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V. C. Perini, Jr. Standing in Snow with Horses; View of Mountain Town

Description: Copy negative of two pictures. In the first, the person is standing in the snow to the left of some harnessed horses with a building and wagon on the left in the background and mountains in the distance. The second picture is of some buildings on a snowy hillside with trees and mountains in the background.
Date: [1925..1930]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Gravel Loading]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. Both images (numbered 145 and 146) are of men loading gravel into trucks using horses. Handwritten text on the images identify them both as "Garza Dam Loading Gravel into Ford Trucks through Traps," taken on 04-15-25
Date: 1925
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Slide and Hydraulic Fill]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 300) is of a horse and some men working on a dirt slope with pieces of pipe on it. The second image (numbered 301) is of a dirt trench with pipe pieces on its sides. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam North from Sta. 25 Slide on Downstream Slope" taken on 12-13-26, and (bottom) "Garza Dam North from Sta. 32 Hyd-fill Center, Clay Blanket Right" taken on 02-07-2… more
Date: [1926..1927]
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Unloading Dragline and Garza Dam North]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 24) is of various machinery being unloaded from railroad cars; a horse-drawn wagon is near the railroad tracks. The second image (numbered 20) is of horses hitched to a mechanism in a field. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Unloading Bucyrus Class 24 Dragline" and (bottom) "Garza Dam North from South Bank" both taken 10-17-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Outlet Conduits]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 70) is of a small crane excavating a shallow trench. The second image (numbered 75) is of a row of horse-drawn wagons with two small cranes in a shallow trench. Handwritten text on the images identify them both as "Garza Dam Excavating for Outlet Conduits," taken 11-17-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Clay Puddling and Wagon Fill]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 315) is of men fixing large cracks in a dirt surface. The second image is of a man with three horses and a wagon. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Puddling Clay into Cracks after Slide" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Placing Wagon Fill at Elev. 530 Sta. 18 North," both taken on 06-28-27.
Date: 1927
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Horses and float in parade]

Description: Postcard of a float in a parade from behind, with horses and multiple people walking alongside. There are women sitting in the float, which is drawn by horses and covered in decorations. There is a large mast or pole on the float that has a sail attached to it. Small children wearing hats are walking behind the float carrying flags, and people observe from porches on houses in the background.
Date: 1923
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

Combined Swingletree and Evener.

Description: Patent, including illustrations, for improvements to combined swingletrees and eveners, tools used to equalize strain between a draft animal and vehicle, "which is easily and simply constructed, inexpensive to manufacture, and one which will be very efficient in operation" (lines 22-25).
Date: March 16, 1920
Creator: White, Floyd N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[D. F. Urschel Ranch Photos]

Description: Collage of three rectangular photographs mounted on a decorative board showing various ranch work. Clockwise from top left: [1] there is a makeshift pen of horses on the plain, surrounded by mounted and unmounted cowhands, [2] a cowhand is walking up to a mounted rider at the right side of the photo and a large herd of cattle are visible in the background, as well as at least one additional mounted cowhand, [3] four men are surrounding a calf on the ground including one man who is lying on to… more
Date: 1920~/1929~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

[Ranch Work Collage]

Description: Series of four trimmed photographs mounted on a board, with white paint outlines and decorations around the photos. At the top, there is a rectangular photo of five mounted cowhands herding a loose group of cattle on an open plain; in the center are two oval-shaped photos including a makeshift corral of horses with several men standing or mounted outside the pen (left) and a pitched tent with a man seated in the shade next to it (right); at the bottom is another rectangular photo of cowhands, … more
Date: 1926
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

[Brenham Lumber Company Float]

Description: Photograph of the Brenham Lumber Company float in the 1922 Mai-Fest. The float is pulled by two horses, and it is decorated with flowers. There are four pillars and a basket in the middle with little girls standing in it in costume. There is a man on a horse behind the float, and they are in front of a house. The banner on the bottom says "Build a House, Rose Arbors Any Style & Size, Brenham Lumber Company." Written under the float is "Mai-Fest 1922."
Date: May 1922
Creator: Winkelmann's Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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