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[Science classroom at West Texas State Teachers College]

Photograph of a science classroom at West Texas State Teachers College in Canyon, Texas. Tables holding several microscopes are in the foreground, cases and cabinets along one wall hold equipment, models, and a human skeleton.
Date: 1924
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wellington High School, commercial department

Photograph of a classroom in the Wellington High School building. Flat-topped wooden desks and matching chairs are arranged in the room, with a larger desk at the front, below a chalkboard. A second classroom is visible through windows in a partition separating the rooms. The architect for the building was Guy A. Carlander.
Date: March 12, 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tulia High School]

Photograph of the newly built Tulia High School. It is a two-story stuccoed building with a clay tile roof. The front entrance is arched. There is a automobile parked at the front of the building. Several very small trees have been planted along the front of the building.
Date: 1924~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Homemaking class at West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of women in a sewing class in the Home Economics Department of West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. The women are seated at large tables or at sewing machines, working on sewing projects. A woman standing at the back of the room may be Home Economics Professor Anne Wood.
Date: 1921~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Canyon High School basketball team, 1925

Photograph of the 1925 Canyon High School basketball team. The players and coach are photographed against a studio backdrop, with six players seated and six players and a coach standing behind them. Eleven players are wearing basketball uniforms, one is wearing a letter sweater and tie, and the coach is dressed in suit and tie. The player in the center of the front row is holding a cup trophy on top of a basketball. A hand-printed sign at his feet reads "Won 15 straight games." One player is identified on the verso as Delbert Lowes who is seated, second from the right.
Date: 1925
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

First unit, Alice Landergin School, Amarillo, Texas

Photograph of Alice Landergin elementary school in Amarillo, Texas, probably taken soon after the building was completed. The building is of brick and has a clay tile roof. It has three decorative arched doorways and a decorative band around the building. In front of the building is the flagpole. The architect of the school, Guy A. Carlander, is named on the verso.
Date: September 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wellington High School, Wellington, Texas

Photograph of a science classroom in the Wellington High School building in Wellington, Texas. Single-piece student desks are attached to the floor. A larger desk is at the front of the room, partially covered by books and papers. A lab sink and faucet are at one end of the desk, and a lab burner is attached to a gas jet on the desk. To one side of the desk is a wooden barrel with a glass aquarium sitting upon it. Part of a wooden cabinet is visible at the front of the room. Behind the teacher's desk an open doorway leads into another room. A chalkboard is mounted at the front of the room, and against the wall to the right is a stand on which large paper documents are held. The architect for this school building was Guy A. Carlander.
Date: February 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Texas Panhandle-wide school fair]

Photograph of the Crosby County and Potter County display areas at the Texas Panhandle-wide School Fair. The areas display student artwork, photographs, handicrafts and other objects. Three women are seated in the booths.
Date: 1922~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dining room at Cousin's Hall

Photograph of the dining room of Cousins Hall at West Texas State Normal College, Canyon, Texas. The room has rows of tables covered with white tablecloths, surrounded by high-backed wooden chairs. Each place is set with silverware, and stacks of plates are on each table. A potted plant sits at the center of each table.
Date: 1920~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Northwestern game, 1921

Photograph of a football game at West Texas State Normal College. The field is viewed from above, with a play in progress. Spectators and parked automobiles line the far side of the playing field and a few houses and other buildings are visible in the background.
Date: 1921
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

High School, Tulia, Texas, sewing room, domestic arts

Photograph of the domestic arts classroom in Tulia, Texas High School. The room has wooden tables with chairs on one side, and a row of sewing machines on the other. A glass-fronted cabinet holding clothing is in one corner, and a smaller wooden cabinet is in another. An open door is at the front of the room.
Date: 1924~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Texas Panhandle-wide school fair]

Photograph of the Armstrong County area at the first Panhandle-wide School Fair. An indoor display area features artwork, photographs, handicrafts, preserved food and many other objects.
Date: 1922~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wellington High School, Wellington, Texas

Photograph of a newly built high school in Wellington, Texas. The two-story brick building features Gothic-style stone ornamentation on the front façade and parapet. Pointed arch windows are above and on either side of the entryway. The architect of the building was Guy A. Carlander.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tulia High School, Tulia, Texas]

Photograph of Tulia High School about the time of its completion in 1924. The front of the two story stucco building is shown. It features an arched entryway at the center, rows of windows on both stories, and a tile roof. Some construction equipment and debris are visible in front of the building.
Date: 1924
Creator: Beery Foto
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Teachers College football game in 1928]

Photograph of a football game played at West Texas State Teachers College in Canyon, Texas. A play is in progress, with spectators watching from bleachers on the far side of the field. A few reserve players are seated on the far sideline.
Date: 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College swimming class]

Photograph of a women's physical education swimming class at West Texas State Normal College. Four groups of women are standing in the pool, in pairs or groups of three, with one woman being held up out of the water by her two companions. There are windows at one end of the room and along one side wall, and a diving board is visible in the foreground.
Date: 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tulia High School

Photograph of Tulia, Texas High School. The two-story building is stucco with a clay tile roof. Viewed from the back, there are four basketball goals in a yard outside.
Date: 1924~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tulia High School, Tulia, Texas]

Photograph of the nearly complete high school in Tulia, Texas. The building is a two-story stucco with a band of brick on the lower part of the building. The roof is clay tile and has a large chimney. One wing has several arched windows. There are a two ladders leaning or standing by the building.
Date: 1924
Creator: Beery Foto
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tulia H.S. chemistry lab

Photograph of the Tulia High School chemistry lab. The room has counters with built-in sinks and drawers below. On one wall is a large glass-fronted cabinet holding bottles. Next to the cabinet is a glassed-in fume hood with a vent pipe going into the wall. The ceiling is gridded using wood slats.
Date: 1924~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Our first mascots at WT

Photograph of of two bison calves that were the mascots for West Texas State Normal College in 1922. The two calves are standing in a wooden enclosure.
Date: 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Teachers College basketball team]

Photograph of the West Texas State Teachers College basketball team. The studio portrait shows the eleven-man team standing and seated in rows, wearing team warm-up clothing with the word buffaloes lettered on the front. Tea members are identified on the reverse:. Bottom row, l to r: Elvis Ward, Pat Gerald. Middle row: Coach S. D. Burton, Cleatice Crump, Cleveland Jones, J. D. Hazlewood. Top row: Delbert Lowes, R. F. Newman, Clifford Keith, Hatcher Brown, Boyce Bandy, and Buster Brown.
Date: 1929
Creator: Terry Studio
System: The Portal to Texas History

White Deer Gym, Oct. 1929

Photograph of the newly built brick school gymnasium in White Deer, Texas. The front facade of the two story building is seen. In the foreground is a L-shaped concrete walkway leading to the door and two sawhorses and construction debris.
Date: October 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Clarendon schools]

Photograph of Clarendon, Texas school buildings. The three-story building in the foreground served as a junior high school when constructed. It is built of brick and has a decorative parapet, with other decorative elements on the front façade. Part of the high school building, built in a similar style, is visible in the background.
Date: 1922~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

High School, Childress, Texas

Photograph of the newly built Childress High School in 1926. The building is 2-story brick, has a front entry with three decorative arched windows, and has two white columns on each side of the front door. There is a flagpole in front of the building. A dirt road is parallel to the front of the building. On the side of the building there is an arched doorway.
Date: 1926
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History