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Aerial View of Denton State School

Description: Aerial view of the Denton State School, a “state supported living center that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and who are medically fragile or who have behavioral problems.” The 189-acre campus is located south-southeast of Denton. In 1957 the “citizens of Denton County raised $102,000 and donated it to buy land for the school” Construction began in 1959 and was completed in July 1960.”
Date: 1964
Creator: Haskins, Squire
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Atrium at the Emily Fowler Library]

Description: Color photograph of the upper level of the Emily Fowler Library, Denton Public Library, taken from the west end of the atrium. A panel of Lynn Ford wood carvings can be seen on the south wall (right). White ceramic lights made by the Beaumont Mood Lighting Company hang over the garden. The plants in the atrium were funded and maintained by the Denton Garden Culture Club.
Date: 1983~
Creator: Haskins, Squire
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.218421 -97.129927
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Atrium at the Emily Fowler Library]

Description: Color photograph of the upper level of the Emily Fowler Library, Denton Public Library, taken from the west end of the atrium, looking east. White ceramic pendant lamps hang made by Beaumont Mood hang over the garden. Installation of Lynn Ford carvings hang on the south wall.
Date: 1983~
Creator: Haskins, Squire
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Ten Men

Description: Group portrait of ten men in suits. Four men are identified as Sidney, T. Carroll (bottom row, middle), Monroe Davenport (bottom row, far right), Emory B. Peter (top row, 4th from left), Frank Erwin Piner (top row, fifth from left); the other six men are unidentified.
Date: 1901
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Denton City/County Library Bookmobile]

Description: Unidentified men stand in front of a Denton City/County Public Library bookmobile. Denton Public School buses are in the background. The picture was taken across from Congress Junior High School facing Alice Street. In 1938 the schools purchased a bookmobile to provide better library services to schools in the County. The Works Progress Administration funded the staff and maintenance of the bookmobile program.
Date: [1940,1941]
Creator: Carruth Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

City Federation of Women's Club

Description: Group of women from the City Federation, who were guests of the Texas Power & Light Company at Lake Trinidad, Texas. Pictured are: (bottom row, left to right) Miss Lee Williams (Pres.), Mrs. R. L. West (Treasurer), Mrs. Nettie Edwards, Mrs. Jo Blanks (Fanny), Mrs. C. C. Yancy, Mrs. Billy Woods, Mrs. Fisher (of Dallas, whose husband conducted the group); (top row, left to right) Mrs. Emory Curtis, Mrs. F. V. Garrison, Mrs. Dan Turner, Mrs. R. T. Mays.
Date: 1927
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Lyndon B. Johnson

Description: Portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson which is inscribed below the image on the matboard: "For the people of Denton with best wishes, Lyndon B. Johnson." Emily Fowler had written a letter to the president and included a thank-you because the library's new addition was built with federal funds. She received this photograph in return.
Date: 1968
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Lady Bird Johnson

Description: Portrait of Lady Bird Johnson. Inscribed on the mat board beneath the image: "For the people of Denton in whose new library I rejoice. Lady Bird Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson." Emily Fowler had written a letter to the president and included a thank-you because the library's new addition was built with federal funds. She received a photograph of the president and his wife in return.
Date: 1968?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Company G, 18th Texas Cavalry, CSA]

Description: Group portrait of the men who served in Company G, 18th Texas Cavalry, CSA. Included are: Captain R. H. Hopkins, Lt. W. B. Brown, Private John Martin, Private W. O. Medlin, Private C. A. Williams, Private Boone Daugherty, Private Spencer Graham.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library
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