Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau Collection

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HISTORICAL NOTE

The Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau (FWCVB) was founded in 1965 and incorporated as a non-profit corporation in 1986. It was established to promote public interest in the City of Fort Worth and the metropolitan area. Their goal is to increase tourism and the resident population by marketing the area’s attractions, amenities, and public facilities.

To create their promotional materials, the FWCVB photographs events and sites of interest in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The FWCVB Collection contains thousands of images that they used in their promotional materials from the late 1980s through the 1990s.   

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau Collection consists of about 15,000 slides as well as some photographs and negatives of local buildings, businesses, events, and landmarks. The images were created by the FWCVB for the publicity of the city. They are dated from the 1980s to 2002. 

 

Tarrant County Courthouse at dusk 

Materials in this collection consist of the following:

Photographs

  • Aerial view of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, 1990s
  • Attractions, 1990s: Colonial Golf Tournament; Eagle Mountain Lake marina; Lake Worth; Hulen Mall; Lone Star Park racetrack; The Ball Park at Arlington; Fort Worth Outlet Square Mall ice skating rink (Tandy Center); Fort Worth Zoo; Log Cabin Village; Japanese Garden; Kimbell Art Museum; Fort Worth Community Arts Center; Will Rogers statue and Pioneer Tower Atrium; Fort Worth Botanic Garden Rainforest Conservatory
  • Dowtown Fort Worth, 1990s: Fort Worth skyline with Tarantula Steam Train; Tarrant County Courthouse; Flat Iron Building; Knights of Pythias Castle Hall; Plaza Hotel and Texas Commerce Bank; AMC Palace Theater; Sundance West Apartments; Worthington Hotel; Caravan of Dreams;. buildings at 308 and 310 Main St.
  • Events, 1990s: Cowtown Marathon; Main St. Arts Festival; events at the Tarrant County Convention Center 
  • Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau employee events, 1990s
  • Fort Worth Open House fireworks display, July 4, 1994
  • Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District, 1990s: Texas Gold sculpture; White Elephant; Billy Bob's; Marine Creek; Chisholm Trail Round Up/Pioneer Days; Ryon's Western Wear Store mural; Stockyards Station
  • Fort Worth Stockyards mural at the Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau, 1990s
  • Police woman in a fake jail cell, 1990s
  • Rodeos and competitions in Fort Worth, 1990s: Tejano Rodeo; National Cutting Horse Association Futurity, 1991; rodeo at Cowtown Coliseum; Southwestern Exposition and Live Stock Show
  • Roping demonstration at Fort Worth Water Gardens, 1990s
  • Steven Murrin, owner of West Fork Ranch, 1990s

Photograph negatives

  • Attractions, 1990s: elephant at the Fort Worth Zoo; Fort Worth Water Gardens; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth Museum of Science and History; Kimbell Art Museum
  • Buildings and street scenes, 1990s: Main Street in downtown Fort Worth; Fort Worth Stockyards, Ramada Hotel; Radisson Hotel; Tarrant County Courthouse; Bass Performance Hall; AMC Palace Theater; Caravan of Dreams; Will Rogers Memorial Center
  • Fort Worth skyline, 1990s
  • Restaurants and retail stores, 1990s
  • Scenes of a ride on the Tarantula Train, 1990s
  • Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show montage of Stock Show artifacts, 1990s
  • Tarrant County Convention Center arena-to-theater set-up, 1999

Slides

*The following is a general list of topics that represent the substantial amount of subjects in the slides. Contact the Tarrant County Archives for more details.

  • Aerials of Fort Worth and Dallas; Air Shows; Airports; Attractions in Fort Worth, Dallas, and Canada; Bell Helicopter Plant; Buildings and sculptures; Businesses; Chisholm Trail; Colleges and universities; Country Clubs; Downtown Fort Worth; Events; Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau; Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District; Greenwood Memorial Park; Historic images of Fort Worth; Hospitals; Hotels; Libraries; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Museums; Native American culture; Parks; Pioneers Rest Cemetery; Ranches; Restaurants; Retail Stores; Skylines of Fort Worth and Dallas; Sports in Fort Worth and Dallas; Sundance Square before/after redevelopment; Tarantula Train; Theaters / Theatres; Trinity River; Van Cliburn