Austin Company dinner

Austin Company Dinner. Left to right, Colonel Angus McDonell, Mr. J. L. Lancaster, Mr. H. F. Miter and Mr. M. A. Fuller.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/39772/thumbnail.jp

Austin Company dinner

Austin Company Dinner. H. T. Swanson, left, and Captain Shelby McMillon of Washington, District of Columbia.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/39774/thumbnail.jp

Kirven and King Ranch Field Day

The second annual Kirven and King Ranch Field Day is being held near Waxahachie, Texas. Pictured left to right are J. I. King and J. D. Kirven. They are partners in the breeding of the Herefords at the ranch. They changed their farm program and took up raising cattle. Now they make more money from cattle than off the 2,000 acres of farmland. More than 500 people are attending the field day. A number of friends and family members are in attendance to see the cattle, pastures, and barns. Mr. King is dressed in a hat, suit, and a coat. Mr. Kirven is wearing hat, collared shirt, necktie, and a coat.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/39674/thumbnail.jp

Comanche County\u27s Fifth Courthouse

All but three stones in this new $197,000 (one hundred ninety seven thousand dollars) Comanche Courthouse are native. The building is Comanche County\u27s fifth courthouse. Seen with a vehicle parked in the front of the building.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/39673/thumbnail.jp

Shaw Employees

Shaw employees, J. R. Russell and Bessie Kraus. Man dressed in a double-breasted striped suit with a tie and woman with glasses in a dark dress with white collar and Scottish Terrier brooch.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/39680/thumbnail.jp

Shaw Employees

Shaw employees, A. C. Lawler. Man in a suit with a pocket square and a patterned tie with tie clip.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/39682/thumbnail.jp

Camp Bowie Army maneuvers: First Platoon of Troop C, 113th Cavalry

Camp Bowie Army maneuvers. First Platoon of Troop C, 113th Cavalry is pictured here. One of the first brushes occurred when this 113th Cavalry, was chased into woods by a superior force and became lost near Mullen, Texas. The platoon is shown here emerging from its temporary refuge. The cavalry is an Iowa National Guard unit attached to VIII Army Corps. A mechanized unit of the 113th ran into heavy artillery fire and was chased as far as Comanche. The unit is on horseback, dressed in uniforms. There appear to be 16 men total, a couple are smiling at the camera but most are expressionless. They are riding along a dirt road in the grass. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, June 15, 1941.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/39486/thumbnail.jp

Ernest J. Munch, New York business man, and Miss Ruth Beard

Ernest J. Munch, New York business man, and Miss Ruth Beard, who has been hostess with her mother to the Easterner. Munch and the Beard family, meeting 14 years ago on a vacation trip, have kept contact with one another.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/39505/thumbnail.jp

Amon Gary Carter

Amon Gary Carter standing outdoors, wearing a military uniform.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/39499/thumbnail.jp

Snooks Keeping Dogie From Herd

Here is Snooks, a nine-year-old white horse and his owner, Grady Blue, manager of the S. B. Cantey Estate ranch near Palo Pinto in action. This pair has won the championship in the cutting horse contest at the Texas Cowboy Reunion at Stamford in 1940, at Mineral Wells and Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show at Fort Worth in 1941 and 1942. Here is a dogie that is cut out. Snooks, with his bridle removed, goes about his work with but one thought in mind, that is, keeping that dogie from the herd. Grady Blue is mounted on Snooks. There is an unidentified man on a horse and a cattle-herd in the background.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/39881/thumbnail.jp