Fort Worth...the way we were

From the Jack White Collection of Historic Fort Worth Photos, University of Texas at Arlington

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Airports:

Meacham Field in 1942   Private Plane at Meacham Field in 1942   Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 1   Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 2
Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 3   Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 4   Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 5   Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 6
1991 Rendering of Alliance Airport   Amon Carter Starts Airline   Russell Field    


Automotive:

Used Car Lot   Horseless Carriages in front of T&P   City's 15 Cars in front of T&P - 1904   Bob Cooke Ford Celebrates 30 Years
Lillard's Barbecue & Magnolia Service Station   Lillard's Manual "Visible Pump"   Preacher's Service Station   First Automobile Purchased by Fort Worth 1
First Automobile Purchased by Fort Worth 2   Humble Beginnings of Public Transit   Before The "T"   Why Fire Trucks Are Painted White
Ford Motor Co. at 200 Commerce - 1917   Cities Service Oil Co. at 7th & Penn   Gas Station Prototypes   FWPD Motorcycle Patrolmen in 1920
1926 Water Department Fleet            


Cemeteries:

Hebrew Rest Cemetery   City of the Living, City of the Dead      

 


Churches & Other Religious Buildings:

Historic Churches   Old Rock First Christian Church   First Christian Church  

St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church - 7th & Lamar

St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church - 10th & Burnett   Broadway Presbyterian Church   Early Baptist Churches Part 1: Broadway  

Early Baptist Churches Part 2: First Baptist

Early Baptist Churches Part 3: First Baptist   Early Baptist Churches Part 4: Largest in World   Early Baptist Churches 5: Final Chapter of 1st Baptist  

Early Baptist Churches 6: Evans Av. & Sagamore Hill

Early Baptist Churches Part 7: College Av. & Connell   Early Baptist Churches Part 8: Travis Av.   Early Baptist Churches Part 9: Goodwill Center Home  

Early Baptist Churches Part 10: First Deaf Church

Downtown's Church Row: Taylor Street   First Baptist Tower Never Completed   St. Andrew's Episcopal Church   Enhanced Postcard First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church -5th & Penn   St. Patrick Cathedral - 1930's   St. Ignatius Postcard   1st Presbyterian & Broadway Presbyterian
 May 1957 Dedication of First Prebyterian Church - 1   May 1957 Dedication of First Presbyterian Church - 2   Four Early 1900's Methodist Churches   Black Churches in the 1930's
Six Early 1900's Churches   Six More Early 1900's Churches   1879 Fourth St. Methodist Church   Fourth St. Methodist Church
St. Paul's & Missouri Ave. Methodist Churches   St. Patrick's Missing Steeples   Mulkey Methodist Church - Part 1   Mulkey Methodist Church - Part 2
Jewish Buildings in Downtown   First Congregational Church   College Ave. Baptist Church   Funeral Director and Livery Stables
YMCA Builds First Building at Texas & Monroe   YMCA Gospel Wagon   YMCA - Carter Family & Foundation   McDonald YMCA - 1600 Jones
Dedication of San Jose Catholic Church - Part 1   Dedication of San Jose Catholic Church - Part 2   Dedication of San Jose Catholic Church - Part 3   Dedication of San Jose Catholic Church - Part 4


Commercial Buildings:

