[Photograph of Two Girls Standing Behind Painted Scene]

Photograph of two girls at the Texas State Fair posing together behind a scene painted with the image of hula dancers. They are identified as Mary Catherine Newton (right), and Marilyn Brown (left).
Date: October 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Five Girls Standing Behind Painted Scene]

Photograph of five girls at the State Fair of Texas, standing together behind a scene painted with the image of three people riding in a car. They are identified as Bev Cull, Martha Warden, Mary Newton, Jane Morrill, and Marsha Caffey. Lipstick imprints are visible on the back.
Date: October 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Three Girls Standing Behind Painted Scene]

Photograph of three girls at the Texas State Fair, standing together behind a scene painted with the torso of a barefoot woman in a tattered dress who is holding the torsos of two infants behind a soapy washtub. The girls are identified as (left to right) Mary Catherine Newton, Lana Wallace, Sharon Burden.
Date: October 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Three Women Standing Behind Scene]

Photograph of Roianna Chandler, Mary Newton, and Sharon Burden at the Texas State Fair, posing together behind a scene painted with three female torsos wearing evening dresses.
Date: October 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[State Fair of Texas Exhibitor's Ticket for Lizzie Smith] (open access)

[State Fair of Texas Exhibitor's Ticket for Lizzie Smith]

Exhibitor's ticket for the State Fair of Texas. The light orange ticket bears the signature and photograph of Lizzie Smith. In the photo, Smith wears a dark dress and eyeglasses and stands in front of a painted lake scene. Squares on the top of the ticket are filled with numbers from eight to twenty-three, and the first three have been marked with a hole punch. The letters "SFT" have been punched into the card and a red stamp pressed into its back.
Date: October 10, 1949
Creator: State Fair of Texas
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History