Resource Type

[Man Standing Near Shrub]

Photograph of an unidentified young man standing on a lawn near a large bush. He is wearing a short-sleeved button-up shirt, slacks, and a cowboy hat, posing with his arms behind his back. In the background, other people are visible, walking in front of a large brick building.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Pair of Striped Pigs]

Photograph of two pigs standing side-by-side in an open field, facing the camera. Both of the pigs are a dark color with a light stripe across their shoulders, including their front legs. Several buildings are visible in the background.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Person Feeding Pigs]

Photograph of an unidentified person wearing loose clothing and a cowboy hat with two dark-colored pigs eating out of troughs in a grassy area. The person is leaning over to pat the pig on the left. Buildings are partially visible in the background.
Date: 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Pigs Eating from Trough]

Photograph of two dark-colored pigs eating from a trough in an open grassy area. Buildings are visible in the background, including one that appears to be a house (center) and a barn (right).
Date: 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Wendell Tarver in Uniform]

Photograph of Wendell Tarver, visible from the chest up, wearing a formal, military-style uniform including a button-up jacket with pins on the collar, and a brimmed, flat-topped hat that has a symbol on the front. He is facing the left side of the image and is laughing or smiling broadly.
Date: [1948..1956]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Robert Tilson Outside of Barracks]

Photograph of a young man -- identified on the back as Robert Tilson "Wrencho" -- standing in front of of the double-screen door entrance with the text "Hotel Welcome Mothers" chalked above it. He is wearing a military-style uniform including a loose jacket and brimmed cap, posing with his hands on his waist, and is visible from the waist up.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students on Sidewalk]

Photograph of two young men -- identified as "Maholek & Zabcek" -- standing next to each other on a sidewalk leading to a building in the background. The man on the left is wearing jeans and a jean jacket, with a cowboy hat and the man on the right is wearing slacks with a gingham-patterned jacket. Other people are visible outside the building behind them.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Telesforo Ramirez Standing Near Bushes]

Photograph of young man wearing a military-style uniform and holding a towel across his waist, identified on the back as "Ramirez, Teleford, III." He is posing out-of-doors, next to a row of bushes to the left, and several trash cans; on the right, several buildings are partially visible.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Men Posing Near Shrubberies]

Slightly fuzzy photograph of three men posing together in a loose group on a lawn next to a large bush. A brick building is visible in the background.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Men Posing Together]

Photograph of three young men standing together with their arms around one another in front of a large shrubbery. They are wearing short-sleeved button-up shirts and slacks; the man in the center has a cigarette in his mouth. A brick building is partially visible in the background, to the right.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tommy Martinez in a Field]

Photograph of Tommy Martinez wearing a military-style uniform, standing in a field with his left hand on his hip. Behind him, other people are standing and sitting along a fence, observing something in another field and there is a large, L-shaped building in the background.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Pigs on a Farm]

Photograph of two pigs standing side-by-side in an open field. The pig on the right is facing the camera and the pig on the left is looking toward the left side of the image; both of them are a dark color with a light stripe across the shoulders and front legs. A building is visible in the background on the right side of the image.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[William Thomas in Doorway]

Photograph of William Thomas wearing a military-style uniform including a garrison cap and necktie. He is standing with his right hand in his pocket in front of an open door in the double-doorway of a brick building.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Winifred McNair Outside Barracks]

Photograph of Winifred McNair, visible from the waist up, wearing a military-style uniform and standing in front of double screen doors. There is text chalked around the doorway including, "[Welcome] Mothers" at the top, and "[...]ainview Bulldogs | [T]he Best [in] the West" in the lower right.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Young Man Outside Building]

Photograph of a young man wearing a military-style uniform with a garrison cap, crouching outside a building that is partially visible at right.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Young Man with Prizewinning Pig]

Photograph of a dark-colored pig with a light stripe around the shoulders facing the right side of the image, where a young man is partially visible, leaning over to hold a ribbon over the pig. They appear to be standing in a lightly-wooded area.
Date: 1948~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Young Woman with Three Cows]

Photograph of a young woman wearing loose clothing and a headscarf, standing to the right of three cows, looking toward them and holding their leads. Two are dark-colored cows and the one in the middle is lighter colored. Text written at the bottom says, "How do you like _my_ colors? Nice, aren't they?" Handwritten note on the back: "1 - Wendell or Laura or Emily or me."
Date: 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A&M Barracks 206 Group Photo]

Photograph of a group of sixteen young men posing together around a sign that says "Brks. 206. A&M Annex, Fall 1948" in three rows, with five of them crouching at the front and two standing rows. They are wearing informal versions of military-style uniforms, although several are wearing T-shirts or have removed their shirts. They are posing inside the barracks and shelving with personal items are visible on either side of the image. Names are handwritten on people and around the edges of the photo.
Date: Autumn 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Anton Backholt Outside Barracks]

Photograph of a young man, identified on the back as Anton Backholt, wearing a military-style uniform and standing outside the door to the barracks at A&M College of Texas. The area around the doorway is decorated with lettering that says "Welcome Mothers" over the door, with other messages on either side.
Date: [1949..1954]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Graduation Portrait of Wendell Lee Tarver]

Portrait of Wendell Lee Tarver, taken when he graduated from Burnet High School in Burnet, Texas. He is visible from the shoulders up and is wearing a dark-colored graduation robe and cap with a light-colored shirt and patterned tie.
Date: 1949
Creator: Eanes, Lucile
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wendell Tarver Graduation Photograph]

Photograph of Wendell Lee Tarver wearing a light-colored graduation cap and gown, standing on a lawn. He graduated from Burnet High School in Burnet, Texas during spring 1949. Neighborhood houses and trees are visible behind him.
Date: April 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tarver Family Outside of a House]

Photograph of the Tarver family standing together in a line outside of an unidentified house. From left to right: Wendell Lee, James Walden, John Agrippa, Selma Cleo, Elizabeth Ann, and Leta Joy (front). They are standing on the grass next to a flagstone walk; the corner of the house and trees are visible in the background.
Date: April 25, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Wendell Tarver in Texas A&M Uniform]

Portrait of Wendell Lee Tarver, visible from the chest up, taken while he was a student at Texas A&M University. He is wearing a light-colored shirt and tie with a darker-colored jacket; the jacket has pins with crossed rifles and the initials A.M.C. on the lapels. A handwritten note on the photograph says "Love, Wendell;" a second note on the frame outside the photo says "Wendell L. Tarver." The photo is inside a red folder.
Date: 1950~
Creator: Aggieland Studio
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wendell Tarver in a Room]

Photograph of Wendell Lee Tarver, visible from the waist up, standing with his arms crossed near a wall that has vertically-striped wallpaper and a window with the shade drawn to the right. He is wearing a light-colored shirt open at the collar with a darker jacket.
Date: [1950..1971]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History