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Hispanic Ladies Standing in Front of the Entrance to a Building
title Hispanic Ladies Standing in Front of the Entrance to a Buildingdescription Photograph of a group of formally-dressed Hispanic ladies standing together for a group portrait. The ladies are wearing long, dark dresses and coats. Most of them are also wearing decorative hats and holding purses. There are three other ladies and a man in a suit standing on the doorstep of the building in the background. There is a large bush shielding most of the building from sight behind the group of women. There is a decorative border around the image.artist/creator Unknownsubject Texas-Mexican Presbytery Crowds Portraits People - Ethnic Groups - Hispanics Entrances Women Architecture - Buildingscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Congregation Sitting in Church
title Congregation Sitting in Churchdescription Photograph of a large congregation standing in front of fold-up chairs and wooden benches in a church building. The crowd mostly consists of men, however also includes women and children. There are more people crowded at the back of the church than the front of the church, and there are several empty seats in the front. Windows line the three visible walls in the background. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "Taft? Convención".artist/creator Unknownsubject Texas-Mexican Presbytery Interiors Religion - Denominations - Presbyterian Crowds Chairs Religion - Churches - Congregations People - Ethnic Groups - Hispanics Benches Religion - Churchescontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Front View of a Large Congregation Standing in Church Pews
title Front View of a Large Congregation Standing in Church Pewsdescription Photograph of a large congregation standing in the pews of a crowded church. The people are all facing forward, and some are looking down at the papers they are holding in their hands. The people in the crowd are all dressed formally in church attire. There are bright windows lining the two visible perpendicular walls in the background. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "Taft? Convención".artist/creator Unknownsubject Pews Texas-Mexican Presbytery Interiors Religion - Denominations - Presbyterian Crowds Religion - Churches - Congregations People - Ethnic Groups - Hispanicscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Crowd and a Parked Bus in Front of an Open Church Entrance
title Crowd and a Parked Bus in Front of an Open Church Entrancedescription Photograph of a crowd of Hispanic church-goers standing in front of a church entrance. The crowd is made up of men, women, and children gathered into small, clustered groups. The church is a wood-slatted building with a row of windows on the right-hand side. It has a tall belfry that is attached to the open double-door entrance and cut off at the top edge of the image. A covered parking area is visible in the background on the far left-hand side of the image. There is a dirt road in the foreground with the back of a bus visible on the far left-hand side. There is a camera on a tripod also on the left in the foreground that is facing the church.
There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "Taft - new blglg. [Taken at convention, 3-23-1947?]"artist/creator Unknownsubject Texas-Mexican Presbytery Religion - Denominations - Presbyterian Crowds Buses People - Ethnic Groups - Hispanics Entrances Architecture - Buildings Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Automobiles Religion - Churchescontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Crowd in Front of an Open Church Entrance
title Crowd in Front of an Open Church Entrancedescription Photograph of a group of Hispanic church-goers standing in a crowd in front of the entrance to their church. Most of the people in the group are facing the church, and there are a couple more smaller groups scattered throughout the image. The church building has a tall belfry that is connected to the double-door entrance and cut off at the top of the image. The building continues along the back right-hand side of the image, where there is another back entrance. There is a car parked in front of the church also on the far right-hand side. There is a camera attached to a tripod in the foreground across the dirt road from the church. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Taft, Texas 2nd Presby Church. [Taken at convention, 3-23-1947?]".artist/creator Unknownsubject Cars Religion - Denominations - Presbyterian Crowds Religion - Churches - Congregations People - Ethnic Groups - Hispanics Entrances Architecture - Buildings Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Automobiles Religion - Churchescontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Group of Hispanic People Crowded Under a Crooked Tree
title Group of Hispanic People Crowded Under a Crooked Treedescription Photograph of a group of Hispanic people crowded under a dead, crooked tree. Many of the people in the group are holding books or papers. There is a young girl standing away from the group on the right-hand side of the image. Three houses are visible spread across the background. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "Victoria 1/12/50 2nd Presby. Church".artist/creator Unknownsubject Trees Texas-Mexican Presbytery Crowds Portraits Religion - Churches - Congregations People - Ethnic Groups - Hispanics Architecture - Buildingscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Women in Uniforms Standing in Front of a Doorway
title Women in Uniforms Standing in Front of a Doorwaydescription Photograph of a group of young women wearing matching white smocks and neckties and standing in front of the doorway to a building. There are several other men and women that surround the doorway, which is on the right-hand side of the image. There is a car parked closely on the left-hand side of the image. Buildings are visible in the background, as are several electric poles. The top of a wire fence is visible in the foreground. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "Taylor".artist/creator Unknownsubject Texas-Mexican Presbytery Crowds Uniforms People - Ethnic Groups - Hispanics Social Life And Customs - Clothing Entrances Architecture - Buildings Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Automobilescontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Girls Standing in the Back of a Farm Truck
