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Dallas City Park Board Annual Report: 1914-1915

Description: Annual report for 1914-1915 compiled by the Park Board regarding the park system in Dallas, Texas. The report includes overarching reviews of the system's status and future plans as well as commentaries on each individual park. Near the end of the report, there are financial statistics showing the amounts spent by the park funds on maintenance for each of the parks as well as sketched maps of selected parks. There are also facts about "Dallas, the City of the Hour."
Date: 1915
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Park Board.
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

The Kessler City Plan For Dallas: A Review of the Plan and Progress on its Accomplishment

Description: This pamphlet contains the reprints of twenty-three articles from The Dallas Morning News regarding the Kessler Plan for the city of Dallas, Texas and the progress that had been made over the fifteen years since its inception. The articles in order are: Article 1--Origin of the Plan; Article 2--Early Efforts at Civic Development; Article 3--Kessler Plan for All of the City; Article 4--The Trinity River Levee Plan; Article 5--Belt Line Railway Proposal; Article 6--Pacific Avenue Track Rem… more
Date: 1925
Creator: Head, Louis P.
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Letter from the Kessler Plan Association, January 19, 1926]

Description: Letter from John E. Surratt at the Kessler Plan Association to members of the Advertising League regarding ways that the special committee could help to promote the Kessler Plan Association's city plan for Dallas, Texas. The original letter included copies of maps and literature about the Kessler Plan.
Date: January 19, 1926
Creator: Kessler Plan Association
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Newspaper Clippings about Candy Barr]

Description: Newspaper clippings from the Dallas News about Juanita Dale Phillips, also known as Candy Barr. The headlines are "Candy Barr Indicted for Drug Possession", "Police Charged with Wire-Tap", "Stripper Appears, Posts $1,000 Bond", and "Lawyers Fail to Get Name of Informer Against Stripper."
Date: 1957-11-01/1958-02-08
Creator: Dallas News
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Newspaper Clippings about Candy Barr]

Description: Newspaper clippings about Juanita Dale Phillips, also known as Candy Barr. The headlines are "Even Judge Gets in Act", "Motion to Delay Candy Barr Trial Expected Monday", "Candy's Trial Set", and "Candy Waits for Legal Step." There is also a related Western Union telegram at the top of the page which is only partially readable.
Date: 1957-02-07/1958-02-20
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives
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