Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Title |
Two Newspaper Clippings; "Looking Back, Waco In 1893" and "Heart O' Texas Notebook - Fountations, Old Tracks Still Visible from Interurban Days" |
Date |
1965 |
Scope & Content |
Two Newspaper Clippings; "Looking Back, Waco In 1893" by Julia Shirley, "Heart O' Texas Notebook - Fountations, Old Tracks Still Visible from Interurban Days" by Dayton Kelley of Mary Hardin-Baylor College, one envelope. a) "Looking Back, Waco in 1893" by Julia Shirley is an article discussing the state of Waco in 1893. It covers the boom in population, as well as school quantity and quality. It also talks about the growth of railroads, manufacturing, and tourism, as well as addressing the businesses, theaters, churches, governmental officials, firemen, newsapers, organizations, schools, and teachers that were in the city at the time. b) "Heart O' Texas Notebook - Fountations, Old Tracks Still Visible from Interurban Days" by Dayton Kelley discusses the Belton-Temple Interurban railway, with an aside about the Bartlett-Western. The article includes a photo of a trainwreck caused by a cow on the tracks. c)Envelope: Top left: CENTRAL ELECTRIC RAILFANS' ASSOCIATION, P. O. Box 503, CHICAGO 90, ILL; Center: W. P. Donalson, Jr., 7275 Wentwood Dr., Dallas, 25, Tex 768; Information-based indicia: CHICAGO. ILL. 1965, PM 30 NOV |
Associated People |
Donalson, Walter P., Jr. |
Search Terms |
Belton-Temple Interurban Central Electric Railfans Association Waco |
Collection |
Walter P. Donalson III Collection |
Catalog Number |
CP.2025.CL.5-090 |