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[Mary Louise and Ralph W. Thornton House]

Description: Photograph of the Mary Louise and Ralph W. Thornton house on 2764 Nies Street, Fort Worth. The house is a single story-home with a small square porch in front of the front door, its windows covered with awnings printed with the letter T on the front. A dark-colored car is parked in front of a garage along the right wall of the house, accessible from the road by a gravel path, and bushes and small plants are planted in the front lawn and along the front of the building.
Date: November 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.767000 -97.306427
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[3rd Anniversary for Rev. C. A. Holliday]

Description: Photograph of a 3rd anniversary celebration for Reverend C. A. Holliday at the Greater St. James Baptist Church. Rev. Holliday is standing in front of a wooden pulpit along other church leaders and choir members standing in rows behind him. A thermometer measuring cash donated for the church building fund has been placed between large bouquets of flowers in front of the pulpit, and a banner for Rev. Holliday is hung along the back wall of the church.
Date: 1955
Creator: Turner, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.759453 -97.324906
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Charles W. Norris in a Barber Shop]

Description: Photograph of Charles W. Norris (left), a tailor in Fort Worth, standing in a barbershop with a tape measure around his neck and a clipboard in his left hand. At right, there are three barbers each standing behind a chair, two with customers. The chairs are placed in front of mirrors with desks and have lightbulbs hanging above. Handwritten on back: "Charles W. Norris, tailor, Fort Worth circa 1924-1925."
Date: 1924~/1925~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Discussing the Voter, Urban League]

Description: Photograph of three individuals discussing voting education in Fort Worth, Texas. At left is Herman M. Sweatt, director of the southern regional office of the Urban League, who hands a "Planning Effective Non-Partisan Voter Education Campaigns" pamphlet to Marion J. Brooks (center), doctor and local civil rights leader, and an unidentified woman (right) looking onward.
Date: 1963
Creator: Turner, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Marie and Marion Brooks with Don Yarborough]

Description: Photograph of Don Yarborough, Texan Democrat gubernatorial candidate, in the Brooks' house in Fort Worth. At left is Marie Norris Brooks, who pours Yarborough (right) a drink from an ornate pot wguke Dr. Marion "Jack" Brooks (center) looks on and smiles. Along the foreground is a table with dessert foods, and in the background, past the archway, is a low table with teacups and other party guests.
Date: 1962~/1964~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Marion Brooks with Friends at a Club]

Description: Photograph of Marion "Jack" Brooks and Reby Cary in a group of friends, seated together in a table in an Texan nightclub (possibly Fort Worth?). Cary sits fourth from left; Brooks sits third from right. The group is seated at a table with drinks, water pitchers, ashtrays, drink cups, and purses, all smiling and looking forward.
Date: 1960~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Check Written to the Grand Lodge F&AM]

Description: Personal check from the Fraternal Bank & Trust Company of Fort Worth, made out to the Grand Lodge, F&AM (Free and Accepted Masons) for $850.00 and signed by William Madison McDonald. McDonald was the Grand Lodge's Grand Secretary, and was a leader in the Black Masonic movement. His Fraternal Bank and Trust Company was located in the Grand Masonic Temple on East 9th Street.
Date: December 3, 1934
Creator: McDonald, WIlliam Madison
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Check to Turner and Dingee]

Description: Personal check from the Fraternal Bank & Trust Co. of Fort Worth, made out to Turner and Dingee for $25.10 and signed by William Madison McDonald.
Date: March 2, 1942
Creator: McDonald, WIlliam Madison
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[Check to Ure Drug Store]

Description: Personal check from the Fraternal Bank & Trust Co. of Fort Worth, made out to Ure Drug Store for $4.25 and signed by William Madison McDonald for the purchase of cigars. McDonald was a cigar aficionado.
Date: June 5, 1944
Creator: McDonald, WIlliam Madison
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

[May Pearl McDonald Scrapbook]

Description: Scrapbook containing photographs of various trips and events, along with cards, programs, and other collected ephemera. Many of the photographs were taken by May Pearl McDonald, fifth wife of William Madison McDonald, Texas' first African American millionaire.
Date: 1937~/1941~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society
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