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T. B. Willis Collection
187
Rescuing Texas History, 2015
22
Rescuing Texas History, 2019
15
Rescuing Texas History, 2017
13
Rescuing Texas History, 2018
9
Rescuing Texas History, 2014
8
Rescuing Texas History, 2016
8
Rescuing Texas History, 2021
7
Rescuing Texas History, 2022
5
Cotton Palace Collection
5
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[1924 Waco High School Football Team]
Photograph of the 1924 Waco High School football team. Players are seated in three rows with striped shirts and socks, facing forward. Some wear coats and neckties. Players are identified along the bottom of the image in pen, corresponding to their position in the photograph. Paul L. Tyson, the head coach, stands in the back row at center in a coat and tie.
Date:
1924
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Academy Plaque]
Oval plaque made of brass with letters spelling out "Academy of the Sacred Heart." There are four holes punched in around the edges, at the center of each side.
Date:
1920%
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Badge for Commissioner J. N. Mitchell]
Commissioner badge for J. N. Mitchell. This badge is from the 1929 Texas Cotton Palace and Dairy Show.
Date:
1929
Creator:
Schwaabs & Co.
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Benjamin Franklin Sharkey Jr. Portrait]
Postcard of a portrait of Benjamin Franklin Sharkey Jr as a child, wearing a dark cardigan sweater, posing standing on a bench in front of a light background.
Date:
1921
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Christmas Postcard to Portia Barnhill]
Postcard at Christmas addressed to Portia Barnhill, Waco, Texas in 1922.
Date:
1922
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Chum-On]
Photograph of Chum-On, John Todd Willis Jr.'s dog. He sits panting on the grass in front of a large building.
Date:
1920~
Creator:
Gildersleeve, Fred
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clara Willis Holding John Todd Willis, Jr.]
Photograph of Clara Willis holding baby John Todd Willis, Jr. in 1921. The Willis house can be seen in the left background.
Date:
1921
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clara Willis Holding John Todd Willis, Jr.]
Photograph of Clara Evans Willis holding her son, John Todd Willis, Jr. She has a gauze veil on her head, and the baby has only a blanket. She looks down at him. The photograph is housed in a brown folder which opens up and was probably meant to be used for presenting it in a household.
Date:
1921
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Easter Postcard to John Todd Willis, Jr.]
Postcard at Easter addressed to John Todd Willis, Jr., Waco, Texas, from Rosbarrie "Bitsy" Settegast and her brothers, Marion & Warren Settegast in Houston.
Date:
1928
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Envelope from Robert Parker Willis to Mr. and Mrs. John T. Willis, Sr.]
Envelope from Robert Parker Willis to Mr. and Mrs. John T. Willis, Sr. in 1925.
Date:
1925
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Envelope to Clara Willis]
Envelope addressed to Clara Evans Willis on May 26, 1925. A note on the back claims it held letters concerning Nancy Claire Willis.
Date:
May 26, 1925
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Evans and Kendrick Families]
Photograph of friends from two families, the Evanses and the Kendricks, seated together and posed for a portrait. Pictured from left to right are Sarah Elizabeth Evans, Sue Kendrick, James M. Kendrick (the child standing in front), Maria Evans Sleeper, Charles Evans, Sr., and Blanche Kendrick holding Charles E. Kendrick in her lap.
Date:
1923
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Family Portrait at the Parker Home]
Photograph of a group of women seated together for a portrait on the porch of Robert Henry Parker's home in Abilene, Texas. Sitting on the first row are Lavinia Parker McDaniel and Nellie Parker Davis Jack. On the second row are Hallie Parker Adams, Sallie Ann Clarke Parker (wife of Robert Henry Parker and matriarch of those around her), and Bettie Parker Kelly. On the top row are Sallie Ann Parker Willis (wife of Thomas Middlebrook Willis), Neva Parker Woodward, and Margaret "Mag" Parker Field Cox.
