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[Beulah Harriss in cap and gown]

Description: Portrait of Beulah Harriss wearing college regalia, visible from the chest up. The image is in a card frame; handwritten text on the back says, "Beulah A. Harriss, B. A. degree, May 1914, Uni[versity]. of Nebr[aska]." On the front of the image is the photographers signature, "Townsend, Lincoln, Neb."
Date: 1914
Creator: Townsend
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Izetta Sparks Scrapbook]

Description: Izetta Sparks's scrapbook circa. 1920 - 1925. This scrapbook features, photographs, receipts, clippings, correspondence, study activities, commencement programs, envelopes, certificates, and other ephemera.
Date: [1920,1925]
Creator: Sparks, Izetta
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Bastrop County Courthouse in Bastrop, TX]

Description: Photograph of Bastrop County Courthouse in Bastrop, TX. The lawn of the courthouse fills the foreground of the photo, filled with trees growing from yellowing grass. Near the bottom left corner of the photo sits a small stone slab with a laurel wreath inscribed near its top along with "Major Joseph O. Sayers" written underneath. Farther into the photo, near the corner where the front and side of the courthouse meet, stands a white obelisk with a picture on each of its visible sides: a pair of c… more
Date: April 1970
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Franklin County Courthouse in Mount Vernon, TX]

Description: Photograph of Franklin County Courthouse in Mount Vernon, TX. A wide paved road sits in front of the courthouse while a narrower one runs past the building's left side. The green lawn around the courthouse is occupied by tall green trees and small bushes, and is enclosed by a sidewalk. At the left end of the sidewalk, near the left edge of the photo, is a sign reading "Speed limit 30". The courthouse building is white and made of stone blocks, with an entrance shadowed by a large triangular ped… more
Date: June 1975
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Gaines County Courthouse in Seminole, TX]

Description: Photograph of Gaines County Courthouse in Seminole, TX. A yellow car drives past the camera on a wide paved road, passing by a wide building made of white and blue blocks. The vehicle drives on near the camera past a median with a post on it containing signs saying "JCT" and "62" along with "JCT" and "180". A yellow sign and a stop sign stand at the end of the medium at the center of the photo. On the other side of the median the car drives past, farther into the photo, the building sits in a g… more
Date: September 1981
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Garza County Courthouse in Post, TX]

Description: Photograph of Garza County Courthouse in Post, TX. A brick road occupies the photo's foreground, running parallel to the green lawn of the courthouse. At the right edge of the lawn is a curving road on which two cars drive away on. At the left side of the lawn is a flagpole with the American flag at its top. A brick planter of red flowers sits near the flagpole while short trees and fluffy bushes occupy the rest of the lawn at various locations. The courthouse building faces the left edge of th… more
Date: July 1966
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grayson County Courthouse in Sherman, TX]

Description: Photograph of Grayson County Courthouse in Sherman, TX. A yellow lawn sits in front of the courthouse building, occupied by trees of varying heights and foliage. Towards the right edge of the photo are two small bushes planted on either side of a small stone slab with an indistinguishable motif and writing on its surface. The entrance to the courthouse is near the left side of the image, where a short set of stairs lead up from a concrete walkway to the front doors. The building is made entirel… more
Date: 1975
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grimes County Courthouse in Anderson, TX]

Description: Photograph of Grimes County Courthouse in Anderson, TX. The courthouse sits in front of an empty parking lot with a yellow curb at its center, which has a sign on it reading "Keep right " with an arrow. The courthouse sits on an elevated platform with a grassy lawn enclosed by concrete walls, with three short sets of stairs leading from the parking lot to the top of the platform. The building itself is comprised of two rectangular sections, one narrower and positioned in front of the other thou… more
Date: May 1969
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Falls County Courthouse in Marlin, TX]

Description: Photograph of Falls County Courthouse in Marlin, TX. Two rows of cars parked diagonally sit in a parking lot in front of a flat-topped white building. A green lawn with tall, green trees and bushes growing in it surrounds the courthouse whose entrance faces the camera. A short set of stairs leads up to the entrance of the building which has three brown doors with large windows in them. Above the doors is a row of windows, then tall grey rectangles followed by another row of windows, which is re… more
Date: June 1971
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Fannin County Courthouse in Bonham, TX]

Description: Photograph of Fannin County Courthouse in Bonham, TX. The center of an intersection fills the foreground of the photo, with a traffic light hanging at the top edge of the image. The corner of two of the intersection's roads, directly across from the camera, has curbs that separate the streets from the courthouse's property. Two cars drive alongside the curbs while about a dozen other vehicles park in the lot surrounding the courthouse. Also within the parking lot are two flag poles, one flying … more
Date: February 1975
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Galveston County Courthouse in Galveston, TX]

Description: Photograph of Galveston County Courthouse in Galveston, TX. A road runs along the bottom edge of the image, separated from the sidewalk parallel to it by a line of grass. Towards the left side of the photo, the sidewalk splits off into three paths that head left, right, and center through patches of grass occupied by bushy trees and palm trees of varying heights. At the center of the intersection of the sidewalks is a short planter with a bush of red flowers in it. In a nearby patch of grass is… more
Date: June 1969
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Garner State Park in Concan, TX]

