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[Man standing in a flooded street]

Description: Photograph of a man standing in a flooded street in San Antonio. He is wearing a jacket and his pants are rolled up while holding a book in one hand. An automobile can be seen driving down the street past the man.
Date: [1940..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Waco Twine Mill Employee Photo]

Description: Group portrait of 52 people posing outside a building, identified by text in the lower-right corner as "Employee Group, Waco Twine Mill." They are posing in three rows, with the group in front seated on the ground, the middle row seated on a bench or chairs, and the back row standing along the wall of the building. The wall behind them is made of brick, with climbing vines, and there are several large, multi-paned windows interspersed along the wall.
Date: May 7, 1940
Creator: Waco Twine Mill
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Lieutenant Commander Murphy in Uniform]

Description: Photograph of Lieutenant Commander Murphy standing on a stretch of road with his arms by his side. He is in his dark Naval Uniform with six buttons on the front, three stripes on each sleeve, a dark tie, and hat with the Navy's emblem on the front.
Date: 1940~
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[School Pictures]

Description: 1 copy negative of 11 images. It is a collage of school pictures of several Buchanan children from various years. Image A is of Robert Buchanan. Image B is Virginia Buchanan. Image C is of Serena Ladell Buchanan. Image D is of Virginia Buchanan. Image E is another image of Robert Buchanan. Image F is Robert Buchanan. Image G is Serena Ladell Buchanan. Image H is Virginia. Image I is Donna Wynn Buchanan. Image J is Robert Buchanan.
Date: 1940/1957
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Santa Rita Street

Description: Photograph of a view down Santa Rita Street looking West from Perdenales in East Austin. L.A. Preston Food Store can be seen on the South side of the street.
Date: January 25, 1940
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Industrial and agricultural map of Denton County / map drawn by Sena Mounts Wright ; drawings by Clydene Oliver : holograph, [1940?]

Description: Hand drawn simple map of the industrial and agricultural resources of Denton county, Texas, in about 1940. Illustrated with drawings. Includes list of acreage of leading crops, and the numbers of business in 7 industries. Cities, towns, rivers, creeks, roads and railways included.
Date: 1940~
Creator: Wright, Sena Mounts
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Catherine Freeman Nimitz Sits at Desk]

Description: Photograph of Catherine Nimitz sitting at her desk at Navy Relief in the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, Oakland, California. She wears a black coat with large shoulder pads and clasped at the top, a pearl necklace as well as a hat with a bunch of flowers on the front. She has a book in front of her with her fingers slipped between pages. There are two pen wells on her desk, and something is written across it. Inscription in lower center is illegible.
Date: 1940~
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Guardians of the Colors]

Description: Recruiting poster for the U.S. Army painted by Colonel Thomas B. Woodburn, U.S. Army. The poster depicts an Army Color Guard marching in WWI dress uniforms with WWI style helmets holding flags and guns.
Date: 1940~
Creator: Woodburn, Thomas B.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Lower Rose Garden, Facing North, 1940]

Description: Photograph of the eastern portion of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. At left is a rectangular reflecting pond with small flower beds containing pink bushes and round shrubs on each corner surrounded by a concrete footpath. On the corners of the garden, displayed at right, are arrangements of grass paths both containing several curved metal arches arranged in squares with drooping rose bushes. Multiple beds of roses are arranged throughout this portion of the garden, whic… more
Date: 1940
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Tyler Barber College Class of 1940]

Description: Photograph of the Tyler Barber College, class of 1940. The portrait of the college's president, H. M. Morgan, is at center, in front of illustrations of clippers and scissors. The graduating class is laid out in a grid, each wearing caps and gowns, set within a glass frame with decorative blue and red edges.
Date: 1940?
Creator: Teal
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Lower Rose Garden with Pool #2]

Description: Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. At center is the "rose ramp", a wide rectangular set rose arrangements bordered with short hedges and lined with concrete steps along both sides. Above the "rose ramp" are a set of stairs leading to a raised platform containing a wide pavilion containing square colonnades on both ends of the structure and a trapezoidal roof. Below the "rose ramp" is the lower portion of the rose garden, partially obscured by bushes. Along the… more
Date: 1940
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Man Playing Guitar at the Seminary picnic at the Zilker Park Clubhouse]

Description: Photograph of a man playing guitar at the annual Austin Seminary picnic, being held at the Zilker Park Clubhouse. The room is full of people sitting on benches at banquet tables watching the musician, who is the only one standing. He has his foot up on a bench to support the guitar, and there is a piano behind him.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: Foster, William Hague
Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

[Young Men and Women at a Banquet Table]

Description: Photograph of a large group of young men and women eating at a banquet table at the Zilker Park Clubhouse for the annual Austin Seminary picnic. They are dressed in nice but casual clothes and are seated on long benches at a wooden table inside a building. In the background two young children are visible.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: Foster, William Hague
Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

[Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Sits on Destroyer, #1]

Description: Photograph of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sitting on destroyer. He is leaned back in his seat with one hand resting in his lap and the other propped up on something in front of him. Admiral Nimitz is wearing a short sleeved, light-colored uniform with two pockets on the front, stars pinned to his collar and a brimmed hat with the Navy's emblem on the front.
Date: 1940~
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Sits on Destroyer, #2]

Description: Photograph of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sitting on destroyer. He is leaned back in his seat with one hand resting in his lap and the other propped up on something in front of him. Admiral Nimitz is wearing a short sleeved, light-colored uniform with two pockets on the front, stars pinned to his collar and a brimmed hat with the Navy's emblem on the front.
Date: 1940~
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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