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[1949 Inauguration Event Schedule]

Description: Card with a schedule of events for the 1949 inauguration written on it. The events range from Saturday, January 18 to Thursday, January 23, and include dinners at the Mayflower Hotel and a buffet luncheon at the White House.
Date: [1949-01-18..1949-01-23]
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[The Crazy Hotel Pavilion]

Description: A handwritten note on the back of the picture identifies this as "Crazy Hotel Pavilion 1940 Cigar Stand and Shine Stand." Please notice Leon Cross, the "Shoe-shine boy", who operated the stand for years, in the white shirt to the left of the Shine Stand. This pavilion is off the hotel lobby, behind and west of the elevators of the second Crazy Hotel. A fire started March 15, 1925, in the drugstore next to the bath house of the first Crazy Hotel which adjoined the Crazy Flat… more
Date: 1940
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Alvorado Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico]

Description: Santa Fe's nationally known Alvarado Hotel adjoining the passenger station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, circa 1947. Lower left is the Fred Harvey news stand with Fred Harvey Indian Museum in left center portion of the rambling structure which is surmounted by Spanish style cupolas. The Alvorado was torn down in December of 1969.
Date: 1947
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

Crazy Hotel

Description: The east side of the second Crazy Hotel in the 400 block of N. Oak Avenue is illustrated here. Across NE 3rd. street, to the left, is Renfro's Drugs (at 319 north Oak Street). The low building on the right is the Hotel's drinking pavilion, and has a sign on it proclaiming a public auction of homes, business sites and farm land to take place January 20-21-22. This is a rare view (from the North-East) of the north back side of the hotel. Cars, of the late 1930's, are double-parked and vis… more
Date: 1940?
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Holland Hotel]

Description: Photograph of the Holland hotel. There is a car parked in front of the hotel and a cable coming from the side of the building. There is an "Orange Chamber of Commerce" sign on the right of the image.
Date: 1940~
Creator: Lang, B. A.
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Men Standing in a Hotel Park in Grasse, France]

Description: Photograph of several men standing in a hotel's park in Grasse, France. Three men stand in the foreground. Longoni, a bald man wearing spectacles and a sports coat, stands to the left. Two uniformed U.S. Army soldiers, Dan Melli and Ed Feron, stand next to Longoni. Another soldier is walking in the background under palm trees. A hotel building with multiple balconies and ivy growing up its side is visible to the left.
Date: 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Letter from Henry Love to T. N. Carswell - August 8, 1944]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from Henry Love, Manager, Hotel Texas, Fort Worth, dated August 8, 1944. Love acknowledges Carswell's "favor of August 7th", expresses his appreciation for Carswell's thoughtfulness and advises that through the efforts of such good friends he has been given the opportunity to serve in the coming year.
Date: August 8, 1944
Creator: Love, Henry
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to the State Director of Selective Service, Texas - April 10, 1944]

Description: A letter addressed to the State Director of Selective Service, Austin 17, Texas, from T. N. Carswell, CAS, Alpine, Texas dated April 10, 1944. Carswell relays information regarding accomodation in Alpine advising that the Holland Hotel is preferable and that advance reservations are necessary. He also advises regarding eating facilities citing the coffee shop in the hotel and The Texas Café.
Date: April 10, 1944
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Wooten Hotel, Abilene, Texas: First Level Floor Plan

Description: Floor plan of the first level of a hotel commissioned by Mr. H. O. Wooten in Abilene, Texas. It includes a large drawing of the layout, including labels for the different rooms: drug store, barber shop, dining room, kitchen. The plan also labels the surrounding streets on the outside of the building.
Date: January 27, 1941
Creator: Castle, David S.
Partner: Tittle-Luther/Parkhill, Smith and Cooper, Inc.

[Postcard to Mrs. E. Lasker, August 27, 1941]

Description: Postcard to Mrs. E. Lasker, discussing the sender's sickness. The front of the postcard features a colored illustration of the front of a white, two-story plantation-style house with a red roof and green window shutters. There are several trees of varying size lining the front of the building, and there is an automobile parked in the large front drive.
Date: August 27, 1941
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

[Restaurant without guests]

Description: Photograph of a dining room at a restaurant or hotel with numerous tables and place settings set. There is buffet along the back wall and a large marlin mounted above a fireplace in the background of the photo.
Date: [1947..1960]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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