Photograph of the auditorium of the recently completed building, taken the day of its dedication ceremony. The view is from the rear of the room, looking toward the stage, which is set up with benches, statuary, potted plants, and a piano. Two men are standing on the stage and one man is standing in front of the stage on the far right.

Photograph of two unidentified young men and two boys, members of the Palm family, standing up to their ankles in a stream in a canyon with grass and shrubs on the sides and rocky hills visible in the background. The two young men wearing shirts and hats are standing with their arms around the younger boys in front of them. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of a crowd assembled for the laying of the cornerstone of the new West Texas State Normal College building. A group of Masons are performing a ceremony on a raised platform before the partially completed building while an assembled crowd watches from below and from various points on the building's framework.

Photograph of a corridor in the first West Texas State Normal College building in Canyon, Texas. Viewed from a high angle, doorways and windows are visible along the corridor, with a large light fixture suspended from the ceiling.

Photograph of an unidentified man and woman holding hands and standing on a rock formation at Blue Springs with rocks and trees on a hillside in the background.

Photograph of spectators gathered for the cornerstone ceremony for the new West Texas State Normal College administration building. Several men stand on a platform facing the crowd. Several people are holding umbrellas and men wearing Masonic regalia are visible in the crowd. Several automobiles and a horse and buggy are parked behind the audience, and a saddled horse is hitched to a rail fence running along a roadway leading to the site. Houses and other buildings are visible in the background. The date of the event appears on the image.

Photograph of the corridor of the new West Texas State Normal College building on its dedication day. Doors along the hallway are open, and a man with his back to the camera appears to be working on one wall. A small group of people is visible at the end of the corridor.

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.

Photograph of a group of men and women, standing in rows on the exterior steps of a building. No identification is included.

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.

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.

Photograph of four unidentified members of the Palm family, two women and two men, posing sitting and standing in front of large boulders on the side of a small body of water. The women are standing in the back and the men are sitting down by the water's edge. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of four unidentified male members of the Palm family wearing light-colored shirts, ties, and hats, posing standing in front of an automobile with a hill covered in shrubs in the background. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of four unidentified members of the Palm family wearing light-colored shirts and ties sitting on top of a large boulder with smaller boulders in the foreground and plants and trees in the background; three of the four men's heads are cut off at the top of the photograph. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of four unidentified members of the Palm family wearing shirts, ties, and hats, sitting with their legs hanging off the front of a large rock; in the foreground the tops of trees are visible below them and more trees and the side of a cliff are visible in the background. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of Joseph A. Thompson wearing the baseball uniform of West Texas State Normal College. He is standing in an open field, and wears a baseball glove on his left hand.

Photograph of a crowd assembled for the laying of the cornerstone of the new West Texas State Normal College administration building. A group of Masons are performing a ceremony on a raised platform before the partially completed building while an assembled crowd watches from below and from various points on the building's framework.

Photograph of an unidentified man wearing a dark suit and tie and a hat and three women wearing dark dresses and hats sitting on the steps of the ruins of the West Texas State Normal College administration building in Canyon City with a water tower visible in the background.

Photograph of an unidentified man, a member of the Shuey family, posing sitting on top of a large pile of boulders with trees visible in the background, taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of Margaret E. Cofer, a history instructor from 1910-1916 at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. The studio portrait shows her in a bust view.

Photograph of Mathew Palm and three young men (possibly his sons) standing and sitting on top of a large boulder with trees and hills in the background and more boulders and trees visible in the foreground.

Photograph of Mathew Palm sitting on top of a large boulder with two women wearing light-colored dresses and hats and a young man wearing a dark suit, with another woman wearing a light dress and hat standing on a smaller rock on the right, and a cliff behind them in the background.

Photograph of Mathew Palm and his family sitting on a large boulder with trees in the background; Palm and his wife are sitting in the back with their three children (two young women and a young man) sitting in front of them. The men are wearing dark suits, ties, and hats and the women are wearing light-colored dresses and hats.

Photograph of Mathew Palm and his son sitting on top of a large boulder during a family trip to Blue Springs; there are trees and more boulders in the background.