Fort Worth Association of Women's Clubs Fiftieth Anniversary Observance (open access)

Fort Worth Association of Women's Clubs Fiftieth Anniversary Observance

Program for the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Fort Worth Association of Women's Clubs including a short history of the club, formed for regional African American women's clubs, and a short itinerary of events held for the celebration. Also featured are photographs of local clubs alongside felicitations and local advertisements.
Date: 1967
Creator: Fort Worth Association of Women's Clubs
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sephas Business School: 1965, Our Tenth Year (open access)

Sephas Business School: 1965, Our Tenth Year

Pamphlet providing information about Sephas Business School, a private school run by I. E. L. Sephas in Fort Worth. it includes a short history of the school, lists of graduates, students, and instructors, with local advertisements.
Date: 1965
Creator: Sephas Business School
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Discussing the Voter, Urban League]

Photograph of three individuals discussing voting education in Fort Worth, Texas. At left is Herman M. Sweatt, director of the southern regional office of the Urban League, who hands a "Planning Effective Non-Partisan Voter Education Campaigns" pamphlet to Marion J. Brooks (center), doctor and local civil rights leader, and an unidentified woman (right) looking onward.
Date: 1963
Creator: Turner, John
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Marie and Marion Brooks with Don Yarborough]

Photograph of Don Yarborough, Texan Democrat gubernatorial candidate, in the Brooks' house in Fort Worth. At left is Marie Norris Brooks, who pours Yarborough (right) a drink from an ornate pot wguke Dr. Marion "Jack" Brooks (center) looks on and smiles. Along the foreground is a table with dessert foods, and in the background, past the archway, is a low table with teacups and other party guests.
Date: 1962~/1964~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lower Rose Garden with Snow]

Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden covered with snow. At bottom center is the "rose ramp", a wide set of triangular arrangements of roses bordered with short hedges with a water stream running along concrete steps down the middle of the ramp and stairs along both sides of the flowers. Below the "rose ramp", at center is a rectangular pond with shrubs and bushes on each corner, and several polygonal beds of flowers lined with hedges, all of which are covered in white snow. Above the garden is a narrow frozen lake lined with bare white trees. Along the bottom foreground is a metal barricade covered snow.
Date: April 1962
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mary Daggett Lake Library]

Photograph of the Mary Daggett Lake Library at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The library, located in the Rock Springs Center, contains bookshelves along the four corners of the room. At center is a wide gray fireplace with a portrait of Mary Daggett Lake hanging above, with bookshelves lined with books on both sides of the fireplace. At center, set upon a large rug, is a wooden table with two adjoining, cushioned wooden tables and a large white book atop it, as well as a pair of reclined white armchairs with adjoining white lamps behind the table. At right there is a large, tiled window, from which the fragrance garden is visible.
Date: [1963..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wood Pile, Botanic Garden]

Photograph of a wood pile at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, where a worker stands chainsawing a piece of wood from a cut trunk. The wood pile sits on a field of dirt along branches and boulders, and two shed-like structures are seen in the background.
Date: 1969-08~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History