TARRANT COUNTY, TX
Tarrant County Archives
Donna and David Matney Collection, [1870]-1966
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs, scrapbooks and cabinet cards from Fort Worth and other Texas communities. Some items relate to military service, including World War II ration books. Some materials relate to businesses in Fort Worth, such as Swift and Company, Meacham's Department Store, Bachrach/Gittings Studio Photography and Scott Awning Company. Items within this collection date from approximately the 1870s to 1987.
Bracketed dates are approximated.
This collection contains three series: Photographs; Personal and Military Records and Ephemera; and Scrapbooks, Oversize Cabinet Cards and Portraits. The Photographs series contains studio portraits and snapshots, many of which are unidentified. Images listed within the Texas Cities Photographs are organized alphabetically based on written notes or printer stamp on the reverse of the photographs. Some images may be of places other than that of the printer stamp on the back. The Personal and Military Records and Ephemera series contains military correspondence, war ration books and a U.S. Air Force roster. This series also contains ephemera from Fort Worth and Texas. The Scrapbooks, Oversize Cabinet Cards and Portraits series contains three scrapbooks, seven large cabinet cards, one portrait and an artistic rendering of a couple. View the Donna and David Matney image gallery of photographs.
Pictured: S.L. Reese and wife, [1890-1900]
SUBJECT TERMS
The following Subject Terms lists represent the majority, but not the entirety, of the topics within the Donna and David Matney Collection.
Places (all cities/counties in Texas unless otherwise noted)
- Baileyville
- Bowie
- Bremond
- Brenham
- Cameron
- Cisco
- Cleburne
- Corpus Christi
- Dallas
- DeLeon
- Del Rio
- Ellis County
- El Paso
- Ennis
- Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Fort Worth
- Fredericksburg
- Gainesville
- Galveston
- Granbury
- Greenbay School, Highland Park, Illinois
- Greenville
- Handley
- Hico
- Hillsboro
- Hood
- Itasca [Itaska]
- Houston
- Kent
- Lockney
- Lubbock
- Mineral Wells
- McKinney
- Odessa
- Palestine
- Petula [Petulia]
- San Antonio
- Swisher County
- Texarkana
- Waco
- West
- Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Persons
- Bray, Glen Dale
- Craine, Kenneth
- Edwards Family
- Garriott, Bob
- Garriott, Jessie
- Gree, Lillie (Tillie)
- Hook family
- Horsman family (Lelia Horsman, possibly of Oklahoma)
- Johnson, Eddie Ray
- Kinsley, Blanche [Lane]
- Linn, Gertie
- Linn, Joe
- Linn Sr., Chester
- Long Family
- McKee family
- Robinson family
- Rowland, Frank J. and Lorene
- Stewart. John H. "Jack" and Mercedes
- Watson, William "Bill"
- Wiley, Harry Fulton and Llewellyn
- Wilson, Don / James D.
