Dan Coble and Charles Lawrence

Dan Coble sitting in wicker chair. Charles Lawrence is standing. Coble was a gunslinger killed in a gun battle in Witchita Falls, TX. Lawrence was killed in that same shoot out.
Date: July 1, 1870
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Total Solar Eclipse in Fort Worth (1878)

Photograph of seven astronomers -- Leonard Waldo, R.W. Wilson, J.K. Rees, W.H. Pulsifer, F.E. Seagrave, Alfred Freeman, and A.M. Britton -- with various telescopes set up out-of-doors near a large wooden barn or other structure. According to accompanying information they are on the S.W. Lomax farm, waiting to observe the total solar eclipse that happened on July 29, 1878.
Date: July 29, 1878
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Aerial View of a Section of Downtown Fort Worth

Aerial photograph of a section of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, possibly around 1890. This image is a reverse of a photo included in D.H. Swartz's "Photographs of Fort Worth."
Date: 1890~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train in Sierra Blanca

Photograph of John Chester in Sierra Blanca, Texas while traveling with the Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train. John Chester is pictured next to a wagon sponsored by Copenhagen, Skoal, and Billy Bob's Texas.
Date: April 7, 1896
Creator: Cirincione, Nick
System: The Portal to Texas History

People Walking Among Stockpens

People walking among stock pens, some looking in them, in the town of Handley
Date: 1900~/1920~
Creator: Utley, Frank L.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Quanah Parker as Comanche Judge

Quanah Parker as an Indian judge over the Comanches. Picture was photocopied from Texas Under Many Flags, by Clarence R. Wharton, vol. II. The photo was taken about 1900.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas and Pacific Railroad Depot

Photograph of carriages in front of the Texas & Pacific Railroad depot in Fort Worth. The building has multiple stories and has a tall, square clock tower on the left side.
Date: [1900..1920]
Creator: Utley, Frank L.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Woman Seated in Curved Chair

Young woman with hat, seated in curved-bottom chair
Date: 1900~/1920~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Women in a Park

Two women at Lake Erie Trolley Park Picnic Area in Handley, Texas facing the boat dock: one seated, one standing, both have large hats.
Date: [1901..1915]
Creator: Utley, Frank L.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carrington-Wilson Wedding Party]

Garden Wedding of Steve Carrington and Anne Wilson in garden of the G.W. Wilson home in Handley at the southeast corner of Sandy Lane and Craig Street. Anne Wilson was born in Calloway County, Mo. in 1871 and came to TX in 1877. More information on the back of the photo.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Nora Bobo

Nora Bobo, mother of Walter Fitel (detail of Bedford School, 1907 picture)
Date: 1907
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hollow Horn Bear

Hollow Horn Bear, Brule Sioux Chief, standing in front of teepee, holding a pistol
Date: 1910
Creator: Edward Bates
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bideault Home

Henrietta, Louise and Nan Bideault in front of their home
Date: [1913..1914]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mary Alice Bobo

Mary Alice Bobo, wife of Weldon Wiles Bobo, on 80th Birthday. They moved from Bedford County, Tennessee in 1870.
Date: January 13, 1913
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Nan Bideault Holding a Baby Pig

Nan Bideault holding a pig. Lieutenant Sheronet, and Sargent Laurie and Jeanne Bideault looking on.
Date: March 21, 1918
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

36th Division USA (WWI) Passing in Review

World War I troops passing in review, marching down Main street in Fort Worth, TX, April 11, 1918
Date: April 11, 1918
Creator: American Publishing Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

Euless School (c.1920)

Students in front of one-room schoolhouse
Date: 1920~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Man in Brigade Uniform

None
Date: 1920~
Creator: Utley, Frank L.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Man Seated at a Table

Copy print of an unidentified man posing for a portrait, seated in front of a wall and window, with his left elbow propped on a table. He is wearing a dark, three-piece suit and bow tie with a bowler hat. The original image is in an oval-shaped frame.
Date: 1920~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Goat and Wagon Picture

Young boy sitting in a wagon harnessed to a goat. Traveling photographers in the 1920's and early 1930's would occassionally go out and photograph children in small carts that were harnessed to goats.
Date: 1921
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

I. M. Terrell High School, Fort Worth

Graduating class of 1921 on steps of Fort Worth Colored School. School later renamed I.M. Terrell.
Date: 1921
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

I. M. Terrell High School, Fort Worth

Fort Worth Colored High School. High School for blacks. The school was later named I.M. Terrell
Date: 1921
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hurst High School Girls Basketball Team

Students and coach of the basketball team in a group.
Date: 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Aerial View at Ninth and Throckmorton Streets

Aerial photograph of downtown Fort Worth at Ninth and Throckmorton Streets around 1930. The Carnegie Public Library is in the center of the photo. The first Fort Worth city hall is on the left.
Date: 1930~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History