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[William A. Kendrick and Richard Hamorsky Exhibition Invitation]

Description: Postcard of an invitation to an exhibition of works by William A. Kendrick, a Texas landscape artist, and Richard Hamorszky, a bronze sculptor, at the Art Center of Waco. The front of the postcard shows a painting by Kendrick and a bronze sculpture by Hamorszky. Information about the exhibition is printed on the back of the postcard, along with directions to the Art Center, visiting hours, and dates.
Date: 2014
Creator: Art Center of Waco
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 31.591423 -97.170713

[1924 Waco High School Football Team]

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Scene on Public Square, Waco]

Description: Drawing of a scene at the public square at Waco, with the old city hall at right. Along a road to the left of the city hall is a large crowd of horse-drawn vehicles, horseback riders, animals tied to hitching posts, and other pedestrians. The city hall at center is depicted with a fence and with its large, prominent steeple nestled in the background. A man on horseback, drawn on the bottom right, watches the crowd.
Date: 1890
Creator: Spitter, W. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork

[Waco Maennerchor Parade Float]

Description: Photograph of a parade float for the Waco Maennerchor, a local German society for German men. The float is decorated with banners and flowers hanging from tall wooden harps. On the float are rows women sitting in light-colored dresses, while another woman stands under a canopy at the very end of a float. The parade float is drawn by two horses. Behind the Maennerchor float is a different parade display, decorated with American flags. The procession sits on a dirt road in front of several buildi… more
Date: unknown
Creator: McCall
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[The Lawrence House and Family]

Description: Photograph of the Lawrence/Laurence house and family outside Blue Ridge, Texas. The family stands at center, the father holding a child, the mother to his right in a dress, and a young girl in a white gown in front of them. Behind them is their wooden house, with plants and wooden fences adjoining. Notes are written on the front of the picture.
Date: 1904
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Souvenir Pamphlet for Violinist Rubinoff]

Description: Violin-shaped booklet advertising a "personal appearance" of violinist Dave Rubinoff in Waco, including background about Rubinoff and about his Stradivarius violin, information about the recital and ticket prices, a photo of Rubinoff playing the violin, and a blank space labeled "Personal Autograph"
Date: unknown
Creator: Waco Junior Chamber of Commerce
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet

[Poster for KAWA Radio Hosts]

Description: Paper poster for Russ Johnston, a morning disk jockey, and Lloyd Worth Johnson, chief engineer of KAWA, a radio station serving Waco and Marlin. Johnston, at left, is titled "The Old Hoss", and Johnson is titled "Mr. Personality". They are both depicted standing together in the radio's station, smiling and facing forward. Both men have their name signed on the upper left and right hand corners.
Date: [1953..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet

[Texas Benny Doss Promotional Picture]

Description: Promotional picture of Texas Benny Doss holding a guitar and leaning forward while wearing a cowboy hat. He is given the subtitle "The Original Cass County Kid", and further contact information is listed below the photograph in the bottom right corner. The photograph has been signed by Texas Benny Doss in faint green-blue marker on the left half of the image.
Date: 196X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Sign for Clyde Chesser and His Texas Village Boys]

Description: Paper poster for Clyde Chesser and His Texas Village Boys, a country band whose performances were broadcasted on KCEN in Temple, Texas. Members are identified from left to right: Gaylon Christie, with a lap steel guitar; Okie Davis, with a fiddle; Eddie Spradley, with a fiddle; Clyde (barefooted) Chesser, seated at center; Arnold Williams, with an acoustic guitar; Alvin Berry, with a double bass. This poster advertises the "Blue Bonnet Barn Dance", telecasted each Saturday.
Date: [1953..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Poster for The Drifting Texans of Waco]

Description: Poster advertising "The Drifting Texans of Waco", with the subtitle "Sweet, Sad and Swing Music". Attached is an image of the band posing together for a photograph: from left to right, the instruments the players hold are a lap steel guitar, an acoustic guitar, a drumset, a classical guitar, and a fiddle-like instrument. A microphone stands in the center of the stage.
Date: 195X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet

[South Fifth Street and Austin Street, Waco]

Description: Photograph of South Fifth Street and Austin Street in Waco, Texas. Along this corner is the R. T. Dennis & Co. house furnishing store in the Dennis Building at center, the Wood Bros. male clothing store, Chris's Cafe, and the "Grocery So Different" to the left of the Dennis Building, the Oriental Billards and Dominos building on the other side of the road. Cars and bicycles are parked along the curb, and people walk across the street and along the sidewalk.
Date: July 5, 1957
Creator: Gildersleeve
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.556733 -97.131729

[Letterhead for Waco Electrical Supply Company]

Description: Sheet of blank letterhead for the Waco Electrical Supply Company, listing company officers at the top and other business information below the logo, which has a winged angel holding an object in the center. A light blue border runs around the outer edge of the stationery, with illustrations of various household goods including (clockwise) a lightbulb, shaded lamp, toothbrush, Hampton Beach vacuum, desk or stove, plugged-in clock, ornate chandelier, toaster, fan, desk lamp, tureen, and iron.
Date: unknown
Creator: Waco Electrical Supply Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text

[Hanukkah Card from Clif Bishop]

Description: Hanukkah greeting card sent from Clif Bishop to John T. Willis, Sr. and Clara Evans Willis. The front of the postcard has the text "best wishes" and above, a cut-out Star of David outlined in red, through which a drawing of a snowman is visible. It wears a hat, a scarf, and mittens, standing on hills of snow against a dark blue sky. Under the illustration, in the inside of the card, Clif Bishop's name is printed.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bishop, Clif
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork

[Name Card for Mrs. R. R Beville]

Description: Card with the text "Mrs. R. R. Beville, Waco, Texas" printed to the right of an illustration above the text "Waco Commandery No. 10 K. T." The image is oval-shaped with a shining star at the top, above a fringed banner that has the text "in hoc signo vinces" with a skull-and-crossbonees and the freemasonry compass symbol; in the foreground of the image, there is a crown on laurel leaves with items leaning crosswise through the crown including a cross (left) and two decorative daggers (right).
Date: unknown
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[Mooreville Boosters]

Description: Photograph of the "Mooreville Boosters", possibly part of a parade of cars in either Mooreville or Lorena. The cars carry banners with words painted on them. A band stands in front of the cars, holding drums, trumpets, and horns. A row of shops is visible in the background, including the Evans-Westbrook Mercantile Company.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Fourth Street, Waco]

Description: Postcard of Fourth Street in Waco, Texas, lined with tall buildings on both sides. Cars are parked along the curbs of the road, and a streetcar line runs through the center of the road with wires overhead. A large hotel is visible at left with a large advert reading "HOTEL METROPOLE", and below that is a sign for a tailor. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalks and between the cars.
Date: 1917-10-11~
Creator: Mann, Fred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard

[Fifth Street, South from Austin Avenue]

Description: Postcard image of Fifth Street, looking south from Austin Avenue, in Waco, Texas. The road is at center, paved and filled with carriages and pedestrians, with a streetcar rail line embedded into the street. Large multi-storied stone and brick buildings stand on all four corners of the street, including a drug store with a prominent sign at right, and a home furnishings store in a light-colored building at left.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 31.556731 -97.131886

[Franklin Street, Waco]

Description: Postcard image of Franklin Street in Waco, Texas, a wide paved road lined with large stone and brick buildings and shops. Horse-drawn carriages traverse down the road, near striped awnings and porch-like canopies. At left is a large, narrow teal tower with balconies and a spire. Other towers are along the right, heading into the background, with cone tops on towers along building facades.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
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