The W.D. Smith Commercial Photography, Inc. Collection contains negatives, approximately 190,000, black and white and color. Negatives are 8" x 10" and smaller (4" x 5", 35mm, and 2" x 2"). The collection documents the growth and development of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, and the North Texas region. Aerial views of Fort Worth and Tarrant County comprise a sizable portion of the collection. Also included are ten notebooks of photocopies of reproductions of late nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs of Fort Worth and aerials and photographs of various locations in North Texas, 1940s-1980s. Subjects include aerial views, airports, buildings (civic, commercial, and private), group photographs and individuals, parks, street scenes, the 1949 flood, and variety of subjects photographed for commercial advertising purposes.
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