Joseph Weisburg Collection

Pictured: Interior View of Monnig's Dry Goods Store, undated

Summary: Joseph Weisberg was a journalist and photographer in Fort Worth, Texas. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Weisberg moved to Fort Worth to attend Texas Christian University. In 1941, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Weisberg worked in marketing and advertising in the years after the war until his retirement in 1973. During his retirement he focused his energies on photojournalism. Most of his work is centered around aviation history, but he also documented people and places across Texas, including the Fort Worth Stockyards and the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. This collection consists primarily of copy print photographs.

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Photographs and Copy Prints

• Amon Carter Jr.
• Amon Carter Sr.
  
• Alverna Williams (Powder Puff Derby pilot from Grand Prairie)
  
• Admiral Raymond H. Beyer
  
• Aviation - Experimental Aircraft
  
• Helicopters / Bell Helicopter
• Stunt Pilots / Ormer Locklear and others
  
• World War I-era to 1930s Aviation
  
• World War II-era to present Aviation
  
• Fort Worth Fire Department and Police Department
  
• Tex Cen Hemophilia Summer Camp
• Hemophilia Blood Drive
  
• Unidentified Cabinet Cards (mostly taken in Fort Worth)
• Stockyards / Stockshow and Rodeo
  
• Niles City Police
• Northside Fort Worth Fire Department
  
• Texas Spring Palace
• Tandy Center
• Parachuting
• Will Rogers Memorial Complex / Amon Carter Square
• Hermann Hospital
• Arlington Stadium
• Monnig's Dry Good Store interior views
• Cub Scouts
• Fort Worth Water Gardens
• Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
• Fern's Sandwich Shop, Alvarado, TX
• Early automobiles
• First State Bank (Cow Pasture Bank), Rio Vista, TX
• Green Valley Raceway, Smithfield, TX
• Oil boom in Burkburnett, TX (circa 1918)

Pictured: B-36 bomber flying over Fort Worth with Meacham Field in the background, circa late 1940s or early 1950s.