6th Ward School in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1893

Photograph of a large group of schoolchildren with their teacher in front of the 6th Ward School House in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1893. There are twenty-five boys, seventeen girls and one teacher. Some of the boys are seated or kneeling in the front row and the girls are taking up most of the middle row, standing. The boys are wearing knickers and jackets with boots and the girls are wearing dresses with jackets. There is a very large wooden door and arched doorway behind the group.
Date: 1893
Creator: Bryant Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bird's Eye View Map of San Antonio, Tex.

Pictorial map of San Antonio showing buildings and streets with a river running through the middle of the city; the map is surrounded by business advertisements. On the back are four pages of text with a variety of articles including an article about Texas climatology, a map of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway routes, a series of anecdotes, and two pages of biographical sketches with illustrations of the people and animals they describe.
Date: December 1891
Creator: San Antonio Light
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Branding on the Half Circle 84 Ranch

Photograph of cowboys branding cattle on the Half Circle 84 Ranch in New Mexico during the 1890s.
Date: 1890~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brands, Vol. 1 (open access)

Brands, Vol. 1

Handwritten directory of brands associated with ranches mainly located in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Directory is arranged alphabetically by brand. Volume one covers A through T.
Date: [1890..1899]
Creator: Cattle Raisers Association of Texas.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brands, Vol. 2 (open access)

Brands, Vol. 2

Handwritten directory of brands associated with ranches mainly located in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Directory is arranged alphabetically by brand. Volume two covers U through Z, and the numerical brands.
Date: [1890..1899]
Creator: Cattle Raisers Association of Texas.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

C.S. Branum on His Cutting Horse

Photograph of C.S. Branum of New Mexico on his 5 year old paint horse, which was a cutting horse, in 1896.
Date: 1896
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chief Quanah Parker Visiting Quanah, Texas

Photograph of Quanah, Texas when Chief Quanah Parker visited on July 4, 1896. The Fort Worth and Denver Railway station is at the left. Over 250 Comanche braves rode horses in the parade with Parker and three of his wives.
Date: July 4, 1896
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Circular of the Secretary of the National Association of Veterans of the Mexican War] (open access)

[Circular of the Secretary of the National Association of Veterans of the Mexican War]

Circular from the Secretary of the National Association of Veterans of the Mexican War informing the veterans of the stipulations of a new pension program.
Date: December 25, 1892
Creator: Kenaday, Alex M.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Denner-Record and Capps Building in Ft. Worth, Texas

Photograph of the Denner-Record building and the Capps building on Fifth and Throckmorton Streets in Ft. Worth, Texas. The building is five stories tall and brick with a fire escape. It is surrounded by a sidewalk that is lined with bicycles and horse-drawn buggies. On the left side of the frame is a church tower and on the right is a sign that reads, "SUCCESS".
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Distribution of the Population of the United States: 1890

This map of the United States is shaded in brown tones according to the population of the area.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Census Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Emanuel Hebrew Rest Cemetery]

Photograph of the 1898 funeral of David Linsky (1850-1898) at Emanuel Hebrew Rest Cemetery in the 1400 block of S. Main Street in Fort Worth. Many horse-drawn buggies and drivers surround the cemetery, which is on a dirt street two miles south of downtown. Linsky, 48, was a member of Woodmen of the World, a fraternal lodge which provided the tombstone for his grave.
Date: 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Employees of First National Bank of Fort Worth, Texas, 1893

Studio photograph of ten employees of the First National Bank of Fort Worth. All of the men are wearing suits with vests, five are wearing watches with chains, four are wearing bow ties, four are wearing neckties, and one is wearing a corsage. Two of the men have beards and mustaches and four have mustaches. Four men are seated on chairs in the front row. They are on top of a rug and in front of a fake backdrop. In the back row from left to right is J.M. Tewmey, T.P. Martin Jr., Norman Enelson, J.W. Valliant, Taylor Cupp, and J.P. Smith Jr. In the front row from left to right is W.D. Peak, M.B. Loyd, E.B. Harrold and T.W. Slack.
Date: 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of Men]

