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[Employees of the Imperial Sugar Company.]

Description: Group photograph of employees of the Imperial Sugar Company taken at their employee appreciation dinner in November of 1947. The group includes 46 men and two women (front row). Roof of a tin building in background. Imperial Sugar main building (brick with windows) in top right corner of photograph. Employees are identified as front row left to right: Gus Stabler, W. L. Friend, Mabel Dunkerly Woolley, Myrtle Friend Stabler, J. E. "Daddy" Blair, Claude Douglas, Homer Johnson, R. B. "Bob" Sheppar… more
Date: 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

First Christian Church, Richardson, Texas

Description: Wooden frame church, white clapboard siding. The middle section of the front (gable end) entends forward to form an entrance and upward to form a [bell?] tower. The double entrance door is covered with a decorative braced awning with a closed dormer. A sign over the door reads "First Christian Church." The roof is shingled, maybe wooden. A signpost is at the right edge of the picture, with the name of the church and the pastor's name. To the left of the main building is a lower building/annex… more
Date: [1940..1958]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Richardson Public Library

Mexican Migratory Workers of South Texas

Description: A book about the livelihood of Mexican migrant workers in south Texas. The book contains information about the income, family life, social life, and potential prospects of the Mexican workers.
Date: 1941
Creator: Menefee, Selden C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Houston, a history and guide

Description: This book contains information about Houston including: Houston's history, Houston's economic interests, and interesting things to see and do while visiting Houston.
Date: 1942
Creator: Writers' Program (Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Pecan shellers of San Antonio: the problem of underpaid and unemployed Mexican labor

Description: A book about the livelihood of migrant Mexican pecan shellers. The book contains information concerning: the pecan-shelling industry in San Antonio, the earnings of the pecan shellers in 1938, the social lives of the pecan shellers, and the potential prospects of the pecan shellers.
Date: 1940
Creator: Menefee, Selden C.; Cossmore, Orin C. & Webb, John N.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[A man holding the lead rope to a haltered Brahman bull - rear side view]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified man (Pete Frost?) holding the lead rope to a (rear side view) haltered Brahman bull. The bull is branded with "143" near back leg and a "4" on rump. The man is wearing boots, pants (tucked in boots), overcoat (pin on left lapel), jacket and shirt beneath overcoat, felt hat, gloves; he is holding a cane with a round medallion near top in his right hand. There is snow on the ground; fence in background. Written on back in pencil: "Mis 469".
Date: [1940..1955]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

[Photograph of six dark colored cattle and a Brahman]

Description: Photograph of six dark colored cattle and a Brahman. Two men on right of photograph in cowboy hats are holding the lead ropes of two of the cattle. The African-American man is leaning on the ground on his right side and the other man is on his knees. Shadow of a man on left. Wooden feeder and white building in background. Other cattle grazing in pasture in background. White fence posts and oak trees line the driveway that leads to the George Ranch house (not visible). "46" written in white in b… more
Date: [1940..1955]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

[William S. Blackshear - Atlanta Ga.]

Description: (back of photo) W.S.B. in Atlanta, Ga. Rainy. Just put Alf on bus to Camp Campbell so felt quite sad and lonely 1943. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library. Business signs in the background for the Paramount Theatre, showing "Phantom Lady" and the Royal Palm Dancing club.
Date: 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Unidentified Man]

Description: Photo of unidentified man, probably William S. Blackshear, taken in 1945. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.
Date: 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Near the water towers after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: Two water towers sit on stilts near the railroad tracks after the Texas City Disaster. Building rubble, barrels, and metal debris are extend over most of the middle portion of the picture. To the far left, a line of tank cars sit on a track. On the right, on a rail road track, a destroyed railroad car sits with most of its sides missing. A large pile of twisted metal debris lies on the railroad tracks behind it. On the far right is the grain elevator. On the horizon in the middle of the p… more
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[Interior view of a damaged storage tank after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: An interior view of the top of a metal cylindrical storage tank. Metal structural supports hang twisted and broken on the left side, lower left, and right middle portions of the photograph. Other interior metal suports are twisted and bent. There is a hole in the left center portion of the top of the tank near the side/top joining.
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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