[Photograph of Richard Wesley Prater]

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Photograph of Richard Wesley Prater as an old man with a white beard, standing in a doorway holding a broom on the porch of his home in Garden Valley, Texas. He appears to have been sweeping off the inside of a screened in porch, directing the dust outside and is smiling at the person who is taking the photo. The shades are partially pulled down and a bare light bulb can be seen hanging to the left of him. Richard Prater was born on September 20, 1848, in Texas and died on October 2, 1936, in Garden Valley, Texas.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 7 cm.

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Creator: Unknown. 1930~.

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Denton's first public library opened on June 6, 1937, in Denton County Courthouse. It quickly outgrew the space and in 1949, the City of Denton donated a tract of land on Oakland Street for a new library.

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Photograph of Richard Wesley Prater as an old man with a white beard, standing in a doorway holding a broom on the porch of his home in Garden Valley, Texas. He appears to have been sweeping off the inside of a screened in porch, directing the dust outside and is smiling at the person who is taking the photo. The shades are partially pulled down and a bare light bulb can be seen hanging to the left of him. Richard Prater was born on September 20, 1848, in Texas and died on October 2, 1936, in Garden Valley, Texas.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 7 cm.

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Rescuing Texas History, 2014

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  • May 7, 2015, 9:50 p.m.

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  • May 13, 2021, 2:36 p.m.

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[Photograph of Richard Wesley Prater], photograph, 1930~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth611727/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.

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