Christine Upton Collection

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Christine Upton is a member of the Pioneers Rest Cemetery Association in Fort Worth, Texas. She is involved with outreach events and helps the association conduct research on families in Tarrant County. 

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Christine Upton's collection covers various subjects in Tarrant County history and is dated 1982-2013. 

Materials in this collection consist of the following:

Books

• The Bankhead Highway in Texas: A History and Driving Guide for the Nation's Earliest All-Weather Transcontinental Highway, by Dan L. Smith, Bankhead Highway Publishing, 2013
• Fort Worth Memories, Volume II: The 1940s, '50s and '60s, by Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Pediment Publishing, 2019
• When Panthers Roared: The Fort Worth Cats and Minor League Baseball, by Jeff Guinn with Bobby Bragan, Texas Christian University Press, 1999

Postcards

• "A Glimpse of Fort Worth, Texas," enlarged copy of a circa 1897 postcard 
• Postcards of America: Fort Worth Parks, by Susan Allen Kline and the City of Fort Worth, Texas, Arcadia Publishing, 2010
• Texas Sesquicentennial commemorative postcard puzzle, 1986

Poster

• "Fort Worth, Texas, Founded 1849," by Pamela Tully and Nancy MacKinnon, a collage of Fort Worth buildings drawn by artist Eloise Hankins, 1982