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Guide No. 226:

Dallas Park and Recreation Department
Plaques and Memorials Documentation, 1971-1979

Overview of the Collection

Repository:

Dallas Municipal Archives
Office of the City Secretary
1500 Marilla Street, 5D South
Dallas, Texas 75201

Creator: Dallas Park and Recreation Department
Title: Dallas Park and Recreation Department Plaques and Memorials Documentation
Dates: 1972 -1979
Quantity: .63 linear feet
Abstract: Photographic documentation of Dallas park plaques and memorials
Identification: 12-006
Language: Records are in English

Scope and Contents

Collection documents plaques placed on statues and memorials situated in Dallas city parks. About 1979, Dallas Park and Recreation Department staff created photographic documentation of the plaques. Typescript transcriptions of plaque text is included, as well as an index by location, donor, sculpture title, and historical marker. Collection includes one folder of Park Department correspondence and memoranda regarding specific pieces and donors.

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Index Terms

Dallas -- Texas -- History
 Parks -- Texas -- Dallas -- History
 Recreation areas -- Texas -- Dallas
 Outdoor sculpture -- Texas
Inscriptions -- Texas -- Dallas
Historical markers -- Texas -- Dallas
Memorials -- Texas
Monuments -- Texas

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Box: Folder
Title, Date
1 1 Plaque and memorial correspondence, 1971 - 1979
2 Indexes by location (volume I and II), donors, sculpture, historical markers.
3 Arcadia Park plaque
Buckner Park plaque
L. Butler Nelson Park sign
California Crossing historical marker
Cemeteries: Five-Mile Cemetery historical marker.  La Reunion Cemetery historical marker, monument, sign.  Pleasant Mound Cemetery historical marker, plaque, monument.  Merrifield Cemetery monument.
4 City Park historical marker (7), sign, plaque (11)
Commerce Street and Interstate 45 plaque, flagpole
Craddock Park historical marker
Crawford Park plaque
Cummings Park plaque, flagpole
5 Old Dallas Courthouse plaque
Dealey Plaza historical plaque (2), plaques (15), sculpture
DeGolyer Estate fountain (2), urn, clay pot (2), wrought iron wishing well, sculpture, stone lantern, sign
6 Exline Park plaque (2)
Fair Park plaque (47), historical marker (3), cornerstone, sculpture (12), fresco (4), monument (8), fountain (6)
7 Ferris Plaza fountain, plaque
Fireside Park plaque, flagpole
Fretz Park sculpture, plaque and flagpole
Glencoe Park plaque
Grauwyler Park plaque (2)
Griggs Park wishing well
8 Hamilton Park plaque
Harry Hines Triangle plaque
Harry Stone Park plaque (2), flagpole
Hattie Rankin Moore Park (Anita Nanez Martinez Recreation Building) plaque (2), flagpole
Historical Plaza plaque (5), historical marker
9 Jaycee Park plaque, flagpole
J. J. Craft Park plaque, flagpole
Junius Street sculpture
Columbia-Abrams connection at Tremont: Junius Heights columns plaque (2)
10 Indexes by location (volume III and IV), donors, sculpture, historical markers
11 Kennedy Plaza plaque, monument
Kidd Springs Park plaque & flagpole, wooden oriental gate, stone lanterns (2), stone Buddhas (4), bell tower, torii gate, well & buckets
Kiest Park plaque (34), sign (2), fountain
12 Lagow Park plaque, flagpole
Lake Cliff Park sculpture
Lee Park plaque (2), flagpole
Love Field sculpture, fountain, plaque (11)
Marcus Park plaque, flagpole
Marsalis Park Zoo plaque (15), flagpole, sculpture (3), mosaic, historical marker, flower clock
2 1 Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center plaque & sculpture
Martin Weiss Park plaque (2), flagpole
Memorial Auditorium plaque (3), sculpture
Moody Street sculpture (2), plaque (3).  Information about the artist who created one of the sculptures.  Information about Carpenter Plaza and several sculptures.
Norbuck Park plaque
North Hampton Park mosaic (4), plaque & flagpole
2 Pacific Plaza sculpture (2), fountain
Pearl and Elm fountain, plaque
Pershing Square plaque (3), fountain
Pike Park plaque, flagpole, sculpture
Pioneer Park monument (2), historical marker, plaque (2)
Pleasant Oaks Park flagpole, plaque (2)
Redbird Park plaque & flagpole, sculpture
Reverchon Park sign, plaque (2), flagpole
3 Samuell Grand Park sign, flagpoles, sculpture (2), plaque (3)
Singing Hills Park plaque (2), flagpole
Skyline Park flagpole, plaque
Stevens Park monument
Stone Place plaque (3), sculpture
Swiss Avenue historical marker
Sylvan-Seale Triangle historical marker
4 Tenison Park monument
Tenth Street and Jefferson Boulevard fountain/planter
Turner Plaza monument
Turtle Creek plaque
Union Terminal plaque
Walnut Hill Park flagpole, plaque (3)
White Rock Lake Park flagpole, plaque (3), monument/water fountain

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