Prendergast was one of the founding trustees of the university and Board President for many years. A resident of Mexia, he also taught in Trinity's Law Department. He served as a trustee from 1869-1900.
A group of female students are listening to a telephone conversation on a McFarlin Hall residence hall telephone. Telephones in the 1950s were not in private rooms. There was only one telephone on each floor of the residence hall.
A group of female students in the mid-1950s put on make up while seated in Guenther Park on the Trinity campus. The photograph was made for public relations purposes. Guenther Park commemorated a gift of land contributed to the Trinity campus by...
Crowning of the Tigerland King and Queen and court was a popular tradition in the 1940s and 1950s. Pictured here are King John Miller and Queen Doris Blair in 1944.
In this photograph Talor Chandler, Jr. (class of 1956) models a Davy Crockett coonskin hat for co-ed Kay Caskey (class of 1955) while Jim Sanders (class of 1954) expresses his displeasure. The upperclass student in the photograph were debating...