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[Photo of Hotel Sabine]

Photograph of the exterior of the Hotel Sabine building in Port Arthur, Texas. A car is parked on the street below.

Date: 1929

[First National Bank in Port Arthur]

Photograph of the First National Bank building on the northeast corner of Proctor Street and Austin Avenue in Port Arthur, Texas. The Adams Building is visible in the background. There are cars and people in front of the bank building.

Date: 1929

Item Type: Photograph

[Goodhue Hotel in Port Arthur]

Photograph of the Goodhue Hotel building in Port Arthur, Texas. Cars are parked on the street in front of the hotel, and buildings are visible in the background.

Date: 1929

Item Type: Photograph

[Basketball Team]

Photograph of boys in basketball uniforms in two rows in front of a building in Port Arthur. Four of them sit on a bench with a basketball between the middle two boys, and four more boys and their coach stand behind the bench. The logos on the boys' uniforms and the text on the basketball have been colored yellow.

Date: 1922

Item Type: Photograph

[Men by Three Cars]

Photograph of three men, all members of flood relief, standing by three cars in Port Arthur, Texas. Buildings are visible in the background. They are, from left to right, E. Moore, J. Eicheshow, and L. Ellodin.

Date: June 3, 1927

Item Type: Photograph

[Children on Library Lawn]

Photograph of a group of children dressed as literary characters posing in front of a large palm tree on the library lawn in Port Arthur, Texas. The second girl from the left in the back row holds an American flag.

Date: 1927

Item Type: Photograph

[Queen of Port Arthur]

Photograph of Mary Donaldson sitting on the edge of chair with a painting of a flower on the back. She holds a scepter in her arms and wears a long trailing cloak and a crown. She was crowned the Queen of Port Arthur's Silver Celebration in 1927.

Date: July 4, 1927

Item Type: Photograph

Cracking Plant for West Texas Crude

Photograph of equipment driving pilings for a structural foundation. The two pile drivers can be seen midfield to the left of a pile of wood. Small houses and a refinery are visible in the background, while the foreground is dominated by a canal and pipework. The reverse side of the photo has a typed description stating the foundation is for "four 78' x 40' x 10" tanks that to be built in reservoir tract by Riter-Conley."

Date: April 16, 1929

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of the Port Arthur Country Club, 1924]

Photograph of the Port Arthur Country Club, which consists of a large group of men and women of various ages wearing a mixture of clothing styles from the 1920's. They are arranged in to three rows on a lawn in front of trees laden with Spanish Moss.

Date: 1924

Item Type: Photograph

[Port Arthur Police Patrol Car with J. C. Enrighs, Sr.]

Photograph of Port Arthur Police patrol car with man standing beside wearing a white shirt, narrow necktie, and slacks . "J. C. Enrighs, Sr. about 1926" is written on the back along with "Pt. Arthur Police Patrol Car"

Date: 1926

Item Type: Photograph

[Crowd in Street on Armistice Day]

Photograph of a large crowd of men and women on a road in Port Arthur, Texas, on Armistice Day in 1920. Cars are parked on both sides of the street in front of buildings in the background.

Date: November 11, 1920

Item Type: Photograph

[Port Arthur Pleasure Pier with divers and swimmers]

Photograph of Port Arthur Pleasure Pier. Diver diving off pier into Lake Sabine with other swimmers in water and some watching or waiting to dive.

Date: 1929

Item Type: Photograph

[Aerial View City and Waterways]

Photograph of aerial view of Port Arthur with boat in the waterway and Lake Sabine in the background. Handwritten on the reverse: "Urban Renewal" "Tenth St., Look East, 7-28-20"

Date: July 28, 1920

Item Type: Photograph

[Hospital and Nurses' Home]

Photograph of the exterior of two buildings in Port Arthur, Texas. The one to the left is Mary Gates Hospital, and the building to the right is the nurses' home. There are several trees in front of the buildings.

Date: 1925

Item Type: Photograph

[Debris From Gulf Tanker Explosion]

Postcard of the debris after the explosion of Gulf Tanker "Venezuela." The tanker can be seen by the dock in the distance. The caption written on the photograph reads, "Explosion of the Gulf of Venezuela, Pt Arthur, Tex."

