holding tools and vegetables as they work among the garden's raised planters. A young girl at center observes a leafy root vegetable in her hand; behind him, another boy places items into a canvas or plastic bag.
Date: May 18, 1993
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Republic of Texas Rose Garden]

Photograph of the Republic of Texas Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Multiple bushes of roses, arranged along the curves of dirt footpaths, are visible in the image in multiple colors, including scarlet, pink, bright red, and yellow. The rose gardens' colonnade, made of brick pillars and metal lattices, is visible across the background in front of dense foliage.
Date: May 1995
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rock Springs Footpath]

Photograph of a footpath in the Rock Springs area at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The footpaths are made of stone, and visible in the image are a set of stone stairs along the path. The entire footway is flanked by dense shrubs and bushes on both ends, and tree branches hang from from above.
Date: May 24, 1989
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[North East Texas Senior Golf Association, Charter Members]

Photograph of the charter members of the North East Texas Senior Golf Association at their initial meeting of the group in May 1925. The men are arranged in two rows with their golf bags and clubs scattered in front of them, while others watch from the back of a wooden building behind the group. Only some names are provided: along the front row, A. B. Scarborough, S. B. Hindman, Charles Halsell, C. A. Kingston, J. B. Clayton, C. L. Wood, L. M. Rideout, S. C. Knaur, and G. A. Summer; along the back row, Felis Edwards, J. F. Hendrix, Sam Dial, J. L. Warren, and J. E. Osburn.
Date: May 1925
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Laying the Cornerstone of the Fannin County Courthouse]

Photograph of the laying of the cornerstone of the Fannin County Courthouse in May, 1888. The ceremony was performed by a Masonic order, and they are identifiable in the photograph as individuals wearing white aprons around their waists. A man standing in a platform at center guides the cornerstone down to its place. The stone, a giant beige brick, hangs from above. A crowd of spectators, many wearing hats, are gathered around the ceremony.
Date: May 1888
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lower Rose Garden #1]

Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Prominent at center is the "rose ramp", a wide set of triangular arrangements of red roses bordered with short hedges with a water stream running along concrete steps down the middle of the ramp and stairs along both sides of the flowers. Above the "rose ramp" are a set of stone stairs leading to a raised platform containing a wide pavilion occupied with several people with square, wooden colonnades on both ends of the structure, a tiled trapezoidal roof, and stone brick pillars. Below the "rose ramp" is a rectangular pond containing a water jet, and several polygonal beds of roses of various colors lined with hedges. Several white metal arches arranged alongside each other in squares sit on intersections of grass paths. This portion of the garden, also occupied by visitors observing, is bordered by latticed wooden fences placed on short brick walls, and lined with hedges and garden benches.
Date: May 1989
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rose Garden South Vista]

Photograph of patches of rose plants in the rose gardens at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The roses are identified as "Moncrief roses" and are located near short yellow shrubs and grasses under the shade of a large tree.
Date: May 1995
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dry Garden Construction, Excavation Work]

Photograph of excavation work in the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Inside the uncompleted frame, four workers with shovels dig an oval-shaped hole into the dry garden, exposing the dirt base below. Pickaxes, lumber, and a wheelbarrow are scattered around them.
Date: 1970-05~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Japanese Garden Bridge Construction]

Photograph of a bridge being built over an empty concrete stream at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. The bridge, shaped like a rectangular "S" or a "Z", contains a wooden cast made for concrete with wire mesh inside the wooden enclosure. The bridge leads to a path on a small island, containing boulders and several shrubs.
Date: 1972-05~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Japanese Garden Crossing Construction #1]

Photograph of a crossing under construction in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. It consists of two straight wooden trunks laid across a small dirt gully connected to concrete bases on both sides. A stone path is visible at bottom. Small trees are visible on both sides of the gully.
Date: 1972-05~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Japanese Garden Crossing Construction #2]

Photograph of a crossing under construction in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. It consists of flat wooden planks laid over two straight wooden trunks laid across a small dirt trough connected to concrete footpaths on both sides, surrounded by barren dirt and small shrubs in the background.
Date: 1972-05~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Japanese Garden Crossing Construction #3]

Photograph of a crossing over a small dirt gully under construction in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. A metal juncture connected between two round wooden tree trunks is emphasized in the image.
Date: 1972-05~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1976 Rockwall First Baptist Members: Nalls Family]

Photograph of the family, members of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall, standing outside the church building. Several family members are named, including their method of membership into the church: Mrs. Mildred Nalls, by letters (transfer from another Baptist church), Miss Karen Nalls, by baptism; and Mr. Thomas Nalls and Randy (Nalls).
Date: May 2, 1976
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History