Drug Store - NE corner of 7th & Houston   Dundee Bldg. - 7th & Houston   John Peter Smith Memorial, W.T. Waggoner, & Library   O.B. Macaroni
Flatiron Building Saved and Restored   Busch Brewery   Earliest First National Bank Building   Capain Loyd Starts First National Bank
First National Moves from 2nd St. to 7th St.   First National & FW National Banks - 1913   First National Bank in Early 1910's and Late 1920's   Burk Burnett Building -
1913-14
Three F&M Bank Buildings - 7th & Main Streets   Hoxie Building - 7th & Main   Fort Worth's Towering Inferno   Board of Trade Building
Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Postcard   Chamber of Commerce - 5th & Throckmorton   Chamber of Commerce - Lord's Supper   Modern Design, but Short Lived Building
American Home Life; NW Corner 8th & Houston - 1913   5th & Main - 1904 & 1929   Current Photos of Sanguinet & Staats Buildings   Renderings by Sanguinet & Staats
Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 1   Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 2   Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 3   Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 4
Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 5   Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 6   Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 7   August 31, 1919 Star-Telegram Front Page
Cowtown Longhorns   Trial Balloon by Architects   How Jack White Became Interested in FW History   Burrus Mills - 1949
Turner & Dingee Grocery
502 Houston
  Continental National Bank/Landmark Tower Part 1   Continental National Bank/Landmark Tower Part 2   Continental National Bank/Landmark Tower Part 3
Bewley Mills Part 1   Bewley Mills Part 2   Bewley Mills Part 3   Bewley Mills Part 4
Bewley Mills Part 5   Bewley Mills Part 6   The Natatorium   Photos from Frank Leslie's Weekly
Joseph H. Brown, Grocer by Leslie's and Wellge   1886 Wellge Bird's Eye Building Drawings   Grocery Store Interior - 1907   North Side's Transit House
Amon Carter & Jesse Jones 7th Street   Washer Bros. Part 1   Washer Bros. Part 2   Washer Bros. Part 3
The Fort Worth Club
Part 1
  The Fort Worth Club
Part 2
  The Fort Worth Club
Part 3
  Leonard Bros. Start on the Courthouse Square
Tandy Corporation Part 1   Tandy Corporation Part 2   Tandy Corporation Part 3   H. Dugan Wagon Yard
Historic Structures within Trinity River Vision   Singer Sewing Machine Salesmen at FWNB   Texas Brewing Co. - 9th & Jones   Electric Building Before The Hollywood Theater
Canary Café in 1942   Arlington Downs Racetrack   1922 Stock Yards Cartouches   1922 Industrial Plants
Jack Walton's Barbecue on E. Lancaster in 1942   August Clothiers - 7th & Main   Continental Nat'l Bank & First Presbyterian   Safeway Distribution Center in Downtown
TexIce Plant - 1000 Jones   Tyler & Simpson Wholesale Grocery   Stock Yards & Swift - 1922   1913 Swift & Co. Water Derrick
Fort Worth Packing Co.   Anders Café #1   1921 KKK Auditorium on North Main   Second KKK Auditorium on North Main
1893 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map   Alcon Labs Start on W. 10th in Downtown   FDR Visits Air Force Plant #4 in 1942   "What Fat Stock Show?"
Amon Carter's 1904 Star-Telegram Building   Fort Worth Star-Telegram   Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1922 Brochure   Medical Arts Building and Burnett Park, 1942
Early Grocery Store   Tivoli Hall Bar   Century Life Building -  1950   Monnig's - Part 1
Monnig's - Part 2   Monnig's - Part 3   Monnig's - Part 4   Monnig's - Part 5
Monnig's - Part 6   Monnig's - Part 7   1301 Houston St.   Woolworth's - 1920's
Haltom's Jeweler's -
Part 1
  Haltom's Jewelers -
Part 2
  Haltom's Jewelers -
Part 3
  Groundbreaking for Armour & Swift Plants
Roe Lumber Block/FW Club Construction   Powell Block - 208-10 Main St.   Hell's Half Acre   Artesian Ice Co. about 1890 - Houston & Bluff
Lewis Blacksmith Shop - 1800's   AF Plant 4 - 1950   Evans Dry Goods - NW Corner 1st & Houston   Top Secret Tornado 1952
Draughon's Business Colleges   From Steve's to Lucille's: 4700 Camp Bowie   Parham's Barber Shop Around 1920   Stockyards Club at N. Main & E. Exchange
Molly & Pigeon on Live Stock Exchange   Original Tandy Center Master Plan Rendering Part 1   Original Tandy Center Master Plan Rendering Part 2    


Fire Stations:

Fire Station No. 1   Original Wooden Central Fire Station No. 2 - 1888 Part 1   Original Central Fire Station Part 2  

Original Central Fire Station Part 3

1899 Central Fire Station No. 2   1899 Central Fire Station
No. 2 Part 1
  1899 Central Fire Station
No. 2 Part 2
  Temporary Fire Station No. 3 - 1610 Houston St.
Original Fire Station No. 3   Fire Station No. 3 - 1911   Fire Station No. 4   Fire Station No. 4 Replacement  from 1920's
Fire Station No. 5   Fire Station No. 6   Fire Station No. 7   Fire Station No. 8
Fire Station No. 9   Fire Station No. 10   Fire Station No. 11   Fire Stations Nos. 12, & 13
Fort Worth's First City Hall/Fire Station - 1877   Central Fire Station
No. 2 - 1930
  The Great Fire of 1909    


Hotels:

Metropolitan Hotel   Early 1930's W.D. Smith Photo of Hotel Texas   1930's W.D. Smith Photo of Hotel Texas  

First Worth Hotel

First Worth Hotel Part 1   First Worth Hotel Part 2   First Worth Hotel Part 3   Worth Hotel & Theater Looking Down 7th Street
Worth Hotel & Theater, Fort Worth Club about 1927   Westbrook Hotel   Blackstone Hotel   Fortune Arms Hotel & Apartments
First Stock Yards Hotel & Exchange   Green Oaks Inn   Downtown's First Rooftop Swimming Pool   Ye Old Arlington Inn - Merrick & Byers
Series of Hotels on NW Corner of 4th & Main   Stockyards Hotel   Everywoman & Keystone Hotel - 1919   Ethel and Elmo Enix Identified
Mansion Hotel - 4th & Commerce   Ellis Hotel - 3rd & Throckmorton   Trav-o-tel on E. Lancaster   Fort Worth's First Motel?


Institutional - Hospitals, Schools, Universities:

Fort Worth University Part 1   Fort Worth University Part 2   Ann Waggoner Hall - TWU Part 1   Ann Waggoner Hall - TWU
Part 2
TCU: Hell's Half Acre, Thorp Spring, and Waco   Laying of the Cornerstone at TCU   TCU: Early Years   TCU: Historic Photos 1
TCU: Historic Photos 2   TCU: Historic Photos 3   TCU: Historic Photos 4   TCU: Historic Photos 5
TCU: Historic Photos 6   TCU: Historic Photos 7   TCU: School of Education Expansion   TCU Color Aerial from Early 1950's
1961 TCU Acquisition of Worth Hills Golf Course   1949 New TCU Fine Arts Building   Aerial Rendering of New TCU Commons   TCU Sports Facilities
TCU: Lupton Stadium   TCU's Big Barn Burner in 1953       Arlington Heights Schools in 1923 Snow
All Saints Hospital   Old Harris Hospital   Fort Worth Medical College   Camp Bowie - Jack White's Personal Connection
Map of Camp Bowie in Relation to Fort Worth   Detailed Map of Camp Bowie   Camp Bowie Airfields   Camp Bowie Aerial Photograph 1
Trolley Service to Camp Bowie   Camp Bowie Hospital   Camp Bowie Barracks   Camp Bowie Aerial Photograph  1922
City/County Hospitals   St. Joseph's Infirmary 1   St. Joseph's Infimary 2   Five St. Joseph's Hospital Buildings
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary   Fort Worth High School Part 1   Fort Worth High School Part 2   Fort Worth High School Part 3
Fort Worth High School Part 4   Fort Worth High School Part 5   M.G. Ellis School   TWC - Texas Womans College
Elks' Club - 7th & Lamar   Polytechnic College (TWU) - Early 1900's   Shady Oaks Country Club Before the Fire   Shady Oaks Country Club New Building
Knights of Pythias - 3rd & Main   Two Different Knights        


Public Buildings:

Artist's Painting of the Fort

 

Bronze Bas-relief at Houston & Belknap

  Log Cabin Village  

1876 Courthouse

1876 Courthouse - 1887

 

1876 Courthouse with Clock Tower Added

  Retouched Photo of 1876 Courthouse  

Second Damaged Photo of 1876 Courthouse

Courthouse Chronology

  Jail & Courthouse in 1890   Construction of Tarrant County Courthouse about 1894   The County Seat Fight Part 1

The County Seat Fight Part 2

 

Westward View from Courthouse around 1900

  Jail & Courthouse from Bluff  

Courthouse with Tidball & Van Zandt Bankers, Late 1890's

Tarrant County Courthouse - 1922

  John Stryker view of Tarrant County Courthouse   Tribute to Dr. June Rayfield Welch Part 1   Tribute to Dr. June Rayfield Welch Part 2
Tarrant County Courthouse from Roof of Grand Hotel 1   Tarrant County Courthouse from Roof of Grand Hotel 2   Louis Daniel View of Tarrant County Courthouse 2004   Courthouse Fountain Part 1
Courthouse Fountain Part 2   Neon Flag on
Courthouse Dome
  1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 1   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 2
1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 3   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 4   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 5   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 6
1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 7   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 8   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 9   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 10
1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 11   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 12   Texas Spring Palace Part 1   Texas Spring Palace Part 2
Texas Spring Palace Part 3   Texas Spring Palace Part 4   Texas Spring Palace Part 5   Texas Spring Palace Part 6
Texas Spring Palace Part 7   Texas Spring Palace Part 8   Texas Spring Palace Part 9   Texas Spring Palace Part 10
Texas Spring Palace from Top of Board of Trade   Texas Spring Palace Views - Different Years?   1893 City Hall   1938 City Hall
Snow Patterns in Fort Worth Water Gardens   1893 City Hall with Water Line Construction   City Prison and Waterworks   Fort Worth Municipal Airport
Meacham Field   Front of  Will Rogers Memorial Center   Will Rogers Memorial Center from Northwest - 1936   Will Rogers Photo That Never Was and Never Will Be
Tarrant County Convention Center   1913 Entrance to Trinity Park   Farmers Market on Jones   The Relevance of Provenance
Architect's Rendering of General Worth Square   FW Public Library - Great Historical Resource   Casino Beach   Casino Ballroom
Hyde Park Painting   Willard Barr's Town Hall Meeting at Will Rogers        


Railroads, & Streetcars:

1904 T&P Station Fire at Main & Front (Lancaster)   Early 1900's T&P Passenger Station from Front & Calhoun   T&P Station Fire Part 1   T&P Station Fire Part 2
T&P Station Fire Part 3   T&P Station Fire Part 4