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[F. C. Olds' Residence, Waco]

Description: Postcard of Frederick Charles Olds' residence on Austin Avenue, Waco. The house here is a two-storied house with a large portico set on stone pillars and balconies on both floors extending in both directions for the house's front facade. A covered driveway juts out from the house's side at left, with a paved pathway leading up to the side of the house.
Date: December 24, 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Flood Damage in East Waco]

Description: Postcard of a flood and damage on Elm Street in East Waco. The floodwater appears to be knee-high, and houses are upturned and pushed aside, with fences felled, power lines tipping, and debris floating in the water. A carriage pulled by a horse pulls a handful of people eastwards, towards the photographer. Numerous intact buildings are behind the damaged structures, and in the far background, the silhouette of the ALICO building is visible.
Date: 1913
Creator: McCall
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Fourth Street, Waco]

Description: Postcard of Fourth Street in Waco, Texas, lined with tall buildings on both sides. Cars are parked along the curbs of the road, and a streetcar line runs through the center of the road with wires overhead. A large hotel is visible at left with a large advert reading "HOTEL METROPOLE", and below that is a sign for a tailor. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalks and between the cars.
Date: 1917-10-11~
Creator: Mann, Fred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Sanger Avenue Elementary School]

Description: Photograph of the Sanger Avenue Elementary School, built in 1903. The school has a distinctive facade, with an arched entrance, two towers embedded into the building on either side of the arch, and a large belfry-like tower at the center of the building. Grass and trees surround the building.
Date: 1910~
Creator: Gildersleeve
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.551150 -97.148073
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Veterans' Hospital Campus, Waco]

Description: Photograph of the Veterans' Hospital (now the Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center) in Waco, Texas, looking southeast. At center is the complex's main building, accessible by an oval road attached to the main road. A parking lot is paved at left. Further buildings, located along curved, sweeping roads, are visible in the top left. Fields, a water tower, and other utility buildings are at right, separated from the main campus.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.512944 -97.163797
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Providence Sanitarium, Waco]

Description: Photograph of Providence Sanitarium (later Providence Hospital), a large five-storied building with an arched portico with stairs leading to the entrance underneath, porches attached to the sides of the building, and arched parapets rising parallel with the building's hip roof. Cars are parked on the dirt road in front. The photographer's credit, reading "Gildersleeve", has been partially obscured on the bottom right.
Date: [1905..]
Creator: Gildersleeve
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.557404 -97.153702
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Allen and Dawson Residence Hall Construction]

Description: Aerial photograph, looking south, of the Allen Residence Hall and the Dawson Residence Hall under construction at Baylor University, Waco. The Allen Residence Hall makes up the left portion of the long, thin building at center; the Dawson hall occupies the right half of the building. The large building with a pillared facade below the residence halls is the Memorial Residence Hall. Residential homes are on the side of the street across from the Dawson and Allen halls.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Austin Avenue Streetcars]

Description: Photograph of Austin Avenue in Waco, looking south. A long streetcar runs along the center of the road, destined for the Cotton Palace Park at the south of town. Along both sides of the streets are shops and stores, with banners hanging between the buildings and over the road. A clock, with a pawnbroker's sign of three balls hanging above it, is placed on a post at left in the sidewalk. The Sanger Brothers' department store is advertised with a banner reading "SANGERS" hanging across the road. … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Gildersleeve
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.558076 -97.130311
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Camp MacArthur, 32nd Division Headquarters]

Description: Postcard of the 32nd Division headquarters at Camp MacArthur, Waco. Structures visible along the dirt road are triangular, tent-like buildings with power poles and signs nearby. A large thermometer, possibly indicating the amount of liberty bonds purchased, is at center left. Cars are parked besides the road at right.
Date: 1917~/1919~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Meat Processing Plant, Waco]

