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[Image of frame containing Junior Police Badges with description]

Description: Photograph of frame containing two different Junior Police Badges with description. Futher comments not in the image follow: "These badges were issued in the 1940’s. A few citizens were frequent riders with the Arlington Police. Riders did not carry guns, but did wear these badges when on patrol. Badges were returned to desk officer at the end of shift.
Date: 1940
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Arlington Public Library

[Image of a Special Police Badge issued by Chief Ott Cribbs]

Description: Photograph of a Special Police Badge issued by Chief Ott Cribbs. The badge is made of brass-like material in an oval shape with scrolling, a star, other figures and "Arlington Special Officer" stamped into the metal. The badge is on a block of wood with a placard behind. The placard reads: "In the late 1940's and early 1950's, when extra police officers were needed, Chief Ott Cribbs distributed these Special Officer Badges to individuals he could trust. The practice ceased in 1954 when a Res… more
Date: [1940..1954]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Arlington Public Library

40 PBYs on Lake Worth

Description: Aerial photograph of forty airplanes floating on Lake Worth. According to Jeff Rhodes: "On 22 November 1940, Consolidated Aircraft Chief Test Pilot Bill Wheatley contacted newspaper publisher and Fort Worth, Texas, civic booster Amon G. Carter, explaining the company had been ordered to transfer 200 PBY Catalina patrol seaplanes (37 of the aircraft can be seen in this photo) from San Diego, California, to Britain and that the crews were in immediate need of a layover point. In just eight days, … more
Date: November 30, 1940
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.812158 -97.451343
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

[War Ration Book One: James Steeley]

Description: Book of ration stamps belonging to James Harvey Steeley. These books were distributed to Americans during World War II. There are many stamps in the book.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: United States. Office of Price Administration.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[War Ration Book One: William Hughes, Jr.]

Description: Book of ration stamps belonging to William Lee Hughes, Jr. These books were distributed to Americans during World War II. There are many stamps in the book.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: United States. Office of Price Administration.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[War Ration Book One: Mary Lou Thop]

Description: Book of ration stamps belonging to Mary Lou Thorp. These books were distributed to Americans during World War II. There are many stamps in the book.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: United States. Office of Price Administration.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Cooks at Ernie's Big Burger Cafe]

Description: Photograph of cooks working in the kitchen at Ernie's Big Burger Cafe. The kitchen is set up as a galley kitchen behind the counter and the stovetop is against the wall on the left side of the image. Two of the cooks are at the back of the kitchen and are visible in profile and one of the cooks is standing in the foreground of the left side of the image with his back to the camera. The cooks are all wearing long-waist aprons and white shirts and two of them are wearing soda jerk caps. There is … more
Date: [1940..1960]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Ernie in the kitchen with a cook]

Description: Photograph of Ernie Morgan in the kitchen of his restaurant with a cook. Morgan is preparing food to be served at a counter on the left side of the image. He is wearing a white shirt with a white waist apron, light colored pants, and a soda jerk cap. The cook is dressed similarly to Ernie and is walking behind him, carrying a flat package.The kitchen is set up in a galley style with all of the appliances in a narrow space between the wall of the left and the counter top on the right. In the for… more
Date: [1940..1960]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[T&P Train #717]

Description: Photograph of T&P train #717 in Fort Worth, Texas. There are other trains visible behind the first, and two water towers in the background. Written underneath the image are "[sic] Fort Worth Texas Mar 27 1940" and "H. E. Chelf."
Date: March 27, 1940
Creator: Chelf, H. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Photograph of the street from the Westcliff Shopping Center]

Description: Photograph of the view of the street from the parking lot of the Westcliff Shopping Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Two small houses are visible across the street. The one on the left is a brick house with a shingle roof. There is a car parked in its concrete driveway. The house to its right has white siding and a shingle roof.
Date: [1940..1970]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Texas Engine #908 and Car]

Description: Photograph of train engine #908 and attached car on railroad tracks, viewed from a front side angle. "Texas & Pacific" and "908" are visible on the side. Additional tracks lay to the side in front. Part of another train sits on the tracks in the right background. Handwritten text below the image says, "Fort Worth, Texas 1940."
Date: 1940
Creator: Lorenz, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[1940 Ahavath Sholom Confirmation Class]

Description: Photograph of the 1940 Ahavath Sholom confirmation class standing around the altar of the synagogue located downtown on Taylor Street in Fort Worth, Texas. From left to right, the members of the photograph are: Front row: Bertha Haller, Gloria Sheinberg (Swann). Back row: Rabbi Philip Graubart, Margie Cohen (Levingston), Dorothy Bergman, Jennie Moses (Winkler)(teacher), Dorothy Cohen, Shirley Garston (Cohen), Annie Kaplan, Betty Daiches (Sher).
Date: 1940
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Worth Jewish Archives

[Bob Gould with barometers]

Description: Photograph of Bob Gould with barometers. Behind him, a weather map of the United States can be seen. Weather decorations are visible as well.
Date: [1940..1955]
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Three men working on a set]

Description: Photograph of three men working on a set. Two of the men are using a hammer while one is using a drill. The WBAP-TV van can be seen behind them.
Date: [1940..1955]
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Young Judea Convention]

Description: Photograph of the members of Young Judea, a Jewish youth organization in Fort Worth, Texas. The organization held a regional conclave at the Ahavath Sholom Synagogue, where over one hundred members and group advisors posed, on the front steps in the 800 block Taylor Street, for the photograph. Many people in the photograph are unidentified. From left to right, bottom to top, here is a key to the known members: Row 1 (kneeling): Sylvia Wexler, Stanley Raskin (wearing a hat), Adele Natkin (wea… more
Date: 1940~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Worth Jewish Archives
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