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[Lectureship Portraits]

Ten portraits of the 1919 lectureship speakers at Abilene Christian University. Top row, left to right: H. E. Speck, F. L. Rowe, G. A. Klingman, G. Dallas Smith, and John Straiton. Bottom row, left to right: Batsell Baxter, Cled Wallace, G. H. P. Showalter, F. B. Shepherd, and J. U. Yarbrough.
Date: 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Abilene Christian College Students]

Photograph of a group of Abilene Christian College students holding an A.C.C. banner, with the women wearing their graduation caps and the men in suits - some with banners on their chests.
Date: 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Inez Norton Graduation Announcement] (open access)

[Inez Norton Graduation Announcement]

Graduation invitation for Inez "Rambo" Norton for the 1919 Abilene Christian College commencement ceremony. The cursive text reads, "Abilene Christian College / Class of Nineteen Nineteen / Graduating Exercises / Tuesday morning, June third at ten o'clock / School Auditorium."
Date: 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Lucille Harrell]

Portrait of Lucille Harrell, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a dark-colored dress with a broad, decorative collar, trimmed in lace.
Date: [1917..1918]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the President's House]

Photograph of the Abilene Christian College president’s house, visible behind a row of trees. A white knee-high masonry wall perimeters the yard.
Date: [1912..1924]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Man with Rifle]

Faded photograph of a young man in a suit and bow tie holding a rifle against his shoulder next to a square object in front of a grove of trees.
Date: [1918..1919]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Woman in Crowd]

Photograph of a woman with a lighter-colored jacket looking at the camera while men and women in dark dress stand behind her talking to one another in a dirt road. Note on the back of photograph reads, "A good date - Go [?] in a group on Sunday afternoon, 1918 or 1919. Happy Rambo entertaining Inez Norton. I'm sorry to be in between and may I say not at my best. Give this to Inez if she would like to have it. I think modern photography can blank me out somehow and just show Inez and Happy. M.K.W."
Date: [1918..1919]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of The Six Idiots]

Photograph of a group of young women, wearing matching grey-colored coats and hats, lying on their stomachs in a field. Handwritten note in the bottom margin reads, “The six idiots.” A note in a different hand in the top margin reads, “In uniform.”
Date: [1913..1915]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Shady Dell]

Photograph of a limited view of Shady Dell, as it is blocked by trees in the yard. The front porch and steps to the front door are visible. "Shady Dell" is printed below the photograph.
Date: [1912..1924]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of "The Sunshine Special"]

Photograph of the "Sunshine Special" stopped on the train track. The train ran from 1915-1932 from St. Louis, Missouri, to El Paso, Texas.
Date: [1915..1932]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Bible Class]

Group photograph of an Abilene Christian University Bible class, showing twenty-one students posed in three rows. Note on the back of photograph reads, "Bible III Class, from 1915-1916, Catalogue."
Date: [1915..1916]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of 1912 Basketball Team]

Photograph of the 1912 Abilene Christian College men's basketball team, with six young men on the bottom two rows wearing sweaters. In the hands of the player in the middle of the bottom row is a basketball that has been painted with the date 1912. The man alone on the top row is swearing a dark-colored suit and necktie. From left to right: (top) Carl Gardner (middle) Milton Cranfill, George Smith, Roy Coons (bottom) [?], Briscoe Honea, Olen Whiteside.
Date: 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Abilene Christian College Campus]

Postcard of the old Abilene Christian College campus with the Administration Building, White cottage, and Daisy Hall visible. Telephone lines can be seen running across the image.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Gladys Aldridge]

Portrait photograph of Gladys Aldridge, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a white dress with a bow detail on the front and a pearl necklace.
Date: [1917..1918]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Women in School Uniforms]

Photograph of six young women posed wearing their school uniforms. A short dirt embankment can be seen directly behind them. Handwritten note in the bottom margin reads, “On Elm Creek in our uniforms.”
Date: [1913..1914]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Stadium Stands]

Photograph of the Abilene Christian College stadium at the old campus on South 1st. A women in a dress can be seen standing at the bottom of the wooden stands.
Date: 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group Portrait of Preachers]

Photograph of Jesse P. Sewell in the midst of a group of other preachers. Jesse sits in the middle of the front row in a very light-colored suit and wire-rimmed glasses.
Date: [1913..1915]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Bible Class]

Group photograph of an Abilene Christian College Bible class, showing four rows of students posed on the back steps of a brick building. Handwritten note below the photograph on the cardboard frame reads, "Bible Class 1911."
Date: 1911
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Students in Art Studio]

Photograph from the 1917 Prickly Pear yearbook of three Abilene Christian College students at work in the art studio. An instructor can be seen looks over the shoulder of one of the students to evaluate her work.
Date: 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Man on Tree Stump]

Photograph of a man in a dark-colored suit sitting on a stump or a rock with the entire background blocked by a cover of tree branches.
Date: [1910..1911]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Heart-shaped Photograph of Three Women]

Photograph of three women in white dresses cut into a heart shape. The women sitting in the middle looks down at a book she holds in her hands.
Date: [1918..1919]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Argo Literary Club]

Postcard of the Clebarro College Argo Literary Club, close to Christmas in 1912. There are twenty individuals in the photo, two of them being young boys sitting on the ground in the front.
Date: [1912..1913]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Portraits of Two Men and One Woman]

Cardboard album page with three photographs (clockwise): one with a man standing in front of a brick building in a suit, wearing a hat; the other of a man in a darker tweed suit; and one of a woman in front of a tree wearing a white dress and tights with a dark hat.
Date: [1918..1919]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Elmdale School Remembrance Handout] (open access)

[Elmdale School Remembrance Handout]

Portraits of Inez Norton and Gertrude Adams on the front of a Remembrance handout for the Elmdale School, District No. 29, Elmdale, Taylor County, Texas, April 26, 1916. Mrs. Adams was the Principle and Ms. Norton was her assistant. The handout includes the names of all the students who attended the Elmdale school at this time.
Date: April 26, 1916
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History