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

["Texas Special" arriving at Highland Park Station]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's "Texas Special" train No. 2, northbound, headed by Engine No. 388, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, arriving at Highland Park station, enroute from the Dallas Union Station to St. Louis.
Date: December 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Train at Gainesville, Texas depot]

Engine No. 306, an American type 4-4-0 locomotive, heads the Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's train No. 31 westbound, which is standing at Gainesville, Texas' depot enroute from Denison to Wichita Falls on June 23, 1940.
Date: June 23, 1940
Creator: Mizell, Charles M.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Man next to street car

Man standing next to street car in front of house. There is another street car in the background.
Date: April 10, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Man next to street car (close up)

Man standing in front of street car. Coca-cola sign in background
Date: April 10, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Street car

Austin Street Railway Company street car.
Date: April 10, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Trueman O'Quinn, city attorney for Austin

Trueman O'Quinn seated at desk in Law Library
Date: March 6, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin Street Railway Co.

Austin Transit Bus headed for Country Club
Date: February 2, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin Street Railway Co.

Line of buses parked outside near tracks
Date: February 2, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
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

[Advent of the Streamliners]

This photograph portrays the dawn of a new era in railroading - advent of the streamliners in the late 1930s and early 1940s, plus modernization of the " Age of Steam" streamlining steam motive power. The splendor of Southern Pacific's "The Sunbeam" is shown. This train went into service between Dallas and Houston on September 15, 1937 - traversing the rail distance: 265 miles in 265 minutes. The consist of eight lightweight cars is headed by Engine No. 652, a Pacific type 4-6-2 streamlined steam locomotive with disc drivers, air horn and equipped with a Vanderbuilt tender (an oil burner).
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

[C.H. Meriwether]

Photograph of C.H. Meriwether around 1940.
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