Date: April 11, 1926

Item Type: Postcard

[Series of Barrels]

Photograph of a line of barrels on a railway platform outside of a building. There are six barrels, four made of wood and two of metal. Text in the lower-right corner of the photograph reads, "Plate No. 7570, 5-1-27." An accompanying card (which has the Texaco logo at the bottom) labels the photograph as "Original type asphalt product packages" and the same text is handwritten on the back of the photograph.

Date: May 1, 1927

Item Type: Photograph

[Petroleum Container Manufacturing]

Photograph of workers inside a factory making containers for petroleum products with various tools and machinery. All of the workers are female, besides one man near the center of the image. The photograph is dated on the bottom right corner with the date 3-2-26. An accompanying card (with the Texaco logo on the bottom) labels the photograph "Manufacturing containers for petroleum products."

Date: March 2, 1926

Item Type: Photograph

[Princess of Nederland]

Postcard of a flower-covered automobile in a parade. A man wearing a suit and hat drives the car down a road with houses, other cars, and large plants in the background. There is a person sitting next to the driver, holding a sign that reads, "Princess of Nederland," and a woman sits in the back of the car beneath an umbrella that is also covered in flowers.

Date: 1923

Item Type: Postcard

[Princess of Port Neches]

Postcard of a man driving a woman in a convertible in a parade. The woman is sitting underneath an umbrella, and a sign on the car reads, "Princess of Port Neches." The man driving is wearing a suit and a hat and the car is decorated with streamers. There is a large building or house in the background with spectators watching from the porch. There are two other visible cars behind the one in the foreground.

Date: 1923

Item Type: Postcard

[Church float in parade]

Postcard of a church float in a parade. There is a man driving and a boy sitting on the front of the car holding a sign that reads, "First Church Built in Port Arthur 1897 - Now has 33 Churches." There are spectators in the background watching from the side of the road and from a balcony on a house.

Date: 1923

Item Type: Postcard

[Shipping float in parade]

Postcard of a float in a parade with one large ship and one small ship on it. It is being drawn by horses, and two men sit at the front. The banner on the float reads, "Shipping Growth," and states the growth in numbers of ships. There are houses in the background with people watching from the porches, and other cars driving along the other side of the float.

Date: 1923

Item Type: Postcard

[Photograph of Mrs. J. P. Duke, 1921]

Photograph of Mrs. J. P. Duke, a high school teacher in Port Arthur, Texas. She is wearing glasses, a necklace, and a dark dress. Writing on the back of the photo indicate that Mrs. Duke gave this picture to her domestic arts student, Frances Furchner.

Date: 1921

Item Type: Photograph

[Port Arthur parade float]

Postcard of the Miss Port Arthur parade float. The float is shaped like a boat, and there are people dressed in sailor suits aboard it. There are cars driving on the opposite side, and the parade appears to be going down a residential street. The back of the postcard is blank.

Date: 1923

Item Type: Postcard

[Cars at Waco Avenue]

Photograph of several cars and horse-drawn buggies parked in front of stores on the 400 block of Waco Avenue in Port Arthur, Texas. A woman walks across the street to the right.

Date: [1920..1929]

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 29.872319 -93.934190

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[Photo of Hotel Sabine]

[First National Bank in Port Arthur]

[Goodhue Hotel in Port Arthur]

[Basketball Team]

[Men by Three Cars]

[Children on Library Lawn]

[Queen of Port Arthur]

Cracking Plant for West Texas Crude

[Photograph of the Port Arthur Country Club, 1924]

[Port Arthur Police Patrol Car with J. C. Enrighs, Sr.]

[Crowd in Street on Armistice Day]

[Port Arthur Pleasure Pier with divers and swimmers]

[Aerial View City and Waterways]

[Hospital and Nurses' Home]

[Debris From Gulf Tanker Explosion]

[Series of Barrels]

[Petroleum Container Manufacturing]

[Princess of Nederland]

[Princess of Port Neches]

[Church float in parade]

[Shipping float in parade]

[Photograph of Mrs. J. P. Duke, 1921]

[Port Arthur parade float]

[Cars at Waco Avenue]