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Poscard of Scrivner's Store

Postcard showing E.H. Scrivner, owner and proprietor of Scrivner's Store in Paul's Valley Oklahoma, shaking hands with himself. The store is covered with various signs.
Date: June 29, 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

Elsie McClain Huff's store across from old high school, 1929

Photograph of the interior of Elsie McClain Huff's store. Various food items are displayed on the shelves along with chairs in front of the store counter.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Empire Builder" at Puget Sound]

Great Northern Railway's "Empire Builder" train No. 31, westbound, traverses the route along Puget Sound, nearing Seattle, 1929.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Flying Crow" rolling through Eastwood Hills, Missouri]

Kansas City Southern Railway's " The Flying Crow" train No. 15, southbound, rolls through Eastwood Hills, Missouri enroute from Kansas City to Shreveport, Louisiana, circa 1925. The train is headed by a beautiful Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive with a Vanderbilt oil tender.
Date: 1929~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Sunshine Special" near Forney, Texas]

Texas and Pacific's " Sunshine Special" train No. 2, eastbound, headed by Engine No. 909, a 900 class Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, rolls through Texas countryside near Forney on a summer day in 1929. The Texas and Pacific Railway had five locomotives of the 900 class which were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1928 and these went into service in 1929. They were Numbers 905, 906, 907, 908, and 909.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carolyn Street Scott]

Carolyn Scott
Date: 1928
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sanger High School Class of 1929]

Front row: Arlon Newton, Keno Lusk, Lawrence Horst, Clinton Enlow, Willard Ashley, Grady Woods Second row: Lucille Miller, Linnie Bess Draper, Frances Jackson, Mary Sue Lusk, Faye McClendon, unknown, Maybell Montgomery, Jennie Dee Bronuagh Third row: Oran Campbell, Clarabell Bentley, unknown, Mildred Touchstone, C. O. Mitchell, Linnie Mae Melton, unknown, Ida Pearl Nance, Alyne Seal, L. I. Samuels Back row: Jess Schmidt, John Ezell, Harris Brewer, J.P. Hampton, unknown, J.B. Harper, Frank Burchard, Carl Ganzer, Claudie Allred
Date: 1928
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sanger School class picture 1928, grade unknown]

1928 Class photograph, grade unknown. Students not yet identified.
Date: 1928~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sanger School class picture 1928, Third grade]

Mrs. Winnie Minick's third grade class of 1928 Front row: Harry Lyons, Jr. , unknown, Jimmy Williams, Buford Chestnut, Hugh Pate, Guy Hurd, unknown, unknown. Second row: unknown, unknown, Betty Rector, Anita Hicks, unknown, unknown, Louise Brackney, Edna Mae Sims, Irene McCracken, Olita Ezell. Third row: Only the teacher, Winnie Minick, is known. Back row: Jack Hampton, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, L.N. Landers, unknown, unknown, Gober McClellan.
Date: 1928~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tractors in front of O.M. Gentle Hardware store]

Six Mccormick Deering tractors and a touring car stand in front of the building on the corner of Fourth and Bolivar Streets. Building in the background is under construction.
Date: 1928~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sanger Fire Department (Part 1 of 2)

Firemen and their trucks, March 19, 1927. Listed on second photograph , from left to right, George A. Sullivan, Chas Milligan, W. D. Lewis, Glen Rieger, A. H. Haynie, A. L. Gentle, W. B. Chambers, Jno McClendon, R.E. Gentle, H. W. Ezell, Jno Hughes, Otis Jones and Chief Bud Gentle. Members not in the picture: Butler Boydstun, Chester Ausband, Jeff Cornett, and Jim Kline. The top of the Sanger School is seen in the background.
Date: March 19, 1927
Creator: Chas. E. Carruth
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sanger Fire Department (Part 2 of 2)

