In 1921, Fort Worth’s Congregation Ahavath Sholom introduced the rite of Confirmation, the graduation from religious school that coincides with the Jewish holiday Shavuos when Moses received the Ten Commandments. This picture shows the twelve, 14-year-old girls in the Confirmation class wearing white dresses, holding flowers and certificates rolled up like scrolls. The students are seated in two rows and are identified as: Row 1: Lena Shosid (Cooles), Fannie Herman, unidentified, Hannah Byrens, Bess Lipshitz (Cohen), unidentified Row 2: Sarah Shosid (Bloomberg), unidentified, unidentified, Leah Goldstein (Gerson), unidentified, unidentified An article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of June 3, 1921, named each confirmand and also listed Dorothy Cohen, Rose Weinstein, Bertha Mosier, Ida Mosier, Edna Lipshy, and Esther Ablon. Each confirmand addressed the congregation. They completed a course of study in Jewish history, religion and literature.

Photograph of the students of Birdville School in 1921 all posing together in front of the brick building outside. Two students are on bikes and the others are either standing or sitting on the ground.

A book promoting Fort Worth for business and conventions.

Young boy sitting in a wagon harnessed to a goat. Traveling photographers in the 1920's and early 1930's would occassionally go out and photograph children in small carts that were harnessed to goats.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Grapevine in Tarrant County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Grapevine in Tarrant County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Grapevine in Tarrant County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Grapevine in Tarrant County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Booklet presented by the Grapevine Public Schools outlining the school information for the various grade levels; one of the pages discusses the classes of 1920 and 1921 saying that some of them have already gone on the college and have already started "making good." Many of the pages contain advertisements for nearby businesses.

Graduating class of 1921 on steps of Fort Worth Colored School. School later renamed I.M. Terrell.

Fort Worth Colored High School. High School for blacks. The school was later named I.M. Terrell

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mansfield in Tarrant County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mansfield in Tarrant County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mansfield in Tarrant County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mansfield in Tarrant County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mansfield in Tarrant County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mansfield in Tarrant County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Postcard of the Masonic Home for the Aged in Arlington in 1921. The front of the postcard features a photograph of the building and garden in front with the sky hand colored blue.

Photograph of a street scene in Ft. Worth, Texas. Inlaid in the brick road are trolley tracks and on the road are a few people and horse-drawn buggies. On either side of the road are large business buildings and sidewalks lined with railings. There is a sign on the left side of the road that reads, "Majestic Theatre, Moder Vaudeville, 2 Performances Daily." There are also many telephone and electric poles and wires.

Yearbook for Texas Woman's College in Fort Worth, Texas, which includes photographs of and information about the school, administration, student body, faculty, and organizations.

Patent for rules and slugs that are quickly and easily arranged and that lock securely to make a type form, including one illustration.

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, national, and religious news along with extensive advertising.

Patent for a monkey wrench that "can be adjusted for different sizes of nuts by the same hand which is using the wrench...and which may also be used as a pipe wrench" (lines 16-21).

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, national, and religious news along with extensive advertising.