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Baptising in Olde Towne Creek

Description: Photograph of Reverend Hugh Vancel performing a baptism in Olde Town Creek near Red Hill, Tennessee. The reverend is standing in the creek and facing a large crowd of people on the bank, and holding the arm of a young girl (Ivana Wright) standing next to him; several other girls (identified as Hester Welch, Minnie Hicks, Cleo McCurey, Lilian Hicks, and Lenore Treece), a woman and a man are also standing in the creek, on the left. A building with wood siding is visible in the background.
Date: 1938
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Coyote Wisdom

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Mexico and Texas, including animal folk stories, Navajo creation myths, discussions about folk characters, discussions about the philosophy of folklore, and other miscellaneous folk stories. The index begins on page 293.
Date: 1938
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press

[Group Photo of the Weather Bureau]

Description: Photograph of the men of the Weather Bureau posing in an office hallway. Those in the back row are W. L. Thompson, an unidentified man, H. P. Adams, an unidentified man, G. L. Allen, and R. H. Powell. Those in the front row are unidentified, W. P. Roquemore, Ronald M. Mills, M. C. Harrison, Arnold Matroz, and Clifford G. Wilson. All but one of them signed their names below the photo.
Date: March 30, 1938
Partner: The University of Texas at Dallas

Man by House; Man by Watering Trough

Description: Copy negative of two pictures. The first is of Daniel Ray (D. R.) DeRusha wearing a suit, standing in front of a house with windows and bushes at 301 Miller St. in Abilene in 1938. The second picture is of George Nathan Cook standing in a field beside a watering trough with a car in the background in New Mexico in 1945.
Date: {1938,1945}
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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