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[Charles Anderson, Midland Pitcher]

Description: Photograph of Charles Anderson, pitcher for the Midland baseball team. He poses as if to pitch a ball towards the photographer, standing in a field of trees.
Date: July 12, 1908
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Dedication of the Bonham Veterans' Hospital]

Description: Photograph of the dedication of the Bonham Veterans' Hospital and Domiciliary on July 9, 1948. Dignitaries, including Representative Sam Rayburn, are seated on the platform with flags positioned behind them with a band of musicians dressed in white uniforms are seated in front of the platform. Spectators are visible around the front of the stage, most standing and many wearing hats.
Date: July 9, 1948
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[First School of Instructions Held on Texas Lines, Brick Room #1]

Description: Photograph of the "First School of Instructions," held in a Colorado and Southern Railway building. Seven Black men are seated in a windowless glazed concrete brick room, looking forward with three white men standing behind them.
Date: July 12, 1948
Creator: Fancher
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[First School of Instructions Held on Texas Lines, Brick Room #2]

Description: Photograph of the "First School of Instructions," held in a Colorado and Southern Railway building. Six Black men are seated in a windowless glazed concrete brick room, looking forward with three white men standing behind them.
Date: July 14, 1948
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[First School of Instructions Held on Texas Lines, Dining Car]

Description: Photograph of the "First School of Instructions," held on a Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company dining car. Several Black men are seated along all the seats within the dining car, turning to face the photographer. Four white men stand in the back of the car.
Date: July 1948
Creator: Smith, W. D.
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[First School of Instructions Held on Texas Lines, Passenger Car]

Description: Photograph of the "First School of Instructions," held on a Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company passenger car. Several Black men are seated along the seats of the passenger car, with two rows of chairs with a center aisle and lunette windows on the car's sides. Four white men stand in the back of the car.
Date: July 1948
Creator: Smith, W. D.
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Fourth of July Celebration: Choir Performance]

Description: Photograph of a choir performance during a Fourth of July celebration in the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The choir stands at the back end of the worship center, dressed in red and white, singing from their choir books. A man conducts them from behind the pulpit. The sanctuary is decorated with flowers and American flags, with one large prominent flag hanging on the wall above the choir singers.
Date: July 4, 1993
Location: 32.924938 -96.461499
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Fourth of July Celebration: Costumed Couple #1]

Description: Photograph of a costumed couple at a celebration for Independence Day in the Rockwall First Baptist Church. They stand in the front end of the church's worship center, in front of the choir section, the pulpit, and the clergy chairs. At left, a woman wears a white satin dress with red and blue stripes, and at right, a man wears a hat with a puffy white feathers and a dark coat with a black stele, round buttons, and long sleeves. A large American flag is draped over the back wall of the worship … more
Date: July 4, 1993
Location: 32.924938 -96.461499
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Fourth of July Celebration: Costumed Couple #2]

Description: Photograph of a costumed couple at a celebration for Independence Day in the Rockwall First Baptist Church. They stand in the front end of the church's worship center, in front of the choir section, the pulpit, and the clergy chairs. At left, a woman wears a white satin dress with red and blue stripes, and at right, a man wears a hat with a puffy white feathers and a dark coat with a black stele, round buttons, and long sleeves.
Date: July 4, 1993
Location: 32.924938 -96.461499
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Fourth of July Celebration: Couple and Choir]

Description: Photograph of a celebration for Independence Day in the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. A woman stands next to the worship center's pulpit, churchgoers in front of them. A man in a suit faces the choir section with his back turned towards the seated singers. A large American flag is draped on the wall over the top of the choir section.
Date: July 4, 1993
Location: 32.924938 -96.461499
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Horseshoe Garden Benches]

Description: Photograph of benches in the Horseshoe Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The benches are located along concrete footpaths under the shade of large trees. Tall grasses, flower bushes, and bushes are visible around the benches.
Date: July 1995
Location: 32.734877 -97.366160
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Joel, Veta Nell, and Ed Jolley]

Description: Photograph of Joel, Veta Nell, and Ed Jolley, missionaries on furlough standing inside the Rockwall First Baptist Church. The three stand in a room with a decorated stained-glass window.
Date: July 14, 1985
Location: 32.924938 -96.461499
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

["Last Roundup" at the Scharbauer Hotel]