Photograph of a group of men all wearing tuxedos for the Walter Want and Maude Watkins wedding on July 2, 1892. Front row L-R: Horace Luckett (Portland, Oregon), Al Jordon, Harry Robertson. Back row L-R: Sam Turis, Dr. Ike Mayfield (best dentist), Jim Reed.
Date: July 2, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of Pioneers]

Photograph of a group of men and women pioneers. L-R: Fay Turner-now Mrs. J.B. Chase of Boston, Ray Orgain-artist and designer in NY, Grace Elser-now Mrs. Hammett Hardy, May Tarlton and John Tarlton, with guitar, Bert Rose and Grace Hollingsworth behind, Gene Orgain, Lena Evans-now Mrs. Ed Callier of Dallas, Maurice Winfrey with parasol, Frances Tarlton-now Mrs. Lee Ellis.
Date: 1897~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks, December 3 1891] (open access)

[Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks, December 3 1891]

Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks in the amount of fourteen dollars and ninety-six cents for the year 1891. R.W. Boyce (240 acres) and Isaac Morris (91 acres) were the original grantees. This document is signed by collector B.W. Morris.
Date: December 3, 1891
Creator: Morris, B.W.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks, December 8 1897] (open access)

[Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks, December 8 1897]

Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks for the year 1897 in the amount of sixteen dollars and ninety-six cents. The original grantees were R.W. Boyce and J. Morris. The document is dated December 8, 1897 and was signed by S.P. Snider.
Date: December 8, 1897
Creator: Snider, S.P.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks, December 23 1890] (open access)

[Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks, December 23 1890]

Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks in the amount of sixteen dollars and ten cents for the year 1890. R.W. Boyce (240 acres) and Isaac Morris (91 acres) were the original grantees. This document is signed by collector B.W. Morris.
Date: December 23, 1890
Creator: Morris, B.W.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

In Loving Rememberance of Mrs. Mattie H. Cook

Printed card remembering Mrs. Mattie H. Cook, who died on Dec. 9, 1893 at age 38. Her name is printed on an image of a Bible and a poem is printed below. The poem reads, "We miss thee from our home dear; We miss thee from thy place; A shadow o'er our life is cast; We miss the sunshine of thy face We miss thy kind and willing hand, Thy fond and earnest care; Our home is dark without thee- We miss thee everywhere."
Date: December 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference.: of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, held in Waxahachie, Texas, November 18-23, 1896. (open access)

Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference.: of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, held in Waxahachie, Texas, November 18-23, 1896.

Journal proceedings of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, resolutions, by-laws, memoirs, and statistical tables.
Date: 1896
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference, of the Methodist Epsicopal Church, South. (open access)

Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference, of the Methodist Epsicopal Church, South.

Journal proceedings of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the proceedings, appointments, memoirs, report of boards and committees, and statistical tables.
Date: 1898
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference, of the Methodist Epsicopal Church, South, Held in the City Hall, Fort Worth, Texas, November 15th-21st, 1893. (open access)

Journal of Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference, of the Methodist Epsicopal Church, South, Held in the City Hall, Fort Worth, Texas, November 15th-21st, 1893.

Journal proceedings of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, supplemental reports, constitution and by-laws of the Northwest Texas Conference Brotherhood, memoirs, and statistical tables.
Date: 1894
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lena Ellis on her 5th Birthday, 1894

Studio photograph of Lena Ellis on her fifth birthday. Her hair is short, dark and parted in the middle. She is wearing a large, long white dress with a sash and poofy sleeves. Her shoes are black with buckles and she holds a bouquet of flowers in her right hand. She is standing on top of a grass pile with a wooden fence behind her. Printed beneath the photograph is, "Works, Cor. 3rd and Main Streets. Fort Worth. Tex." Written is, "Lena Ellis".
Date: August 30, 1894
Creator: Works
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from David T. Crockett to Martha Parks and Family, April 17 1897] (open access)

[Letter from David T. Crockett to Martha Parks and Family, April 17 1897]

Letter from David T. Crockett to Martha Parks and Family. The letter is dated April 17, 1897, and is written on Menger Hotel stationery.
Date: April 17, 1897
Creator: Crockett, David
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Granbury, Texas, April 15 1892] (open access)

[Letter from Granbury, Texas, April 15 1892]

Letter from Granbury Texas dated April 15, 1892
Date: April 13, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History