Description: Photograph of a meat processing plant in Waco, Texas. Workers, mostly Black with a child on the left, hold cleavers and stand along butcher blocks with portions of meat, with beef hanging on hooks to the right. James Hamilton Bird stands at left in a hat and a coat. Bird was a brother of Cornelia Bird Davis.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[McLennan County Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of the McLennan County Courthouse, a large ornate, neoclassical building with a large dome, a facade with Greek-styled pillars, a long set of stone stairs, and two wings on both sides of the building. Statues of eagles and Lady Justice decorate the dome and the front of the building. Bicycles are placed along the curb of the road, as well as horse-drawn buggies parked to hitching posts along the sidewalk.
Date: [1901..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.557087 -97.133345
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard from Hallie to Mrs. Joe Bigy - June 13, 1911]

Description: Postcard from Hallie to Mrs. Joe Bigy[?] in Coalgate, Oklahoma. Hallie writes about their home and beckons Mrs. B. to write back. The front of the postcard shows a collage of four places in Waco: in clockwise order from the top left, the New Exchange Hotel, its furnished lobby, its large dining room, and the Union Depot station.
Date: June 13, 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.556733 -97.131729
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Willis Residence, Waco]

Description: Photograph of the residence of Clara Evans Willis and John Todd Willis, Sr., in Waco, Texas. The house is a one-story brick building with a gable roof and windows with shutters. Trees with plentiful shade grow on the front yard, and a stone bench is placed in between two trees at left.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Willis Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.555302 -97.197065
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Three People on a Front Lawn]

Description: Partial photograph of three people standing on the front yard of a Victorian-style home behind a wooden gate and fence. Two women in dresses stand at left, and a man in a coat and tie stands at right. The fence is tilted, and an advertisement is painted on the mailbox's post. It reads, "see Nash-Robinson & Co.; Lumber Yard; Hog Fence; Lead Paints; Oil & Glass; Screen Doors; Cement; Lime Wall".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Scene on Public Square, Waco]

Description: Drawing of a scene at the public square at Waco, with the old city hall at right. Along a road to the left of the city hall is a large crowd of horse-drawn vehicles, horseback riders, animals tied to hitching posts, and other pedestrians. The city hall at center is depicted with a fence and with its large, prominent steeple nestled in the background. A man on horseback, drawn on the bottom right, watches the crowd.
Date: 1890
Creator: Spitter, W. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Austin Avenue Methodist Church Chancel]

Description: Photograph of the chancel and the altar of the Austin Avenue Methodist Church in Waco, Texas. Most of the chancel is raised on a platform. At the very back is the raised choir loft and the Kilgen organ console (mostly obscured). The back wall contains wooden paneling, tracery and facade organ pipes. A short upper wooden screen separates the choir from the main part of the chancel, on which are clergy seats, the pulpit, decorated with a parament, and the altar. This portion is accessible by stai… more
Date: December 22, 1953
Creator: Willis Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.549818 -97.138852
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Knights of Columbus Hall, Waco]

Description: Postcard of the Knights of Columbus Hall in Waco, Texas, a two-story hip-roofed building with a set of stairs and a portico extending from the entrance of the building. The Knights of Columbus emblem is placed on the portico, under the tiled roof, with gas lamps adjoining on both sides of the portico's pillars. Above the portico is a balcony with short stone corner pillars. Sidewalks and turf adjoin the building.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Franklin Street, Waco]

Description: Postcard image of Franklin Street in Waco, Texas, a wide paved road lined with large stone and brick buildings and shops. Horse-drawn carriages traverse down the road, near striped awnings and porch-like canopies. At left is a large, narrow teal tower with balconies and a spire. Other towers are along the right, heading into the background, with cone tops on towers along building facades.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Fifth Street, South from Austin Avenue]

Description: Postcard image of Fifth Street, looking south from Austin Avenue, in Waco, Texas. The road is at center, paved and filled with carriages and pedestrians, with a streetcar rail line embedded into the street. Large multi-storied stone and brick buildings stand on all four corners of the street, including a drug store with a prominent sign at right, and a home furnishings store in a light-colored building at left.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 31.556731 -97.131886
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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