Jack Danciger was born in Taos, New Mexico, on June 18, 1876, to Simon Danciger and his wife Anna Kendall. He and his brother began operating a distillery after 1904, and in 1914 he purchased a Spanish-language newspaper "El Cosmopolita" in Kansas City as a means of improving community relations. He entered into the oil industry, establishing Danciger Oil and Gas Refining Company, and in the 1920s moved to Fort Worth. Danciger made significant financial contributions to build schools, libraries, and to fund scholarships. in Mexico, Peru, and Chile. He was named Man of the Year by the B'nai B'rith. His work on behalf of the Latin American diaspora in the U.S. and work in Latin America led to Mexico awarding him the Order of the Aztec Eagle, and the highest civilian awards of Chile and the Dominican Republic. He died October 21, 1966, at his home in Fort Worth, Texas. Little biographical informational is available regarding Efrain G. Dominguez, who served as Mexican consul to Fort Worth and later Dallas when the Fort Worth office was closed in 1948. This is a collection of photographs that document the friendship and work of Jack Danciger and Efrain Dominguez in their efforts to promote cooperation and business between the United States and Mexico in Texas. Jack Danciger was a wealthy philanthropist and political activist who was born in Taos, New Mexico in 1879. At the age of 30 he inherited a group of successful businesses built by his father related to the hotel industry, breweries, and oil and gas. Around this time he also took a strong interest in Mexico. According to the preface written by former Secretary of State of Mexico, Ezequial Padilla, that appears in Danciger's biography (Richkarday, General. Jack Danciger His Life and Work. (1963)), during the Mexican Revolution, [i]“in the Southern part of the United States prejudices were enthroned and cruel discrimination . . . jeopardized the humble Mexicans who lived expatriated. The campaign bravely waged by Jack against unjust and criminal authorities is yet remembered with gratefulness by many Mexicans.” Later, in the 1940s, also according to Padilla, “I found in Jack a strong courageous supporter of the campaign I launched against the infamous discrimination to which the Mexicans in Texas were subjected. [We] did everything possible . . . to conquer intolerant and discriminatory attitudes of men and firms that persecuted our compatriots with racial hatred.”[/i] For his work on behalf of Mexico, Danciger was ultimately awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor Mexico's government bestows on foreigners. These photos show Danciger's later life and career when he was living in Texas. He had been named Honorary Consul of Mexico in Fort Worth in 1942. It was here that he met Dominguez who became his right hand man for the next four years. According to the Richkarday biography, Danciger [i] “wanted to hire someone well versed in consular matters to help him manage the office and that he would pay that individual's salary himself.” [/i] Dominguez was a career consular officer and was deemed perfect for the job. When Danciger started in Fort Worth, he immediately set up a program for the approximately five thousand Mexican nationals in the area to receive free legal advice on a range of issues. All of those legal fees were paid by Danciger himself. As the office grew in prestige,[i] “Danciger and Dominguez found themselves in constant demand as public speakers or panel members . . . they were asked to lecture, write articles or issue statements leading to a dual purpose: erase former ill feelings in the light of a loyal friendship.” [/i] While the Fort Worth consulate was closed in 1946, Danciger and Dominguez continued to work on many issues including major anti-discrimination projects as well as building the commercial air traffic between Texas and Mexico. This collection contains one great photo from 1948, captioned in Spanish. It depicts the governors of several Mexican states, along with Maria Grimaldo, who served as Honorary Consul of Mexico in Fort Worth after Danciger. The group is posed in front of an airplane, likely on the tarmac of Carswell Airfield. The remaining images show Cosme Hinojosa (Consul General to Mexico), Danciger, Dominguez, Grimaldo and other identified Mexican government officials at a banquet in Fort Worth in November 1952. The Fort Worth Star Telegram had reported that the officials had been Danciger's guests, in town to visit the new Greater Fort Worth International Airport, and that their visit, “we can but hope, has impressed them with the fact that Fort Worth rapidly is becoming an important international air center, and that Mexico's interest in its development is considerable.”
