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[Sam Houston's Cabin]

Description: Photograph of Sam Houston's log cabin. The cabin is a brown wooden building with a rectangular door. There are large pots outside the cabin and a white picket fence extends across the background of the photo.
Date: December 1948
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

Philosophical Society of Texas, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting: 1948

Description: Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Philosophical Society of Texas held on December 11, 1948, including a list of attendees, text of addresses, changes to membership, and biographical information about members who have passed. Creative arts in Texas was the topic of the meeting.
Date: 1949
Creator: Philosophical Society of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Philosophical Society of Texas

[Old Seward Home]

Description: Photograph of an old Seward home near Independence, Texas. The house is a wooden building with rectangular windows, two stone chimneys, and a balcony extending from the second floor. There is foliage growing around the house and throughout the surrounding area.
Date: December 1948
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[Old Home in Independence, Texas]

Description: Photograph of an old home in Independence, Texas. The house is a white building with two stone chimneys and rectangular windows. The yard is surrounded by a white picket fence and there is a small building located behind the fencing.
Date: December 1948
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[Sam Houston's Home]

Description: Photograph of Sam Houston's home in Huntsville, Texas. The house is a white wooden building with rectangular windows and a breezeway in the middle of the building.
Date: December 1948
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[Ruby Pierce]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Ruby Pierce is wearing an evening gown made of grapefruit membrane, she has gloves on and is holding a handbag also made of grapefruit membrane.
Date: unknown
Creator: Yoder Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Hansen]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Miss Hansen is wearing a Charro outfit (Spanish Cavalier), the bolero and skirt are made of orange peel in cellophane, cummer bund, blouse and sleeve ruffles are made of dried grapefruit membrane, trim is made lemon peel, and the hat is ma… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Mrs. Janett Wallace]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Mrs Janett Wallace is wearing a long evening dress made out of pampas grass.
Date: unknown
Creator: Yoder Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Neva Jean Riley]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Miss Riley is wearing a skirt made of bougainvillea, the bodice is made of bachelor buttons, hip panels are made of chrysanthemums and the belf of eggplant peeling.
Date: unknown
Creator: Yoder (Weslaco)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Lucille Parrish]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Miss Parrish from the Beta Sigma Phi Club is wearing a costume made out of bell peppers and citrus leaves.
Date: unknown
Creator: Yoder (Weslaco)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[J. Chapman Rice]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Mr. Rice's handsome Charro costume was made of diamond-cut pieces of eggplant. A metal cutter had been made especially to cut these diamond shapes. Each diamond was carefully wrapped in double-stick cellophane tape and then stuck on the … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Yoder (Weslaco)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Mrs. Clara Mae Davison]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. This winning ensemble is called a "landlubbers's outfit" especially popular with schoolgirls because of its simplicity. Blouse was made of the inner skin of white grapefruit, cut in diamond-shaped pieces; waistcoat of red poinsettia petal… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Yoder (Weslaco)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Mrs. N.J. Lettunich]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Mrs. Lettunich is representing the Weslaco Rotary Club. The model wore an authentic copy of a dres found in the pages of a Godey's lady book. The gown was made entirely of tepejuaje leaves. Members of the Mother's club of the Stephen F.… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Elizabeth Murphy]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Elizabeth is representing the Future Homemakers of McAllen. This two-piece suit was composed of 2,664 orange tree leaves. The blouse, hat, gloves, shoes, trimmings and single coat button were of Chinese hat. Her purse was made of tree l… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Pat Ross]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. December 6, 1948. Weslaco High School. Shoes, bag, and hat made of eggplant wrapped in cellphane to give the look of satin.
Date: unknown
Creator: Yoder Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum
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