Description: Photograph of Garner State Park in Concan, TX. The courthouse sits facing the left edge of the image in a yellow lawn populated by nearly leafless trees and a few bushes, enclosed by a sidewalk that runs next to a paved road. The ground is made up by red bricks in the bottom left corner of the photo, contrasting against the paved ground next to them. The courthouse's lawn has streetlights next to its sidewalk and near its entrance, and white stone sitting area towards the left edge of the image… more
Date: November 1981
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Garner State Park in Concan, TX]

Description: Photograph of Garner State Park in Concan, TX. A road runs across the width of the photo in front of the courthouse's lawn, which has tall leafless trees growing in rows that extend out from the building. The front side of the courthouse directly faces the camera. More trees similarly grow out in rows from the left and right sides of the building, all growing in a short green lawn. A walkway leads from the road to the entrance of the courthouse, with a stone rectangle sitting on it a few feet a… more
Date: November 1981
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dallas County Courthouse in Dallas, TX]

Description: Photograph of Dallas County Courthouse in Dallas, TX. The white courthouse faces towards the right edge of the photo and is mostly rectangular in structure. The main part of the building is tall and lacks windows, and has a tall rectangular tower attached to its right end. Attache to the front of this section of the building is a slightly shorter structure that projects outwards from the rest of the building a short distance. The projecting structure is rectangular in shape and has seven rows o… more
Date: July 1965
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dallas County - Old Courthouse in Dallas, TX]

Description: Photograph of Dallas County - Old Courthouse in Dallas, TX. A paved road runs across the foreground of the image, in front of a wide sidewalk that separates the road from a plot of red and grey dirt. Beyond the dirt and farther into the photo is another road that sits in front of the courthouse. Multiple vehicles park in front of or next to the courthouse. The building is a tall, wide structure made of dark red bricks and dark shingles on the roof. The courthouse has a central section that proj… more
Date: July 1965
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Detail shot of a Texas map]

Description: Photograph of a detail shot of a Texas map. Blue paper covers the top half of the background behind the map as well as part of the top of Texas, while purple paper covers the bottom half of the background along with part of the Southern tip of Texas. The map itself is crisscrossed by yellow and green lines, likely indicating roads, and has various names outlined with blue or yellow boxes. A few spots of the map are partially filled by green, blue, or yellow color. Two paths drawn out in red mar… more
Date: 197X
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Fisher County Courthouse in Roby, TX]

Description: Photograph of Fisher County Courthouse in Roby, TX. Paved roads on either side of a median run horizontally across the foreground of the image, with a car appearing from the right edge of the image onto a patch of gravel next to the median. Beyond the roads is the courthouse, which sits on a green lawn enclosed by a curb occupied by streetlights at regular intervals. Multiple large, fluffy trees and bushes grows around the base of the courthouse. The visible sections of the building include two… more
Date: July 1966
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Bosque County Courthouse in Meridian, TX]

Description: Photograph of Bosque County Courthouse in Meridian, TX. A parking lot full of vehicle of various shapes and colors sits in front of the courthouse, a building made of white stone three sections projecting out from the main part of the building. The central section has a large clockface at its top, along with 1886" carved below it, while the two other sections occupy the two visible corners of the building. Across the three sections and the thin walls between them are two rows of arched windows,… more
Date: October 1972
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Bowie County Courthouse in Boston, TX]

Description: Photograph of Bowie County Courthouse in Boston, TX. A paved road runs in front of the green lawn the courthouse sits on, faint yellow lines indicating parking spots in front of the road's curb. A sidewalk leads up to the entrance of the courthouse, which faces the left side of the photo. A short set of stairs lead up to the dark front door of the courthouse, which is a square building with off-white walls and a roof covered in dark shingles. Three rows of windows span the width of each side of… more
Date: June 1975
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hardin County Courthouse in Kountze, TX]

Description: Photograph of Hardin County Courthouse in Kountze, TX. The courthouse is a yellow building with an upward-sloping, triangular roof and three offset sections that project a short distance out from the rest of the building. Across most of the building are two rows of windows, with the bottom row containing arched windows while the upper row is made up by rectangular windows. The center offset section of the building contains the front entrance to the courthouse, which has a short set of stairs le… more
Date: April 1966
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Guadalupe County Courthouse in Sequin, TX]

Description: Photograph of Guadalupe County Courthouse in Sequin, TX. The building is white and rectangular with a flat roof and two grey doors leading into it. The courthouse faces the camera directly and has one row of ground level windows with two more rows above it. A wall spanning the center of the building sits in front of the courthouse's building, with bushes running along it base. A short set of stairs leads up to the wall, extending from a walkway a pedestrian approaches, which leads to a sidewalk… more
Date: July 1970
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Bell County Courthouse in Belton, TX]

Description: Photograph of Bell County Courthouse in Belton, TX. A fire hydrant emerges from the bottom edge of the photo, sitting in front of a road that a white car drive onto from the left side of the photo, its image in the photo blurring as it moves. Across the road, a sidewalk sits between the pavement and the courthouse's lawn, turning into a corner near the right side of the photo as two sides of the courthouse meet near the center of the image. Positioned close to the corner of the sidewalk is a st… more
Date: April 1972
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Beulah Harriss scrapbook]

Description: Scrapbook of photographs belonging to Beulah Harriss, a 1914 graduate of the University of Nebraska, who came to Denton to teach at the North Texas State Normal College. She was the first woman to be hired into the athletics department of the school, coaching women's basketball among other sports. Harriss also organized the first Denton Girl Scouts troop in 1919, founded the Green Jackets Club in 1926, and was one of 13 professors from North Texas State Teachers College who started the Denton… more
Date: 19XX
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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