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Prospects Bright for Kessler Program Cary Report Urges Action: Points Out Unity of Support and Cost of Further Delay

Article describing the changes to the city of Dallas, Texas during 1925 under the supervision of the Kessler Plan Association which designed the city plan. The article includes an over view of the plan, expenses, progress, county assistance, legal issues, and opinions. A sub-section includes a breakdown of some specific projects that happened under the plan.

Date: 1926~

Item Type: Text

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[School group in costumes]

Photograph of a group of school children in costumes, for "Hobo Day" at Crossroads School, posing outdoors next to a brick wall. Many of the children are wearing over-sized clothes and hats, and holding brooms. One child in the front row is laying in a wheel-barrow.

Date: 1926

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[West Ward Elementary School class]

Photograph of a third grade class from West Ward Elementary School. The class is posing in front of a brick wall and lined up in three rows. Some of the children are identified; in the first row, the third person is Anna Lee Graham, the sixth person is Virginia Fortenberry, and the ninth person is Genevieve Strickland. In the second row, the first person is Kathleen Leggitt, and the teacher in the third row is Mrs. Ruth Barton.

Date: 1926/1927

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[Letter from the Kessler Plan Association, January 19, 1926]

Letter from John E. Surratt at the Kessler Plan Association to members of the Advertising League regarding ways that the special committee could help to promote the Kessler Plan Association's city plan for Dallas, Texas. The original letter included copies of maps and literature about the Kessler Plan.

Date: January 19, 1926

Creator: Kessler Plan Association

Item Type: Letter