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Texas Digital Newspaper Program
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The Grapevine Sun
391
Rescuing Texas History, 2019
334
Frances Marion Allen Collection
156
Rescuing Texas History, 2016
80
Woman’s Wednesday Club
60
The Fort Worth Press
50
Rescuing Texas History, 2017
50
Rescuing Texas History, 2013
42
Rescuing Texas History, 2015
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[Aunt Lizzie Emery]
Photograph of Aunt Lizzie Emery viewed from the chest up. She wears a dark high-collared dress with puffed out sleeves and a small decorative pattern and embroidery around the collar. She wears a white bow made out of a thin fabric at her neck, with a brooch directly underneath of a star with a wreath around it. She look austere with her gaze slightly away from the camera, hair tied back, and round wire-framed glasses. The photo is mounted to an off white board, which has a studio imprint at the bottom reading, "Leffler / Fort Worth, Tex." An inscription on the back reads, "Mrs. J W Emery / Aunt Lizzie Emery."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Leffler
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Benjamin Franklin Cathey, Texas State Representative]
Photograph of Benjamin Franklin Cathey, Texas State Representative. He is shown from the waist up, body and head facing towards the right of the camera. He wears a dark suit, white shirt, and dark bowtie. The photograph is mounted inside of a decorative gray envelope with ornamentation around the window. Handwritten below the photo is the inscription, "State Repr. Ben Cathey." The folder has a full length flap that folds down over the image, and a smaller flap at the bottom that folds up and tucks into a slit on the larger flap.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Calling Card for Daisy Emery]
Card with printed text in a cursive font reading: "Daisy Emery." The edges of the card are beveled and decorated with gold leaf.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Calling Card for Dr. D. Emery-Allen]
Card with printed cursive text reading "Dr. D. Emery-Allen" on the front. Handwritten text on the back reads "Ida Burdett / Beatrix Doty / Miss Dunn."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Allen, Dr. Frances Daisy Emery
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Calling Card for Dr. Frances D. Emery ]
Card with the printed cursive text which reads: "Dr. Frances D. Emery"
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Calling Card for Frances D. Emery, M.D.]
Card with the handwritten text: "Frances D. Emery, M.D."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Allen, Dr. Frances Daisy Emery
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Calling Card for Miss Annie Emery]
Card with the handwritten text: "Miss Annie Emery"
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cantata "The Prince of Peace"]
Photograph, mounted on board, of Cantata "Prince of Peace" group, including Annie Belle Emery Bright, on a stage in front of a pipe organ. The men wear tuxedos and women wear full-coverage white dresses. Behind the group is a banner reading "Prince of Peace." On the back of the mounting board is handwritten text reading "Cantata "The Prince of Peace" / Ninth St. Christian Church, Washington, D.C. / Organ on which I learned to play. (ABE) / Annie Belle Emery."
Date:
190X
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cassie Brown with hair up]
Cabinet Card photograph of Aunt Cassie Brown seen from the chest up. She wears a dark blouse with a diagonal row of embroidery and diagonal decorative buttons making a V on her chest. She wears a key as a brooch. Bellow the image is the studio imprint reading, "Barron's Studio / Opera Block, Terrell, Texas." The back of the card has an inscription reading, "Aunt Carrie [sic] Brown / (Mrs. Harper Brown.)"
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Barron's Studio
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cassie Hale]
Photograph of Cassie Hale from the chest up. She wears a blouse with dark collar and yoke, and lighter puff shoulder sleeves. She looks to the left, and her hair is pinned up on the sides of her head with decorative flowers towards the top. The photo is mounted on a cream colored card with decorative cut edges. An inscription on the back of the card reads, "Cassie Hale."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cassie Hale in two oval photographs]
Two photographs on the same strip of paper, each in a separate oval, of cousin Cassie Hale. In both photos she wears a high collared white blouse with hair pinned up. In the left photo she is turned slightly to the left and does not wear a hat. In the photo on the right she faces the camera directly and wears a straw boater hat with a dark ribbon and feathers sticking up on one side of the brim. The photo is creased throughout, and the left edge is torn at a diagonal. An inscription on the back of the photo reads, "Cousin Cassie Hale / Rusk County."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cousin Ben Johnson]
Cabinet card photograph of cousin Ben Johnson. He is visible from the chest up, and wears a jacket over a white collard shirt with striped tie. He has short hair and a large moustache. An inscription on the back of the card reads, "Cousin Ben Johnson / Rusk Co. / Mrs. Neil Johnson Brown's brother."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Daughter of Ada Wren Tucker and husband]
Photograph of a woman and man wearing fine clothing. The woman is positioned behind the man with one hand resting over his shoulder, their heads in line with each other. She wears a large hat with a short embroidered veil atop her pinned up hair, and a white blouse with lace collar. The man wears a dark suit jacket with a flower on the lapel, a light vest, and patterned tie. The photo is mounted in a cream colored folder with an oval window. A piece of onion skin paper folds over the image from the left, and has an inscription at the top reading, "Daughter of Ada Wren Tucker." The left interior cover of the folder has a mirror transfer of the photograph, and the right folder flap has an inscription that reads: "[illegible] Tucker & husband."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Diptych of Carl and Cathinka Venth with seventeen pupils, left, and eight young women in formal dress with stringed instruments, right]
Two photographs mounted side by side on card stock. The image on the left shows Carl Venth, Cathinka Finch Myhr, Sheila Emery Allen, and sixteen other young female music students lined up in front of a house. Sheila Emery Allen and Cathinka Finch Myhr Venth are standing on either side of a large basket and are holding stuffed toy dogs. An inscription on the vero of the original frame read "Pupils at T. W. C., Mrs. Venth & Sheila Allen with dogs." The image on the right shows a group portrait of eight young women in formal dress posing with stringed instruments. An inscription on the verso of the original frame read "String Group, Acc. - Virfian England [Este], Sheila Allen." A handwritten inscription in pencil on the verso top left reads "Mrs. G. W. Parker, 2432 Colonial Park, Ft. Worth, Texas, 76160, 375-7149."
