Photograph of a group of young men and women posed on the steps of a house. Image is mounted on black (faded to gray) matte. Written on back, "Metropolitan Business College, Dallas, "Before the Sp_____." Bought at auction 5/04/04. Identifications written in pencil have been scribbled over in pencil.

Seven people and one dog, standing at a gated fence in front of a two-story clapboard house. From left to right: Man with folded arms, wearing a hat and suit. Man with hands clasped in front, wearing a suit. Woman behind the fence (made of horizontal boards attached to wooden posts), wearing dark skirt, white blouse, pompadour hair-style. Woman behind gate, wearing light-colored clothing. Man sitting on large round fence post (or tree trunk), wearing brimmed hat tilted back. Woman wearing two-piece dress, with a wide dark/light striped pattern. Man, leaning on the fence, dark hat in his right hand, moustached. In front of him (blurred) is a light-colored dog. The house behind them is two-story, wood clad, with a closed dormer forming a roof for the porch. The front door, framed above and to the side by narrow windows, appears to be open. Trees are visible at both sides; a shed is just visible on the right edge of the picture.

A lady standing on a porch at the Howard home at 318 Iowa (now O’Connor Rd.), believed to be Irving's oldest existing house, built in 1904.

Constructed in May 1904 as the home of Joseph B. Howard and his wife, Susan, it stood on 2.5 acres just south of Irving's city limits. Eugene and May Ann Beaufford bought the property in 1919. They operated a truck farm on the acreage. They later divided the land among their children.

West side of Main Street, Irving, Texas, shortly after the founding of the town in December 1903.

W. L. Smith built one of the first business establishements in Irving in 1904. However, in 1905, he sold the building to the Miller brothers, who opened a general store. Chaney Miller, one of the proprietors of Miller Brothers, served as Irving's second mayor and was Justice of the Peace for the precinct from the 1920s-1940s. He had also been a Dallas County Commissioner during the 1890s. His brother, Fletcher Miller, served as mayor in the 1920s before moving to Dallas.

Jerry and Della Story. When the post office moved from the Kit community to the town of Irving in 1904, Jerry Story served as temporary postmaster.

J. O. Schulze and his wife Agnes Sueppel Schulze in the doorway of their home, c. 1904. J. O. Schulze co-foundef the city of Irving, Texas, in 1903. He married Agnes Sueppel during that same year. Both were natives of Iowa City, Iowa. Due to Agnes's poor health, the couple left Irving and returned to Iowa City in 1905. The man in the center of the doorway is unidentified.

Agnes Sueppel Schulze and a friend sit in a buggy in front of the Schulze home on Hastings Street, Irving, Texas, c. 1904. Agnes Schulze was the wife of Irving's co-founder J. O. Schulze.

Home of J. O. and Agnes Schulze in Irving, Texas, c. 1904. J. O. Schulze was the co-founder of the city of Irving in 1903. He and his wife built this house in Irving in about 1904. Due to Agnes's poor health, the couple had to return to Iowa City, Iowa in 1905. The house, which stood on the east side of Ohio Street in the first block south of present-day Irving Boulevard, burned in the mid-1980s.

Letter from Dr. and Mrs. C.I. Scofield congratulating Thomas McGee Scott on his engagement.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.