[Day Laborers]

Photograph of a group of day laborers sitting and standing on the side of the road near Eagle Drive and South Bell Avenue with a small house, trees, and telephone poles in the background.
Date: 1984~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas Building Side]

Photograph of of the back of the Texas Building, a large five-story building with a fire escape, with a "FINA" gas station sign and a pickup truck in front of it; the photograph was taken before the building was renovated in 1994.
Date: 1984/1988
Creator: Glover, Julie
System: The Portal to Texas History

[City of Denton Employee Painting Fire Hydrant]

Photograph of an unidentified city of Denton employee kneeling in the grass panting the top of a fire hydrant blue with a tree and flowers in the background.
Date: July 1982
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Path and Footbridge in Civic Center Park]

Photograph of the path and footbridge that run between City Hall and the Civic Center in the Denton Municipal Complex. The path is lined with bushes and there is shrubbery, trees, and other plants on both sides of it.
Date: June 1981
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

[Paving U.S. 380]

Photograph of five unidentified City of Denton Street Department workers laying down asphalt on a portion of the road on U.S. 380 (also known a University Drive) just across from the Holiday Lodge at 1112 E. University Drive. There is a truck with asphalt in its bed on the left and several businesses visible in the background on the right side.
Date: April 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Road Work on US 380]

Photograph of an unidentified man operating a yellow asphalt compactor on the north side of US Highway 380 East across from the Holiday Lodge motel with another vehicle behind him and street lights and other businesses in the background.
Date: April 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Card Catalog at the Emily Fowler Library]

Photograph of an unidentified woman with a baby on her lap sitting next to a child looking at the card catalog at the Emily Fowler Library in Denton. A Mexican brick floor is visible in the foreground and there is an American flag, tables, and bookshelves and a portrait of Emily Fowler visible in the background.
Date: 1981-03~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The Mill Fountain]

Photograph of '"The Mill" fountain, a brown metallic sculpture designed by sculptor Arnold Austaad, in front of the Emily Fowler Central Library with several large boulders in the foreground and trees in the background.
Date: 1981-03~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Addition to the Emily Fowler Library]

Photograph of the upper level addition to the Emily Fowler Central Library, Denton Public Library, taken during construction from the pedestrian bridge that runs across Pecan Creek, facing north. The bridge and creek are visible in the foreground, and there are trees in the background behind the library.
Date: 1980-11~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[City Hall Fountain and the Addition to the Emily Fowler Library]

Photograph of a fountain and a couple of Weeping Willow trees outside Denton City Hall. Across Cottonwood Creek is a view of construction of the addition and the south side of the Emily Fowler Central Library in the background.
Date: 1980-11~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Pecan Creek]

Photograph of Pecan Creek looking west with the Emily Fowler Central Library on the right and City Hall on the left, and many trees in the background.
Date: 1980-11~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Girl on a Slide at North Lakes Park]

Photograph of a young girl on a slide with several unidentified women and children standing in front of a swing set in the background. The carnival themed playground equipment was located at North Lakes Park.
Date: June 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Children Playing at Park]

Photograph of an unidentified young man and several children near some covered picnic tables at a park in Denton, with trees and a grill in the foreground and more trees and houses visible in the background.
Date: March 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[City of Denton Engineers]

Photograph of four City of Denton engineers sitting at their drafting desks; three men face the wall on the right side, the man in the middle is David Ayers, and the man on the far right corner is Charlie McKenna. Roger Wilkinson is on the left facing a window. There are rolled up blueprints on desks on the left. What appears to be a pin-up girl calendar is on the right wall. Mr. McKenna has an ashtray on the corner of his desk.
Date: February 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Construction of the Central Fire Station]

Photograph of construction of the Denton Fire Department Central Fire Station just west of Cedar Street with McKinney Street running to its north side and City Hall West in the background. On the right two workers with hats and shovels are standing behind a cement truck and on the left side two people are watching them work.
Date: February 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Construction on Carrol Boulevard]

Photograph of two unidentified men working in a ditch along Carroll Boulevard in Denton; there is a track-hoe behind the ditch and several trees, other vehicles, and telephone poles in the background.
Date: February 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Denton Wastewater Treatment Lab]

Photograph of an unidentified man testing water samples at the City of Denton Wastewater Treatment Lab; there is a lab table with bottles of various sizes on it with larger jugs of water on another table in the background.
Date: 1980~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Playground at a City of Denton Park]

Photograph of two unidentified City of Denton Parks and Recreation workers inspecting a wooden bridge on playground equipment at a park with Denton Parks and Recreation vehicles and trees in the background.
Date: 1980~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[City of Denton Service Center]

Photograph from above of the City of Denton Service Center, where various types of city-owned equipment were housed and maintained, a lot with rows of vehicles parked on it and a warehouse on the left. In the background streets with rows of houses and trees are visible.
Date: October 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial View of Denton Municipal Airport]

Photograph of from above of Denton Municipal Airport, consisting of a single landing strip and two hangars, with a single airplane visible on the ground and empty fields in the background.
Date: June 1979
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

[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

[Training Fire]

Photograph of a multi-company fire drill at the Fire Training School at Texas A&M in College Station with fire streams coming from both sides and billows of black smoke in the background as a team of firefighters advances in the middle, probably to shut off a gas valve. The man in the foreground wearing a cowboy hat is Denton Fire Chief Jack Gentry, who was an instructor there every year.
Date: 1978~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History