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Texas Centennial Exposition

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:27:31 +0100

Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas Texas (TX) , Linen, unused
Dallas is the first southern city to present a world's fair, June 6 to November 29; a magic city of brilliant pageantry, great exhibit places housing the wonders of today and tomorrow.

Assassination Scene President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:29:40 +0100

Assassination Scene President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Dallas Texas (TX) , Chrome, unused
This view shows the route of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

Courthouse Complex

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:29:38 +0100

Courthouse Complex, Dallas Texas (TX) , Chrome, unused
Left to right: Records Building, old Courthouse, and new Courthouse (taken from the John F. Kennedy assassination site.) The shat that killed the President hit him as the car passed the light post shown in the foreground.

Triple Underpass

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:29:38 +0100

Triple Underpass, Dallas Texas (TX) , Chrome, unused
Showing the Texas School Book Depository Building (Hertz sign on roof,) where bullet was fired that killed President Kennedy. They, showing left to right: Hall of Records Building, old Courthouse, and new Courthouse. Underpass on left is the one the Kennedy caravan passed through en route to Parkland Hospital, where the President died.

Motor Inn Hotel

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 04:37:40 +0100

Title:
Motor Inn Hotel
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

Description:
New, Modern and Complete Finest in the Southwest.

Night Scene Heart Of Dallas

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 04:37:36 +0100

Title:
Night Scene Heart Of Dallas
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

Commerce Street At Night

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:54:40 +0100

Title:
Commerce Street At Night
Dallas (TX), Continental Chrome unused

Description:
Commerce Street at night, with its many bright lights, enhances the beauty of Dallas and adds much to making Dallas the Heart of the Southwest.

Dallas National Bank Building

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Title:
Dallas National Bank Building
Dallas (TX), White Border unused

The New Express Highway Through Dallas

Fri, 30 May 2008 21:27:49 +0100

Title:
The New Express Highway Through Dallas
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

50,000.00 Centennial Key

Sun, 18 May 2008 21:50:37 +0100

Title:
50,000.00 Centennial Key
Dallas (TX), Linen PM 1937 Jul-31

Description:
The world's most gorgeous and expensive key, designed and made by Arthur A. Everts Co., Dallas, Jewelers. - where it is on exhibition - and used by Gov. James V. Alfred to officially open the gates of the Texas centennial Exposition on June 6. 1936. The center diamond, the Queen Maria Luisa vergils nearly 14 carats; there are over 200 other diamonds in the key as well as rubies, emeralds, sapphires, zircons, amethysts, tourmalines, a Texas azure topaz. Texas pearls, 18 carat star sapphire, onyx from Davy Crockett's birthplace, and a $35,000 festoon of Oriental pearls. Applied in four colors of gold are a prairie schooner, stalks of corn, cotton boll, oil derrick, longhorn steer's head, the Alamo, state seal, la sale's ship and general Huston's sword. The six Texas flags are in colors. The key is nine inches long; one pound gold weight. Everts Co., showplace of the South, and one of America's largest and most beautiful jewelry stores, was established 39 years ago and has customers from coast to coast Selection packages are sent anywhere on approval without obligation.

Flower Gardens, Exposition Park

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:17:33 +0100

Title:
Flower Gardens, Exposition Park
Dallas (TX), Divided Back PM 1909 Dec-18

A Munger Place Home

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:31:28 +0100

Title:
A Munger Place Home
Dallas (TX), Linen PM 1950 Aug-10

Colonial Style Residences, Ross Ave

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:50:35 +0100

Title:
Colonial Style Residences, Ross Ave
Dallas (TX), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1906 May-07

Wilson Bldg

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:50:35 +0100

Title:
Wilson Bldg
Dallas (TX), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1907 Aug-14

Court House

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:50:35 +0100

Title:
Court House
Dallas (TX), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1906 Feb-06

City Hall

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:50:34 +0100

Title:
City Hall
Dallas (TX), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Confederate Monument, City Park

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Title:
Confederate Monument, City Park
Dallas (TX), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Dallas Public Library

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Title:
Dallas Public Library
Dallas (TX), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1906 Jan-25

Love Field Air Terminal

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:02:26 +0100

Title:
Love Field Air Terminal
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

Dallas Municipal Air Port, Love Field

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:02:23 +0100

Title:
Dallas Municipal Air Port, Love Field
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

Description:
New $225,000 administration Building. One of America's finest air terminals which takes care of more airline passengers, more air mail and more air express in ratio to population than any other air port in the country.

