Resource Type

[Behrens Drug Company]

Photograph of the exterior of Behrens Drug Company in Waco in 1892. A line of twelve white men stand in front of the store. To the right, two African American men stand. One of them wears an apron. The door to the store stands open.
Date: April 8, 1892
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Downtown Waco]

Photograph of downtown Waco in 1892. A Pacific Express Co. wagon pulled by a white horse stands at the curb. A man sits in the driver's seat in the wagon, and five men stand on the sidewalk behind the wagon. Behrens Drug Company is located on the bottom floor of the Cleveland and Cameron building, to the right. A man leans against a brick wall in the middle of the photo, and four more men stand in front of the store to the left of the Behrens Drug Company. The photograph was purchased at the Abel estate sale in Waco, Texas.
Date: April 8, 1892
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Presidential Stop in Grand View, Texas]

Copy photo of the President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt's presidential stop in Grand View, Texas on April 8, 1905. The train made a stop at the Grand View, Texas MKT depot. Roosevelt is visible on the train platform. Many people came to meet the train.
Date: April 8, 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Downtown Midland Ruins After Fire]

Photograph of Downtown Midland, viewed from the southeast, after a fire that started on April 8, 1909, in the Llano Hotel. The hotel, mostly destroyed with some brick walls standing, is at center in front of the water tower, having collapsed due to the fire with debris scattered onto the main roads. The fire also destroyed the Midland Drug Store and Grocery, to the north of the Llano Hotel, leaving a dry goods store (with a Coca-Cola sign along the front) intact. Across the street from the hotel is the First National Bank, also severely damaged, its canopy partially destroyed at left. People walk among the ruins, inspecting the damage and conversing together.
Date: April 8, 1909
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mr. and Mrs. Ponciano Villalobos

Photograph of couple outside adobe building. Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Ponciano Villalovoz (Villalobos), April 8, 1912, in Van Horn, TX. Dedication at the back of photo reads," Dedico Este Retrato a, Mi Querida Mama, Pas Chacon En, Pruevas de amory y, Respecto. que le Tengo. Ponciano Villalovoz, Van Horn, Texas, April 8, de 1912"
Date: April 8, 1912
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Troops at Spofford Junction]

Photograph of a line of troops on horseback near a railroad line. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph says, "Spofford Junction - 4/8/13 - 14 Cav. Troops leaving for Brownsville, Tex. via R.R."
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mathew Palm and Boys on Boulder]

Photograph of Mathew Palm and three young men (possibly his sons) standing and sitting on top of a large boulder with trees and hills in the background and more boulders and trees visible in the foreground.
Date: April 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mathew Palm and Family on Rock]

Photograph of Mathew Palm sitting on top of a large boulder with two women wearing light-colored dresses and hats and a young man wearing a dark suit, with another woman wearing a light dress and hat standing on a smaller rock on the right, and a cliff behind them in the background.
Date: April 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mathew Palm and Family Sitting on Boulder]

Photograph of Mathew Palm and his family sitting on a large boulder with trees in the background; Palm and his wife are sitting in the back with their three children (two young women and a young man) sitting in front of them. The men are wearing dark suits, ties, and hats and the women are wearing light-colored dresses and hats.
Date: April 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mathew Palm and Son Behind Rocks]

Photograph of Mathew Palm and his son sticking their heads out from behind two large boulders; there are several boulders and vegetation in the foreground and another family member is partially visible in the background.
Date: April 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mathew Palm and Son on a Rock]

Photograph of Mathew Palm and his son sitting on top of a large boulder during a family trip to Blue Springs; there are trees and more boulders in the background.
Date: April 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Garnet Lawrence]

Portrait of Garnet Lawrence as a young woman wearing a dark dress.
Date: April 8, 1922
Creator: Hall's Gentry Studio
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1277.0295]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "On April 7th, television was pulled out of the dictionary and into the worlds of fact when it was inaugurated at New York as a successful scientific achievement."
Date: April 8, 1927
Creator: Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Incorporated
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1383.0667]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This photo is one of a set, sent out on the 10th anniversary of the United States' entry into the World War."
Date: April 8, 1927
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1383.0673]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "On April 6th, the United States entered the World War, back in 1917, so this photo, ) one of a set) is sent out on the 10th anniversary."
Date: April 8, 1927
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1383.0682]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This photo is one of sort of a set sent out on the 10th anniversary of Uncle Sam's entry into the World War."
Date: April 8, 1927
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Southwestern Land Co. at the original William Jennings Bryan farm; 1,000,000 people in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in 5 years - excursion party

Excursion party posing in front of house
Date: April 8, 1929
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Central Station on 2111 Main]

Photograph of several rows of men wearing dark uniforms with silver buttons on the front in front of a three story brick building.
Date: April 8, 1932
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0253]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 8, 1933
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0578]

Two brick buildings at the Taylor Home for Orphans.
Date: April 8, 1933
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0515]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pilot and Oklahoma native Wiley Post"
Date: April 8, 1934
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0019]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: April 8, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1223.0303]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Joseph Swatek, City Pioneer"
Date: April 8, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0590]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Roy " Duke " Clemons State H. W> Champion National Colligate 191 Champ."
Date: April 8, 1936
Creator: Oklahoma Publishing Company
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History