Mary Daggett Lake Collection

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Armour and Company Fort Worth Postcard

Postcard of Armour and Company plant in Fort Worth, circa 1890s

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Mary Daggett Lake (1880-1955), daughter of E. M. Daggett and Laura Alice Palmer Daggett, had a lifelong interest in botany and was a charter member of the Fort Worth Garden Club. She also served on the Fort Worth Park Board and as a member of the Texas Federation of Garden Clubs and the National Council of State Garden Clubs. Along with her volunteer work with these organizations, she was the garden editor for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. While working for the newspaper, she wrote a series of biographical articles in the 1920s and 1930s about Fort Worth's pioneer families. 

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The Mary Daggett Lake Collection consists of articles written by Mary D. Lake for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as well as scrapbooks, postcards, maps, and various documents and photographs related to Tarrant County history. The materials in the collection date from the 1850s to the 1970s. 

Materials in this collection consist of the following:

Scrapbooks on the following subjects:

  • Quilting
  • Flowers and Gardening, 1942-1944
  • Flowers and Gardening, 1944-1947
  • Flowers and Gardening, 1940-1941
  • Flowers and Gardening, 1940
  • “Let’s Go!” and “Mrs. Tarrant Goes Shopping”
  • Fay Lightfoot
  • Cato Sells
  • Religion
  • J. Frank Dobie, 1950-1961
  • J. Frank Dobie, 1943-1961
  • Theatre Programs
  • Elizabeth M. Archer
  • Mrs. O.O. Spencer, undated, 1940s
  • Advertisements
  • Political Articles
  • Genealogy
  • Climbing the Family Tree
  • Twigs and Trees
  • Flags of Texas 1835-1839
  • Flowers and Gardening, 1939-1940
  • Newspaper Clippings, undated, 1893-1905
  • Fort Worth's First Hundred Years 'Where the West Begins'
  • Newspaper Clippings, undated, 1949
  • Newspaper Clippings, 1893-1908
  • Climbing the Family Tree Indexed
  • Tarrant County First Hundred Families
  • Genealogy Articles
  • Fort Worth Centennial
  • Mrs. O.O. Spencer, undated, 1908, 1934
  • Mrs. O.O. Spencer, undated
  • Gardening, undated, 1941-1942
  • Newspaper and Magazine Clippings, undated, 1949, 1951
  • Fort Worth Pioneers And Gardening 1923-1935 Scrapbook
  • Lambs 1887-1942 Scrapbook

Follow the link to view PDFs of fully scanned Mary Daggett Lake Scrapbooks.

Maps

  • Four maps: LaBahia Mission, Alamo at time of siege, San Antonio convent, Pleasure map of lower Rio Grande Valley
  • Military map of Texas and Coahuila (1835-1836)
  • Refugio Mission, ground plan
  • Siege of Bexar, December 5-10, 1835
  • San Jacinto Battlefield
  • Area near Mission Concepción, James Bowie battle, October 28, 1835
  • Texas map. 1944, with State Parks
  • Municipalities, Republic of Texas, 1836
  • Fannin's Fight, March 19, 1836

Miscellaneous

  • Book: Scenes by Clare V. Skinner, Part Seven, at Fort Worth, Texas 1896
  • Architectural Plans for Kelroy Chadwick, drawn by Morris B Parker, 5240 Camp Bowie Blvd., December 10, 1952  
  • Two pages from Footnotes August 1978, about the estate of Washington Traylor (July 19, 1866) and James Estes (September 30, 1864)
  • Three-page biography of John F. Grant
  • Pencil drawing on cardboard of "Miracle Time in Texas" describing the Daggett homestead on Daggett Point
  • Written description of pioneer Charles B. Daggett's home, circa 1883
  • Two photographs mounted on board labeled "Father Tree" and "Mother Tree"
  • Newspaper: River Oaks News, July 24, 1953, section covering Casa Mañana, Bell Helicopter, Will Rogers Center, Mount Carmel Academy
  • Poem: "Mother of the Prairie" by Jenny Lind Porter 
  • Poem: "Old Pioneer" by Will Carlton
  • Bibliography used by Verna Berrong for a thesis
  • Photostat from National Archives of a partial report on Fort Worth, 1853
  • Envelope from North River Insurance Company
  • Document about damages due to Samuel S. McEwen, November 1881, Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
  • Document to certify validity of J. P. Smith, October 17, 1878
  • Document from General Land Office concerning land in Wise County, April 22, 1854-September 14, 1881
  • Notarized document from James G. Harrison, wife Jane K. Harrison, naming Smith and Jarvis power to act in their name to purchase land title change from J. P. Smith to J. B. Moore, undated

Mary Daggett Lake gave a collection of postcards to her friend Julia Kathryn Garrett, who later donated them to the Tarrant County Archives. Follow the link to view Julia Kathryn Garrett Named Collection page.