From the Library of Congress American Memory Collection.

Left: Astonished Dallasites view the great flood of 1908 from the Commerce Street bridge.

1901 - The new Dallas Public Library, funded by Andrew Carnegie, opens. A Colored Fair and Tri-Centennial Exposition is held to launch the New Century Cotton Mills, an African-American enterprise.

1903 - Oak Cliff citizens vote for annexation to Dallas. Dallas Art Association is organized.

1905 - Theodore Roosevelt is first U.S. President to visit Dallas. Munger Place opens as Dallas' first deed-restricted residential neighborhood.

1906 - Dallas Citizens' Association is organized to persuade voters to adopt the commision form of city government.

1907 - Herbert Marcus, Carrie Marcus Neiman, and Albert L. Neiman open Neiman-Marcus. Praetorian Building completed, the first steel skyscraper. Dallas adopts a Mayor-Commission form of government.

1908 - Worst flooding of the Trinity in Dallas history prompts calls for a levee project. Mrs. E.P. Turner and Mrs. P.P. Tucker are first women elected to Dallas School Board.

1909 - President William H. Taft visits Dallas.

1910 - A Herring-Curtiss biplane is the first airplane to fly over Dallas, in an exhibition March 4-6 at Fair Park. Population of Dallas is 92,104.