Firemen and their fire trucks, March 19, 1927. Sanger Fire Department members from left to right: Otis Jones, Chief Bud Gentle (standing), A. G. Nance, Joe Hughes, Alton Gentle, S. C. Moore, L. B. Daniels, D. C. Gheens, G. W. Sullivan, Troy Stinson, Elmer Hulse, Jack McReynolds, Jno Richardson. Members not in the picture Butler Boydstun, Chester Ausband, Jeff Cornett and Jim Kline. Taken on the square in Sanger, looking north.
Date: March 19, 1927
Creator: Chas. E. Carruth
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ad for the Palestine Fair & Agriculture Association - Palestine]

Ad for the Palestine Fair & Agriculture Association Annual Exhitition and Races. Ad's include photos of the proposed racetrack and grandstand.
Date: 1926~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Annie Ruth Crews - 1926 graduation from 8th grade

Photograph of Anne Ruth Crews. Crews is shown in a white dress holding a diploma. The photograph was taken in recognition of her 8th grade graduation.
Date: 1926
Creator: Stanford Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photo of the buildings along Spring Street]

Photo of the buildings that faced Spring Street, including the O'Neill Hotel, the O'Neill Drug Store and the Bus Station.
Date: 1925~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of The Great White Way - Spring Street]

Postcard taken c. 1925 of Spring Street, a street that was once knicknamed "The Great White Way" because of the streetlights running down the center of the street. Note the train depot on the right and the business on the left.
Date: 1925~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sanger Sewer System Map]

This is a 1942 copy of a 1923 sewer map of Sanger, Texas. The map indicates the location of dwellings, churches, mercantiles, industrial areas, and the Santa Fe depot. The diagram documents the location of 33,067 linear feet of sewer lines, 36 manholes, and 33 cleanouts.
Date: May 25, 1923
Creator: Dalton, E. L.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sanger High School Class of 1928-29]

Graduating class standing on the steps of school in cap and gown. It is known that Esta Lou McReynolds, Ida Pearl Nance, and J. B. Harper are included in this group.
Date: 1923
Creator: Border Fox Tone Picture
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sanger School class picture 1922-23, Fifth Grade]

Only a few of these children have been identified. Names corresponding to the numbers on the photograph: #2 Tommy McDaniel, #4 Helen Ruth Gentle, #5 Arlan Newton #6 J. P. Hampton, #8 Ida Pearl Nance, #10 Faye McClendon, #13 Bill Burroughs, #18 Alyne Seal, #21 Frank Burchard. Other names listed but unable to place with number are Morris, and Pauline Carson. All others are unidentifed.
Date: 1923~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sanger School class picture 1923-24, Third Grade]

Mrs. Winnie Minick's Third grade class of 1923-24 Front row: first four unknown, Ocie Isbell, Jessie Alice Isbell, unknown, Alma Cowling Second row: Winnie Minnick, unknown, unknown, Florene Horst, Jessie Hopkins, next five unknown Back row: T. H. Pritchett, unknown, Hugh Wilfong, unknown, unknown, Maedell Isbell, Bessie Brown, Gale Draper, Alma McClendon
Date: 1923~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Textile Special" brochure]

Brochure of the "Textile Special" which ran only once. It traversed a distance of about 1965 miles through the Lone Star State. As a sequence of the publicity engendered as new era of industrial development dawned in Texas.
Date: 1923
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Debris after a 1922 Blowout in Orange Oil Field]

Photograph men standing on debris, mostly lumber, after a blowout in an Orange, Texas oil field on August 5, 1922.
Date: August 5, 1922
Creator: Allen, L. L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Debris after a 1922 Blowout in Orange Oil Field]

Photograph men standing on debris, mostly lumber, after a blowout in an Orange, Texas oil field on August 5, 1922.
Date: August 5, 1922
Creator: Allen, L. L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Highland Park, Texas Depot]

The new Highland Park, Texas Depot of the Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad (KATY) which opened on July 1, 1922 and closed on July 1, 1965.
Date: July 1922
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History