Subjects
- Bachrach / Gittings Studio
- Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) at Camp Maydelle, Texas
- E. M. Daggett School
- Female Athletes in Ennis, Texas
- First Methodist Episcopal Church
- Frank J. Rowland Watch and Clock Maker
- General Dynamics
- Meacham’s Department Store Ephemera
- Monnig’s Department Store Ephemera
- Nolan High School
- Order of Railway Conductors of Texas
- Sam Rosen Elementary
- Scott Awning Company Ephemera
- Swift and Company Pension
- World War I
- World War II
Materials in this collection consist of the following:
Photographs:
- Actors, undated [ca. 1905-1920]
- Miscellaneous Unidentified, undated, 1935, 1948
- Miscellaneous Unidentified Cabinet Cards, undated, [ca. 1870s-1910s, 1940s]
- Fort Worth Star-Telegram Staff, 1940s-1960s, undated
- Military—General, Portraits, World War II Sweethearts, 1940-1965
- National Association of Home Builders, 1964, 1972
- National Association of Real Estate Boards Convention, 1956, 1964, 1968, 1970
- Outside of Texas, undated, 1935
- University of Texas Austin Golden Class Reunion of 1913, 1963
- Premier Oil Refining Company Construction, 1953-1954
- Scene at Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp, Maydelle, Texas, [ca. 1933-1937]
- Texas Cities—B, undated, 1921
- Texas Cities—C, undated, 1935
- Texas Cities—D, undated, 1919, 1938
- Texas Cities—E-F, undated, [ca. 1890s-1930s]
- Texas Cities—Fort Worth, undated, [ca. 1870s-1910s], 1912, [ca. 1920s-1940s], 1948, 1960
- Texas Cities—Fort Worth—Bachrach/Gittings Studio, [ca. 1920-1960s]
- Texas Cities—Fort Worth—E. M. Daggett School, 1944
- Texas Cities—Fort Worth—Residents, undated [1930s-1960s]
- Texas Cities—G, undated, [ca. 1890-1910]
- Texas Cities—H-I, undated, [ca.1900-1930], 1931
- Texas Cities—K-P, undated, [ca. 1904-1918], 1906, 1912, 1914, 1928, [ca.1950s]
- Texas Cities—S-T, undated, [ca.1890s-1910s], 1926, 1935, 1942, 1947, [ca. 1940s-1950s]
- Texas Cities—W, undated, 1925
- Texas Cities—Waco—Robinson and McKee families, [ca. 1880-1910]
- Unknown Location—With Names/Some Identification, undated, [ca. 1880-1910], [ca.1904-1918], 1917, [1918-1930], 1921, 1922, [1927-1940], 1934, 1936
- Unknown—School Teacher, 1930, [ca.1930s]
- Unknown—Women and Swing, undated, 1913
- World War II / Military-related, undated, 1944
Personal and Military Records and Ephemera:
- Baby Book—Deborah Germaine Moore (possibly Fort Worth), 1949
- Books—The History of the A&M College Trouble, 1908; Lengthening Shadows, [ca. 1948]
- Correspondence - Leonard, R. H., 1931, 1936
- Correspondence - Monning (Handley, TX), 1912
- Euless—Euless High School Diploma and Memory Book—John Barton Hurt, 1947
- Exercise and Dictation Book “Jolly Times” belonged to Margaret Jordan, 1918
- Fort Worth—Grady Brown Daybook—Produce Department—Receiving, 1919-1920
- Green, Lillie (Tillie) - Correspondence and Personal Documents, 1958-1960, 1963-1965
- Johnson, Eddie Ray - Correspondence, 1951, 1955, 1962
- Long Family - Correspondence and Ephemera, undated, 1918, 1946, 1948
- Fort Worth—Military Cap—Veterans of World War I, undated
- Fort Worth -- Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated, 1953, 1958, circa 1970s
- Fort Worth—Miscellaneous Ephemera and Receipts, undated, 1927, 1940, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1954-1955, 1960-1961, 1967
- Ephemera, undated, 1941, 1950-1951, 1955-1956
- Fort Worth -- Postcards (subject or address), undated, 1944, 1959-1960, 1962-1963, 1967-1968
- Fort Worth—Premium Receipt Books and Insurance Policies—Hazel Austin, 1919, 1926, 1927, 1931
- Fort Worth—School Ephemera and Educational Documents, undated, 1933, 1949, 1963-1965
- Stewart, John H. (Jack) and Mercedes, undated, 1965-1967, 1969