Description: Photograph of a picture board at at the "Last Roundup" in the Scharbauer Hotel in Midland before its demolition. Nancy McKinley (left) points at pictures of people in front of a house among other pictures of the hotel building and other Midland attractions. Two men, Clarence Scharbauer, Jr. (center) and Bill Johnson (right) examine the images.
Date: July 15, 1973
Location: 31.997234 -102.075351
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Men's Sunday School at the Midland County Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of a Sunday School class in front of the Art Deco facade of the Midland County Courthouse. Most wear hats, and a handful of women stand in the right corner along a man in a wheelchair. A man holding a baby, in the second row, fifth from right, is Troy Eiland, holding Bethel Eiland. The class's teacher was Paul T. Vickers, and its president Harry L. Haight, and they met in the Scharbauer Hotel Ballroom on the southeast corner of Loraine and Wall Street.
Date: July 1934
Creator: Lackey, Clint
Location: 31.998063 -102.076205
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Baseball Team]

Description: Photograph of the Midland baseball team, seated together on the front steps of the old Midland County Courthouse. The players sit in three rows, with three men from the team's front office seated on stone apertures within the courthouse's facade. Three more men in hats and neckties are seated in the top row, and a child is held by a player in the bottom row. Three baseballs are arranged together in front of the players.
Date: July 16, 1908
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Woman's Club, Rodeo Coffee]

Description: Photograph of "rodeo coffee" meeting arranged by the Midland Woman's Club. Women with cowboy hats are seated behind a table with a selection of food and small cups throughout. Another row of women stand behind, looking towards the photographer. A list of names is written on the back of the photograph.
Date: July 1955
Creator: Birdwell, Joe V.
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Opening of State Women's Bowling Tournament, Midland Lanes]

Description: Fisheye photograph of the opening of a state women's bowling tournament in Midland Lanes, viewed from between two bowling lanes. Across the aisles, bowlers release their bowling balls in front of a busy crowd standing behind the ball dispensers.
Date: July 28, 1964
Creator: Davis, Frank
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Portrait of Lina H.]

Description: Photograph of possibly Lina H., dressed in a wide corseted light-colored dress. She is seated on a cushioned chair with a quilted pillow, facing to the left.
Date: July 23, 1900
Creator: Gustafson
Location: 29.426549 -98.490150
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of M. H. Rhoads]

Description: Photograph of M. H. Rhoads from the State University in Austin, Texas. He wears a dark-colored coat with a Masonic pin on his lapel. He sports a mustache, which obscures a cleft lip on his left.
Date: July 1, 1887
Creator: Hill, S. B.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Progressive Democracy Wagon]

Description: Photograph of a mule-drawn wagon, decorated with the words "PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY" along a cloth hanging from the side of the mule and with the words "WOODROW" and "WILSON" and the front and back wheels, respectively, bearing two women—Elma and Belulah Graves—in dark-colored dresses surrounded by flowers and a flag. The parade wagon is parked on a dirt road in front of T. S. Sacra's home, a two-story house.
Date: July 4, 1912
Location: 32.003913 -102.075982
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Robert Parker Kelly, Jr., Riding a Pony]

Description: Photograph of Robert "Bobby" Parker Kelly, Jr. (1931–2007), grandson of Bettie Parker Kelly, riding a pony..He wears a hat, a vest, and long chaps with a star and the numbers "2001" on them. The pony stands on the curb of a street, with a sidewalk, a house, and its lawn in the background behind Robert, who is smiling.
Date: July 1935
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Rose Garden Fountain]

Description: Photograph of the Rose Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Prominently at center is a water spout in an obscured fountain, framed by an empty metal flower arch in front of it and a hedge and latticed wall behind it. Roses, shrubs, and bushes cover the foreground, and dense foliage sits behind the image.
Date: July 1995
Location: 32.734953 -97.364589
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[South Fifth Street and Austin Street, Waco]

Description: Photograph of South Fifth Street and Austin Street in Waco, Texas. Along this corner is the R. T. Dennis & Co. house furnishing store in the Dennis Building at center, the Wood Bros. male clothing store, Chris's Cafe, and the "Grocery So Different" to the left of the Dennis Building, the Oriental Billards and Dominos building on the other side of the road. Cars and bicycles are parked along the curb, and people walk across the street and along the sidewalk.
Date: July 5, 1957
Creator: Gildersleeve
Location: 31.556733 -97.131729
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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