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[Anton Backholt Outside Barracks]

Description: Photograph of a young man, identified on the back as Anton Backholt, wearing a military-style uniform and standing outside the door to the barracks at A&M College of Texas. The area around the doorway is decorated with lettering that says "Welcome Mothers" over the door, with other messages on either side.
Date: [1949..1954]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Army Medical School Group Portrait]

Description: Photograph of 38 men wearing military-style uniforms that have dark coats and lighter slacks, posing together in four lines. The men in the front row are seated on the bench and the others are standing in three rows behind them. A sign on the back wall above them says, "Army Medical Service Meat & Dairy Hygiene School." Wendell Tarver is fifth from the right in the second row from the top.
Date: 195X
Creator: Q. M. Food & Container Institute. Graphic & Photographic Branch.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Boy and Pig]

Description: Photograph of a boy crouched behind a dark-colored pig, posing in a grassy field or yard. A tree and parked car are partially visible in the background.
Date: April 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Burnet, Texas First Grade Class Photo]

Description: Photograph of the 1938 first grade class in Burnet, Texas. The students are arranged in three rows outside of a stone building and have their hands around one another's shoulders. The boy in the far left of the photo is Wendell Lee Tarver. Writing on the front of the photograph says "First Gr., Burnet, Tex., 1938" in the lower-left corner and "'Mecca' San - Ant" in the lower-right corner. The name "Wendell Lee Tarver" is handwritten on the back.
Date: 1938
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Burnet, Texas Fourth Grade Class Photo]

Description: Photograph of the 1941 fourth grade class in Burnet, Texas. The students are arranged in four rows outside of a brick building, seated in the front rows and standing in the back. Wendell Lee Tarver is in the front row, second from the right. Writing on the front of the photograph says "Fourth Grade, Burnet, Tex., 1941."
Date: 1941
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Cadet Formations at Muster]

Description: Photograph of several lines of men wearing uniforms standing in formation on a field; a number of U.S. and other flags are visible at various points along the lines. Spectators are visible in the foreground of the image. Handwritten on back: "Officers front & center."
Date: April 21, 1946
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.609890 -96.340373
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Cadets in Formation]

Description: Photograph taken from bleacher seating of a large number of people arranged in lines far away on a large, open field including a number of flags visible in the group. Other spectators are visible in the foreground of the image. Handwritten note on back: "Officers front & center."
Date: April 21, 1946
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.609890 -96.340373
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Cadets Passing for Review]

Description: Photograph of a line of A&M cadets walking across an open field in front of a large number of other cadets standing in formation behind them. One young man in uniform is crouched on the ground in front of the line. Handwritten note on back: "Gail Brendrett 'B' QMC Passing in Review."
Date: April 21, 1946
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.609890 -96.340373
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Charles Sebesta Outside Barracks]

Description: Photograph of Charles Sebesta visible from the knees up, wearing a military-style uniform including a garrison cap, posing in front of a screen door with his hands behind his back and his elbows akimbo. Behind him, to the right, text appears to be chalked next to the door, but it is only partially visible.
Date: 1948~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Consul Mortuary Certificate for Wendell Tarver]

Description: Official diplomatic packet authorizing the transfer of Wendell Tarver's remains from Monterrey, Mexico to Laredo, Texas for burial. The official consul certificate is signed and sealed with a ribbon that connects all of the accompanying paperwork required for the transfer: the official death certificate (in Spanish, documenting Tarver's death at age 40 from a suspected heart attack, "infarto del miocardio"), the affidavit from the embalmer documenting the preparation for transfer, and travel o… more
Date: July 15, 1971
Creator: Parson, Wesley H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Darwin, James, and Robert Outside Barracks]

Description: Photograph of three young men -- identified on the back as Darwin Cargill, James Taylor, and Robert Tilson -- posing with their arms around one another, visible from the waist up outside a building with double screen doors. They are wearing military-style uniforms, but the boys on either end have their jackets open, with T-shirts underneath. Text is chalked around the doorframe behind them, including "Mothers" at the top and "P[...]ology Majors Inside" at the upper-right.
Date: 1948~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Gene Jeckel Outside Briggs Hall]

Description: Photograph of Gene Jeckel, visible from the waist up, wearing a light-colored long-sleeved button-up shirt and eyeglasses, standing outside an entrance on the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Behind him, one of the double-doors (left) of the entrance is open, and a plaque at the left side of the entrance says "R. W. Briggs Hall." Handwritten text on the back says, "Gene Jeckel going to work."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.613941 -96.336349
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

Graduating Seniors in Veterinary Medicine: Texas A&M College, Class of 1954

Description: Collage of individual portraits for the 44 graduating seniors in the Texas A&M veterinary medicine program as well as portraits for the 9 professors and dean across the top. In each case, the portrait is cropped to an oval shape and the name of the person is printed below. The title is printed below the faculty and above the students; an image of the caduceus overlaid with a "v" for veterinary medicine is in the center of the top line of students.
Date: [1953..1954]
Creator: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Group of People Receiving Certificates]

Description: Photograph of a group of people at an award ceremony. They are posed together in two lines outside of a brick building and are holding certificates. A man on the far left is shaking the hand of the last man in line as he hands over a certificate. The man second from the left in the front row is John Agrippa Tarver.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Group Portrait of Epidemiologists]

Description: Photograph of forty-one veterinarians posing in front of velvet curtains on a stage; the typewritten label below says: "Epidemiological Orientation for Veterinarians. Salt Lake City May 20-24, 1963." The men are all wearing suits with nametags and are arranged in four rows, half on the stage and half in front, with the first row in each group seated in chairs and a second row standing behind. Wendell Tarver is in the back row, fifth from the right.
Date: [1963-05-20..1963-05-24]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Guests at Wedding of Wendell and Mary Jane Tarver]

Description: Photograph of guests at the wedding reception for Dr. Wendell Lee Tarver and Mary Jane Daniels. The bride and groom and other members of the wedding party are standing in a line in front of a brick wall with windows; guests are standing in front of them as they move through the reception line. A group of young girls is in the foreground. Handwritten text on the back of the photo says "Wendell & Janie's wedding."
Date: 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family
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