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[Portrait of Irving Langdon Reese]

Description: Photograph of Irving Langdon Reese (1930–1997), aged one year, on Easter 1931. He wears a white gown and sits on a table next to to a hat and several stuffed Easter bunnies at left. This photograph is addressed to Mary Ann Sonntag.
Date: April 5, 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Oral History Interview with Dr. Bill Blackburn, April 20, 2022

Description: Transcript of an interview with Dr. Bill Blackburn, Kerrville pastor, author, and mayor. Blackburn discusses his family, education, call to ministry, service as a Family Life Consultant to the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention, leadership in many community-based service organizations, and terms as Mayor of Kerrville.
Date: April 20, 2022
Creator: Jones, Mary Elaine & Blackburn, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Dr. Bill Blackburn, April 20, 2022

Description: Recording of an interview with Dr. Bill Blackburn, Kerrville pastor, author, and mayor. Blackburn discusses his family, education, call to ministry, service as a Family Life Consultant to the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention, leadership in many community-based service organizations, and terms as Mayor of Kerrville.
Date: April 20, 2022
Duration: 48 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Jones, Mary Elaine & Blackburn, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Oral History Interview with Thomas Weir Labatt, III, April 27, 2022

Description: Interview with Thomas Weir Labatt, III, community leader from San Antonio. Weir Labatt discusses the history of his family, which had roots in Kerrville, his grandfather's company, his career in water conservation, and the various leadership positions he held in Kerrville and San Antonio.
Date: April 27, 2022
Creator: Jones, Mary Elaine & Labatt, Thomas Weir, III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

[Lecture Hall Seasonal Planter]

Description: Photograph of a decorative planter outside the lecture hall in the Garden Center of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The planter is placed on a circular stone platform, containing multiple multicolored bundles of flowers that rise vertically to surround a statue of a small, stone cherub, which is covered by a short tree. This planter sits prominently in front of furnishings such as house plants and covered tables.
Date: April 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.740342 -97.363770
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Fuller Garden Flower Arrangement]

Description: Photograph of a field of flowers in the Fuller Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The flowers are surrounded on all sides by various types of trees in the background. Most prominent is a large patch of bushes with white flowering plants, with white flowering trees adjacent on the left side. There are smaller lines of red flowers on the left and behind the white flowers and a curved, stone brick wall behind the patch of flowers. In the far right background, a circular gazebo is visible.
Date: April 3, 1992
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.739980 -97.365006
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Fuller Garden Reflecting Pool]

Description: Photograph of a pond in the Fuller Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The circular pond sits in the center of a circular concrete pathway, which is lined on the upper side of the image with a short, stone brick wall that sits in front of yellow flowers. Around the pond are two large stones and a white pot containing a tall shrub. The pond is surrounded by grasses, flowers, trees on all sides; pink tulips sit prominently in the foreground.
Date: April 3, 1992
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.739543 -97.365020
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Cactus Garden]

Description: Photograph of the Cactus Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Several types of cacti are visible across a flat mound of dirt, including tall columnar cacti, barrel cacti, and prickly pear cacti. In the foreground are several tall shrubs, including a tall yucca plant at right. More foliage is present in the background along the footpath behind the cacti displays. A small greenhouse is partially visible at right.
Date: April 1997
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.735446 -97.366879
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Conservatory Spring Figurine Display]

Description: Photograph of a display with artistic figurines arranged for a tea party in the Conservatory at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Seated in front of a table made out of a mound of grass with a tea set is a female figurine sitting in a miniature pink chair, a stuffed animal on top of a tea spout, a pig in a suit and top hat, and another, unoccupied, pink chair. Yellow and pink flowers are nestled around the figurines, and larger bushes and leafy plants are placed behind them.
Date: April 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.739921 -97.363916
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Suzuki Garden Dedication]

Description: Photograph of the dedication of the Suzuki Garden, a karesansui-style dry garden, at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The garden, surrounded by a wooden fence, contains tiled rock coverings, a flat surface of sand, and a small field of round bumpy rocks,Two men kneel upon a taiko mat at center, one preparing a bow and arrow (kyūdō), and the other accompanying. A makiwara, a hay target placed on a tall stand, is located adjacent to them.
Date: April 7, 2000
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.735960 -97.365757
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Umstead Teahouse #4]

