Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Collection: Where the West Begins: Capturing Fort Worth's Historic Treasureshttps://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/FWHT/browse/?sort=date_d&start=&display=list&fq=str_year:19092009-04-30T22:04:19-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Collection: Where the West Begins: Capturing Fort Worth's Historic TreasuresResidents of Friona, Texas in 19092009-02-27T18:27:35-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth44843/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth44843/"><img alt="Residents of Friona, Texas in 1909" title="Residents of Friona, Texas in 1909" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth44843/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of the people of Friona, Texas on June 17, 1909. They stand in front of some of the town's homes. Nine automobiles are parked behind the group.</p>Old Settlers Barbeque2008-06-09T21:42:07-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38382/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38382/"><img alt="Old Settlers Barbeque" title="Old Settlers Barbeque" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38382/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of the "Old Settlers Barbecye [corr: barbeque] given on the evening of June 15th 1909 on the lawn of Mrs Florence Peak, in honor of Mrs. W.H. Davis and Mrs. Peak, by W.G.Turner and Newton Lassiter.
First Row - left to right, Mrs Richard King, "Mex" Dunn, Mrs John Mitchell, "Bud" Daggett, Eph.M. Daggett Jr, Col. Abe Harris, Mrs. Florence Peak, Sam Woody, Mrs W.H. Davis, Mrs Chas. Louck, Henry Feild, Jesse Melton and Major J.J. Jarvis.
Upper Row- left ot right, Capt. M.B. Loyd, H.W. Peak, Jessee Jones and Benj P. Ayres."</p>Confirmation Bible of Rose Levenson, Beth-El Congregation2008-07-11T21:58:16-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38733/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38733/"><img alt="Confirmation Bible of Rose Levenson, Beth-El Congregation" title="Confirmation Bible of Rose Levenson, Beth-El Congregation" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38733/small/"/></a></p><p>Confirmation Bible, Beth-El Congregation. Presented to Rose Levenson for Confirmation on Shevuoth, May 26, 1909 at Fort Worth, Texas by Rabbi George Zepin. Title page and inscription of the bible states that this volume contains "the Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures, carefully translated according to the Massoretic text, after the best Jewish authority by Isaac Lesser."</p>Chadron, Nebraska in 19052009-02-27T18:26:44-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth44901/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth44901/"><img alt="Chadron, Nebraska in 1905" title="Chadron, Nebraska in 1905" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth44901/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Main Street in Chadron, Nebraska in February 1905. Businesses include a Ladies' Bazar, a Dry Goods & Notions Store and a Grocer.</p>Charter of The City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, As Passed by the 31st Legislature, 19092009-04-22T17:09:43-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46816/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46816/"><img alt="Charter of The City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, As Passed by the 31st Legislature, 1909" title="Charter of The City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, As Passed by the 31st Legislature, 1909" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46816/small/"/></a></p><p>Charter of the City of Fort Worth includes the formal act of incorporation including organization of the city, government, police and fire departments, streets and sewers, parks, water and sewerage, taxes and finances, public health and sanitation, courts, and other provisions, ordinances, and laws. Index starts on page 87.</p>Ernest O. Thompson, Overland Automobiles 19092008-11-14T20:51:43-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth41411/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth41411/"><img alt="Ernest O. Thompson, Overland Automobiles 1909" title="Ernest O. Thompson, Overland Automobiles 1909" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth41411/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph four old automobiles with drivers parked in front of a dealerships. The tops are down and the drivers wear suits, two with caps, one with a cowboy hat and one with goggles. Behind the cars is a wooden building with a sign that reads, "Ernest O. Thompson Overland Automobiles". Next to that is a lumber yard with the words, "Amarillo Lumber & Coal" painted on the roof.</p>Journal of the Northwest Texas Conference, Forty-Fourth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church South2009-04-30T22:04:19-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46845/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46845/"><img alt="Journal of the Northwest Texas Conference, Forty-Fourth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church South" title="Journal of the Northwest Texas Conference, Forty-Fourth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church South" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46845/small/"/></a></p><p>Journal proceedings of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the proceedings, appointments, reports of boards and committees, memoirs, statistical tables, and advertisements.</p>