[Four Generations of the Parker Family]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: 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.
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of T. Bradford Willis
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth303805/
[Joseph Kilgore Getting a Shoe Shine]
Date: 194u
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Joseph Kilgore sitting in front of the Abilene Post Office while he gets a shoe shine from two young boys whose backs are turned to the camera. Joseph is in his U.S. Army Lieutenant uniform.
Contributing Partner: League City Helen Hall Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth279042/
Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore
Date: 1972
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas, including stories about hunting, warfare, religion, Texas traditions, and other miscellaneous folk tales. The index begins on page 149.
Contributing Partner: UNT Press
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77208/
[Parker Family Home in Abilene]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the first two-story frame house in Abilene, Texas, located on the corner of South 2nd Street and Butternut Street. It was the home of Robert Henry Parker. A white picket fence borders the property.
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of T. Bradford Willis
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth303804/
[Parker Family Home in Abilene]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the first two-story frame house in Abilene, Texas, located on the corner of South 2nd Street and Butternut Street. It was the home of Robert Henry Parker. A group of people, believed to be the Parker family, are gathered on the covered porch.
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of T. Bradford Willis
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth303803/
Statistics and information concerning the state of Texas: with its millions of acres of unoccupied lands...
Date: 1890
Creator: Missouri Pacific Railway Company.
Description: This book covers statistical information for the state of Texas. It includes "great inducements for the investment of capital, health for the invalid, interesting sights and scenes for the tourist and pleasure seeker, broad fields of research for the historian, unsurpassed hunting grounds for the sportsman, and other resources waiting to be unlocked by the key of capital in the hands of labor and industry" (title page).
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth130184/
Taylor County Veterans Memorial and Plaza, featuring a bronze soldier and silver eagle sculptures.
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: unknown
Description: Taylor County Veterans Memorial and Plaza, featuring a bronze soldier and silver eagle sculptures on Taylor County Courthouse grounds
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5257/
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway
Description: This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth61116/
[Woman with the Parker Bell]
Date: 1985
Creator: Willis, T. Bradford
Description: Photograph of Lavinia Ward, née McDaniel, standing outside of her brick house with a small hand bell, known as the Parker Bell, that belonged to her grandfather, Robert Henry Parker. It is resting it on the lip of a planter or urn in front of the house. A handwritten note on the back claims that the bell was once "used to call slaves in each day."
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of T. Bradford Willis
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth303817/