Finding aid available here. Materials provided by Special Collections and Archives at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Club Rotario at restaurant "El Fenix"
Photograph of "Club Rotario" at a restaurant named "El Fenix". The image was taken on Dallas, Texas in 1947.
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Dinner in Honor of Mrs. Amalia S. de Cardenas
Dinner in honor of Mrs. Amaldia S. de Cardenas and her party at Western Hills Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas, November 12, 1953. The host of the event is Jack Danciger. Left to right around the table are: Mrs. Jack Danciger; Mrs. Carlota Lopez Padilla; Hon. Edgar Deen; Mrs. Maria Victoria S. de Batiz; Albertina Cardenas ; Virginia Solorzano; Mr. Raul Castellanos; Maria Victoria Cerda; Mrs. Maria Grimaldo; Mrs. Elisa Villalobos; Mr. Irving Rosenthal; Mrs. Edgar Deen; Mrs. Amaldia S. de Cardenas.
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Dinner in Honor of Mrs. Amalia S. de Cardenas
Photograph at a dinner in honor of Mrs. Amaldia S. de Cardenas are, left to right: Mrs. Carlota Lopez Padilla, Mrs. Amaldia S. de Cardenas, an unidentified woman, and Mrs. Elisa Villalobos.
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Dinner in Honor of Mrs. Amalia S. de Cardenas
Photograph taken at Western Hills Hotel in Fort Worth during the dinner party in honor of Mrs. Amaldia S. de Cardenas.
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Dinner in Honor of Mrs. Amalia S. de Cardenas
Photograph at a dinner in honor of Mrs. Amaldia S. de Cardenas are, left to right: Mr. Irving Rosenthal, Mr. Jack Danciger; Mrs. Amelia S. de Cardenas; and an unidentified woman and man.
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Dinner Party
Photographed at a dinner party, left to right, are: Mrs. Sproesser Wynn; Raul Lopez Guerra; A. R. Clark; Mrs. John N. Parker; Javier Escobar; John F. Estill; and Dean Jerome Moore.
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Group Portrait Including Jack Danciger
Group portrait including, not in order; Gerardo S. Montemayor, M. Sahs, D. Perez, G. G. Gonzalez, Elisa Pacheco, Maria Luisa Juarez, Alicia Buena, Leopoldo S. Rodriguez, and Jack Danciger.
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Image Taken at US Immigration Services
Pictured, from left to right: are Victor Miller, Captain from American Air Lines; F. I. Cobb, Co-pilot of American Air Lines; Jeanet Ross, lady of American Air Lines; E. W. Hill, Head of Local Customs; Betty Walthall, officer from customs; C. N. Williams, Head of Customs district; Jack Danciger, Honorary Consul; Efrain G. Dominguez, consul's assistant behind Williams; Sidney Harding, Commercial agent for railway express.
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Image Taken at US Immigration Services
Pictured, from left to right are; Janet Ross, lady of American Airlines, E. W. Hill, Head of local customs, Betty Walthall, customs officer, C. N. Williams, Head of customs district, Jack Danciger, Honorary Consul, and Effrain G. Dominguez, Consul's assistant.
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Inauguration of Dallas to Mexico Flight
Photograph of inauguration of first flight with no stops from Dallas to Mexico. The image was taken in Dallas, Texas on June 11, 1947.
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Jack Danciger, Mrs. Geo. Stevens, and Don Cosme Hinojosa
Pictured are Jack Danciger and Mrs. Geo. Stevens, along with Don Cosme Hinojosa, consul general of Mexico in San Antonio, Texas.
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Lillian Rose Rosenthal and Don Cosme Hinojosa
Photograph of Lillian Rose Rosenthal and Don Cosme Hinojosa, consul general of Mexico in San Antonio.
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Luncheon at the Western Hills Hotel
Photograph of luncheon at the Western Hills Hotel on Friday, November 21, 1952, in honor of Mr. Don Cosme Hinojosa, Consul General of Mexico, in San Antonio, Texas. From left to right: Mr. Don Efrain G. Dominguez, Honorary Consul General, Mr. George B. Bennett, Mayor of Fort Worth.
