[Photograph of Man Standing Against Backdrop with Bicycle]

Photograph of a man standing with a bicycle in front of a novelty Wild West backdrop. The man is wearing a hat, a button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, loose slacks held up by a belt, and shoes with laces. He is holding an open book and has a long, straight tube under his arm. The bike is leaning against his right hip. On the back of the photograph are markings making the photo usable as a postcard, a photographer's stamp, and handwritten notes about the photo.
Date: 1936
Creator: Jones Photographic Co.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Souvenir Photo Card] (open access)

[Souvenir Photo Card]

Ticket stating that the original bearer had a candid photograph taken of them during the Texas centennial event.
Date: 1936~
Creator: Movie Snap Co.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Agricultural College Commencement Program, June 2, 1934 (open access)

North Texas Agricultural College Commencement Program, June 2, 1934

Program for the North Texas Agricultural College commencement ceremony for the graduating class of 1934. Includes a list of graduation candidates and events.
Date: 1934
Creator: North Texas Agricultural College
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Program for the Tony Sarg Theatre Presentation at the Texas Centennial Exposition] (open access)

[Program for the Tony Sarg Theatre Presentation at the Texas Centennial Exposition]

Program for the Tony Sarg Theatre exhibit at the Texas Centennial Exposition. It contains the names and synopses of several marionette plays.
Date: 1936
Creator: Redpath Lyceum Bureau
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Alexander Freeman Wearing a Hat and Overalls]

Portrait of elder Alexander Freeman outdoors while wearing a dark hat, buttoned shirt, and overalls. He is squinting and looking off-camera to the left.
Date: 1930~
Creator: Studers
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Winnie Freeman in Front of a Window]

Photograph of elder Martha Winnifred "Winnie" Drew Freeman. She has greying hair and wears eyeglasses and a gingham dress. A wooden building and two windows are visible behind her.
Date: 1930~
Creator: Studers
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Western Union Telegram to Texas Centennial Visitor] (open access)

[Western Union Telegram to Texas Centennial Visitor]

Form telegram from Western Union to Texas centennial visitors. It states that it is a souvenir from the Western Union exhibit at the centennial event.
Date: July 16, 1936
Creator: Western Union Telegraph Company
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Abner and Sarah Davis Standing by a House]

Photograph of Abner and Sarah Davis standing together near the porch of a house. Abner has a bushy mustache and is wearing a coat and trousers. Sarah is a larger woman wearing a pale dress and apron.
Date: 1930
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invitation: Gatesville High School Commencement Exercises, May 27, 1937] (open access)

[Invitation: Gatesville High School Commencement Exercises, May 27, 1937]

Invitation to the Gatesville High School Commencement Exercises, held on Thursday, May 27, 1937, at 8:30 p.m., in the high school gymnasium.
Date: 1937-05~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Maxwell Family Members with Musical Instruments]

Copy print photograph of members of the Maxwell family together in a fenced-in yard. Thurman, Herman, and Raymond Maxwell kneel while respectively holding a violin and two guitars. A young girl, Gladys Maxwell, is dressed in a white dress and hat and stands between Thurman and Herman. A young boy with a guitar sits on Raymond's knee. Houses are visible in the background.
Date: 1930
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People Standing in a Yard by Two Houses]

Photograph of a group of people standing together in front of two wooden houses. An elderly woman, Frances Elizabeth Miller Gibbs, stands to the left, while two young women, Billie Catherine Courtney and Mary Eileen Courtney, stand in front of a adult woman, Nora Gibbs McKay, in the center. A man, Neal McKay, stands to the right.
Date: 1938~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Art Deco Building at Texas State Fair]

Photograph of an art deco building at the Texas State Fair grounds, taken at an angle from across the Esplanade fountain (a long, narrow pool of water arranged parallel to the building). There are two portico entrances sticking out from the building - one in the center, and one on the left - each of which has two rectangular columns and an alcove in the center of the front wall of the portico. In front of the building are small shrubs, flags lined up along the fountain, a tall pillar in between the two entrances, and a woman walking out of shot on the right. There is a decorative border around the photo, and on the back, there is a note about the location and date.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Black Forest Exhibit at Texas State Fair]

Photograph of long strip of multi-story, gable-roof buildings, each one in a different architectural style. The left-center building has a large, cubic clock tower coming out of the apex of the roof, while the building in the right-center of the strip is solely a tower, connected to its neighbor on the left by an enclosed bridge. A sign above the opening created by the bridge reads "Black Forest," and is flanked on either side by hanging flags. On the ground in front of the building are two guardhouses, a snowman statue, and two men walking towards the building. There is a note about the location and date, handwritten on the back of the photo.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Building Entrance at Texas Fair]

