Kennedale Historical Society Collection

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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 digital images of photographs, photographs, scrapbooks, and yearbooks. The materials, related to Kennedale community members and its history, are dated from the early 1900s to 2020.

The collection consists of the following items:

Digital Images

  • Brown Family portrait at New Hope Community School, 1912
  • John Henry Rodgers, Tarrant County Commissioner Precinct 2 portrait, circa 1910
  • First Baptist Church Kennedale group portrait, June 13, 1954
  • First Baptist Church Kennedale Singing School group portraits, 1901-1902
  • First Methodist Church of Kennedale and First Baptist Church Kennedale picnic at Frog Island on Village Creek, early 1900s
  • Kennedale School group portraits, 1910s; 1911
  • Verna Price Collard with Kennedale school students, circa 1914
  • Kennedale Public Schools group portrait, 1950s
  • Lucy Sargent’s Brick Yard in Kennedale, 1908

Photographs

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

Scrapbooks

  • James A. Arthur Elementary School PTA scrapbook, 1967-1968
  • James F. Delaney Primary School PTA scrapbooks, 1985-2007
  • James F. Delaney’s Third Grade Super Stars scrapbook, 2001-2002
  • Kennedale Elementary PTA scrapbook, 1960-1987
  • Kennedale Independent School District PTA scrapbooks, 1980-1982

Yearbooks

  • James A. Arthur Elementary School yearbooks, 1978; 1982
  • James F. Delaney Elementary/Primary School yearbooks, 1991-2020
  • Kennedale Primary School yearbooks, 1990-1994
  • Kennedale Kat, Kennedale High School yearbook, 1942

Group portrait of the Kennedale First Baptist Singing School posed against the exterior wall of a building. Blackboard on wall behind group with a musical score and words Kennedale Class, August 27, '01. Handwritten inscription below the image reads Kennedale Church Group August 27, 1901. 

 

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.

Studio portrait of seated man, Commissioner John Henry Rodgers, circa 1910. 

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.

Horizontally-oriented oval group portrait of the Brown Family, 1912. Six women and three men are posed against a building's exterior wall. 

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.