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[First Presbyterian Church in Waco]
Postcard of a color image of Waco's First Presbyterian Church, a large brick and stone building with a tower in the front and stained glass windows; there are trees lining the street corner and two automobiles on the intersecting streets in the foreground. Printed on the front of the postcard: "First Presbyterian Church, Waco, Texas." There are two handwritten notes on the back of the postcard.
Date:
September 6, 1934
Creator:
Auxiliary of the First Presbyterian Church
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard of Borger Street]
Postcard of Borger Street in Hutchinson County, Texas. It is a busy street lined with storefronts and crowded with early model automobiles. A banner hung across the street reads "White Way Dance." A wooden building on the far right is labeled (handwritten) Rig Theatre and has a sign "Theatre" on its facade. The caption on the image reads "Borger, Texas - World's Greatest Oil Field" and "Published by Gale Baker OIL FIELD PHOTO SERVICE Amarillo -- Borger -- Tulsa #55."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Baker, Gale
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Carnegie Library]
Postcard of the Carnegie Library, a brick building with a dome and columns by the entrance, with several trees in the foreground. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Carnegie Library, Temple, Texas." There is a handwritten note on the front of the postcard: "Do you remember one night during the carnival on there [...]" and another note that reads "Right x here" in the center of the postcard. There is handwritten correspondence on the back of the postcard.
Date:
March 27, 1907
Creator:
Black, M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[View of Temple]
Postcard of a color image of Temple, Texas from above with the Santa Fe Depot and train tracks in the foreground, and many other buildings and a sunset in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Birdseye View, Temple, Texas, Santa Fe Depot in Foreground." There is a handwritten note on the back of the postcard.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Black, Mrs. H. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Grace Methodist Church]
Postcard of Dallas's Grace Methodist Church, a brick and stone building with a tower and large stained glass windows, on a street corner with a tree in the foreground. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Grace Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas." The church was designed by William A. Cann.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Cann, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Church of the Assumption]
Postcard of a color image of the Church of the Assumption, a large stone building with a red roof, a tower, a rose window, and rows of stained glass windows; there are two people standing in front of the church and several houses in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Church of The Assumption, Waco, Texas. Rev. P. J. Clancy, Rector."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Clayton, Nicholas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Geronimo and U.S. guards on horseback]
Postcard of Geronimo, Apache Chief, and five U.S. Guards all on horseback in a grassy field. The writing in the middle of photo reads: "Geronimo, Alpache Chief, and U.S. Guard." The writing on the left says: "Copy write. 1907. By G. B Cornish. Arkansas City, Kansas."
Date:
1907~
Creator:
Cornish, G. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A Frontier Home]
Postcard of a frontier home with two men and a woman in front of it with a stove on the left and a long horn cow with it's head in a large wooden feed tub. The writing on the left of the picture reads: "Copyright 1907 by Geo. B. Cornish, Arkansas City, Kans." The writing on the right reads "A Frontier Home."
Date:
1907~
Creator:
Cornish, Geo. B. (George Bancroft)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Odessa Medical Center Hospital]
Postcard of a six story shopping center building that has eighteen windows on each story and smaller one story building attached in back. The windows on the both the large part of the building and the small part of the building face streets and meet up on a street corner with a wooden street lamp/phone line pole, with phone lines visible through the middle of the photo, and a one way arrow pointing to the left. The entrance is facing the one way street with a board that reads "Medical Center Hospital," on top of the cement awning that shades the entrance. On the back there is print on the top left that reads: "Odessa's 408-bed Medical Center Center Hospital is a county-owned institution staffed by all of the city's 69 Physicians ans Surgeons. It's a medical center for a wide area of West Texas, and is one of the most modern and finest equipped hospitals in the area."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Dexter Press Inc.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Odessa College Library]
Postcard of the Odessa College Library, in the center of the beautifully landscape junior college campus in Odessa, Texas. The photo is semi-framed by the tree branches at the top of the photo and distinct cropping of the postcard itself. The print on the top left of the postcard reads: "The Odessa College Library in the center of the beautifully landscape junior, founded in 1946, is considered one of the finest in the State, and allows full accreditation for the student planning to complete his education at a senior institution." The print on the bottom left on the post card reads: "16179-C." The print vertically across the middle reads: Published exclusively by Texas Color Cards, Box 286, Leakey, Texas." The horizontal writing on the bottom in the middle reads: "dp made by Dexter Press, Inc. West Myack, New York." The wring on the right hand side in the middle that is in a font mimicking calligraphy reads: "Post Card." There is a box that is made with a dotted line with the writing "Place Stamp Here" printed inside the box.
