Resource Type

[Nelson's Hardware Store Postcard]

Postcard featuring a pencil drawing of Nelson's Hardware Store, a historic two-story building built 1900 in Round Rock, Texas. The artist's signature can be seen on the bottom right edge of the drawing, and a typed description about the history of the building can be seen on the back..
Date: unknown
Creator: Winnette, Ward P.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sam Bass Headstone Postcard]

Postcard with a photo of the headstone of infamous outlaw, Sam Bass, seen featured on the front. Text on the back of the postcard describes the outlaw's crimes and death, as well as the slow destruction of the headstone and community efforts to replace it.
Date: [1949..1955]
Creator: Sam Bass Cafe
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Church of the Assumption]

Postcard of a color image of the Church of the Assumption, a large stone building with a red roof, a tower, a rose window, and rows of stained glass windows; there are two people standing in front of the church and several houses in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Church of The Assumption, Waco, Texas. Rev. P. J. Clancy, Rector."
Date: unknown
Creator: Clayton, Nicholas
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sacred Heart Convent]

Postcard of a color image of the Sacred Heart Convent, a large two-story red building with a black roof, with a row of trees in front of it. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Sacred Heart Convent. Waco, Texas." There is a handwritten letter on the back of the postcard.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Presbyterian Church]

Postcard of a black and white photograph of the Waco First Presbyterian Church, a large brick building with a tower and stained glass windows, surrounded by trees with a light blue colorized sky in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "First Presbyterian Church, Waco, Texas." There is a handwritten note on the front of the postcard that reads "Mrs Markquart" and a longer handwritten note on the back of the postcard.
Date: June 1908
Creator: Marquardt, Luise
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Division Headquarters at Camp MacArthur Postcard]

Postcard of Camp MacArthur with tents on the right side, division headquarters in the back (center), and houses and cars on the left side. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Division Headquarters. Camp MacArthur Waco Texas. Mann." There is a handwritten letter on the back of the postcard.
Date: May 11, 1918
Creator: Mann, Fred
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Temple Rodef Sholom]

Postcard of a color image of the Temple Rodef Sholom, a round white building with steps and pillars, with a star of David engraving on a triangular facade, surrounded by trees. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Temple Rodef Sholom, Waco, Texas." There is a handwritten letter on the back of the postcard.
Date: February 19, 1913
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Compton's Funeral Home]

Postcard of a color image of Compton's Funeral Home in Waco, a large house covered in ivy, with two large trees in the foreground, an automobile on the right, and trees in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Compton's Funeral Home, Waco, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[South End Fire Station]

Postcard of a black and white photograph of the South End fire station, a two-story frame building, with firefighters in two horse-drawn fire engines in front of it and a slightly pink colorized sky in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "South End Station, Waco, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas Power and Light Co. Plant]

Postcard of a color image of the Texas Power and Light Co., plant, a large red brick building with a smoke stack, with power lines and other electrical equipment, with a field in the foreground and clouds in the sky in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Plant of Texas Power and Light Co., Waco, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Douglas Select School]

Postcard of a colorized photograph of the Douglas Select School, a two-story house with a porch and two rows of windows, with a row of trees in the foreground and other buildings in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Douglas Select School, Waco, Texas, the Educational Center of Texas."
Date: 1912
Creator: Miller, Mrs. Herman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Section F at Camp MacArthur]

Postcard of an intersection of two dirt roads with a row of barracks and telephone poles on the right side of one road and a row of tents on the other side. On the right side a soldier is standing with a firearm on his shoulder and there are more telephone poles and tents in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Section F Camp MacArthur Waco, Texas. Mann." There are also handwritten letters (left to right) "(c), a, B" with arrows pointing downward to the respective sections and a handwritten note at the top that reads "No 2."
Date: unknown
Creator: Mann, Fred
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Field at Camp MacArthur]

Postcard of several groups of men standing in a large field with barracks, trees, and other buildings in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Sec. F. Camp Mac Arthur. Waco Texas. © F Mann 10-11-17." There is a handwritten letter on the back of the postcard.
Date: 1917~
Creator: Mann, Fred & Gillespie, L. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Compress in Temple]

Postcard of a colorized photograph of the Temple Cotton Compress, a wooden structure with a tower and smoke stack, with rows of bales of cotton and several men moving individual bales in the foreground. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Compress, Temple, Texas." There is handwritten correspondence on the back of the postcard.
Date: May 1, 1909
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Methodist Episcopal Church]

Postcard of a color image of Second Street with the First Methodist Episcopal Church, a yellow building with several spires, on the left side and rows of trees on the left and right side of the street. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Temple, the Tree City. Second Street and First M. E. Church, Temple, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unknown African American Man in Chair]

Postcard of an unidentified African American man wearing a suit and tie posing, sitting in a chair, in front of a neutral background.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Avenue A in Temple]

Postcard of Avenue A in Temple, Texas featuring a street corner lined with large buildings and two horse-drawn carriages in the street, with telephone poles lining the street."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Baca-City Drug Orchestra]

Postcard of members of the Baca Brothers Orchestra, nine men posing around a piano holding their instruments with a large drum that says "Baca Bros Orchestra." Printed on the front of the postcard: "Compliments of Baca-City Drug Orchestra K.T.E.M. Temple, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[W. S. Willis Jr. Portrait]

Postcard of a portrait of W. S. Willis Jr. as a small child, wearing light-colored clothing, posing sitting on a tricycle in front of a curtain. There is handwritten correspondence on the back of the postcard.
Date: unknown
Creator: Worthington
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Harvey House and Santa Fe Depot]

Postcard of a partially colorized photograph of the Harvey House and Santa Fe Depot, two two-story buildings with several rows of windows, with train tracks and a train car in the foreground. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Harvey House and Santa Fe Depot, Temple, Tex."
Date: July 18, 1907
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men at Canteen at Camp MacArthur]

Postcard of a colorized photograph of a group of men standing and sitting outside the canteen at Camp MacArthur; several men are eating or drinking from metal cups and there are two trash cans on the left side. Printed on the front of the postcard: "The Canteen. © I. F. S." There is a handwritten letter on the back of the postcard.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Methodist Church]

Postcard of a color image of First Methodist Church, a round brown brick building with a red tile roof and a row of large windows, on a street corner with a row of trees in front of it and houses on either side of it. Printed on the front of the postcard: "First Methodist Church. Temple, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Memorial Baptist Church]

Postcard of a color image of Memorial Baptist Church, a two-story brick building with stained glass windows and steps leading up to a porch with two columns, on a street corner lined with trees with houses and a sunset in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Memorial Baptist Church and Parsonage, Temple, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wedemeyer Academy in Temple]

Postcard of a color image of the Wedemeyer Academy, a two-story red brick building with large windows, three chimneys, and four columns surrounding a porch; several men are standing on the lawn and on the porch, and an automobile is parked in the driveway in the foreground. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Wedemeyer Academy, Temple, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History