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[Arid and Wildflower Garden]

Description: Photograph of the arid and wildflower garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Depicted is a small opening among a background of dense trees where tall grasses, shrubs, and some cacti are grown. A small family of four in the background walks along the field, observing their surroundings.
Date: unknown
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Lower Rose Garden with Pool #2]

Description: Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. At center is the "rose ramp", a wide rectangular set rose arrangements bordered with short hedges and lined with concrete steps along both sides. Above the "rose ramp" are a set of stairs leading to a raised platform containing a wide pavilion containing square colonnades on both ends of the structure and a trapezoidal roof. Below the "rose ramp" is the lower portion of the rose garden, partially obscured by bushes. Along theā€¦ more
Date: 1940
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Portrait of an Unknown Couple in Dark Clothes]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified couple wearing dark clothes. The man at left, wearing a dark suit with a chain in his shirt, sits next to the woman at right, wearing a gray-like corseted dress with a flower brooch across the chest. She has her hand placed on the man's shoulder. They stand in front of a painted backdrop with leaf designs in relief.
Date: unknown
Creator: Barron
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Three Unknown Children]

Description: Photograph of three children posing around a wicker chair. The youngest child, a baby, sits in a white gown on the chair's seat. The middle child sits on the armrest of the chair and faces forward. The oldest child, dressed in a black coat and a black pair of pants, stands to the right and faces forward, smiling slightly.
Date: unknown
Creator: Winkelmann, Friedrich Christian, Sr.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of William Homer Watson Beatty]

Description: Photograph of William Homer Watson Beatty, son of James Thomas Beatty, who was second cousin to Robert Thomas Beatty. He wears a dark coat with a handkerchief in his pocket, and looks to the left of the photographer. He sports sideburns on both sides of his face. A note on the back states that Beatty lived most of his life in "Western, Penns[ylvania]." Robert Thomas Beatty was the note writer's father.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hill, S. B.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of an Unknown Family on a Porch]

Description: Photograph of a family standing on the porch of their framed house. From left to right is a man in a hat and overalls, a woman in a dark-colored dress sitting with a baby on her lap, a child sitting on a wooden rocking horse, two girls in light-colored dresses, and an older girl to their right standing next to the awning's support pillar. The house is wooden, built with clapboard siding and a hip roof. A tree stands next to the porch at right, and along the house is a row of rose bushes.
Date: unknown
Creator: Davis & Stewart
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Two Unknown Girls with a Cat]

Description: Photograph of two unidentified girls with a young tabby cat. One girl, the younger, sits on a sofa with the cat in her lap. The older girl stands at left with her arm placed on the sofa's armrest. Both wear dark-colored dresses, and both are looking forward, along with the cat.
Date: unknown
Creator: de Planque, Louis
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of William Ollie McMenamy]

Description: Photograph of William Ollie McMenamy (1879ā€“1955), dressed in a long-sleeved uniform with the initials "U. A." on his collar. He has combed hair and looks forward. McMenamy is buried in Wilson Chapel Cemetery, Collin County.
Date: 190X-12-31
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Charles Walsh and His Plane]

Description: Postcard of aviator Charles Walsh standing in front of his biplane before a crowd of spectators in Bonham, Texas. Walsh (center) wears goggles and a hat and leans against one of the aircraft's trusses. Handwritten at bottom of image: "Curtis Bioplane - Aviator Walsh, Bonham Texas 1-28-12."
Date: January 28, 1912
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[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
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[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
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Men with a Fur Suit, Collar, and a Paddle]

Description: Photograph of eight men, one prominently at the center on his knees wearing fur, collared with a rope around his neck, and a goblet balanced on his head. Three men are seated behind him on a piece of wood. Four men are standing in the back, in front of a painted background. Among those standing is a man with a thin mustache, two men, one with his hand on the other's shoulder and the other holding a rope around the kneeling man's neck, and at far right, a man standing directly behind the kneeledā€¦ more
Date: unknown
Creator: Bronner, G. H.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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