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[Certificate of Registration for Rockwell Baraca]

Description: Certificate of registration issued by the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, certifying the Baraca Sunday school of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall's enrolllment into the convention's Organized Class Department.
Date: December 30, 1921
Creator: Southern Baptist Convention
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Baptist Sunday School Convention, Rockwall]

Description: Photograph of a convention of Baptist adult Sunday schools in Rockwall organized by the Philathean Society. Several women stand on the steps of a church building, arranged in four rows. Two groups of women along the front row each hold a sign, a pennant at left reading "Philathea" and a flag-shaped banner at right reading "First Annual Convention Banner." Names of attendees is listed on the back of the photograph.
Date: 1926
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Parkers at Funeral, First Presbyterian Church]

Description: Photograph of the Parkers during the first funeral held at the First Presbyterian Church in Abilene, Texas. They stand on the threshold of the uncompleted south entrance to the church, with temporary wooden planks installed between short brick walls. Sallie Ann Parker Willis stands with two of her children at left. Her mother, Sallie Ann Clarke Parker, stands second from right, and Margaret Parker Cox stands at far right, seated against the right short brick all. All face forward.
Date: 1923/1924
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

A History of Bonham, Texas

Description: Book outlining the early history of Bonham, Texas, including information about people, businesses, development of municipal services and government, and other related topics, organized into four main sections: Early Pioneer Days (1836-1861), War Period (1861-1865), Period of Reconstruction (1865-1875), and Later Development (1875-1929).
Date: 1929
Creator: Bonham High School. American History Class.
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[Congregation of Greater Mount Horeb Baptist Church]

Description: Reproduction of a photograph of congregation members posing outside a church building that has a sign over the entrance reading "Greater Mount Horeb Baptist Church. Paul E. Castle Pastor." The group is posing on the porch outside the entrance, on the stairs, and along the front of the building.
Date: [1924..1946]
Partner: Mount Horeb Baptist Church Library

[Postcard of the National Episcopal Cathedral]

Description: Postcard with an illustration of the outside of the northeast end of the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., labeled "The National Cathedral of S. S. Peter and Paul at Night" with printed text on the back about its history. The card has a handwritten message on the back addressed to James S. Chambers in Waco and postmarked September 1924.
Date: September 1924
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Postcard of the Interior of Old St. John's Church]

Description: Postcard with an illustration of part of the sanctuary and front of St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, with printed text on the back regarding a convention held in the church during 1775. The card is postmarked 1924 and addressed to "Mrs. James Chambers" in Waco and "Mother," is written in the text area without any other correspondence.
Date: 1924~
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Photograph of Mildred Lastinger and Walter George Hatley]

Description: Photograph of Mildred Lastinger and Walter George Hatley on their wedding day. The couple is pictured standing arm in arm outside of the First Presbyterian Church of Waco. Mildred is wearing all light color clothing with a bouquet of flowers in one arm. Walter is to the left wearing a dark color suit with a small floral piece pinned to his jacket.
Date: 1925
Partner: First Presbyterian Church of Waco

[Photograph of the Choir of the First Presbyterian Church of Waco]

Description: Photograph of the choir of the First Presbyterian Church of Waco. The choir, composed of both men and women, is pictured standing in a raised loft behind the three seats for the ministers. Opened song books are visible in the hands of each member, and a Pilcher pipe organ is behind the choir.
Date: 1920~
Creator: Gildersleeve, Fred
Partner: First Presbyterian Church of Waco

[State Meeting of W. H. and F. M. Society]

Description: Photograph of a large group of people at the State Meeting of the W. H. and F. M. Society at the Shiloh A. M. E. Church in Galveston, including Mrs. M. A. Carr, Mrs. L. M. Sewell, L. M. Sanders, and Rev. W. D. Johnson. The people are sitting and standing in several rows in front of the side of the church with stained glass windows in the background. Written on the front of the photograph: "State Meeting of the W. H. and F. M. Society. Mrs. M. A. Carr. Pres. Mrs. L. M. Sewell, sec. at Shiloh A. … more
Date: August 13, 1926
Creator: Palmer Studio
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[St. Paul's Episcopal Church Interior]

Description: Photograph of the interior of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Waco, featuring rows of wooden pews in the foreground, an altar with the phrase "Holiness Becometh Thine House O Lord Forever." painted above it, and a pipe organ on the left, and a row of stained glass windows on the right.
Date: 1920~
Creator: Gildersleeve, Fred
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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