Date:
1922
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[First Baptist Student Convention, 1920]
Photograph of the First Baptist Student Convention of Texas, convened in Howard Payne College in 1920. Four long rows of students are visible, seated on the grass in front of a large stone brick building. People standing on the windows hold banners bearing the names of multiple universities, including Baylor and Howard Payne.
Date:
1920-10-22/1920-10-24
Creator:
Taylor-Daniel Studios
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Floyd Arnold "Jim" Crow and Football Team]
Photograph of Floyd Arnold "Jim" Crow and a football team. The men in the first row, sitting cross legged, are, from left to right, unidentified, Ben Dean Sheats, Jack Southern, Garland Fawcett, and a man known as "Cheetah". The men in the second row are marked as Cook, Baughman, Curtis, La Grone, Marrs McLean, and Barney Hamm. Those in the last row are Jim Crow, a man known as "Deacon", Vasey, Goolachek, Mouser, Kazanas, and Lyday. Crow wears a jacket with the letter "B" on it, and Jack Southern holds a football in his lap.
Date:
[1920..1930]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Four Generations of the Parker Family]
Photograph of four generations of the Parker family. From left to right are Sallie Ann Clarke Parker, Sallie Ann Parker Willis, Neva Willis Hudson, and an infant, Margaret Ann Hudson.
Date:
1922~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Four Generations of the Parker Family]
Photograph of four generations of the Parker family posing for a photograph together. From left to right is Sallie Ann Clarke Parker holding a fan, Sallie Ann Parker Willis holding a book, Neva Willis Hudson, and Margaret Ann Hudson, held in Neva's lap.
Date:
[1922..1924]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Graduating Class]
Photograph of a large group of people sitting in several rows of chairs in front of a stage in what appears to by a gymnasium; the men are wearing dark suits and ties and the women are wearing light-colored dresses and holding flowers. In the center a man and a woman are seated in chairs in front of a piano and there is a large photograph of a river hanging on the stage above them, an American flag hanging on the wall on the far left side, and several plants on both sides.
Date:
May 31, 1923
Creator:
Farmer
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Graduation Announcement for Academy of the Sacred Heart]
Graduation announcement for the Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur Academy of the Sacred Heart class of 1929.
Date:
May 29, 1929
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Group Photograph of Men and Women in front of the Waco Public Library]
Photograph of the Men's Bible Class from the Austin Avenue Methodist Church in Waco, Texas; according to the picture this was taken on Gage Memorial Sunday / Easter Sunday 1923. Most of the people in the group are men though there are some women mixed in throughout the crowd. The Waco Public Library is directly behind the group in the photograph. The side of the First Presbyterian Church is seen at a distance.
Date:
April 1923
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Guy B. Harrison, Jr.]
Photograph of Guy B. Harrison, Jr, captured in a wooded area of Cameron Park. He is pictured wearing a patterned tie, and dark colored suit with matching hat. His hands are by his sides curled into loose fists. The photograph was purchased at the Eichelberger - Harrison estate sale in Waco, Texas.
Date:
1926
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Guy B. Harrison, Jr. in Cameron Park]
Photograph of Guy B. Harrison, Jr., captured in Cameron Park. Within the image he is wearing a patterned tie, and a dark colored clothing with a matching hat. He is pictured with his hands in his pockets and looking off to the left. Behind Harrison, Jr, a stone fence like structure is visible. The photograph was purchased at the Eichelberger - Harrison estate sale in Waco, Texas.
Date:
1925
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Halloween Postcard to John Todd Willis, Jr.]
Postcard at Halloween addressed to John Todd Willis, Jr., from Charles & Jimmy Kendrick, Waco, Texas.
Date:
1926
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Home in Galveston, Texas]
Postcard image of a home in Galveston, Texas. Within the image on a small portion of the house is visible with greenery growing on the exterior. Different types of flowers and trees are growing in the yard that leads up to the house. Text on the front reads "A Home on the "Treasure Island", Galveston, Tex."
Date:
1923
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History