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Fort Worth is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Fort Worth has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, Fort Worth has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens. Historic Photos of Fort Worth captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From the Texas Spring Palace to Armour and Swift, the Carnegie Library to the Casa Manana and Frontier Centennial, Historic Photos of Fort Worth follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city's history. This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of hundreds of historic photographs. Published in striking black and white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	01 juillet 2007
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781618586292
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	13 Mo

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HISTORIC PHOTOS OF
FORT WORTH
T EXT AND C APTIONS BY Q UENTIN M C G OWN
The 1893 Al Hayne monument and fountain, lower right, no longer served as an oasis for thirsty horses and mules, whose jobs had been eliminated by automobiles and trucks by the time this photograph was taken around 1918. Within about ten years, the Texas Pacific Railroad, owner of the magnificent passenger station built in 1900, would partner with the city of Fort Worth to redesign this intersection, replacing the old and dangerous grade crossings with a safer underpass at Main Street. The passenger station was replaced in 1929 by the Art Deco terminal still in use today.
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF
FORT WORTH
Turner Publishing Company
www.turnerpublishing.com
Historic Photos of Fort Worth
Copyright 2007 Turner Publishing Company
All rights reserved.
This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006937031
ISBN: 978-1-59652-317-3
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 978-1-68336-932-5 (hc)
C ONTENTS
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
P REFACE
A RMY O UTPOST TO R AILROAD T OWN (1849-1899)
A N EW C ENTURY B RINGS N EW I NDUSTRY (1900-1910)
I NTO THE M ODERN E RA (1911-1940)
M ID- C ENTURY C HANGES (1941-1965)
N OTES ON THE P HOTOGRAPHS
The life-size statue of humorist Will Rogers on his horse, Soapsuds, continues to preside over an ever-expanding Cultural District. Commissioned by Rogers s friend and Fort Worth titan Amon Carter, the bronze was completed by Electra Waggoner Biggs in 1939, but waited until 1947 to be unveiled by a dignitary Carter deemed important enough for the job-in this case, General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume, Historic Photos of Fort Worth , is the result of the cooperation and efforts of a number of individuals.
Tom Wiederhold, Fort Worth Police Historical Association
Jim Noah
Jack White
Susan Pritchett, Tarrant County Archives
Donna Kruse, Tom Kellam, Jabari Jones and the staff of the
Fort Worth Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
Louis Sherwood, Texas Wesleyan University Special Collections
Gilbert Anguiano
Pete Charlton, lectricbooks.com
Sarah Biles, North Fort Worth Historical Society
Beverly Washington
Sarah Walker
Brenda McClurkin, Ruth Callahan, and the staff of the University of Texas at Arlington Library, Special Collections
The staff at Turner Publishing
And, especially, my wife, Laurie, with deepest thanks.
-Quentin McGown
P REFACE
Fort Worth has thousands of historic photographs that reside in archives, both locally and nationally. This book began with the observation that, while those photographs are of great interest to many, they are not easily accessible. During a time when Fort Worth is looking ahead and evaluating its future course, many people are asking, How do we treat the past? These decisions affect every aspect of the city-architecture, public spaces, commerce, infrastructure-and these, in turn, affect the way that people live their lives. This book seeks to provide easy access to a valuable, objective look into the history of Fort Worth.
The power of photographs is that they are less subjective than words in their treatment of history. Although the photographer can make decisions regarding subject matter and how to capture and present it, photographs do not provide the breadth of interpretation that text does. For this reason, they offer an original, untainted perspective that allows the viewer to interpret and observe.
This project represents countless hours of review and research. The researchers and writer have reviewed thousands of photographs in numerous archives. We greatly appreciate the generous assistance of those listed in the acknowledgments of this work, without whom this project could not have been completed.
The goal in publishing this work is to provide broader access to this set of extraordinary photographs which seek to inspire, provide perspective, and evoke insight that might assist people who are responsible for determining Fort Worth s future. In addition, the book seeks to preserve the past with adequate respect and reverence.
With the exception of touching up imperfections caused by the damage of time and cropping where necessary, no other changes have been made. The focus and clarity of many images is limited to the technology and the ability of the photographer at the time they were taken.