Photograph of an entrance to a light-colored art deco style building at the State Fair of Texas. The entrance itself sticks out from the building, has two tall columns in front of the doors, a short flight of steps leading to the ground, and a tall, narrow window on either side of the opening. In front of the building is a small patch of grass in the middle of a concrete drive, which leads to a road running parallel to the building. There is a small group of people wearing hats and sitting on a bench facing the building, three people walking past the building heading right, and a man descending the entrance steps. There is a decorative border around the edge of the photo, and on the back, there are handwritten notes about the location and date.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Centennial Hall at State Fair of Texas]

Photograph of the middle and right entrances to the Centennial Hall at the State Fair of Texas, taken from across a wide, narrow fountain pool, at an angle from the left. The art-deco style building has four columns and an alcove in the front-center of each entrance, is surrounded by small shrubs and trees, and has five flags on flagpoles between the building and fountain. There are large light boxes lining the far side of the fountain. The sky beyond the building is clear. There is a handwritten note on the back about the location and date on the back of the photo, as well as a decorative borders around the edge of the front.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of China Exhibit Building at Texas State Fair]

Photograph (taken at an angle from the left) of a two- or three-story building with East Asian hip-and-gable roofs that turn up at the corners and four open entryways (two hexagon-shaped and two circular), partially hidden by a large tree. The building has several parts to it, of varying heights and shapes, including a short portion with a covered balcony and a tall tower with a double-tiered roof. Along the street that runs in front of the building, there are two cars parked facing away from the camera and a curved street-lamp with light fixtures all along the curve, and a small, rectangular trash can. There are shrubs and potted plants in front of the light-colored building, as well as a bench in front of a hexagon-shaped, open entryway on the left. On the back, there is a note about the photo's location and date.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Concession Stand Vendors at Texas Fair]

Photograph of two men in aprons and shirts with rolled up sleeves (one with a newsboy cap on), leaning on either side of the corner of a covered, wooden shack. The shack has a counter that wraps around the whole structure, except where the man on the left has opened a small door and is leaning. There are Coca Cola advertisements painted all the way along the front of the counter. On the back wall of the shack (at left) there are hanging and standing cabinets of various shapes and sizes. There is a note about the date and location written on the back of the photo.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Cowboy Sculpture in Front of Building]

Photograph of a sculpture of a cowboy pulling on the reins of a horse and lifting a rifle above his head with one hand, as he looks back over his left shoulder. There is a light-colored stone building and shrubs in the background, a man and woman walking behind the sculpture, and a person sitting in a chair in the entrance to the building. There are handwritten notes about the location and date on the back of the photo.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Cowboy Sculpture in Front of Museum]

Photograph of a sculpture in front of the entrance of a large, light-colored stone building with two cubic columns and text over the entrance that reads, "Dallas Museum of Fine Arts." The sculpture is a cowboy pulling on the reins of a horse and lifting a rifle above his head with one hand, as he looks back over his left shoulder. There are small trees in the area to the left of the entrance, a man and woman walking behind the sculpture, a person sitting in a chair on the left side of the entrance, and a man and woman walking in the entrance on the right. There are handwritten notes about the location and date on the back of the photo, as well as a decorative border around the photo.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Cumberland Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Room]

Photograph of the inside of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church sanctuary, taken from between two rows of curved, wooden pews near the front of the sanctuary. From left to right, there is a piano (with a stack of books on the top) and stool, a chair in front of a small platform, and a pulpit on the platform at the front of the room. There are two tall, narrow windows in the walls on either side of the narrow room, patterned carpet on the floor, and a door in the center of the back wall. There are handwritten notes about the location and date on the back of the photo.
Date: 1931
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Dallas U.S. Terminal Annex Building]

Photograph of a four-story, light-colored building with windows along every floor. There is a flagpole with an American flag on top, lettering on the front of the building that reads "United States Terminal Annex," and parallel-parked cars along the street in front of the building. A fire hydrant sits beside the street on the left. The photo's date and location are written on the back.
Date: September 9, 1937
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Dinosaur Exhibit at Texas State Fair]

Photograph of a diorama depicting two dinosaurs facing off against each other. The dinosaur on the left is a Triceratops, while the dinosaur on the right is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. A small sign on the base of the exhibit (fake rocks) gives information about the T-Rex. A rectangular building with small cross-hatch windows and a skinny tree are visible in the background. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo indicate the model was part of the Sinclair Oil Company Exhibit at the State Fair of Texas.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Diorama with Covered Wagon Pulled By Oxen]

Photograph of a diorama with four oxen pulling an American western-style, four-wheel, covered wagon along a long stretch of ground. The wagon model, visible from the side, has a small barrel and plow on the "wooden" siding, while the oxen are wearing small yokes around their necks. There is a note about the location and date written on the back of the photo.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Diorama with Vaqueros and Horses]

Photograph of a diorama that includes two vaqueros in chaps, sombreros, and vests, a campfire, a horse with a saddle and lasso on its back, and a mule with a pack on its back. There are also twigs, meant to represent trees and brambles, stuck into the diorama's base. The model rests on a dark, smooth surface, and is set against s a light-colored, blank backdrop. There is a note about the location and date written on the back of the photo.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History