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Main Front Entrance with New Sign

Photograph of the main entrance to Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas in November 1953. A new sign is posted at the gate reading, "Entrance to this Defense Plant is Granted for Official Business Only". A guard points to the sign as an automobile enters the gate.

Date: November 2, 1953

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

[Man in a Field of Buffel Grass]

Photograph of a man walking in a field of buffel grass.

Date: November 1976

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

[Members of the Rainbow Camp]

Photograph of members of the Rainbow Camp. There are five men on the right with glasses. Two of the men have pipes. There are multiple hand-made chairs in the photograph. L to R: Back Row: Spurgeon Dunman Jr. (Tomball, TX), Howard Mac Allister (Weimar, TX), J.F. Austin (Austin, TX), Bill Hart (Mobile, AL), Gillett Emerson (Stafford, KS), Warren Willis (Lakeland, FL). Front Row: Richard Schmidt (Lubbock, Texas), William Larson (Cincinnati, OH), Archie Faires (Rayville, LA), Thomas Brower … more

Date: November 22, 1961

Creator: West, Jim

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

[Members of the Rainbow Camp]

Photograph of members of the Rainbow Camp. Sara McNeill is shown with a camera around her neck. L to R: Mary Voss (Glen Rose, TX), Tom Voss (Glen Rose, TX), Sara McNeill (Richmond, VA), Lyndon Jackson (Dallas, TX), Cleland Bone (Philadelphia, PA), Maurice Bone (Philadelphia, PA).

Date: November 22, 1961

Creator: West, Jim

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

[Members of the Rainbow Camp]

Photograph of the Whittler members of the Rainbow Camp. L to R Back Row: Ann Ruth Jones (Harlingen, TX), Edit Goodwin (Leesburg, FL), Dorothy Eschenbrenner, Dorothy (Houston, TX), Annelle Albritton (Grenada, MS). Front Row: John Wilson (Bossier City, LA), Faries McDaniel (Dallas, TX), Bob Sebesta (Portland, TX), Alvin Zunkel (OAKLAND, CA).

Date: November 22, 1961

Creator: West, Jim

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

[Members of the Rainbow Camp]

Photograph of some members of the Rainbow Camp. Three of the men in the photograph are wearing glasses. There is a tent in the background. L to R Back Row: John Berkley (Agua Dulce, TX), Clem Sorley (Enid, OK), Neil Pugsley (Waco, TX), Wayne Bryan (Whitesboro, TX), Front Row: George Godfrey (Centerville, MD), Frank Gordon (Little Rock, AK), Richard Perry (Sand Springs, OK), Donald Nead (Denton, TX).

Date: November 22, 1961

Creator: West, Jim

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

[Office of Collector of Taxes, November 26 1892]

Hood County tax receipt for Milton Parks during 1892 in the amount $13.34. B. W. Morris served as the tax collector.

Date: November 26, 1892

Creator: Morris, B. W.

Item Type: Text

Partner: Log Cabin Village

Paying Poll Tax in Cafeteria

Employees paying poll tax in the cafeteria on November 9, 1951. Employees (L-R): J.W. Melcher, E.C. Massingill, Jr., F.H. West, T.A. Johnston, J.A. Gordon, W.D. West, C.F. West, Chester May, C.F. Jones. Poll tax men: W.S. Lamb and J.I. Short.

Date: November 9, 1951

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

[Photograph of a Kleingrass Plant]

Photograph of a Kleingrass plant in front of a wall.

Date: November 1970

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

[Photograph of Hand Holding Buffel Grass]

Photograph of a person's hand holding some Buffel grass.

Date: November 1976

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

[Photograph of Man in Buffel Grass]

Photograph of a man examining a plant in a field of Buffel grass. The man is wearing a white shirt. Back of photograph: "This plant was found growing to 10 feet in height in South Africa."

Date: November 1976

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

[Photograph of Man in Field of Buffel Grass]

Photograph of a man in a field of Buffel Grass. A note on the back of the photograph says, "Permanent germ plasm holding area nursery."

Date: November 1976

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

["Presentation," party for Jewish Debutantes]

Photograph of the "Presentation" party for Fort Worth's Jewish Debutantes on November 24, 1956 in the Venetian Ballroom of the Blackstone Hotel. The women in the front row, holding bouquets of flowers, wear floor-length gowns, while men standing behind are wearing tuxedos. They are standing on a stage with curtains hanging behind them. The back row of men from left to right: Nolan Glazer, David Samson, Phillip Hurwitz, Willard Glazer, Irving Rosenthal, Mitchell Victor, and Joseph Shanblum. The … more

Date: November 24, 1936

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Fort Worth Jewish Archives