African Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio; Mount Zion First Baptist Church (San Antonio, Tex.); Baptists -- United States -- History.;
Scrapbook made to honor ZerNona Stewart Black, on the thirty-sixth anniversary of Reverend Black and ZerNona Black's service to the Mount Zion First Baptist Church , 1985
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.
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...
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...
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.
Luther Apelles Johnson served as Trinity's third president from 1885-1889 and later as president of the faculty. He was responsible for developing Trinity's curriculum and for initiating faculty study leaves. His untimely death in 1900 was a great...
Samuel Hornbeak first attended Trinity as a student in 1873 when he was eight years old. (Trinity then had a primary department.) He received a B.A. degree in 1885 and joined the TU faculty in 1891 as professor of science. He later served as dean...
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.