Resource Type

[Photograph of Students Having Lunch]

Photograph of of Eanes Rock School House students about to eat lunch outside. The children are lined up and looking towards the camera and there are trees in the background of the picture.
Date: April 1940
Creator: Eanes Rock School House
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students Having Lunch Outside]

Photograph of Eanes Rock School House students about to eat lunch outside. The children are lined up and looking towards the camera and in the background of the shot there are trees. On the back of the photograph, "R58" is printed as well as "APR 1940".
Date: April 1940
Creator: Eanes Rock School House
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students in a Wagon]

Photograph of Eanes Rock School House students on a field trip to San Antonio to see the Alamo. The students are piled into a wagon that is stopped at a gas station and on the back of the photograph "Eanes History Center" is handwritten in pen as well as "R70" is printed.
Date: April 1940
Creator: Eanes Rock School House
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Oil Derrick Explosion]

Photograph of a well fire engulfing a derrick. Men are seen on the right foreground running towards the camera. The caption on the photograph reads "Skelly-Amarada Univ. No. 1 Ector County Photo taken the instant the well burst into flames - Jack Nolan."
Date: April 26, 1930
Creator: Nolan, Jack
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Abilene Firefighter Captain Ancel A. "Curley" Hughes]

Photograph of Abilene Firefighter Captain Ancel "Curley" A. Hughes wearing a light-colored suit and tie.
Date: April 4, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Abilene Police Academy Class Number Twelve]

Photograph of the Abilene Police Academy Class Number Twelve. The men of the class are wearing light-colored uniforms with black shoes, belts, and ties and are photographed in full-length, front-facing poses. Pictured left to right are Joe Cheyne, Phillip Hill, Melvin Martin, Richard Thorton, Tim Burns, and Tom Adams.
Date: April 1968
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial View of Bell Avenue]

Photograph of an aerial view of Bell Avenue in Denton, Texas, with the Civic Center Pool (designed by O'Neil Ford) on the right and various other buildings in the foreground and background.
Date: 1978-04~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial View of TWU Campus]

Photograph of an aerial view of the TWU campus showing the gymnasium building, swimming pool, and the ACT building, which was still undergoing construction, with rows of houses and trees in the foreground and background.
Date: 1976-04~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[City of Denton Employee with Equipment]

Photograph of an unidentified City of Denton employee wearing a red trucker hat and a t-shirt holding a wire connected to various electronic equipment resting on a desk with wood paneling in the background.
Date: April 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[City of Denton Machine Shop]

Photograph of the City of Denton Machine Shop (at 414 E. Hickory Street), a large brick warehouse with frosted windows and a faded sign that reads "Municipal Machine Shop. 414 E. Hickory."
Date: April 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[City of Denton Solid Waste Employees]

Photograph of two unidentified City of Denton Solid Waste employees loading various discarded items into a garbage truck.
Date: 1978-04~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Civic Center Park]

Photograph of the rocket slide and various other playground equipment (merry-go-round, swing set, slide) at the Civic Center Park in Denton with trees and a blue sky in the background.
Date: April 1976
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Coldwall Calvert on Horseback]

Photograph of Coldwell Calvert on horseback with a fence and trees in the background.
Date: April 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ensign Fountain in the Civic Center Park]

Photograph of of the rock footbridge and the Ensign fountain at the Civic Center Park with trees in the foreground and background.
Date: April 1976
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Goodnight's Buffalo]

Photograph taken from across a plain of a herd of Charles Goodnight's buffalo grazing with mesas and clouds in the background.
Date: April 3, 1915
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Intersection of Carroll Boulevard and Hickory Street]

Photograph of Carroll Boulevard at Hickory Street looking south with Linwood Roberson Florist on the right and several cars driving down Carroll. There are telephone poles on the right side of the street, a grassy median in the middle of Carroll, and several houses and trees in the background.
Date: April 17, 1974
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Intersection of Hickory and Locust]

Photograph of a crosswalk at the intersection of Locust and Hickory Streets facing the Jagoe Abstract building with Craven's in the background and several cars driving down Hickory on the right.
Date: April 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jefferson Davis Elementary School]

Photograph of the Jefferson Davis Elementary school (located at Davis and Wood streets), a single-story yellow brick building with a flagpole flying the US and Texas flags in front of it; in the foreground there are cross walks, a fire hydrant, and a telephone pole, and there cars parked in front of the school on the right, and trees and houses in the background. The school was built in 1950. The building later became the Ann Windle School for Young Children, and now serves as the location for the Davis School; the Denton Independent School District's Disciplinary Alternative Education Program.
Date: 1976-04~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Last Day at Washburn School]

Photograph of faculty (far left) and students posing, standing and sitting in several rows, in front of the Washburn School, a two-story brick building, on the last day of classes; the boys are wearing dark suits and ties and the girls are wearing light-colored dresses and many have bows in their hair.
Date: April 20, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man and Dog in Front of House]

Photograph of an unidentified man and a dog standing in front of a large snow drift on the side of a single-story house with a windmill, trees, a wooden fence, and other houses visible in the background.
Date: April 9, 1919
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mathew Palm and Boys on Boulder]

Photograph of Mathew Palm and three young men (possibly his sons) standing and sitting on top of a large boulder with trees and hills in the background and more boulders and trees visible in the foreground.
Date: April 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mathew Palm and Family on Rock]

Photograph of Mathew Palm sitting on top of a large boulder with two women wearing light-colored dresses and hats and a young man wearing a dark suit, with another woman wearing a light dress and hat standing on a smaller rock on the right, and a cliff behind them in the background.
Date: April 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mathew Palm and Family Sitting on Boulder]

Photograph of Mathew Palm and his family sitting on a large boulder with trees in the background; Palm and his wife are sitting in the back with their three children (two young women and a young man) sitting in front of them. The men are wearing dark suits, ties, and hats and the women are wearing light-colored dresses and hats.
Date: April 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mathew Palm and Son Behind Rocks]

Photograph of Mathew Palm and his son sticking their heads out from behind two large boulders; there are several boulders and vegetation in the foreground and another family member is partially visible in the background.
Date: April 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History