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Merry-go-round

Description: Photograph of people walking at an amusement park, with a merry-go-round filled with riders in the background. The merry-go-round is covered with a canopy and has horse statues fixed to poles for its riders. This photograph was taken during a planning trip for HemisFair '68.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Mineral Water

Description: Postcard of the mineral water well in downtown Arlington at around 1900. To the left and right of the well are businesses, including a bank, hardware store, and real estate business. There are power lines along the street. A water tower stands behind the buildings on the left.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

Mineral Waters Stand

Description: Photograph of a stand advertising Crystolax, Nature's Best Mineral Water Crystals. A woman is working behind the stand displaying a jug of mineral water and a stack of Crystolax. There are signs around the stand and potted geraniums below it.
Date: 192?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

North Texas Agricultural College

Description: Photograph of the 1940 NTAC football team in uniform. Seven men are kneeling, with the center man holding a football. Four men are holding footballs, jumping over the others. The names of the players are listed on the back of the photograph.
Date: 1940
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

Northside School Graduating Class

Description: Photograph of the graduating class of 1946 at Northside School. The female students are grouped on the left, and the males are grouped on the right on a stage. There are curtains and plants decorating the stage.
Date: 1946
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

Open area walk fountain at park

Description: Photograph of landscaping at an amusement park, including a grassy area with a few small trees and several scattered circular red-brick flower beds, as well as a small pond with a fountain at the center. In the background there are people walking on a sidewalk and others sitting on benches. This photograph was taken during a planning trip for HemisFair '68.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

T&P Depot

Description: Photograph of the T&P railroad station at 110 N. Center St. in Arlington. A group of children and a few adults are standing outside the red building by the tracks.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

T&P Depot

Description: Postcard of the T&P railroad station at 110 N. Center St. in Arlington. There is a building beside the tracks with some equipment in the area. Power lines are behind the station. Jack D. Caffey's address is on the back of the postcard.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

Park area

Description: Photograph of a walkway overlooking a rock cave tunnel covered in greenery where some visitors are on a boat that may be part of a park adventure ride. In the lower right hand of the picture you can see wooden railing and a wooden pole that seems to be holding up a thatched roof. A partial view of a dock can be seen on the lower left hand of the image.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Park area

Description: Photograph of a paved sidewalk running through an amusement park area featuring a round brick flower bed. People are visible in the background on another path. This photograph was taken during a planning trip for HemisFair '68.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

People at amusement park

Description: Close-up photograph of a crowd of people, including children and adults, at an amusement park concessions area with themed signs visible at left. Popular cola signs can be seen toward the background, above the crowd as well as a portion of a Ferris wheel.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

People at park

Description: Photograph of people getting on or off a water ride at an amusement park. The wait line wooden shelter is constructed like a multi-level deck with wooden hand railing and a roof made out of grass like material making the structure resemble a tiki hut. Several groups of people are getting on round wooden looking boats that may hold several people.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

People at park

Description: Photograph of several groups of people in an area of an amusement park, walking through a tunnel made out of wire fencing that protects them from the gondola sky ride area that is partially visible behind them on the left side of the picture.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

People at park

Description: Photograph of several groups of people in an area of an amusement park, walking through a tunnel made out of wire fencing that protects them from the gondola sky ride area that is partially visible on the left side of the picture. There are vines along the right side of the fence and yellow flowers lining the left side of the paved walkway as well as a grouping of wooden benches in the background, to the right.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

People at park

Description: Photograph of several groups of people walking through a wire fenced tunnel, covered with vines on the left side. This passageway protects the patrons from the gondola sky ride area, visible on the right side of the image, including several red-and-white gondolas.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

People at park

Description: Photograph of several groups of people walking through a tunnel made out of wire fencing in an area of an amusement park. The right side of the fence has vines providing shade along the paved path while on the left side there are trees and shrubs several feet away. A man and small boy are next to a small wooden fenced area housing trash cans at the left side of the image.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

People at park

Description: Photograph of a walkthrough area of an amusement park with various buildings and street amusements around walkways bordering roped-off green spaces. A crowd of people are gathered around a clown on stilts, at left, while others are passing by or going into an assortment of shops and eateries visible in the background, at right.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

People at park

Description: Photograph of people waiting in line at a park to enter an amusement attraction, taken during a planning trip for HemisFair '68.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

People at park

Description: Photograph of two women walking in an amusement park, taken during a planning trip for HemisFair '68. There is a dining pavilion labeled "Naler's Plantation House" behind them, where people are seated at tables, and a sign on a pole to the left that says, "Picture Spot".
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[People at Seven Seas]

Description: Slide of several people standing outside a building at Seven Seas ocean theme park. They are on a walkway over water. Parts of other buildings, attractions, and landscape are in the background.
Date: 1974
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

People touring an amusement park

Description: Photograph of people walking near an amusement park exhibit labeled "La Salle's Adventure," which includes a jungle-type fortress in the left side of the walkway. A sky ride gondola is also visible in the background close to the top of the image. One person on the walkway appears to be wearing a gondolier costume.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

People touring park

Description: Photograph of several small groups of people walking through a paved garden area of a theme park, including beds of flowers, shrubs, trees, and a flag pole to the left and back. There is a white and orange fabric structured pyramid in the center that towers over the walkway starting just above the gardens flower bed walls. There are benches, a newspaper vending machine, and a trash can on the left side of the walkway, as well as decorative poles around the edges.
Date: October 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Pep Rally, Mineral Well

Description: Photograph of a group of students at Center and Main St. in Arlington at a pep rally in the 1940s. They are standing in the street and on the mineral well on the right. Many are wearing rolled up jeans, and some have letter jackets. There is a drug store on the left.
Date: 194?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum
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