Date:
192X
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen snapped one night in front of Will Rogers Auditorium]
Unaddressed and unposted Ansco photographic postcard of Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen at night. She is wearing a hat, gloves, and long coat. Sideways blue ink handwritten inscription on verso middle reads "Snapped, one night, in front of Will Rodgers [sic] Auditorium. Is awful. F. has been in Dallas 2 weeks. S. went over on Bus this morn. am expecting them back about 3 P.M. neighbor (Boyd) [illegible] [illegible] in living room. I'm trying to suppress a cough."
Date:
194X
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen wearing lace collar]
Photograph of Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen taken for her passport. She wears a lace collar partially covering the lapels of her blazer and a light colored blouse with a fleur de lis brooch. She wears pince-nez spectacles with a chain attached to her hair. She looks directly at the camera. "3842" is written on the back of the photograph in pencil.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Dr. James Walter Allen seated backwards on chair]
Photograph of Dr. James Walter Allen seated backwards in a wooden chair. He wears a suit and hat, and holds his hands clasped with arms resting on the seat back. A backdrop on a wooden frame is visible behind him. In the top right corner of the photograph the initials "J.W.A." are written in ink. The photograph is mounted on a black board with decorative textured edges.
Date:
190X
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Dr. James Walter Allen seated portrait]
Photograph of Dr. James Walter Allen seated backwards on a wooden chair. He wears a suit and hat, and holds the back of the chair with one hand, the other resting on top. A wooden frame with a backdrop is visible behind him. The photograph is mounted to a black board with textured decorative edges.
Date:
190X
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Elementary to middle school aged students in classroom]
Photograph of students seated at their desks in a classroom. The desks are in a grid pattern with a teacher's desk at the far right of the photograph. The students all look at the camera and hold books open on their desks or have notebook and pencil in hand. There are two windows at the back wall, and chalkboards with writing and math equations line the two visible walls, and have lines of papers clipped along the tops. The photo is printed on a cream colored board, and the image is oval shaped with points sticking out at the upper and lower left and right corners.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Eve Brown Houghton]
Carte de visite photograph of Eve Hougton from the chest up. She wears a dark blouse with puffed up shoulders, and a high collar. The collar and a section of the dress are made from a different darker fabric. She wears a brooch of a bouquet of five flowers, and a white ribbon under her collar which is tied in a bow at the side of her neck. Her head and gaze is turned slightly away from the camera, and her hair is pinned up. the back of the card has an inscription that reads, "Eve (Brown) Houghton / mother's sister."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Eve Houghton, husband, and child]
Cabinet card photograph of Eve Brown Houghton, her husband, and son posed together in front of a backdrop with fence and foliage, and on top of a rug that is bunched up under the man's feet. Sybil stands at the left with one hand on the back of the chair her husband sits in, and the boy stands between them. They all wear dark clothes. At the bottom of the card is the studio imprint reading, "F. A. Montee, Artist." On the back is an inscription which reads, "Sybil Harmon / Helen Harmon does [illegible]."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Montee, F. A.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Five young women in a row, possibly the Wren sisters]
Photograph of five women on a diamond shaped photograph. The women are in a row stacked with one behind the other, their heads going from the bottom corner of the photo to the top. Each wears a ruffled, high collared dress, and has their hair pinned back with small curls around their faces. on the two bottom edges of the cream colored board the photograph is mounted to is the studio imprint reading, "Leffler / Fort Worth, Texas." On the back of the board is the inscription, "Possibly the Wren sisters."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Leffler
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Five young women, possibly the Wren sisters]
Photograph of five young women grouped together. Each can only be seen from the chest up. All wear high necked ruffled dresses, and have their hair pinned up with small curls around their faces. The photograph is in a diamond shaped and mounted to a slightly larger white board. An inscription on the back reads, "Possibly the Wren sister."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Leffler
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth High School class photograph]
Photograph of the Fort Worth High School class taken on the steps of the brick and stone building. A few students are seated in the first two rows while the rest stand. The women wear long dresses or skirts with long sleeve blouses. The men wear dark suits with ties. Some students wear hats. The photo is mounted to an off-white board with gold printed designs framing the photo and the words "The D. H. Swartz View Co., Fort Worth, Texas." The board is mounted to another board that has paper strips with typewritten text reading: "Fort Worth High School taken by D H Swartz Co. . date c 1890s Third row from top , fourth from left, above and to left of girl with rose in hand is FRANCES DAISY EMERY. Her head is tilted to her right / Her sister Annie Bell (sic) Emery is third from bottom row and third from left. She is holding the hand of a close friend Lucy Nored( later Mrs Lucy Runnels Wright)." A hand written inscription on the back reads, "1890-1894-Hi Sc" and also lists Frances and Sheila Allen's address.
Date:
189X
Creator:
D. H. Swartz View Co.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History