Horticultural Hall And Hall Of Domestic Arts

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:01:36 +0100

Title:
Horticultural Hall And Hall Of Domestic Arts
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

Description:
Dallas is the focal point of celebrations from June 6 to November 29, the first southern city to present a world's fair, a magic city of brilliant pageantry, great exhibit palaces housing the wonders of today and tomorrow. The primitive civilization of the Aztecs supplied the architectural lines of the Horticultural Hall, the Hall of Domestic Arts, beautifully located in a park, is surrounded by model homes.

Live Stock Building

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:01:36 +0100

Title:
Live Stock Building
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

Description:
The Live Stock Building, occupying about 42,000 sq. ft., is for the exhibition of swine, sheep and goats is equipped with every modern sanitary device and has a spacious judging ring with balconies for spectators.

The Aquarium Texas Centennial Exposition

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:01:35 +0100

Title:
The Aquarium Texas Centennial Exposition
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

Description:
The Aquarium, costing 4150,000, built by the City of Dallas, is the second aquarium west of the Mississippi. Thousands of specimens of fresh water fish are exhibited in tiers of glass tanks. Special machinery keeps the tank water at proper temperature for the various species of fish.

Hall Of Fine Arts Band Shell And Amphitheater

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:01:35 +0100

Title:
Hall Of Fine Arts Band Shell And Amphitheater
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

Description:
The center of musical activity will be the open air band shell and amphitheater, a permanent feature of the Civic Center, seating capacity 5,000. The most imposing structure in the Civic Center is the Hall of Fine Arts, constructed of Texas stone, cost $500,00, housing a $5,000,000 art collection assembled from all parts of the world.

Panorama Of Texas Centennial Exposition

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:01:34 +0100

Title:
Panorama Of Texas Centennial Exposition
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

Description:
Panorama of Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, June 6 to November 29, celebrating Texas' 100th Birthday and commemorating its glamorous past and its achievements subsequent to the birth of the Republic of Texas in 1836.

Assassination Scene President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:52:50 +0100

Title:
Assassination Scene President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy November 22, 1963.

El Fenix Banquet Room Of Casa Linda

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:52:46 +0100

Title:
El Fenix Banquet Room Of Casa Linda
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
Your Party of Guests will be delighted. Reserve Our Banquet Room for Private Parties. The Finest in Mexican and American Foods. Open Seven Days. Specializing in Mexican Foods, Steak and Chicken.

La Tunisia Restaurant, Exchange Park

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:13:13 +0100

Title:
La Tunisia Restaurant, Exchange Park
Dallas (TX), Continental Chrome unused

Description:
The main dining room of La Tunisia restaurant, a perfect setting of an Arabian Night's atmosphere of romance and intrigue. The ceiling is covered with great swags of hand woven cloth and gives the feeling of dining under a great tent on the North African desert. The restaurant, built at the cost of $750,000 was designed and decorated by the creators of Disneyland. LA Tunisia is the show place of the Southwest featuring exotic Arabian dishes along with a wide variety of delicious American food.

La Tunisia Restaurant, Exchange Park

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:13:12 +0100

Title:
La Tunisia Restaurant, Exchange Park
Dallas (TX), Continental Chrome unused

Description:
The Cocktail lounge of the La Tunisia restaurant more appropriately called the Sheik's Tent is a replica of the kind of dwelling used by the desert rulers. A special lighting fixture costing about $10,000 creates every hour the entire 24 hours' light cycle of a day and night on the desert. Veiled waitresses dressed as Harem-Girls serve cocktails in the Sheik's Tent.

Highland Park Methodist Church

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:00:00 +0100

Title:
Highland Park Methodist Church
Dallas (TX), Real Photo unused

New Presbyterian Church, Highland Park

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:05:06 +0100

Title:
New Presbyterian Church, Highland Park
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

New Presbyterian Church, Highland Park

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:04:33 +0100

Title:
New Presbyterian Church, Highland Park
Dallas (TX), Linen unused

Central Campus Quadrangle, Southern Methodist University

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 03:05:27 +0100

Title:
Central Campus Quadrangle, Southern Methodist University
Dallas (TX), Linen PM 1955 Jan-21

Description:
Southern Methodist University was established in Dallas in 1911, opened 1915 with 706 students. Its student body now numbers more than 6000 and its campus is regarded as one of the most beautiful in the Southwest.

