Ledger containing the minutes for the Ahavath Sholom Ladies Cemetery Society in Fort Worth, including proceedings of meetings, decisions and projects, and financial records.

Ledger containing financial records for the Ahavath Sholom Ladies Cemetery Society in Fort Worth, including deposits, collected dues, disbursements, and other financial transactions.

Funeral program for William Madison McDonald, born June 22, 1866 and died July 5, 1950. The funeral was held on July 5, 1950 at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. S. R. Prince. Funeral arrangements were made through Polk and Bailey Funeral Home Directors and he was buried in Old Trinity Cemetery, now Oakwood Cemetery, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Directory of Black churches in the Fort Worth area with photographs, addresses, congregation sizes, and short histories and descriptions. The churches are organized alphabetically, by denomination, with a table of contents on page 2.

Booklet providing information about the Deliverer Life Insurance Company, one of the first life insurance companies for Black people in Fort Worth. It includes background about the establishment of the company; a list of employees with portraits and information about affiliations and experience; and a table of insurance premiums sorted by age.

Photograph of the Mary Louise and Ralph W. Thornton house on 2764 Nies Street, Fort Worth. The house is a single story-home with a small square porch in front of the front door, its windows covered with awnings printed with the letter T on the front. A dark-colored car is parked in front of a garage along the right wall of the house, accessible from the road by a gravel path, and bushes and small plants are planted in the front lawn and along the front of the building.

Photograph of a 3rd anniversary celebration for Reverend C. A. Holliday at the Greater St. James Baptist Church. Rev. Holliday is standing in front of a wooden pulpit along other church leaders and choir members standing in rows behind him. A thermometer measuring cash donated for the church building fund has been placed between large bouquets of flowers in front of the pulpit, and a banner for Rev. Holliday is hung along the back wall of the church.

Photograph of Ralph W. Thornton posing with his coupe, possibly a 1954 Ford Sunliner, parked in the driveway of his house. He leans against the passenger-side door and smiles widely, suburban homes visible behind him.

Photograph of visitors in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden hedge maze. Three adults are accompanied by a child and walk along a hedge wall. An empty barrel and a small wooden covering is beside them. An advertisement billboard and a streetlight is visible behind the hedges. The former site of the hedge maze is currently occupied by the botanical garden's vegetable garden.

Photograph of the Rose Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden in 1956, looking northeast. A large rectangular field of roses and shrubs on a flat plain of grass is prominent at center. A corner of the garden's former hedge maze is visible at bottom right. The covered pavilion of the Lower Rose Garden at the top of the "rose ramp" is located at middle right above the rose field, alongside a road where three cars are parked. The road goes into the background into an area of shrubs and large, tall trees.

Photograph of a lobby inside the Rock Springs Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Two black couches with red cushions and white flower vases on both sides, backs facing each other, sit at the center of the image, with a white square coffee table visible in front with red wooden chairs adjoining it on a beige carpet. Two pairs of white tables with two white chairs each sit on the right side of the image, with a medium-sized tree in between. A Christmas tree is visible behind the couches. Windows, lined black, are visible on the southern and western sides of the room.