Description: Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The teahouse sits over the garden pond, held by stilts in the water, and features a wooden balcony, shuttered shoji screen doors, and a pagoda-style roof. Large pink flower bushes and tall grasses sit on the edge of the pond, and koi fish are faintly visible swimming within. In the background are several stone steps, another pagoda-style building, and a wooden fence.
Date: April 1990
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.737188 -97.365372
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Botanic Garden North Entrance Sign Construction]

Description: Photograph of the northern entrance sign at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden under construction. Numerous gardeners and workers dig in front of the entrance sign, which reads in black serif font "FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDEN". Rocks, plants, and shrubs are arranged in front of the sign. At center, a young boy is visible with a tool assisting with the landscaping. The W. R. Watt Arena is visible in the background at left.
Date: April 23, 1998
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.742173 -97.364240
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Lower Rose Garden with Snow]

Description: Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden covered with snow. At bottom center is the "rose ramp", a wide set of triangular arrangements of roses bordered with short hedges with a water stream running along concrete steps down the middle of the ramp and stairs along both sides of the flowers. Below the "rose ramp", at center is a rectangular pond with shrubs and bushes on each corner, and several polygonal beds of flowers lined with hedges, all of which are covered in … more
Date: April 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.734730 -97.365121
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Botanic Garden Library Rededication]

Description: Photograph of the rededication of the library in the Rock Springs Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, taking place in the Fragrance Garden. A woman, identified as Deborah Moncrief, stands at a podium giving a speech in front of the Rock Springs Center building, the library window, and a small statue of a cherub. At left are two men identified as Henry Painter and Richard Zavala, and at right is a woman identified as Joyce Capper.
Date: April 19, 1996
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736782 -97.365311
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Moon Bridge, Under Construction]

Description: Photograph of the Moon Bridge, a wooden arch bridge, being built over an empty concrete stream in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. The wooden arch has been attached to concrete bases on both sides of the stream, and the bridge's footpath is partially complete, with two workers sitting on the arch installing the bridge's floorboards with tools in their hands and a stack of lumber behind them. Boulders and dirt line both ends of the stream, and concrete footpaths have been built around the bridge.
Date: 1972-04~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736844 -97.366052
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Stepping Stone Construction]

Description: Photograph of completed stepping stones in the concrete pond of the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. The stones, which span from one end of the pond to another in a curved path, are made of porous concrete and rise several feet from the base of the pond, which is only filled with several inches of stagnant water.
Date: 1972-04~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.737048 -97.365893
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Cross Tie Cowboys and a Chuck Wagon]

Description: Photograph of the Cross Tie Cowboys, seated together in a clearing in the grasslands with a chuckwagon. Two men are seated next to or behind the chuckwagon, which carries supplies. Several horses stand in the back, behind several bushes. The cross tie brand was registered on April 29, 1902, originally owned by Newnie Ellie.
Date: [1902-04-29..]
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

Terminal Bracket

Description: Technical drawing showing the layout of terminal bracket including labeled scale drawings and explanatory notes along with two parts list worksheets. Scale 1:0.25 inches.
Date: April 1970
Creator: Garcia, M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Technical Drawing
Partner: Lunar Planetary Institute Library

[Midland Police Force, 1941]

Description: Photograph of several officers of the Midland Police Department in front of the Midland City Hall. The officers stand in front of black police cars and motorcycles in uniform, facing forward. The officers are identified from a note on the back: from left to right, Frank Manning, W. C. Durham, Bill Moreland, Mac McCaslin, Glen Hudson, [Jack] Merritt, and Charlie Adkins.
Date: April 1, 1941
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.999424 -102.075431
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[San Jacinto Day, Midland Downtown]

Description: Photograph of San Jacinto Day celebrations in downtown Midland, on the intersection of Main and Wall Street. Numerous buildings, including the First National Bank, are placed along the streets, below which are sidewalks lined up with crowds of people. Part of the crowd has spilled into the street, forming an arched barrier of people, watching a procession or dance on the right half of the picture. A similar procession occurs at left, with numerous children standing in a grid. Horses with carria… more
Date: April 21, 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Sandstorm on the Plains, 1894]

Description: Photograph of a sandstorm approaching Midland and the E. D. Harrington home, the first brick house in Midland, in April 1894. Other wooden-framed buildings and windmills are in the path of the sandstorm, which towers over the town.
Date: April 1894
Creator: Bland
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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