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[West Texas State Normal College fire]

Photograph of the main building of West Texas State Normal College burning in 1914. The building is shown from the front with a large column of smoke rising from the center of the structure. A crowd stands watching, with objects that were rescued from the building.
Date: March 25, 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bovina, Tex., Nov. 1914

Photograph of a group of students and a teacher in Bovina, Texas. The group is posed in front of a brick building, probably the school. The teacher is standing in the back row in the center. The photograph is attached to a card and beneath the picture is a handwritten note, "To mama, from John." On the back is written, "John in first grade."
Date: November 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students' Army Training Corps drills]

Photograph of group of recruits from the Students' Army Training Corps at West Texas State Normal College. The recruits are marching along an unpaved path with the college Administration Building in the background. The recruits are led by men are playing musical instruments with the remainder marching in tight formation.
Date: 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Flag Day celebration, West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of students and faculty of West Texas State Normal College standing in a star formation around a flagpole on the grounds of the main college building. A smaller group stands in a circle within the formation. Several automobiles are parked along the street in the background. A two-story frame house and windmill and a part of Randall Hall, a college residence, are visible in the near background. In the distance are farm houses and other buildings.
Date: May 4, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ruins of the West Texas State Normal College building]

Photograph of the ruins of the administration building of West Texas State Normal College in 1914 after a fire burned it nearly to the ground. Parts of the walls and a chimney are all that remain. A water tower stands in the background.
Date: 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dalhart elementary school students]

Photograph of a group of elementary school students posed on the steps of a brick building. Individuals are numbered on the image, corresponding to names on the verso.
Date: 1913~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
"The college and its mission" : founder's day address (open access)

"The college and its mission" : founder's day address

Transcript of a speech given by the president of West Texas State Normal College on the anniversary of the founding of the college.
Date: 1918
Creator: Cousins, Robert Bartow, 1861-1932
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College fire]

Photograph of the West Texas State Normal College building burning. A plume of smoke rises from the building, and the walls are still intact. Spectators are clustered around the building, as are horses and buggies, automobiles and bicycles.
Date: March 25, 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College building under construction]

Photograph of the construction of the new main building at West Texas State Normal College. The steel frame of the three-story building is in place, and work on the exterior of the lower level is underway.
Date: June 2, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Girl's dormintory, Goodnight Baptist Industrial Institute, Goodnight, Texas, Geo. Burnett, architect, Amarillo, Tex.

Photograph of an architectural drawing of a dormitory building for Goodnight Baptist Industrial Institute in Goodnight, Texas. The front of the building at the top near the roof has signage that reads, "1910, Girl's Dormitory." The building has a front porch with four square columns and a railing around the second story balcony. The roof has a decorative parapet.
Date: 1910
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Football players for West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of football players for West Texas State Normal College. They are posed in three rows before a wood wall. They are wearing plain jerseys, football pants, dark socks and shoes. A player in the middle row is holding the football. The coach, dressed in a suit, is seated at the right end in the middle row. The players are identified on the reverse of the photograph: Back row (l to r): John Renfro, Boyce Eidson, G. C. Childers, Honas Carey, _____ Black, J. Pat Ator, Earl Sparks. Middle row: Bill Hale, Harry Starr, Elmer Shotwell, Fats Prichard, William "Sport" Younger, Coach D. A. Shirley. Front row: Ralph Smith, Amos Howard, Raymond Glass, Louis Hicks, J. Mathews.
Date: 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

The steel frame of the new building

Photograph of the construction of the new Administration Building at West Texas State Normal in Canyon, Texas. The steel frame of the three-story building is in place, and some of the stonework at the ground level has been completed.
Date: 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wayside, Tex.

Photograph of the Wayside School at Wayside, Texas. A group of students and teachers are posed in the front of the school. The building is built from textured concrete blocks. It has a hip roof with a deck surrounded by a low railing. The entryway is covered, the roof supported by two square columns. On the reverse of the photograph is written, "Wayside - $3000 concrete block, 20 miles from R.R.; 30 miles from Courthouse. Most interested in Farm Demonstration & Community Welfare Club work."
Date: March 5, 1914
Creator: Carr, S. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College, Canyon, Texas]

Photograph of the main building of West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas, probably dating from the time of the building's completion in 1916. The four-story western and southern (front) facades are shown. A pipe-rail fence lines a dirt roadway leading to the building. An automobile and a horse and wagon are parked outside the building and one person stands at the base of the front steps..The photograph is printed as a postcard.
Date: 1916~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lakeview School, Armstrong Co., Tex., 3-5-14

Photograph of a small group of adults and children posed in front of the Lakeview School in Armstrong County, Texas. The wooden frame school building has a pitched roof and a double-door entryway flanked by windows. Projecting from each side of this section of the building are wings. The people stand in a loose group in the entryway, with others seated on the step and on the ground. A note on the reverse reads, "Lakeview - nine miles from town - A two-teacher school which is the centre of neighborhood interests."
Date: March 5, 1914
Creator: Carr
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College fire]

Photograph of the West Texas State Normal College building burning. A large cloud of black smoke is rising from the structure. There a small group of spectators, with a line drawn on the image to one individual, identified as "me." To the right of the structure is a water tower.
Date: March 25, 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ruins of West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of the ruins of the West Texas State Normal College building after its March 25, 1914, fire. The wall of one end of the building is intact, while the front wall has partially collapsed. People stand in front of the building and on the road leading to it. A horse and buggy are on the road. On the reverse is written "These walls have all fallen in now."
Date: 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mrs. Turner, matron of Huntleigh Hall

Photograph of Mrs. Turner standing outside Huntleigh Hall, a privately-owned dormitory at West Texas State Normal College. Mrs. Turner is standing on a wooden porch before a window, with several household items behind her.
Date: 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The first four year summer graduating class at West Texas State Normal College]

Photograph of members of the first 4-year summer graduating class at West Texas State Normal College. Students are standing in front of an old wooden building that has sunlight shining through the overhead slats of wood. Five of the eight students are identified on the reverse as: Earl S. Sparks, Omar Kirk, Dave Payne, Earl Stanley and Mary Dale.
Date: 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Swisher County Institute, 1910

Photograph of a group of adults, possibly teachers, posed in front of the Tulia, Texas school, a brick building with an arched doorway. There is snow on the ground and the group is warmly dressed.
Date: 1910
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annual catalog (open access)

Annual catalog

None
Date: 1911
Creator: West Texas State Normal College
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fairview School, Armstrong Co., Tex.

Photograph of of the Fairview School in Armstrong County, Texas. The school is a wood frame building with a pitched roof. In front of the school, students are posed in groups according to age, most seated on the ground, with a few standing. An adult male, probably a teacher, stands near the center rear of the children.
Date: November 18, 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

R. B. Cousins, Pres., W.T.S.N.C., Canyon, Texas

Photograph of the West Texas State Normal College Administration Building with a portrait of college president R. B. Cousins superimposed on the upper right. The image shows the front and one side of the building and the surrounding grounds, which include numerous small trees, a road and pathway enclosed by a rail fence. On the reversed is a printed message signed "Britain and Wife," promoting their photographic studio in Canyon, Texas.
Date: 1917
Creator: Photo Car Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Texas State Normal College fire]

Photograph of the fire that destroyed the main building at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. The fire has spread throughout the building, and the roof and upper story of the front facade have collapsed. Heavy smoke rises from the building.
Date: March 25, 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History