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Final Plat of Lot 1, Block 1, J.K. Allen Farm: Being a Tract of in the Jud Rowland Survey, A-1294

Text of an official abstract describing a tract of land in White Settlement, Texas, with a plat map of the property and a vicinity map of the area.
Date: January 1984
Creator: SureTex, Inc,
Object Type: Technical Drawing
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Allen Family genealogy album] (open access)

[Allen Family genealogy album]

Collection of both original and reproductions of genealogy charts, documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, records, correspondence, and programs relating to the Allen family. Some records include Confederate tax receipts, state and county tax receipts, tax statements, and marriage licenses.
Date: unknown
Creator: Allen, Frances Marion
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Annie Belle Emery Bright photograph album of house on Routh Street in Dallas] (open access)

[Annie Belle Emery Bright photograph album of house on Routh Street in Dallas]

Photograph album created by Annie Belle Emery Bright depicting life at the Emery house on Routh Street in Dallas, Texas. The majority of the images includes both exterior and interior views of the house, the barn and animals, Emery family members and friends, people working outdoors, some outdoor recreational activities, and various outdoor scenes. There are a few photographs of headstones at a cemetery and a man and woman posing with a bicycle. None of the images are labeled with identities, locations, or dates.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Bright, Annie Belle Emery
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Archie Tucker]

Photograph of Archie Tucker, Ada Wren's son. He is visible from the chest up and wears a dark suit and tie. The photo is cut into a narrow oval and mounted on a cream colored board which has the studio imprint at the bottom right reading, "Gentry / Dallas." The back of the card has many inscriptions reading, "F.D. Emery / Ada Waa's son / Archie Tucker Dallas / Granma Emery's (cousin Mug's) grandson."
Date: unknown
Creator: Gentry
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aunt Cassie Brown]

Carte de visite photograph of Aunt Cassie Brown seated sideways in a wooden chair with one arm over the chair back. She wears a long sleeve dress with small checkers, buttons up the chest, a lace collar, and dark brooch. She looks to the side of the camera, and has her hair pulled back from her face, but hanging long over her shoulders and back. The card has a printed border about the image, and the back has the following inscription: "Aunt Cassie Brown / sister of of [illegible] / Brown (my mother) / who became Mrs. J W Emery / Aunt Cassie died / young. never married / DEA."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aunt Dollie Stirman]

Photograph of Dollie Stirman from the chest up. She wears a high collared white blouse with stripes of decorative lace going down the front. She has two small bows at the collar, wears wire frames glasses, and has her hair pulled up. The oval photo is mounted on a dark green or black board with embossed lines framing the photo. Along the bottom of the photo, written in pen, is the inscription, "Aunt Dollie Stirman."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aunt Dollie Stirman holding parasol in garden]

Photograph of Aunt Dollie Stirman seated in a wheelchair in the grass outside of a brick house. She wears a long white patterned dress and a white bonnet on her head. She holds a black parasol over her shoulder. A person hidden behind Dollie is partially visible with their arm sticking out and holding the outside edge of the parasol. There is a white boarder around the snapshot, and an inscription on the back reads, "Aunt Dollie Stirman / Grandmother Emery's sister."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aunt Dollie Stirman laid to rest in Kaufman, Texas]

Photograph of three women and two men standing next to a mounded grave, which is covered in flowers and wreaths. They all look down at the grave, and wear dark clothing. The women wear hats while the men hold their hats at their sides. A fence and foliage is visible to the right and behind them. The snapshot has a white boarder and the image is hazy around the edges. An inscription on the back reads, "Aunt Dollie Stirman laid to rest / Kaufman Tex. / Mrs P[illegible] / Maggie Hale / Eva Stirman Smith / Uncle Rollin / Fred Stirman."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aunt Effie and Harper Brown]

Cabinet card photograph of Aunt Effie and Harper Brown visible from the chest up. Effie wears a white dress with puffed shoulders, which has black pieces of fabric capping the shoulders and around her neck with a buckle. She wears wire framed glasses and has her hair twisted up in a bun on top of her head with a P shaped pin sticking out of the top. Harper wears a dark three piece suit with a mason pin on his vest lapel, an anchor on his tie, and another pin on his jacket lapel. He has a moustache. Both look to the side of the camera. An embossed imprint for the Hudson studio is at the bottom of the card. Inscriptions on the back read, "Brown / Harper," and "Aunt Effie Brown."
Date: unknown
Creator: Hudson
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[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] (open access)

[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] (open access)

[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 ] (open access)

[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.] (open access)

[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] (open access)

[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

[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