Selective Service Card (open access)

Selective Service Card

Selective Service Certificate for Lois Maxwell "Buddy" Sinclair. Sinclair registered for Selective Service on December 13, 1942. Sinclair lived at 1612 South Akard in Dallas, Texas and served in the 36th Infantry Division.
Date: December 13, 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[220 W. Reagan - Grant House]

Photograph of the west side of the "Grant House," a two-story, Queen Anne-style house located at 220 W. Reagan (on the corner of W. Reagan and S. May streets) in Palestine, Texas.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[410 Avenue A - Palestine Daily Herald Building]

Copy negative of the Palestine Herald building on the 300 Block of Avenue A in Palestine, Texas. It is a one-story, red-brick building with white masonry accents; the word "Herald" is in white stone in the center, near the top.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[922 N. Link - Joost Ozment House]

Photograph of the front and north side of the "Joose-Ozment House," a white, two-story frame house located at 922 N. Link in Palestine, Texas, taken from the corner of Pine and Link streets. It has a balanced, orderly exterior with a classical façade, including round columns along the front porch and larger two-story columns on either side of the front door.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1108 N. Jackson - Rusk School]

Photo of the Rusk School after renovations, but before the address was changed to 420 W. Palestine Avenue from 1108 N. Jackson.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial Photo of Palestine]

Aerial view of the city of Palestine looking toward the north; Magnolia and Sycamore streets are visible, running north-to-south and crossing Main Street near the center of the image.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial View of Lacy Street - Palestine]

Aeriel view of Lacy Street with the home of Caldwell Green pointed out on the edge of the photo
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bengal Guards on Train to Chicago

Photograph of the Bengal Guard on a train to Chicago. There are at least eleven women wearing light-colored coveralls with the words, "Bengal Guard, Orange, Tex." printed on the back. In the center is Lewis Gay, a man in a cowboy hat, boots, western shirt and tie leaning over another man with a small girl on his lap. Lewis Gay was the Drill Master of the Bengal Guards in the late 1930s. Another girl sits on the lap of a woman on the right side of the frame. Some of the women wear head scarves, jewelry, or glasses. In the lower left corner is an open magazine. Behind the group are open wooden blinds and a lamp is on the wall. Everybody is smiling.
Date: 1940/1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Best Service Station - Palestine]

Photograph of the Best Service Station - Palestine
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Best Service Station - Palestine]

Photograph of the Best Service Station - Palestine
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Big Bratton Drug Store]

Photo showing the interior of the Big Bratton Drug Store - man on left is Orin Cutter, man in hat is Dr. Bratton and first man on the right could possibly be Earl Butler. The rest are unidentified.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

City buses parked on both sides of a town street

Photograph shows city buses and cars parked on both sides of a town street in front of various stores such as J.P. Penny Company, Green's and Williams Drugs Prescriptions.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crossing the Catfish Creek - Anderson County]

Photo of a truck crossing a makeshift bridge across what is beleived to be the Catfish Creek in the northwestern part of Anderson County.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Davey Lake Dogwood Trail]

Photo of the Davey Lake Dogwood Trail, which is located in the Davey Dogwood Park, near Palestine.
Date: 1940~
Creator: George A. McDonald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Demolished House]

Photo of a house that had been demolished in Palestine.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Demolition of a House]

Photo of the last remaining fireplace of a large house that was demolished in Palestine.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Demolition of a House]

Photo of the demolition of a large house in Palestine.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Don Sims]

Headshot portrait of Don Sims wearing a naval uniform including a dark shirt with light stripes and hat. It is inscribed on back: " These pictures wouldn't have been half as good as they were if it hadn't been for you. I'll never forget them. You made it seem so easy, and now I say Thanks from the bottom of my heart. "Till I come Home" As Ever, Don."
Date: 1940~
Creator: Briggs, Osjetea
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Downtown Palestine]

Photo of downtown Palestine.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fifth Street Looking North]

Photograph of Fifth Street in Orange, Texas, looking north. Cars and businesses line the street.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Baptist Church - Palestine]

This is a photo of the First Baptist Church, which is located on Kolstad Street in Palestine.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Parsonage in Port Arthur, Texas]

Photograph of the First Christian Church parsonage in Port Arthur, Texas.
Date: 1940
Creator: J.C. Watkins Photography
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[I&GN Railroad Hospital - 919 S. Magnolia]

Copy negative of the front and north side of the International & Great Northern (I&GN) Railroad Hospital located at 919 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is a three-story, metal-framed, brick-faced hospital along with an outbuilding (the Nurses' Home), visible on the right side of the image. The building has a box-like massing with some Classical Revival detailing, especially around the primary entrance. The wide, cast stone bands divide the exterior into three components and emphasize the horizontal massing of the building.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of Children]

Information from back of photo: Girls (Left to Right): 1. Olive Sammons 2. Mary E. Bentley 3. Modenia Johnston 4. Verlean Schochler 5. Betty Jane Weeks 6. Mrs. Gerty Howard 7. Mary V. Cotton 8. Lomar Henson 9. Mafrey ? P. Owens 10. Mary L. Fenton 11. Flory Groom Boys: 1. Jeff Fortson 2. Forest L. Williams 3. Edward Matthews 4. Billy Pebworth 5. Phillip Gray 6. Pat Ryan 7. Shelby Smith 8. Cecil Perry 9. Clyde Gibson 10. Sam Cohen 11. Spegle Berry 12. Harry Whitehouse 13. John Freeman ? 14. Billy Beeler 15. Webb Williamson.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History