title Girls Standing in the Back of a Farm Truckdescription Photograph of a group of Hispanic girls standing together in a group in the back of a large farm truck. The girls, who are all wearing sleeved, collared dresses, are all smiling at the camera. The truck, which spans the entire image, has a sign on the front that reads, "Cage's Taft, Texas". There is a large, two-story building with rows of windows on the left-hand side of the image behind the truck. There is a woman standing beside the truck on the right who is holding two boxes. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "Pres-Mex. 5 de Mayo 1951".artist/creator Unknownsubject Texas-Mexican Presbytery Outdoors Crowds Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Trucks Portraits People - Ethnic Groups - Hispanics Architecture - Buildingscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Truck Full of People Parked in Front of a School Building
title Truck Full of People Parked in Front of a School Buildingdescription Photograph of a group of people standing in the back of a large cargo truck. The truck, which is in the background of the image, is parallel parked in front of the entrance to a large two-story building on the left-hand side of the image. Several Hispanic women are gathered next to the truck on both sides. There are two women walking together on the dirt road in the foreground. They are smiling, and one is carrying books. There is a handwritten note on the back of the image that reads, "Pres-Mex".artist/creator Unknownsubject Texas-Mexican Presbytery Outdoors Crowds Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Trucks People - Ethnic Groups - Hispanics Entrances Women Architecture - Buildingscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Crowd With Planes
title Crowd With Planesdescription Photograph of a crowd of people standing near two planes. The plane in the foreground has star emblems on the bottoms on the wings. A man is standing on this plane near the propeller.artist/creator Unknownsubject Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Aviation Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Aviation - Airplanes Crowdscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Crowd By Plane
title Crowd By Planedescription Photograph of a crowd of people looking at a biplane.artist/creator Unknownsubject Planes People - Groups Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Aviation - Airplanes Crowdscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Cal Rodgers in Airplane
title Cal Rodgers in Airplanedescription Two photographs of, "Cal Rodgers approaching a level area new [sic] the present day Thunderbird Restaurant for landing." In the top photograph, the plane is in mid-flight. In the bottom photograph, a crowd of people on the ground watches the plane come in.artist/creator Unknownsubject Thunderbird Restaurant Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Aviation Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Aviation - Airplanes Crowds Rodgers, Cal People - Individualscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Crowd By Plane
title Crowd By Planedescription Photograph of a crowd of people around a plane. There are stars on the undersides of the wings. There is a building in the background.artist/creator Unknownsubject Planes People - Individuals Business, Economics And Finance - Transportation - Aviation - Airplanes Crowdscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Field: Clay Figures Filling A Room
title Field: Clay Figures Filling A Roomdescription "From the beginning I was trying to make something as direct as possible with clay: the earth. The 200,000 body-surrogates completely occupy the space in which they are installed, taking the form of the building and excluding us, but allowing visual access. I gave these instructions to the makers: Take a hand-size ball of clay, form it between the hands, into a body surrogate as quiclky as possible. Place it at arm's length in front of you and give it eyes." -- Anthony Gormley Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 128) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gormley, Antonysubject Population Crowds Repetition (Aesthetics) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Eyes (Motifs) Insite92 Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Field: Clay Figures Filling A Room
title Field: Clay Figures Filling A Roomdescription "From the beginning I was trying to make something as direct as possible with clay: the earth. The 200,000 body-surrogates completely occupy the space in which they are installed, taking the form of the building and excluding us, but allowing visual access. I gave these instructions to the makers: Take a hand-size ball of clay, form it between the hands, into a body surrogate as quickly as possible. Place it at arm's length in front of you and give it eyes." -- Anthony Gormley Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 129) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gormley, Antonysubject Population Crowds Repetition (Aesthetics) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Eyes (Motifs) Insite92 Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Field: Detail Of Mass Of Figures
title Field: Detail Of Mass Of Figuresdescription "From the beginning I was trying to make something as direct as possible with clay: the earth. The 200,000 body-surrogates completely occupy the space in which they are installed, taking the form of the building and excluding us, but allowing visual access. I gave these instructions to the makers: Take a hand-size ball of clay, form it between the hands, into a body surrogate as quickly as possible. Place it at arm's length in front of you and give it eyes." -- Anthony Gormley Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 130) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gormley, Antonysubject Population Crowds Repetition (Aesthetics) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Eyes (Motifs) Insite92 Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere