Photograph of Houston Street in Fort Worth, Texas. This view of the street includes Fort Worth's flatiron building. The triangular building is located in the right half of the photo, surrounded by much taller and more modern buildings. A stoplight is located next to it. Closer to the camera, a sign for "The Texas hat; Peters Bros Inc" is attached to a building. The words are written in cursive, neon tubing, and the sign features two depictions of men wearing cowboy hats. A streetlamp stands next to the sign. Trees in landscape boxes line both sides of the street. The …
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Photograph of Houston Street in Fort Worth, Texas. This view of the street includes Fort Worth's flatiron building. The triangular building is located in the right half of the photo, surrounded by much taller and more modern buildings. A stoplight is located next to it. Closer to the camera, a sign for "The Texas hat; Peters Bros Inc" is attached to a building. The words are written in cursive, neon tubing, and the sign features two depictions of men wearing cowboy hats. A streetlamp stands next to the sign. Trees in landscape boxes line both sides of the street. The photo was taken as a long exposure photo, so there is a phantom car at the stoplight, having been in motion at some point when the photo was taken. It sits at the light, nearly transparent.
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Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection (AR0769), University of North Texas Special Collections
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Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection
Four generations of photographers, all named Byrd Williams, documented more than 100 years of North Texas history. These materials, selected from a larger collection of family items. are available in UNT Libraries' Special Collections.
Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-.[Houston Street in Fort Worth, including the flatiron building],
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[1980..];
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accessed February 13, 2025),
University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu;
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