This collection is composed primarily of photographs and slides acquired, reproduced, or created by Jack White while collecting images of the city of Fort Worth, Texas, for over forty years. The images highlight Fort Worth's history and expansion. The collection focuses on city and county leaders, historic buildings, and the economic and cultural growth and development of Fort Worth from its days as a Victorian outpost on the prairie to the city's emergence as a vital cultural, business, and financial trade center in the twentieth century. The collection also includes negatives, maps, an audio tape recording, an artifact, and printed materials. Slide presentations describe Fort Worth history, the Gruen Plan for Fort Worth, and the construction of the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike. Although the collection centers on Fort Worth, there are a few photographs of other metroplex cities, such as Arlington and Dallas, and several views of the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport and the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike. There are also prints of oil wells and oil production scenes from Texas and other states, geological sites in New Mexico and West Texas, and late eighteenth century and early twentieth century originals of an Oklahoma family. Most of the images not created by White were reproduced from private collections and local library collections.
Finding aid available here. Materials provided by Special Collections and Archives at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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