Date:
1946~
Creator:
Dexter Press, Inc.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Street in Rankin, Texas]
Postcard of a street in Rankin, Texas. The dirt street is lined with storefronts and early model automobiles. The caption on the image reads "Main St. Rankin, Texas. (Doubleday)."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Doubleday
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oil Gusher in Beaumont, Texas]
Postcard of a group of men observing an oil gusher. The men are standing directly beneath the oil rig and are facing the camera. In the background of the photograph, there is a barn with a fence around it. The caption on the image reads "Oil Gusher, Beaumont, Tex."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
E. Szafir & Son Co.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Springs at Big Springs, Texas]
Postcard of the springs at Big Springs, Texas. There is a body of water in the foreground of the photograph with rock crevices behind it. On top of the crevices there are trees and a fence.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
F. J. Schaaf Card Company
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Winkler County Court House]
Postcard of the Winkler County Court House in Kermit, Texas. The inscription on the back reads, "Winkler County Court House Kermit, Texas. This view shows the modern court house of Kermit, Texas. Located at the lower corner of New Mexico in the Panhandle of Texas, it is close to Carlsbad Caverns, Big Bend National Park and Mexico. Main industries are cattle raising and oil fields with the skyline occasionally broken by oil derrick rigs. Published by F. J. Schaaf, Alamogordo, New Mexico."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
F. J. Schaaf Post Card Company
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Sanger Avenue School]
Postcard of Waco's Sanger Avenue elementary school, a large, two-story brick building, with hundreds of students posing in several rows, standing and sitting, in front of the school and more students standing in the windows inside the school. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Sanger Avenue School, Waco, Texas 692 Pupils."
Date:
May 26, 1931
Creator:
Gildersleeve, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Academy of the Sacred Heart in Waco]
Postcard of a colorized photograph of Waco's Academy of the Sacred Heart, a large, two-story red brick building with two rows of windows, with a row of trees in front of it. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Academy of the Sacred Heart, Chartered 1875, Waco, Texas." There is a handwritten letter on the back of the postcard.
Date:
September 27, 1911
Creator:
Isley, Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Burkburnett Oil Field]
Postcard of the Burkburnett oil field, including a number of wooden derricks and small wooden buildings with a cloud of smoke or steam obscuring parts of the center of the image. The caption on the image reads "Burkburnett New Field Nov. 1-19 Kodak Shop."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Kodak Shop
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Northwest From City National Bank]
Postcard of a color image taken from the City National Bank looking down onto a street corner with a large two-story building with several people standing in front of it, other buildings on the left and right, a horse-drawn carriage, an automobile, and a trolley in the street on the left side, and more buildings and houses in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Looking Northwest from City National Bank, Temple, Texas."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Lackey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Sonora, Texas Main Street]
Postcard of streets, the court house, and cowboys at Sonora, Texas. The street is lined with storefronts and mid-century automobiles are parked and drive on the roadway. A courthouse is seen at the far end of the street in the background and the caption on the image reads "Main Street Sonora, Texas Lippe Studio."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Lippe's Studio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Tank Struck by Lightening]
Postcard of a large cloud of smoke and fire on a flat landscape. The caption on the image reads "P. F. Co.'s 55,000 bbl. Tank struck by lightening Aug 5 1912 Electra Texas Loden Foto."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Loden Foto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Will Rogers Postcard]
Postcard of Will Rogers wearing a hat, tie, and cowboy boots holding a lasso with a decorative border around the image. "Will Rogers. America's foremost philsopher. Copyrighted by Dr. W. A. Maddox, Lubbock, Texas" is printed on the front of the postcard.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Maddox, Wm. Allen, D. D. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Barracks and Tents at Camp MacArthur]
Postcard of two rows of barracks and several groupings of tents at Camp MacArthur; there are trees, hills, and more barracks and tents in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Camp MacArthur Waco Texas."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Mann, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Brazos River by Camp MacArthur]
Postcard of the Brazos River with various vegetation and rock formations along the river bed. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Brazos River. Near Camp MacArthur in Waco Texas. © F. Mann 10-11-17."
Date:
October 11, 1917
Creator:
Mann, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Company Street at Camp MacArthur]
Postcard of a dirt road lined with tents on both sides and a group of five soldiers in uniform and hats on the right and two soldiers standing on the left; there are other soldiers, houses, and telephone poles in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "No. 1. A Company Street. Camp MacArthur, Waco Texas. © F. Mann. 10/20/17."
Date:
October 20, 1917
Creator:
Mann, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History