Photography Collections Database

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Call Number:

PH-00135

Collection Name:

Dallas, Texas, Photography Collection

No. of Items:

276 photographs

Span Dates:

circa 1910-1920

Description:

The collection consists of 276 contact prints that were made from glass negatives taken in the 1900s to the 1920s by an unidentified photographer in Dallas, Texas. Subjects include a variety of urban architecture, early automobiles, accidents, airplanes, performers and circus clowns, baseball games, a fair, parades and military activities, and the development of Garwood and Oak Cliff.

Accession No(s):

958:0029:0001-0276

Location(s):

Dallas, Texas, Box 1 (958:0029:0001-0150)
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Dallas, Texas, Box 2 (958:0029:0151-0276)
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