["The Cattleman" December 1929]

The Cattleman volume XVI, Fort Worth, Texas, December 1929.
Date: December 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Artwork
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Children on scooters and bicycles at Mary Dee and August Myers' home]

Photographic print of children at Mary Dee and August Myers home in Booth, TX. Children are identified as Mary Jones, Dot Myers, Mary Ann Myers (back to front). Mamie George is on porch. Child in foreground is on a scooter. Her left leg is on the scooter frame and her right leg is on the sidewalk. Child behind her is riding a tricycle. A tricycle (with no rider) is near front porch steps. Mamie is sitting in a porch swing. Photo has black trim around perimeter of the picture. Purple stamp on back of photo reads: Guaranteed for Life This is a Genuine (sic) Border Fox Tone Picture Made by Fox Company, San Antonio, Texas Trade Mark Protected.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Children standing around a child in a wagon at Mary Dee and August Myers home]

Photographic print of children at Mary Dee and August Myers home in Booth, TX. Children are identified as Mary Jones, Wyatt Myers (baby), Dot Myers, Mary Ann Myers. Wyatt is sitting in a wooden wagon and Mary is standing behind her. The two other children are standing back to back to the right of the photograph. White picket fence in background. Pine tree in back corner of the yard. Photograph has a black trim around the perimeter of the picture. Purple stamp on back of photo reads: Guaranteed for Life This is a Genuine (sic) Border Fox Tone Picture Made by Fox Company, San Antonio, Texas Trade Mark Protected.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Grade class of 1929 from Robert E. Lee School]

Photograph (copy) of the First Grade class of 1929 from the Robert E. Lee School, in Rosenberg, Texas. Chalkboard sign in front of group reads: " Robert E. Lee School First Grade May 16, 1929. Miss Foerster. The teacher is standing in the back, center of group. She is wearing a light colored short sleeved dress. She has short dark hair, parted on the side. A brick building is in the background. Scanned image is of the copy.
Date: May 16, 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fourth Grade class at Robert E. Lee Elementary School]

Photograph (copy) of the Fourth Grade class at Robert E. Lee Elementary School in 1929. Row of 6 girls seated in front, second row of twelve boys and girls; third row has thirteen students and the teacher on the far right. Chalkboard in front of group reads: Robert E. Lee School 4A May 16, 1929 Miss Williams (Teacher). Students are partially identified as: First row: Pauline (Dolly) Jurica, Jessie Lee ?, LaVonne Moers, Alvina Talasek, Mary Hruzek, ? . Second row: Sylvan Turicchi, Lody Valenta, Arnold (?) Brown, Leldon Beard, Marvin Albrecht, Ernest Rose, ?, Gladys Kovar, ? , Maidie Yates, Birdie ?, Louis Lippman. Third row: ? , Jerry Cisneros, Vernon Aldredge, Herbert Robinowitz, Eugene Allison, Tom Marshall, ?, ?, ?, Otto Dusek, Marvin Hairgrove, H. L. Peak, Clifford Simpson, and teacher Miss Williams. Scanned image is of the copy.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lucas Children in Front of Car

Lorene Lucas (Looper) flanked by her brothers Howard and Ray. These were the children of W. D. Lucas, who was a long-time owner of a general merchandise store on Main St. The three pose in front of Lorene's new car in 1929. In an interview, Lorene said that the dress she was wearing was blue and yellow and matched the blue car with its yellow trim.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph shows the north side of the George Ranch house]

Photograph shows the north side of the George Ranch house, the wooden building on right, cistern house (center), and the wooden platform of a windmill. The cistern house has wires or lines extending from it to unknown destination (out of picture). The grounds are covered with snow and the trees and power lines have icicles on them. Trees on left. A handwritten date of "Dec 21, 1929" is written at the bottom of the picture.
Date: December 21, 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hereford High School Football Team]

Photograph of the Hereford High School football team in the late 1920s.
Date: 1929~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hereford High School Football Team]

Photograph of a Hereford High School football team in the late 1920s.
Date: 1929~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hereford High School Football Team]

Photograph of the Hereford High School class B football team, the "Whitefaces". They were District 1 and 2 champions, undefeated in 1928-1929.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Killeen High School Baseball Squad, 1929]

The Killeen High School baseball team of 1929. Top row, left to right, Jack Haire, Troy Cox, Doyle Riley, M.B. Parmer, Bert Bass, Thurman Jean, Otha Lee "Slim" Brown, J.R. Burton. Front row, left to right: Dick Bass, Woodrow Young, Clyde "Hap" Jean, Coach Walter Moss, George Rodgers, John Jones, Rueben Besaley, Robert Wright.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Southwestern Land Co. excursion at Sharyland - the home of the grape fruit

Excursion party standing in front of the Shary Lake by the Shary house. Cars along the left side of the photo on Shary Boulevard.
Date: October 22, 1929
Creator: Gardner
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Southwestern Land Co. of Sharyland Texas excursion party... one million people in the Lower Rio Grande Valley by 1934

Excursion party posing in front of palm trees, roof top in center background
Date: June 21, 1929
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

240 Acre citrus orchard on Sharyland tract

Citrus orchard showing healthy and prosperous trees
Date: December 16, 1929
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

40 acres block Lot 426 on Taylor Boulevard pavement connecting to Mission and McAllen and all other parts of the Valley

Panoramic photograph of a field ready for farming in Mission, Texas. There are surveyors standing on the left, farm house and cars shown on the right.
Date: August 5, 1929
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

New 600 acre tract with underground irrigation near Mission, Texas sold by Southwestern Land Co., Dallas Texas

Newly planted citrus trees in field with underground irrigation system.
Date: March 8, 1929
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of African American Women]

Photograph of six African American women, one of whom is Myrtle Bell Moten. She and another woman are dressed in shorts, three are wearing pants, and one is dressed as a nurse. They are standing in a field with trees in the background.
Date: 1929~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Southwestern Land Co. excursion at Sharyland - the home of the grape fruit

Excursion party posing in front of Shary Lake and across Shary Road (dirt road)
Date: October 22, 1929
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Southwestern Land Co. at Sharyland, Tex. excursion party in Lower Rio Grande Valley

Excursion party posing next to the Charles Volz home.
Date: March 25, 1929
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Southwestern Land Co. excursion party at Sharyland

Excursion party posing in front of a house
Date: 1929
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Southwestern Land Co. excursion party at Sharyland

Excursion party posing in front of palm trees.
Date: 1929
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Boaters at the Texas City Dike in 1929]

Two children sit in a wooden boat near the edge of the bay. In the background, around the bay inlet are other boats pulled up onshore, an open-air, but covered pavilion, some smaller wooden buildings, and a pier.
Date: September 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
"Baker Hotel" Menu (open access)

"Baker Hotel" Menu

This photograph illustrates an October 1929 menu from the Stephen F. Austin Hotel, a "Baker Hotel" (located in Austin, Texas), similar to the one that opened in Mineral Wells in 1929 is shown here. The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells was apparently one of a chain of hotels. This menu serves as a reminder of that fact.
Date: 1929?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Laws of Texas, 1929 [Volume 26] (open access)

The Laws of Texas, 1929 [Volume 26]

Supplement Volume to the Original Ten Volumes compiled and arranged by H.P.N Gammel of Austin.
Date: 1929
Creator: Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History