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Luncheon in Honor of Don Cosme Hinojosa
Photograph of Jack Danciger, Host, speaking at a luncheon in honor of Don Cosme Hinojosa, Western Hills of Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday, November 21, 1952. From left to right: Mrs. Edith Deen, Staff Writer for the Fort Worth Press; Hon. Efrain G. Dominguez, Consul of Mexico in San Antonio, Texas; Hon. Mr. Don Cosme Hinojosa, Consul General of Mexico, Guest of Honor; Mr. George B. Bennett, Mayor of Fort Worth.
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Newspaper Clipping Picturing Members of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce
Newspaper clipping of chapter members of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce. Pictured is Hector Herbeck (second from the right), the chamber's president. Other members pictured left to right include; Efrain G. Dominguez, Jose G. Garza, and Ramon Galindo.
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Photograph at Carswell Airfield
Photograph taken in Fort Worth, Texas on December 5, 1949 at the Carswell Airfield. The pictured shows people standing in front of an airplane. The people are numbered and their names are; Raul Lopez Sanchez (1), Ignacio Morones Prieto (2), Fernando Foglio Miramontes (3), Raul Garate Legleu (4), Jesus Jaime Quinones (5), and Maria G. Grimaldo (6).
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Photograph of Ceremonial Presentation of the Key to the City of Fort Worth
Photograph of ceremonial presentation of the key to the city of Fort Worth to Mr. George B. Bennett, at a luncheon in honor of Don Cosme, on Friday, November 21, 1952. From left to right: Mr. Jack Danciger, host; Dr. Don Cosme Hinojosa; Mr. George B. Bennett; Mr. J. Frank Davis, Assistant Manager of Fort Worth; Mrs. Maria Grimaldo, Vice Consul of Mexico in Fort Worth.
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Photograph of Dinner Celebration for Head of Migration
Photograph taken at Dinner in honor of the head of migration on March 19, 1956.
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Photograph of El Fenix Restaurant in Dallas, Texas, 1948
Photograph of people at the El Felix Cafe located in Dallas, Texas, 1948.
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Photograph of General Consul in New York, 1957
Photograph of General Consul in New York on September 1957. Shown seated are: Efrain G. Dominguez, Deputy Consul; Manuel Aguilar, General Consul; and Enrique V. Nogue, Commissioned Consulate. Shown standing, left to right, are: Joaquin Mercado; Paulina Diaz Pizarro; Luis Audiffred; Beatric Chagoya C., Consulate secretary of Dominguez,; Marina Pascal, viceconsul; Enrique Lopez del Castillo; Mercedes Mugica Arroyo, Secretary of C. Gral. Aguilar; Jeorge Aguilar; viceconsul; Berta Garza Perez, Antonio Islas, viceconsul; Javier Cureno; Guillermo Fuhrken Ogelet.
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Photograph of Gustavo Ortiz Hernan
Photograph of Gustavo Ortiz Hernan, consul general in San Antonio, Texas. In the back of the photograph are the words " Hon. Efrain G. Dominguez ...sincerely your friend Jack Danciger".
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Photograph of Inauguration of Direct Service Between Dallas and Mexico
Photograph taken on June 11, 1947 in Dallas, Texas. The image captures the inauguration of the first non-stop flight from Dallas to Mexico.
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Photograph of Inauguration of Direct Service Between San Antonio and Monterrey
Photograph of Inauguration of direct air service between San Antonio, Texas and Monterrey, Mexico by American Airlines in August 1, 1944.
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Photograph of Mexican Consul
Photograph of Mexican consul members. From left to right are: Dean Jerome More, former honorary consul of Mexico; Hon. Ignacio A. Pesqueira, consul of Mexico in Dallas; Sr. A. R. Clark, honorary consul of Nicaragua; Hon. Jack Danciger, former honorary of Mexico in San Antonio; Hon. Don Cosme Hinojosa, consul general of Mexico; Hon. Efrain G. Dominguez, consul of Mexico in San Antonio. Positioned in the front is Maria Grimaldo, vice honorary consul of Mexico in Fort Worth.
