Preview
Identifier
20037115
Description
Mr. Tompkins is wearing a short-sleeve collared shirt and trousers. Mrs. Howard is dressed in a fitted floral blouse with a square bodice and matching skirt, carrying a patent leather purse under her arm. Mr. Stacy is wearing a button-up shirt with cuffed sleeves and trousers and a wrist watch band. He is holding a bunch of artificial flower poppies. They are standing in a covered breezeway of a large building (looks like an agricultural building at the Will Rogers Coliseum) Clipping: "AT KICK-OFF SALE--John M. Tompkins, left, gave $25 for the poppy being presented him by J. M. Stacy, discharged AAF veteran, who was auctioneer at a Kick-off sale Friday for the Saturday poppy sale being sponsored by the Auxiliary to the Liberator Village Post of American Legion, Mrs. E. T. Howard, center, who supervised the sale, is auxiliary president. (Staff Photo.)" Published Star-Telegram Morn. May 26, 1945.
Archival Date
1945-05-25
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6-619
Original Format
Negatives, Black & White
File Format
JPG
Rights
Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. Any use of content downloaded or printed from this page is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use, including fair use as directed by U.S. copyright laws. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Subjects
Dresses; Purses (patent leather); Poppies (artificial)
Subjects
Dresses; Purses (patent leather); Poppies (artificial)