News photographs created by Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper photographers, chronicling the history of Fort Worth and West Texas. The collection consists of approximately 179,500 print photographs (ca. 1849-1986), and an estimated six million film and glass plate negatives (1915-2003). Significant local events, such as the 1936 Fort Worth Centennial celebration, the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, the circus, social events, local natural disasters, and goods manufactured in the area are included. 

(Photo caption: Bus donated by General Dynamics CONTRIB Club to McDonald YMCA for after school programs; left to right, Willie Dean, McDonald executive director; Allen Cox, General Dynamics vice president; and Robert L. McAfee chairman of the Fort Worth YMCA, 07/19/1979)