Resource Type

S. A. Show

Photograph of S.A. Show.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Aerial Photo of Childress

Aerial photo of Childress looking southeast. The country club and golf course are visible in the foreground.
Date: unknown
Creator: Johnson, Judy L.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Aerial Photo of High School, Rodeo Arena, Football Stadium

Aerial photo of the high school, rodeo arena, and football stadium.
Date: unknown
Creator: Johnson, Judy L.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Aerial View of Fair Park, Looking Southeast

Aerial photograph of Fair Park, looking southeast.
Date: unknown
Creator: Johnson, Judy L.
System: The Portal to Texas History

AT-11's flying in formation

Photograph of three At-11s flying in formation. The planes are from the Childress Army Air Field in Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

B.T. Williams Stone Home

Photograph of the B.T. Williams homestead. The stone house is 1 story with broken windows in the front. There is tall grass that is growing around the house. Pieces of wood are detached from the structure. B.T. Williams is believed to have helped develop the first cotton gin in Childress County.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Biggerstaff & Morris]

Photograph of the Biggerstaff & Morris (located at 100 block of Main) in Childress, Texas.
Date: November 9, 1980
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bombsight storage buildign

Photograph of a building at Childress Army Air Field where the Norden Bombsight was locked away for protection. The concrete walls of the vault are visible.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Building where Norden Bomb Sight was stored

Photograph of a building at the Childress Army Air Field in which the Norden Bombsight was stored. The building is dilapidated. The photograph was taken prior to restoration attempts.
Date: September 5, 1997
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Burley Pixler

Photograph of Burley Pixler. Pixler is shown standing in front of a wooden-frame building.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

CAAF Armed guard for transport of Norden Bombsight

Photograph of an armed guard lifting the Norden Bombsight to a bombardier in the bomber's nose of an AT-11 during World War II.
Date: 1942~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

CAAF Briefing

Photograph of several unidentified soldiers attending a brief at Childress Army Air Field in Texas. An AT-11 is visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

CAAF Cadets - 1st class to arrive by train

Photograph of the first class of cadets on a train to arrive at Childress Army Air Field in Childress, Texas. The men are wearing military uniforms.
Date: February 21, 1943
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

CAAF Hospital volunteer Patsy White

Photograph of Childress Army Air Field Hospital volunteer Patsy White, wife of Colonel John W. White.
Date: August 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

CAAF "Pass in Review"

Photograph of several uniformed soldiers in formation at Childress Army Air Field in Childress, Texas.
Date: June 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Car-Vu

Photograph of two people sitting in a car and watching a movie at the drive-in theater Car-Vu. The movie is projected on a large screen in front of the vehicle.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carrie Underwood Pennell Hardin, Old Settlers - 1960's

Photograph of Carrie Underwood Pennell Hardin, center, showing the younger ladies how to model period clothing at an Old Settlers event in the early 1960's at the City Auditorium.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Charming Mamie Moore

Photograph of Mamie Moore. Mamie Moore is dressed in a white dress against a studio background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hitchler Houston
System: The Portal to Texas History

Childress Concert Band, c. 1906

Photograph of the Childress Concert Band seated and standing with their instruments outside of a nondescript building. The band consists of all men; a large bass drum occupies the center of the frame which says "Childress Concert Band."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Childress County Courthouse]

Frontal view of the Childress County Courthouse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Childress County Courthouse in Childress, TX]

Photograph of Childress County Courthouse in Childress, TX. The courthouse is made of a pale-yellow stone, darkening at the top of each section of the building. The entrance of the courthouse consists of the lowest rectangular section of the structure and four thick columns, supporting the top section of wall above the entrance. On this section "Childress County Courthouse 1881-1838" is written on the wall. On either side of this portion of the building are taller rectangular sections with two rows of tall narrow windows spanning them. Behind these sections and the first one is a fourth one, rising into the sky with two rows of windows. In front of the courthouse is a set of grey stairs and trees with brown foliage or none at all. A streetlight sits next to a walkway that runs along the edge of the courthouse's yellow lawn, next to which is a parking lot occupied by a truck and a car. The parking lot is made up by paved ground that gives way to red brick in the photo's foreground.
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Childress County Courthouse in Childress, TX, 2]

Photograph of Childress County Courthouse in Childress, TX. A large leafless tree sits near the center of the photo in the foreground, its branches stretching upwards and out to fill the top third of the image. The tree sits in an expanse of orange grass that leads up to the edge of the courthouse, it entrance facing the left side of the photo. The entrance to the building consists of a tall gray set of doors above which are the faded words "Chidlress county courthouse 1891-1969". Tall narrow windows span the sides of the building with two rows extending from either side of the building's entrance while another two rows sit above the height of the doors. The center of the courthouse's front side sits higher than the rest of the building by a few feet, while a larger rectangular section rises from behind the edge of the main building's flat roof edge.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

Childress' First School House

Photograph of a large group of approximately ninety children and fifteen adults standing and sitting in rows in front of a the first Childress School building. The women and girls wear dresses or shirts with skirts, the boys wear button-up shirts and some of the boys and men wear suits, ties, and hats. The building is light-colored with a shingled roof and a bell tower. On the right side of the frame next to the building is a buggy and a horse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Childress High School Graduating Class of 1914

Photograph of the graduating senior class of Childress High School in 1914. Top row from left to right: Dick Weddington, Patti Jefferies, Anis Campbell, J. D. Gilliam, Edith Sport, Lida Pittman, Irene Baker, Tully Dian. Center row from left to right: Mary Biggerstaff, Bertha Copher, Elizabeth Milner, Lora Curd, Ella Keer, Mary Johnson. Front row from left to right: Hazel Howard, Nell Crews, Abbie Berry, Mary Coffee, Bess Johnson. Written on the negative in the bottom left corner to cause white text on the positive print: "C.H.S. 1914."
Date: unknown
Creator: Hanna, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History