Girl's dormintory, Goodnight Baptist Industrial Institute, Goodnight, Texas, Geo. Burnett, architect, Amarillo, Tex.

Photograph of an architectural drawing of a dormitory building for Goodnight Baptist Industrial Institute in Goodnight, Texas. The front of the building at the top near the roof has signage that reads, "1910, Girl's Dormitory." The building has a front porch with four square columns and a railing around the second story balcony. The roof has a decorative parapet.
Date: 1910
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students Outside Tulia High School]

Photograph of students outside Tulia High School. The students are positioned in different groups with the women in the front and the men in the back. Behind the group is the brick building of the school where students are also standing in the windows.
Date: 1910
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Swisher County Institute, 1910

Photograph of a group of adults, possibly teachers, posed in front of the Tulia, Texas school, a brick building with an arched doorway. There is snow on the ground and the group is warmly dressed.
Date: 1910
Creator: unknown
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
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Goodnight College football team]

Photograph of the football team of Goodnight College in Goodnight, Texas. Fourteen young men are dressed in football gear and seated in two rows. The player in the center of the front row is holding a football that has G.B.A. 1911 written on it. A man dressed in a black suit and hat is seated behind the players. The third player from the left in the second row is identified as William Harry Craig. The group is posed in front of steps leading into a brick building.
Date: 1911
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Margaret E. Cofer]

Photograph of Margaret E. Cofer, a history instructor from 1910-1916 at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. The studio portrait shows her in a bust view.
Date: 1911
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Allenreed School Building]

Photograph of the two story Allenreed School Building.
Date: 1912
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First graduating class, West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of a group of men and women, standing in rows on the exterior steps of a building. No identification is included.
Date: 1912
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Student Group From the Kelly School]

Photograph of a large group of students from the Kelly school. The group is positioned with the younger students towards the front and the older students to the back.
Date: 1912/1913
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Worthy School, Claude, Texas]

Photograph of nine female and six male students of various ages in front of the Worthy School in Claude, Texas. The schoolhouse is a square frame building with three windows in one wall and two doors in an adjacent wall. The boys that are seated in front hold a sign which reads "Worthy School, Oct. 17-1912, Claude, Tex. The teacher stands at the center of the group.
Date: October 17, 1912
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dalhart elementary school students]

Photograph of a group of elementary school students posed on the steps of a brick building. Individuals are numbered on the image, corresponding to names on the verso.
Date: 1913~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Football players for West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of football players for West Texas State Normal College. They are posed in three rows before a wood wall. They are wearing plain jerseys, football pants, dark socks and shoes. A player in the middle row is holding the football. The coach, dressed in a suit, is seated at the right end in the middle row. The players are identified on the reverse of the photograph: Back row (l to r): John Renfro, Boyce Eidson, G. C. Childers, Honas Carey, _____ Black, J. Pat Ator, Earl Sparks. Middle row: Bill Hale, Harry Starr, Elmer Shotwell, Fats Prichard, William "Sport" Younger, Coach D. A. Shirley. Front row: Ralph Smith, Amos Howard, Raymond Glass, Louis Hicks, J. Mathews.
Date: 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Joseph A. Thompson

Photograph of Joseph A. Thompson wearing the baseball uniform of West Texas State Normal College. He is standing in an open field, and wears a baseball glove on his left hand.
Date: [1914..1918]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ruins of the West Texas State Normal College building]

Photograph of the ruins of the administration building of West Texas State Normal College in 1914 after a fire burned it nearly to the ground. Parts of the walls and a chimney are all that remain. A water tower stands in the background.
Date: 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ruins of West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of the ruins of the West Texas State Normal College building after its March 25, 1914, fire. The wall of one end of the building is intact, while the front wall has partially collapsed. People stand in front of the building and on the road leading to it. A horse and buggy are on the road. On the reverse is written "These walls have all fallen in now."
Date: 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Sheep sheds," 1914

Photograph of temporary buildings, or "shacks," that were used as classrooms and administration offices after the West Texas State Normal College building was destroyed by fire in 1914. Two one-story unpainted frame buildings are visible, with a windmill in the foreground. Two or three men are standing between the two buildings, one of them identified as Dr. J. A. Hill.
Date: 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Starting to clear away the ruins

Photograph of a wagon pulled by a team of four horses, on the site of the West Texas State Normal College building. The wagon is loaded with debris left when the building was destroyed by fire in March 1914. A man driving the team is seated in the wagon, another man stands by the team, and a third man stands to one side. The damaged walls of the building are visible and the ground is strewn with rubble.
Date: 1914
Creator: Fountan, A. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History

West Texas State Normal College faculty and students

Photograph of student members of the Guenther Literary Society and faculty advisers at West Texas State Normal College. They are posed in rows, most seated, with those in the back row standing. Those appearing in the photograph are, front row, left to right: D.A. Shirley, F.P. Guenther, Sid Reid, Clarence Bell; second row, Bert Mathis, William Younger, Earl Traylor, Clifford Brown, Francis Locke, Carl Boston; third row, Henry Starr; Clanton Reynolds, Lloyd Blake, Raymond Hurn, Robert Heatley; fourth row, Arthur King, Levi Sparks, John Mathis, Ira Allen, Max Richberg, Jeff Wallace, Grady Childress; fifth row, Earl Sparks, Sam Bond, Pearl Boston, Ira Brown, Jason Bolton, William Boston.
Date: 1914~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College women's basketball team]

Photograph of thirteen women posed in two rows before the wall of a building. One holds a basketball marked "WTSC 13-14" and others are holding a small pennant bearing the words "Canyon Texas." They are similarly attired, wearing bloomers and blouses and low-cut laced shoes.
Date: 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ruins of the West Texas State Normal College building]

Photograph of the remains of the main building of West Texas State Normal College after it burned on March 25, 1914. Part of the front facade is visible, showing extensive damage to the walls on all sides.
Date: March 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lakeview School, Armstrong Co., Tex., 3-5-14

Photograph of a small group of adults and children posed in front of the Lakeview School in Armstrong County, Texas. The wooden frame school building has a pitched roof and a double-door entryway flanked by windows. Projecting from each side of this section of the building are wings. The people stand in a loose group in the entryway, with others seated on the step and on the ground. A note on the reverse reads, "Lakeview - nine miles from town - A two-teacher school which is the centre of neighborhood interests."
Date: March 5, 1914
Creator: Carr
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wayside, Tex.

Photograph of the Wayside School at Wayside, Texas. A group of students and teachers are posed in the front of the school. The building is built from textured concrete blocks. It has a hip roof with a deck surrounded by a low railing. The entryway is covered, the roof supported by two square columns. On the reverse of the photograph is written, "Wayside - $3000 concrete block, 20 miles from R.R.; 30 miles from Courthouse. Most interested in Farm Demonstration & Community Welfare Club work."
Date: March 5, 1914
Creator: Carr, S. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College fire]

Photograph of the main building of West Texas State Normal College burning in 1914. The building is shown from the front with a large column of smoke rising from the center of the structure. A crowd stands watching, with objects that were rescued from the building.
Date: March 25, 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College fire]

Photograph of the West Texas State Normal College building burning. A plume of smoke rises from the building, and the walls are still intact. Spectators are clustered around the building, as are horses and buggies, automobiles and bicycles.
Date: March 25, 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History