- Fort Worth—Tax Records and Deed—Ed Freeman/W. A. Duringer, undated, 1943-1948
- Fort Worth—Texas Christian University—Ephemera, 1931, 1987
- Fort Worth—Title Insurance—Jack and Margaret Orren, 1948
- Wiley, Harry Fulton and Llewellyn, undated, 1968
- Fort Worth—World War II Ration books and Military Correspondence, 1942-1944, 1966
- Edwards Family - Lewis Edwards, 1942-1953, 1955
- Edwards Family - Mary, Eddie, and Robert Edwards, 1918, 1938-1939, 1942
- Edwards Family - Oscar Edwards, undated, 1934-1935, 1942, 1944
- Publications - Brand Name Recipe Booklets for KARO syrup, A1 Sauce, and Gerber, undated, 1937, 1963
- Publication - Twenty-first Biennial Session of State Legislative Committee - Order of Railway Conductors of Texas, held in Waco, April 22-24, 1936 (includes names of Fort Worth people)
- Texas (Non-Tarrant County) - Correspondence - Watson, William (Bill), undated, 1950-1951, 1956
- Texas (Non-Tarrant County)—Ephemera and Travel Literature, undated, 1912, 1924, 1934, 1938, 1943, 1970, 1978, 1981, 1987
- Texas (Non-Tarrant County)—Insurance and Land Records, Ephemera, undated, 1904, 1907/1908, 1917, 1926-1929, 1940, 1953
- Texas (Non-Tarrant County)—Iotex Oil Corporation vs. W. J. Collins, et al.—Agreement, 1933
- Texas (Not Tarrant County subjects or addresses) - Postcards and other Correspondence, undated, 1901, 1944, 1957, 1963, 1982
- Wilson, Don / James D., 1946-1947, 1949
- Outside Texas—Ninth U.S. Air Force Roster of Officers, 1943
- Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated
- Premier Oil Refining Company Legal Documents (J. Q. Adams, et al., vs. D. B. McPherson, et al.), 1934
- Premier Oil Refining Company Maps, undated
- University of Texas Austin Golden Class Reunion of 1913, 1963
Scrapbooks, Oversize Cabinet Cards and Portraits:
- “Girls Athletics Annual” Scrapbook, Ennis, Texas, [ca. 1910-1930]
- Small Black Scrapbook, undated, 1938 [Includes photos of Frank J. Rowland, Lorene Rowland]
- Disassembled Scrapbook, 1945-1959 [Includes photos of Horsman family]
- Sketch/Painting of Unknown Couple, undated
- Portrait of Man, [ca. late-1940s-1950s]
- [Women], 1512 Lee Avenue, July 20, 1911
- [Family Portrait –same family as “Women, 1512 Lee Avenue”], undated
- “Hazel Garner”, Large Cabinet Card Portrait of Woman, undated
- [Family Portrait] in Miami by McDougal, December 29, 1892
- Large Cabinet Card Photograph of Group of Men at Stairs, [ca. 1930s-1940s]
- Large Cabinet Card Family Photograph, nine people [likely same family as Small Black Scrapbook], two copies, undated
- Large Cabinet Card Family Photograph, 36 people [likely same family as Small Black Scrapbook], undated
Newspapers and Publications
- Fort Worth Mind, Thirty-Sixth Year, Number 23, May 9, 1968
- Gainesville Weekly Register, March 8, 1945
- National Motorist, June 1935
- The Humble Way: 40th Anniversary Edition, May-June 1957
- The Mighty Atom: The Story of Electricity from Amber to Atoms, ReddyToon, 1976
- Wichita Daily Times, July 6, 1947
Subject Files:
- Aviation -- Industry - General Dynamics - "News"
- General Dynamic News, Fort Worth Edition, Vol. 18, No. 12, June 9, 1965
- Churches -- Methodist - Fort Worth - First Methodist Episcopal Church South
- First Methodist Episcopal Church South, small booklet with image of church showing through small window of folder surrounding a page with prayers.
- Civic Organizations--Rotary--Rotary Rotagraph
- Rotagraph, November 14, 1947
- Rotagraph, November 14, 1947
- Education -- Private Schools - Nolan High School
- Nolan High School Announcements and Receipts, 1968
- Railroads--General
- Order of Railway Conductors of Texas State Legislative Committee Program, April 17-19, 1934