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Early Voting Hurst 1.5.93.tif
A man casting his ballot in Hurst, Texas.

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Edgar Douglass Walker (1870-1954) and son Moody Childress (1900-1977) Walker in front of Walker’s service station on Main Street in Smithfield. The station later burned in Smithfield’s second great fire in 1930. Walker was also a blacksmith.

White Binder (48).jpg
Ed Walker’s filling station on Main Street in Smithfield in the 1930s.

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Edison’s and Rowater Home Centers stores on Grapevine Highway and City Point Drive.

Blue Binder I (5).jpg
Texas General Edward H. Tarrant commanded two expeditions into present Tarrant County in 1842. The monument to Edward H. Tarrant, erected in 1931, is located in Pioneer’s Rest Cemetery in Fort Worth.

Voting at Richland High School 11.8.88.tif
A line of voters form outside the polls.

Walker Family.pdf
A short family history originally collected for the book "The History of North Richland Hills: Where Families Live, Work, Worship, and Play."

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An employee break room at City Hall with communal furniture stacked to the side to prevent use.

Clarence Jones Letters (2).jpg
An envelope that included a letter from Senator Ralph Yarborough to Clarence Jones. The letter invited Jones to dinner to cap off President Kennedy's fateful visit to Texas.

ESL Class Bedford Public LIbrary 1.16.89 .tif
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