Please help us identify our photos!

 

Four Unidentified Children in Emily Fowler Library

Did you go to the library in the 1970’s, 1980’s?  Work for the City of Denton?  We currently have 1675 items on the Portal To Texas History, not all of which are photos.  You can find early (1894, 1918-1924) City/telephone directories, postcards, articles, and other things there as well.  But mostly, there are photos, many of which have never been correctly identified.  If you have the time, search the site, either by keyword, or browse through the collection.  Each photo has an information page, which, on the right-hand side of the page and in the light blue/purple box, offers the user the option to make comments.  So if you that is you watching the puppet show at the Emily Fowler Library in the 1970’s or 80’s, please let someone know which person you are and if you can guess any other names, or dates, feel free to add this to the photo. 

If you have any further questions, please contact the Genealogy/Special Collections Department of the Emily Fowler Central Library, 940-349-8752, or email  Leslie.Couture@cityofdenton.com.

We thank you for your help.

A View into the Past: 1959-60

I have been looking through the old high school yearbooks that we have here at Emily Fowler, looking for particular views of the old high school.  Pictures of local businesses are, of course, throughout the yearbooks, and I just happened to have a more current photo of the one that is below.  Not much has changed with this business and I sure am glad.  It is from the 1960 Denton Bronco.

And this is the business today, well, in 2006:

-Leslie

It’s more than just a game.

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Recently Emily Fowler hosted former Fred Moore High School Dragon football players to talk about what it was like playing for C.H. Collins during the 50’s and 60’s.  We filmed the event, and now you can check out the DVD.

Building the Denton County Courthouse

I’m almost finished with gleaning articles from the 1895 Denton County News.  I continue to find articles regarding the building of the “new” courthouse and find it fascinating.  I wish I had a time machine and I would go back in time and buy the newspaper(s) every day from the beginning of Denton County’s first newspaper, to fill in what is missing.  Heck, maybe I would have stayed there and just come back (here) to visit.  Really like to ride in one of those bicycle races.

-Leslie