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[Girl in Front of Wall]
Photograph of an unidentified girl standing in front of a portrait hanging on a wooden wall.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Man in Office]
Photograph of a man in an office within the Rockwall First Baptist Church. He is seated in front of cabinet doors, a bookshelf, and several diplomas hanging on the wooden wall.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Church Office Staff]
Photograph of a staff member of the Rockwall First Baptist Church, seated in a chair against a wooden wall. He wears a neck tie and has combed hair. A safe is visible along one of the corners of the wall (far right).
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["The Gift" Choir, Rockwall First Baptist]
Photograph of a "The Gift" choir, arranged in the main sanctuary of the Rockwall First Baptist Church, which is decorated for Christmas with poinsettias and biblical imagery. The choir members, wearing red stoles and holding, red choir books, stand in three rows behind the conductor's podium and music stand, in front of the pews, where congregants are seated. A logotype reading "The Gift" is projected or printed above the choir.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Passion Play: Jesus Carries the Cross]
Photograph of a stage reproduction of Jesus carrying a wooden cross. Actors dressed in the garb of Roman soldiers hold batons and a cat o' nine tails, standing around Jesus. Jesus wears a bloodied crown of thorns and a cloth around his legs. Cut-out paintings of trees and grape vines are placed behind the actors.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Passion Play: Jesus and Actors]
Photograph of actors of a passion play arranged by the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. A group of actors in linen headdresses and garments stand along the choir section of the church, in front of them standing a man in a suit and tie. In a niche above the choir section is an actor playing Jesus, dressed in a white robe.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Passion Play: The Last Supper #2]
Photograph of a stage reproduction of the Last Supper at the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. A church member, playing as Jesus, smiles to the camera while wearing Roman-era garb. He is surrounded by "apostles" gazing up at him, seated on all sides of a table covered with a white cloth and decorated with a loaf of bread and a goblet. Behind Jesus and the apostles are several women with head coverings and light-colored dresses.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Passion Play: The Last Supper #1]
Photograph of a stage reproduction of the Last Supper at the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. A church member, playing as Jesus, smiles to the camera while wearing Roman-era garb. He is surrounded by "apostles" gazing up at him, seated on all sides of a table covered with a white cloth and decorated with a loaf of bread and a goblet. Behind Jesus and the apostles are several women with head coverings and light-colored dresses.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Passion Play: Jesus' Resurrection]
Photograph of a passion play depicting Jesus' resurrection held by the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. He stands at center in a white robe, talking to a woman with in a black garment with a headdress. Behind the actors is a cardboard cut-out painting of Jesus' tomb and a rock rolled away from its entrance.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[First Baptist Church of Rockwall, Aerial Facing East]
Aerial photograph of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall and its surrounding neighborhood. The church grounds are at center, with two connected buildings; the office annex at left and the main church building at right. The small, square grove of trees below the main church is a cemetery, around which is cleared ground for the construction of the new sanctuary. The surrounding neighborhood contains suburb homes, small businesses, and a water tower east of the church (above).
Date:
April 19, 1999
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Passion Play: Jesus and the Three Marys]
Photograph of a stage reproduction of Jesus' resurrection by the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. Three actresses dressed with head coverings and linen dresses, playing the three Marys, kneel and smile in front of Jesus, who is dressed in the white garbs of resurrection. Behind the actors are other women and men in costume.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Certificate of Registration for Rockwell Baraca]
Certificate of registration issued by the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, certifying the Baraca Sunday school of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall's enrolllment into the convention's Organized Class Department.
Date:
December 30, 1921
Creator:
Southern Baptist Convention
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Pamphlet: "Together We Build"]
Church pamphlet summarizing a fundraising campaign to build a new classroom building for the First Baptist Church of Rockwall, including graphs displaying church growth, floor maps of the proposed building, and soliciting donations to the church. The pamphlet begins with a short history of the church, and includes a frequently-asked-questions page.
Date:
1991~
Creator:
First Baptist Church of Rockwall
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman on Typewriter]
Photograph of an unidentified woman at a desk working with a typewriter, sitting in an office room within the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The desk is covered with papers, and behind the woman is a clock, a door frame along the wall, and a wooden chair. A man stands in the corner (far left).
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Church Membership, Rockwall First Baptist 125th Anniversary]
Photograph of members of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall gathered for the church's 125th anniversary. They are gathered in a large crowd on a lawn in front of the church's worship center, facing South Goliad Street behind the photographer.
Date:
1977~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[1961 Rockwall First Baptist Congregation #4]
Photograph of a congregation of the Rockwall First Baptist Church in 1961. The church members, standing on the church's open lawn across Goliad Street, are arranged in rows, demarcated by ropes attached to stakes in the ground. Children stand closer to the front, and older people stand closer to the back. Two men hold up a paper sign reading "THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH MARCH 1961" in the very back of the gathered congregation.
Date:
March 1961
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Prayer in Sanctuary and Church Staff]
Photographs depicting a woman praying in the Rockwall First Baptist Church (left photograph) and a church staff worker at a desk with papers on his desk, a pen in his hand, and a shelf with books and papers behind him (right photograph).
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Choir Group, Old First Baptist Church]
Photograph of a choir group in the old Rockwall First Baptist Church, standing in the back of the sanctuary, wearing choir robes and holding choir books. The front of the choir section is decorated with a small shrub. A note on the back identifies Gholda McCowlskey in the front row, second from left (the writer's mother).
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[1961 Rockwall First Baptist Congregation #2]
Photograph of a congregation of the Rockwall First Baptist Church in 1961. The church members, standing on the church's open lawn across Goliad Street, are arranged in rows, demarcated by ropes attached to stakes in the ground. Children stand closer to the front, and older people stand closer to the back. Two men hold up a paper sign reading "THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH MARCH 1961" in the very back of the gathered congregation.
Date:
March 1961
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[1961 Rockwall First Baptist Congregation #3]
Photograph of a congregation of the Rockwall First Baptist Church in 1961. The church members, standing on the church's open lawn across Goliad Street, are arranged in rows, demarcated by ropes attached to stakes in the ground. Children stand closer to the front, and older people stand closer to the back. Two men hold up a paper sign reading "THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH MARCH 1961" in the very back of the gathered congregation.
Date:
March 1961
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historical Marker Ceremony: Marker and Two Men #2]
Photograph of the unveiling of a historical marker erected by the Texas Historical Commission in front of the Rockwall First Baptist Church. Two men stand on each side of the historical marker, facing forward. A crowd of people is scattered behind the marker.
Date:
1976
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historical Marker Ceremony: Crowd at Marker Unveiling #1]
Photograph of the unveiling of a historical marker erected by the Texas Historical Commission in front of the Rockwall First Baptist Church. A crowd of people stand along the sidewalk and around the marker, currently obscured with a covering wrapped around it. The corner of Goliath Street and Boydstun Avenue runs across the image, behind the crowd.
Date:
1976
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historical Marker Ceremony: Crowd at Marker Unveiling #2]
Photograph of the unveiling of a historical marker erected by the Texas Historical Commission in front of the Rockwall First Baptist Church. A crowd of people stand along the sidewalk and around the marker, currently obscured with a covering wrapped around it. The corner of Goliath Street and Boydstun Avenue runs across the image, behind the crowd.
Date:
1976
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[1934 Rockwall First Baptist Congregation]
Photograph of a congregation of the Rockwall First Baptist Church in 1934, gathered together in dozens atop a large field in front of suburban homes. Several cars are parked behind the crowd of people, especially at left. Children are seated along the front of the crowd. A note on the back indicates the type of gathering ("Open-Air church mtg"), and the church's pastor at the time, E. K. Daugherty.
Date:
1934
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History