Resource Type

[Photograph of Daniel Franklin Draper Outside of a Gazebo]

Photograph of Daniel Franklin Draper in front of a gazebo looking at the ground. Text on the back reads: "Band Stand at Taft [Daddy] 1927...Taft, Texas...Daniel F Draper estate."
Date: 1927
Creator: Fox Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of a Ship in the Ocean]

Portrait of a steel military ship in the ocean with a small boat beside it. The text on the back reads: "Houston Ship Channel"
Date: 1927
Creator: Fox Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Vera M. Townley, 1920]

Photograph of Vera M. Townley of McLennan Co., Texas from the abdomen and up.
Date: 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of an Oil Well]

Photograph of an oil well next to a dirt road. The text on the back reads: "oil field 1920...Mexia".
Date: 1920
Creator: Fox Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of a Group of Boys at YMCA Camp, 1926]

Photograph of eight boys at YMCA camp. Names listed on the back are "Allen Early, Walter Lacy, David Burnham, Lynn Alexander, Mert Colgin, Billy Griffis, Roane Lacy".
Date: 1926
Creator: Fox Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Felicitas Gobenau Sternberg]

Portrait of Felicitas Gobenau Sternberg, visible from the waist up. She is seated and posing with her hands crossed, palm-up in her lap. She was the wife of Daniel Sternberg, Dean of the School of Music, Baylor University.
Date: 1920
Creator: Vandamm
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Thomas Arnold School Ruins]

Photograph of the crumbling wall of a stone building, with piles of rocks surrounding the base of the wall. The stone wall has four windows with no glass, one of which (on the far left) has crumbled away, leaving a gaping hole. Scrub brush surrounds the wall on the right side, and a field is visible in the distant background beyond the right side of the wall. Handwritten notes and a white rectangular sticker on the back of the photo name Elizabeth Street Mosley, and indicate the photo was taken after a fire in 1924.
Date: [1924..]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Salado Creek]

Photograph of a flooded area between two buildings. The building on the left is short and long, with an overhang, while the other building is elevated on stilts. Some trees and foliage in the water at the bottom right of the photo. In the background, a line of trees and houses is visible. Handwritten notes and a white, rectangular sticker on the back of the photo, indicate the creek is Salado Creek during the floor of 1921.
Date: 1921?
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of University Hall at UT Medical School in Galveston]

Photograph of University Hall on the campus of UT Medical School in Galveston, Texas. According to the note on the back of the photo this was the "only medical school in the world with a dormitory exclusively for women," and was "built and given by George W. Brackenridge."
Date: [1922..1927]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group Photograph of Edith M. Bonnet and Others]

Photograph of Edith M. Bonnet, seated in the front right, with a group of five other people. One person is seated on a stone wall while everyone else is seated on the steps below.
Date: July 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[American Legion Men In Costume]

Photograph of a group of men from Travis Post 76 dressed in costumes for the American Legion Fool's Parade. The one on the far left is wearing a dress with a colander on his head, the next is wearing a sign that reads, "A Bath in Austin is 99% Chlorine Water". Next to him, a man is wearing a dress and a wig and holding a sign that is partially cutoff reading "Looking for the new hotel." and the final two are wearing suit jackets without pants.
Date: October 30, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[American Legion Parade]

Photograph of a group of individuals wearing various costumes, walking in an American Legion parade through a residential area. One man is in a cart pulled by a mule. There are three signs that read, "Travis Post 76 Austin, Tex.," "Travis Post American Legion," and "Looking for the New Hotel."
Date: October 30, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Entry in Fool's Parade

Photograph of a group of individuals lining up for an American Legion parade. There are three signs that read, "Travis Post 76 Austin, Tex.", "Travis Post American Legion", and "Looking for the New Hotel". The men are in costume. Some are in dresses, some are in tuxedo jackets without pants. A handwritten notes on the back reads, "Evidently they didn't know how to hold 'em." Individuals are named on the back of the print.
Date: October 30, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas School of Military Aeronautics]

Photograph of insignias on the wall of a building at the Texas School of Military Aeronautics.
Date: 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Our Camp on the Guadalupe River

Photograph of a house in a wooden area. A boy sits at some tables in front of the house. Two cars are parked alongside the house.
Date: September 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Children With A Goat-Cart]

Photograph of three children in a cart pulled by a goat in front of a brick house. One is standing next to the cart, while the other two are sitting in the cart. Signs on the cart read "Austin" and "1924". A red paper heart has been cut out and affixed to the upper right corner of the photo.
Date: 1924
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men in Costume for an American Legion Parade]

Photograph of a group of men marching in an American Legion Parade. Some are in dresses, others are in formal tuxedo jackets without pants. One is a clown. One of them is holding a sign that says "Travis Post 76 Austin, Texas":
Date: October 30, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[University of Texas School of Medicine Freshmen Class of 1922]

Photograph of the freshmen Class of 1922 at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston, Texas. The group is standing on the steps of "Old Red," all wearing formal attire; Edith Bonnet is standing in the center of the front row.
Date: 1922
Creator: White
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men Stand in Formation]

Photograph of a group of men standing in a formation at the Texas School of Military Aeronautics. Several men hold bugles and a few have drums.
Date: 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Vowell Hall, University of Texas at El Paso]

Photograph of the UTEP campus 1920-1921. Front right: Vowell Hall (Kelly Hall); Middle center: Old Main; Back left: Quinn Hall. Cars are parked along the street that passes between the buildings, and the street is near a stretch of dirt with arid shrubs. The bottom left of the photo has another street bending left.
Date: 1920/1921
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[El Paso Carnegie Library Lobby Stairs]

Photograph of stairs and table tops in the lobby of El Paso Carnegie Library.
Date: 1921
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Images of El Paso Carnegie Library]

Series of three photographs of the Carnegie Library in El Paso, Texas, which opened in 1904. The first image is of the front entrance, viewed from behind several shrubs; it is a two-story stone-and-brick building with stairs leading up to the entrance and classical-style architecture including Ionic columns. The text "Free Public Library" is in the stone above the entrance. In the middle image, labeled "circulation desk", a woman behind a long wooden desk is assisting a young woman; stairways and stacks are visible in the background, through tall arches. The bottom photo, labeled "second floor" shows a portion of the upper floor, including wooden railings around the walkway, doorways, and a light fixture on the ceiling; portions of the first floor arches and furniture are visible below.
Date: 1920~/1940~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Escontrias School]

Photograph of the front and right side of the Escontrias School in Socorro Texas. The building has an archway for the entrance, a flagpole and dirt ground out front, windows on the side of the building.
Date: 1924~/1934~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carnegie Library Lobby]

Photo of the front lobby of the El Paso Carnegie Library decorated for Christmas. A dark lacquered desk is on the right side of the photo, with an open door to the left. There are three archways with dark lacquered trim. There is a table with books in front of the archways, with Christmas decorations around it like a wreath and trees. People are sitting in the room beyond the archways reading newspapers.
Date: 1926-12~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History