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Dinner Dress

Formal dinner dress of black wool crepe and lavender satin. Bodice of lavender satin with short, puffed sleeves and low rounded neckline in front, higher in back. Sleeves with elastic gathering at openings. Front of bodice with vertical gathers. Back with open slit and lavender satin drawstring closure at neckline. Empire waist. Skirt of black wool crepe, full-length. Center back zipper in skirt begins at join to bodice where bodice is slit. Unlined. Combined designer's/retailer's label sewn in skirt, behind Neiman-Marcus id label: "Neiman-Marcus Dallas / Traina-Norell".
Date: 1948
Creator: Norell, Norman, 1900-1972
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Coat

Daytime coat of camel brown/tan wool. Street-length or longer, with rounded shawl collar. Double breasted with 6 large circular black silk faille-covered buttons in two vertical rows of 3 each; bound buttonholes. Closure reinforced with two small circular black plastic buttons inside. Two slit. Double welt pockets at sides. Long sleeves with turned-back cuffs showing black silk faille lining. The coat is lined in black silk, with wide bands of black silk faille at cuffs, collar, and sides of opening. Combined retailer's and designer's label at inside back neck: "Neiman-Marcus Dallas / Traina-Norell"
Date: 1948
Creator: Norell, Norman, 1900-1972
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Daily Times Herald (Dallas, Tex.), Ed. 1 Sunday, March 28, 1948 (open access)

The Daily Times Herald (Dallas, Tex.), Ed. 1 Sunday, March 28, 1948

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 28, 1948
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Three Contemporary Mexican Painters (open access)

Three Contemporary Mexican Painters

Catalog from the exhibition, "Three Contemporary Mexican Artists: Rivera, Tamayo, and Siqueiros," October 9–November 7, 1948, assembled for the State Fair of Texas by the Galeria Mont-Orendain, Mexico City, and shown under the auspices of the National Museum of Plastic Arts at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in Dallas, Texas. Artists: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo Includes: list of artworks in the exhibition, selected images
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Exhibition of Steuben Glass (open access)

Exhibition of Steuben Glass

Catalog from the "Exhibition of Steuben Glass," April 4–24, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: essay, list of artists and artworks in the exhibition.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clara Williamson (open access)

Clara Williamson

Catalog from the exhibition, "Clara Williamson: Paintings," February 29–March 21, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: list of artworks in the exhibition, selected images, biographical note.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printed Textiles on the Dallas Market...Bess Wood (open access)

Printed Textiles on the Dallas Market...Bess Wood

Catalog from the exhibition, "Trends in Contemporary Textiles/Printed Textiles on the Dallas Market: Bess Wood, Dallas," March 28–April 25, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: list of artworks in the exhibition.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Tenth Texas General Exhibition (open access)

The Tenth Texas General Exhibition

Catalog from the juried "10th Annual Texas General Exhibition," December 26, 1948–January 23, 1949, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and other venues. Includes: foreword, list of prizes and awards, list of artists and artworks in the exhibition, selected images.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
First Southwestern Print Exhibition (open access)

First Southwestern Print Exhibition

Catalog from the juried "1st Southwestern Print Exhibition," February 1–29, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: list of prizes and awards, list of artists and artworks in the exhibition, selected images.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nineteenth Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition (open access)

Nineteenth Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition

Catalog from the juried "19th Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition," May 2–30, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: list of prizes and awards, list of artists and artworks in the exhibition.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Famous American Paintings Assembled for the State Fair of Texas, 1948 (open access)

Famous American Paintings Assembled for the State Fair of Texas, 1948

Catalog from the exhibition, "Famous American Paintings," October 9–November 7, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Art for the State Fair of Texas. Includes: list of artists, biographical information, selected images.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Morning Star" departing Dallas]

Cotton Belt's "Morning Star" train No. 6, eastbound, headed by Engine No. 677, a Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, departing from Dallas enroute to Memphis, Tennessee.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Kansas Cityan" heads into Dallas]

Santa Fe's train No. 111, eastbound, enroute from Fort Worth over Texas and Pacific rails crosses the Trinity River bridge. This train, headed by Engine No. 1388, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, is bringing "The Kansas Cityan" into Dallas.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas and Pacfic train arriving in Dallas]

Texas and Pacific Railway's train No. 15, headed by Engine No. 715, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, arriving in Dallas in 1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Missouri - Kansas - Texas train near Dallas]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad train No. 7 headed by Engine No. 381, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, near Dallas in 1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cotton Belt train in Dallas]

Lonestar Southwesten Railway train No. 1, a Cotton Belt train headed by Engine No. 679, a type 4-8-2 locomotive arriving in Dallas.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Texas Special" entering Dallas]

First run of the "Texas Special" Engine No. 101 enroute from San Antonio to St. Louis on April 21, 1948 as it enters Dallas at 2:00 pm.
Date: April 21, 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Southerner" crossing the Trinity River in Texas]

One of the Texas and Pacific Railway's finest long-distance passenger consists, " The Southerner" train No. 8 eastbound, headed by Engine No. 908, a 900 class Mountain, type 4-8-2 locomotive, crossing the Trinity River Bridge, enroute from Fort Worth into Dallas.
Date: 1948~
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Texan" entering Dallas]

Breathing just a wisp of smoke, the Texas and Pacific's "The Texan" train No. 15 westbound, headed by Engine No. 715, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, pulls into the Dallas Union Terminal Station in 1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Texas Zephyr" leaving Dallas]

Fort Worth and Denver (Burlington) Railway's "Texas Zephyr" train No. 2 northbound, headed by Engine No. 551, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, departing from Dallas enroute on its legendary journey via Fort Worth to Wichita Falls, Amarillo, Trinidad, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver. Spanning a period of more than sixty years, dating from the "Gay Nineties", this was the most popular rail route connecting Colorado and Texas points.
Date: 1948~
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Sunbeam" locomotive in Dallas Union Terminal]

One of only three streamlined steam locomotives in regular service between Dallas and Houston Texas, the Southern Pacific No. 650, a class P-14 4-6-2 is being readied for its afternoon mile-a minute dash to Houston on the railroad's crack Sunbeam passenger run. Seen here at Dallas in 1948 after 11 years of service.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Texas Special" arriving in Dallas]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad's "The Texas Special" train No. 1 - Engine No. 390 - type 4-6-2 locomotive arriving in Dallas just prior to dieselization in 1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pacific train departing from Dallas]

Southern Pacific, Engine No. 650, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, heading Train No. 16 departing from Dallas in 1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pacific train in Dallas]

Southern Pacific's train No. 15 headed by Engine No. 651, a type 4-6-2 in Dallas, Texas.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History