The work is divided into eras. Beginning with some of the earliest known photographs of Fort Worth, the first section records photographs from 1877 through the late nineteenth century. The second section spans the first decade of the twentieth century. Section Three carries the story forward to 1940. The last section covers the World War II era up to recent times.
In each of these sections we have made an effort to capture various aspects of life through our selection of photographs. People, commerce, transportation, infrastructure, religious institutions, and educational institutions have been included to provide a broad perspective.
We encourage readers to reflect as they go walking in Fort Worth, strolling through the city, its parks, and its neighborhoods. It is the publisher s hope that in utilizing this work, longtime residents will learn something new and that new residents will gain a perspective on where Fort Worth has been, so that each can contribute to its future.
-Todd Bottorff, Publisher
Following the March 29, 1876 fire that destroyed the first permanent Tarrant County courthouse and most of the records in it, commissioners hired architects and builders, Thomas and Werner, to oversee construction of a replacement. In November 1877, members of the Fort Worth Masonic Lodge, Number 148, gathered for the cornerstone laying ceremony. Between 1876 and the completion of the new courthouse in 1878, the county and courts operated out of a temporary 25 by 60 foot building seen here on the south side of the public square and behind the assembled masons. The Battle House at left stood on the present corner of Weatherford and Commerce Streets.
A RMY O UTPOST TO R AILROAD T OWN
1849-1899
On June 6, 1849, a detachment of United States Dragoons formally established a small fort on the northwest Texas frontier. The soldiers were sent to protect the first waves of determined settlers from the Comanche and Kiowa who claimed the land as theirs and who were equally determined to keep it. The unstoppable push westward of Anglo migration led to the abandonment of the outpost in 1853 after a relatively uneventful career. Civilians moving into the ramshackle buildings left behind then began the task of building a town, laying the foundations for the modern City of Fort Worth.
Fort Worth struggled through its early years, even after plucking the county seat designation from neighboring Birdville in 1856. The Civil War diverted attention and resources from frontier protection, and the town once again found itself uncomfortably close to the bloody clashes between settlers and native tribes. It was after the war s end that Fort Worth found its first real opportunity for success, one that would permanently shape its identity. Beginning in 1866, cowboys driving millions of Texas cattle up the trails to the Kansas railheads or to pastures farther north helped turn the town into a supply and entertainment center. A drover could find everything from boots to saddles to shirts, along with saloons and professional women more than ready to take that new shirt off his back.
Not content with just watching cattle pass through town on the way to someone else s railhead, Fort Worthians struggled to bring the railroad to town. When a national depression in 1873 halted rail construction, so many people left town that it was said a panther could sleep unmolested on Main Street, giving rise to the city s nickname Panther City. The town patiently worked through the lean years, and the Texas Pacific finally arrived in July 1876. Over the next year, the city s population swelled to almost ten thousand.
As the city grew, it tried hard to shake off the dust of its frontier days, but never strayed too far from its livestock roots and the willingness to provide whatever service, in whatever form, it could. Fort Worth established colleges, an opera house, hospitals and the magnificent and tragic Texas Spring Palace, all the while consolidating alternate entertainments in an infamous Hell s Half Acre at the south end of downtown.

The Daggett and Hatcher store, at the corner of Houston and Weatherford streets, overlooks a bustling market scene about 1878. As cotton, produce, livestock and other goods arrived in town to coincide with the sessions of the district court, proud Tarrant Countians posed for an unknown photographer set up next to the courthouse.

The west side of the public square surrounding the courthouse, now the 100 block of North Houston Street, offered everything from dry goods and groceries to guns and saddlery. Judging by the crowded storefronts, the Farmers Saloon with its free lunch and the Alamo Sample Room, with its Pure Hand Made Sourmash Whisky, were the most popular places to do business on this market day about 1878.

Looking east across the expansive public square from the intersection of Houston and Weatherford, this view shows the 1878 courthouse surrounded by a fence to keep stray animals out. The two-story building visible just to the right of the courthouse is the old Masonic Lodge, built in 1857, and used until 1878 for numerous community activities, including school and church sessions.

When Fort Worth incorporated in 1873, it moved municipal operations from temporary quarters on the public square to a new city hall and fire station at Rusk Street an