1,086 Matching Results

Search Results

Dress

Description: Red silk taffeta dress with print of white line/dashes. A) Cocktail dress of red silk taffeta print. The print is of short white lines/dashes, scattered over the entire garment. Short sleeves, collar with rounded "points". Dropped waist, with a wide panel of same fabric with vertical stitching between bodice and skirt. "Tiered" skirt, with a flounce of same material gathered at bottom of dropped waist and continuing to about knee-level. Skirt gathered at dropped waist, under the flounce. … more
Date: 1951
Creator: Norell, Norman, 1900-1972
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Third Annual Texas Crafts Exhibition

Description: Catalog from the juried "3rd Annual Texas Crafts Exhibition," February 18–March 11, 1951, sponsored by the Crafts Guild of Dallas at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in Dallas, Texas. Includes: artists and artworks, selected images
Date: 1951
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

Architecture... 1951

Description: Catalog from the juried exhibition "Architecture–1951," October 6–November 11, 1951, sponsored by the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in Dallas, Texas. Includes: juror statement, floor plans, photographs, list of architects and designs
Date: 1951
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

Four Centuries of European Painting

Description: Catalog from the exhibition "Four Centuries of European Painting," October 6, 1951–January 13, 1952, assembled for the State Fair of Texas at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas. Includes: essay, artists and artworks, selected images, biographical notes
Date: 1951
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

El Fenix Cafe

Description: The El Fenix Cafe menu contains the names and prices of their dishes, desserts, and beverages. The restaurant offered cocktails and relishes, salads, sandwiches, eggs and omelettes, soups, chicken and steak dinners, nonalcoholic beverages, wines, beer, fish, and a variety of Mexican dishes. The Special Mexican Dinner cost $1.25 at the time of this menu. A poem by James J. Metcalfe is written on the back of the menu.
Date: 1951~
Creator: El Fenix Cafe
Partner: Denton Public Library

["Twin Star Rocket" departing from Dallas]

Description: Rock Island's " Twin Star Rocket" train No. 17, southbound, headed by diesel locomotive No. 677, enroute from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Houston, leaves Dallas on the last portion of its run in 1951. This was one of the finest streamliners operating in the nation. Its route from the Twin Cities of the north to the Texas' metropolis adjacent to the Gulf covered a rail distance of 1,363 miles.
Date: 1951
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Lone Star Limited" at the Dallas Union Terminal]

Description: The St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) Railway's "Lone Star Limited" train No. 11, westbound, headed by Engine No 677, a Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, at the Dallas Union Terminal Station. It has completed the run from Memphis, Tennessee. This was one of the finest passenger trains operating in the Southwest. t
Date: June 1951
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[The "Hustler" entering Dallas]

Description: Southern Pacific's the "Hustler" train No. 15 northbound, headed by Engine No.650, a streamlined type 4-6-2 locomotive, entering Dallas Union Station on its run from Houston. The train is passing under the electric street railway viaduct (destroyed in the late 1950s) which spanned the railroad tracks and crossed over the Trinity River. Electric street cars to and from Oak Cliff and Interurban cars of the Northern Texas Traction Company and Texas Electric Railway used this double track facilit… more
Date: 1951~
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Back to Top of Screen