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Dinner Dress

Description: Formal dinner dress of black wool crepe and lavender satin. Bodice of lavender satin with short, puffed sleeves and low rounded neckline in front, higher in back. Sleeves with elastic gathering at openings. Front of bodice with vertical gathers. Back with open slit and lavender satin drawstring closure at neckline. Empire waist. Skirt of black wool crepe, full-length. Center back zipper in skirt begins at join to bodice where bodice is slit. Unlined. Combined designer's/retailer's label … more
Date: 1948
Creator: Norell, Norman, 1900-1972
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Coat

Description: Daytime coat of camel brown/tan wool. Street-length or longer, with rounded shawl collar. Double breasted with 6 large circular black silk faille-covered buttons in two vertical rows of 3 each; bound buttonholes. Closure reinforced with two small circular black plastic buttons inside. Two slit. Double welt pockets at sides. Long sleeves with turned-back cuffs showing black silk faille lining. The coat is lined in black silk, with wide bands of black silk faille at cuffs, collar, and sides … more
Date: 1948
Creator: Norell, Norman, 1900-1972
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Three Contemporary Mexican Painters

Description: Catalog from the exhibition, "Three Contemporary Mexican Artists: Rivera, Tamayo, and Siqueiros," October 9–November 7, 1948, assembled for the State Fair of Texas by the Galeria Mont-Orendain, Mexico City, and shown under the auspices of the National Museum of Plastic Arts at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in Dallas, Texas. Artists: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo Includes: list of artworks in the exhibition, selected images
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

Exhibition of Steuben Glass

Description: Catalog from the "Exhibition of Steuben Glass," April 4–24, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: essay, list of artists and artworks in the exhibition.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

Clara Williamson

Description: Catalog from the exhibition, "Clara Williamson: Paintings," February 29–March 21, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: list of artworks in the exhibition, selected images, biographical note.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

The Tenth Texas General Exhibition

Description: Catalog from the juried "10th Annual Texas General Exhibition," December 26, 1948–January 23, 1949, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and other venues. Includes: foreword, list of prizes and awards, list of artists and artworks in the exhibition, selected images.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

First Southwestern Print Exhibition

Description: Catalog from the juried "1st Southwestern Print Exhibition," February 1–29, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: list of prizes and awards, list of artists and artworks in the exhibition, selected images.
Date: 1948
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

["The Kansas Cityan" heads into Dallas]

Description: Santa Fe's train No. 111, eastbound, enroute from Fort Worth over Texas and Pacific rails crosses the Trinity River bridge. This train, headed by Engine No. 1388, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, is bringing "The Kansas Cityan" into Dallas.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Texan" entering Dallas]

Description: Breathing just a wisp of smoke, the Texas and Pacific's "The Texan" train No. 15 westbound, headed by Engine No. 715, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, pulls into the Dallas Union Terminal Station in 1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Texas Zephyr" leaving Dallas]

Description: Fort Worth and Denver (Burlington) Railway's "Texas Zephyr" train No. 2 northbound, headed by Engine No. 551, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, departing from Dallas enroute on its legendary journey via Fort Worth to Wichita Falls, Amarillo, Trinidad, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver. Spanning a period of more than sixty years, dating from the "Gay Nineties", this was the most popular rail route connecting Colorado and Texas points.
Date: 1948~
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Sunbeam" locomotive in Dallas Union Terminal]

Description: One of only three streamlined steam locomotives in regular service between Dallas and Houston Texas, the Southern Pacific No. 650, a class P-14 4-6-2 is being readied for its afternoon mile-a minute dash to Houston on the railroad's crack Sunbeam passenger run. Seen here at Dallas in 1948 after 11 years of service.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
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