Kennedale Historical Society Collection

HISTORICAL NOTE

The Kennedale Historical Society is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 2011. Their mission is to identify, collect, and preserve items relevant to Kennedale history as well as promote study and research of the city’s history. They provide a variety of educational programs and outreach events, and they maintain a website for sharing their research. The Kennedale Historical Society began donating materials to the Tarrant County Archives in 2023. Kennedale newspapers and other items are housed at the Kennedale Public Library.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The Kennedale Historical Society Collection contains clippings, correspondence, digital images of photographs, documents, ephemera, photographs, publications, scrapbooks, and yearbooks. The materials, related to Kennedale community members and local history, are dated from the early 1900s to 2022.

The collection consists of the following items:

Correspondence

• Letter from H. L. Johnson to Marvin Coker, postmarked September 5, 1936

Digital Images

• Brown Family portrait at New Hope Community School, 1912
• Verna Price Collard with Kennedale school students, circa 1914
• John Henry Rodgers, Tarrant County Commissioner Precinct 2 portrait, circa 1910
• First Baptist Church Kennedale Singing School group portraits, 1901-1902
• First Baptist Church Kennedale group portrait, June 13, 1954
• First Methodist Church of Kennedale and First Baptist Church, early 1900s
  
• Harris Corporation Printing Press Division buildings, 1970s or 1980s
• Kennedale picnic at Frog Island on Village Creek, early 1900s
• Kennedale School group portraits, 1910s; 1911
• Kennedale Public Schools group portrait, 1950s
  
• Lucy Sargent’s Brick Yard in Kennedale (Kennedale Brick Works), 1908
• Kennedale mayors, some files include images of their wives and clippings, 1947-2022

Documents

• North Side High School graduation invitation from Doys Kennedy to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Coker and Marvin, May 1934
• Receipt from Dr. S. B. Miller to M. N. Coker on prescription pad sheet, May 27, 1935
• United States Civil Service Commission Notice to 12th District Eligibles, July 1936

Ephemera

• The Western Nite Club grand opening invitation, August 1936
• Texas Brahmas Hockey Club rosters, 2007-2015
• Texas Brahmas Hockey Club games schedule magnets, 2008-2022
• Dance at Crystal Springs promotional card, undated
• F. W. Woolworth Co. Lunch Department menus, undated
• St. Joseph's Hospital Maternity Department instructions, undated

Photographs

• James F. Delaney Elementary School PTA photograph album, 2005-2006
• Loose photographs removed from Kennedale Independent School District scrapbook, 1958-1986
• Kennedale High School group portrait, 1939

Publications

• Arlington Citizen Journal, July 20, 2011
• Arlington Morning News, May 29, 2000
• Arlington Star-Telegram, June 8, 1997; December 5, 2006
• Holiday Greetings, The Star Group, December 2006
• Mansfield News-Mirror, June 16, 2005
• Fort Worth's Pioneer Days: Honoring 100 Years of the Fort Worth Stockyards, 1987
• South Tarrant Venture, by the South Tarrant County Chamber of Commerce, 2002-2004

Above: Group portrait of the Kennedale First Baptist Singing School, photographer unknown, August 27, 1901. Digital image of monochromatic photograph mounted on tan card stock. A blackboard centered on the wall behind the group has a musical score and the words Kennedale Class, Aug 07, '01. Handwritten inscription below the image reads Kennedale Church Group Aug 27, 1901.  Handwritten inscription on the left of the mount includes names of the people pictured.

Above: Studio portrait of John Henry Rodgers, Tarrant County Commissioner of Precinct 2, photographer unknown, circa 1910. Digital image of vertically-oriented monochromatic photograph with overall rich brown tone presented in portrait folder.

Above: Group portrait of the Brown Family, photographer unknown, 1912. Digital image of horizontally-oriented oval monochromatic photograph with yellow-brown tone. Some hand-coloring appears in the background. Possibly a crayon portrait originally mounted in a convex frame.