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Photograph of September 16 Festivities in Dallas, 1948
Pictured are two unidentified children dancing while a crowd observes them in the background. In the back of the photograph are the words "September 16 festivities in Dallas, 1948".
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Photograph of the "Fort Worth Club"
Photograph of the "Fort Worth Club" on June 26, 1945. Pictured are: Hugo Gutierrez, from "Mañana" magazine; Efrain G. Dominguez, consul; Lieutenant general W. B. Simpson; Jack Danciger, Honorary consul; Esperanza Gutierrez Camacho, "Todo" Magazine.
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Photograph of unidentified men at the Fort Worth Airport
Photograph of four unidentified men in 1946 at the Fort Worth airport in Texas.
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Photograph on Love Field, Dallas on June 16, 1947
Photograph taken on June 16, 1947 on Love Field, Dallas, Texas. The image captures the inauguration of the fast air travel service from Dallas to Mexico. Shown is Captain Perkins, pilot of "El Azteca", Tetra motor DC-6 of 58 passengers.
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Photograph taken at El Felix Cafe in Dallas, Texas
Photograph taken at El Felix Cafe in Dallas, Texas. The image is dated January 26, 1948.
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Photograph taken at Hotel Driskill in Austin, Texas
Photograph of general J. Jaime Quiniones, major Tim Miller, and governor R. Lopez Sanchez. The image is dated April 12, 1949 and was taken at Hotel Driskill in Austin, Texas
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Photograph Taken During Cinco de Mayo, Dallas 1947
Photograph of unidentified people taken during the Cinco de Mayo celebration in Dallas in 1947.
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Photograph taken in Fort Worth, Texas 1959
Photograph taken in Fort Worth, Texas, 1959. Pictured are: Ignacio Pesquiera, Consul in Dallas; A. Hoffman, Head of Airport; Rafael Aveleyn.
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Photograph Taken on 5 de Mayo 1948 in Dallas, Texas
Photograph of two unidentified women dancing during a 5 de Mayo celebration in Dallas, Texas in 1948.
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Portrait of Jack Danciger
Portrait of Jack Danciger with the words "Proofs only, Pan-American Photo Service, 54 W. 57 St., New Yort City".
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Ray L. Miller Greets Regional manager of Commerce
Photograph of with the words " To my dear friend, Mr. Efrain Dominguez, council of the republic of Mexico". The image states that Ray L. Miller is pictured greeting regional manager of commerce and that the image is dated July 11, 1947.
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Unified people at Dinner Party
Photograph of four unidentified people, 2 women and 2 men during a dinner party.
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Amon G. Carter Giving Speech
Robert Eugene Abey
Image including, left to right: Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson; Homer Covey, President of Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce; Jack Danciger, Honorary Consul of Mexico, Fort Worth; Efrain G. Dominguez, Mexican Consul, San Antonio; Coke R. Stevenson, Governor of Texas. Standing at microphone is Amon G. Carter.
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Jack Danciger With a Group of People
Robert Eugene Abey
Image of an unidentified group of people, four men and one woman. The third person from the left, on the first row, is Jack Danciger. The image was taken by Bob Abey Photo services located in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Mexican Performance
Robert Eugene Abey
Photograph of performers on stage wearing traditional Mexican clothing. On the stage are displayed two flags, the United States and Mexican flag. The image was taken by Bob Abey Photo services located in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Portrait of Unidentified Couple
Robert Eugene Abey
Photograph of man and woman sitting on a sofa. The image was taken by Bob Abey Photo services located in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Dinner Party
Hal Bakke
Photographed at a dinner party, left to right, are: Dean Jerome Moore; A. R. Clark; Jack Douglas, from Star Telegram; J. Frank Davis; Ignacio A. Pesqueira; and C. J. Watson.
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"Dinner in My Honor in Dallas, Texas, 1948"
Archibald Anderson Greenwood
Photograph on unidentified people with the words "Dinner in my honor in Dallas, Texas 1948".