The Metropolitan Center

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:48 +0100

Title:
The Metropolitan Center
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
Skyline view of the Metropolitan Center of South Western Business, Shopping and Culture.

Assassination Site

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:48 +0100

Title:
Assassination Site
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
John F. Kennedy. November 22, 1963. Dealey Plaza; Dallas, Texas.

Entrance View Of The New Dallas Memorial Auditorium

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:48 +0100

Title:
Entrance View Of The New Dallas Memorial Auditorium
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
Entrance View of the New Dallas Memorial Auditorium

State Fair Esplanade

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:47 +0100

Title:
State Fair Esplanade
Dallas (TX), Chrome PM 1963 Jan-07

Description:
State Fair Esplanade looking toward Hall of State. Dallas, Texas.

Triple Underpass

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:47 +0100

Title:
Triple Underpass
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
Showing the Texas School Book Depository Building (Hertz sign on roof,) where bullet was fired that killed President Kennedy. Then, showing left to right: Hall of Records Building, old Courthouse, and new Courthouse. Underpass on left is the one the Kenney caravan passed through en route to Parkland Hospital, where the President died.

Parkland Hospital

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:47 +0100

Title:
Parkland Hospital
Dallas (TX), Chrome PM 1968 Apr-26

Description:
Here President Kenney was taken immediately after he was shoot. Governor John Cannally, who was with the President and was also shot in the same incident, was also placed in this hospital, where he recovered, but the President died here. The emergency entrance where the President and the Governor were admitted can be seen at the extreme left side of the picture.

Hub Of Business Activity For The Entire Southwest

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:47 +0100

Title:
Hub Of Business Activity For The Entire Southwest
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Holiday Inn Downtown

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:46 +0100

Title:
Holiday Inn Downtown
Dallas (TX), Chrome PM 1973 Jan-26

Description:
1015 Elm Street at New Griffin 312 Rooms, Luxury suites Swimming Pool Private Club Nightly Entertainment.

Union Station

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:46 +0100

Title:
Union Station
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Southland Center

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:32 +0100

Title:
Southland Center
Dallas (TX), Chrome PM 1960 Apr-24

Description:
Constructed at a cost of $35,000,000 by the Southland Life Insurance Company, the Southland Center occupies a 2½ acre block in the heart of Dallas. The 42-story tower is the tallest office building west of the Mississippi.

Dallas Skyline

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:31 +0100

Title:
Dallas Skyline
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
A national center for insurance, banking, transportation, electronics manufacturing, data processing, conventions and trade shows. More than 3,000 manufacturing plants make apparel, building material, food, oil field supply, electronic and many other products. Tourism is a major industry.

Galleria

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:31 +0100

Title:
Galleria
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
Artist's rendering of Galleria Complex under construction on LBJ Freeway and North Dallas Parkway

Storey Hall

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:31 +0100

Title:
Storey Hall
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
Storey Hall, Home of Southwestern Legal Foundation, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Commerce Street And Adolphus Hotel

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:31 +0100

Title:
Commerce Street And Adolphus Hotel
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
Here in the heart of "Big D", business and convention center of the Southwest, Commerce Street is busy around the clock.

Dallas Hall, Southern Methodist University

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:30 +0100

Title:
Dallas Hall, Southern Methodist University
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
The first building built on the S.M.U. Campus, now engulfed by many. In the background to the right is the Fondren Science Building. On the left are the Law Building, Student Building and others.

Commerce Street At Night

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:30 +0100

Title:
Commerce Street At Night
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
Commerce Street at night, with its many bright lights, enhances the beauty of Dallas and adds much to making Dallas and adds much to making Dallas the Heart of the Southwest.

The Cenotaph

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:54:30 +0100

Title:
The Cenotaph
Dallas (TX), Chrome unused

Description:
The Humphrey Lee Memorial located in the center of The Law School Quadrangle, the background is story Hall the Administration Building for the Law School at S.M.U. - Dallas, Texas.