↗1935
The Garden Villa notice
Dallas Morning News, September 19, 1935, p. 11. A benefit is advertised at Garden Villa Club, 1404 South Polk. Crop of the family-supplied NewsBank screenshot, IMG_1287.jpg.
Source & provenance [18] ↗THE VISUAL ARCHIVE
Traces on
paper.
Original notices, directory entries, maps and photographs. Open an image to look closer, then follow its source into the research.
The period product marks belong to Dixie Wax Paper Company. An authentic Garden Villa or Shady Nook logo has not yet been found.
23 items in the visual archive
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↗1937
Shady Nook, in print
Dallas City Directory, printed p. 1169. Shady Nook is a restaurant associated with Karl Bellew at 1404 South Polk. The neighboring Northwest Highway cafe entry belongs to a different business. Dallas Public Library / UNT Libraries.
Source & provenance [22b] ↗
↗1937
Karl and Ruby Bellew
Dallas City Directory, p. 124. Karl and Ruby are listed at the address, with Ruby working as a waitress at Shady Nook. Dallas Public Library / UNT Libraries.
Source & provenance [22a] ↗
↗1939
Six rooms, two stories
Dallas Morning News, September 24, 1939, p. 9. A frame house is advertised at 1404 South Polk. The separate nine-room listing below it is not this property.
Source & provenance [19a] ↗
↗1951
A duplex in a garden
Dallas Morning News, July 28, 1951, p. 11. Asking $9,600, with a fish pond, garage, pecan trees and peach trees. The advertised acreage is not a verified survey.
Source & provenance [19b] ↗
↗1962
“Rustic Acre With Creek”
Dallas Morning News, April 24, 1962, p. 13. Bettye Byrd’s advertisement identifies South Polk at Elmwood Boulevard and describes pecans and a detached garage.
Source & provenance [19e] ↗
↗1955
A place of work, too
Texas Sign Service’s business listing, Dallas City Directory, p. 1119. Wm is the abbreviation for William, not Win. Dallas Public Library / UNT Libraries.
Source & provenance [5b] ↗
↗1961
The Williams household
Richard A. and Kathryn W. Williams at 1404 South Polk. The entry identifies Richard with Western Union Telegraph. Dallas City Directory, p. 1759; Dallas Public Library / UNT Libraries.
Source & provenance [23b] ↗
↗1927
Polk, creek and railroad
Northern portion of Sanborn’s Dallas sheet 713, Elmwood. Neighborhood context only: the present house has not been securely matched to a footprint. Supplied scan credits the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Source & provenance [31] ↗
↗1930
Looking down on Oak Cliff
October 1930 Fairchild aerial, grid 043, item 133. Roof forms appear near the wooded tract, but this crop is not a georeferenced parcel match. Foscue Map Collection, SMU Libraries.
Source & provenance [8] ↗
↗1949
The creek in a legal record
Excerpt from the Barnards’ original sewer easement, Deed Records vol. 3175, p. 329. It names the Elmwood Branch of Cedar Creek and recites an earlier Miller conveyance. Dallas County.
Source & provenance [26] ↗
↗1962
Following the parcel backward
Williams-to-Vaughn deed, vol. 5806, p. 339. The parcel description matches the current legal parcel and cites the 1954 predecessor deed and 1949 easement. Dallas County.
Source & provenance [25] ↗
↗1992
The 1992 survey exhibit
DART-era Exhibit A with a September 9, 1992 fax line, naming Barrera and Lewis and the neighboring Dixie Wax Paper tract. A historical exhibit, not a current survey or an executed easement grant. Family-supplied scan.
Source & provenance [7] ↗
↗1922–1947 anniversary
The factory up the street
Dallas plant rendering from Dixie Wax Paper Company’s 25th-anniversary booklet, reproduced across images A485014–A485015. This is an artist’s rendering, not a 1925 photograph. Supplied Tyler Station historian archive.
Source & provenance [30] ↗
↗Exposure date unverified
Inside the Dallas office
Office photograph reproduced in the anniversary booklet, image A485013. No person has been identified as Karl or Ruby Bellew. Supplied Tyler Station historian archive.
Source & provenance [30] ↗
↗1941
A machine on paper
U.S. Patent 2,253,036, Means for Sealing Packages, drawing sheet 1. Louie C. Kimple and Floyd Gaines; assigned to Dixie Wax Paper Company. Filed June 2, 1939; patented August 19, 1941. This is packaging machinery, not a building plan.
Source & provenance [33] ↗
↗Anniversary booklet
Fresheen
Original Dixie product lettering from booklet image A485026. This belongs to Karl Bellew’s employer; it is not a Garden Villa or Shady Nook logo.
Source & provenance [30] ↗
↗Anniversary booklet
Brad-Tite
Original Dixie product mark, image A485026. Registration dates printed with a mark do not necessarily establish the design’s first use. Not a house or restaurant logo.
Source & provenance [30] ↗
↗Anniversary booklet
Waxsheen
Documentary crop of Dixie product lettering from image A485026. Supplied Tyler Station historian archive. Not a Garden Villa or Shady Nook logo.
Source & provenance [30] ↗
↗Anniversary booklet
Celoshine
Documentary crop of Dixie product lettering from image A485026. The original printed mark is preserved; it has not been reconstructed as house branding.
Source & provenance [30] ↗
↗Family archive · date unverified
The house beneath the trees
Family-supplied exterior photograph, IMG_1798 2.JPG. A view of the house and wooded setting, not an authenticated early photograph of Garden Villa Club.
Source & provenance [21] ↗
↗Family archive · date unverified
The detached garage
Family-supplied garage photograph, IMG_3468.JPG. Advertisements document a garage in earlier decades, but this photograph does not establish the structure’s age.
Source & provenance [21] ↗
↗Undated
The initials in the garage
J.V. painted on a garage post, IMG_3473.JPG. Johnny Mack Vaughn is a research lead because he appears in a deed, but neither the painter nor the date has been established.
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