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Moutray Oil Company Truck

Description: Copy negative of a Moutray Oil Company truck parked on the street in front of a Moutray Oil Company storefront. The Moutray logo is printed on the passenger side door of the truck along with the words "P.R. Gerlack, Distributor" and "Bradshaw, Texas." A patterned border surrounds the photograph.
Date: 1930~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Two Girls in Front of Building A; Five Men in Front of Building B

Description: Copy negative of two pictures taken at Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. The first picture is of two girls in front of the Marston Gym taken in 1930. There are two men walking in the background, and there is a scoreboard on the right of the building and cars parked in front of it. The second picture is of five men in suits standing in the grass by a sidewalk in front of Hunter Hall, taken in 1949. There are two more men in the background.
Date: {1930,1949}
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Man by House; Man by Watering Trough

Description: Copy negative of two pictures. The first is of Daniel Ray (D. R.) DeRusha wearing a suit, standing in front of a house with windows and bushes at 301 Miller St. in Abilene in 1938. The second picture is of George Nathan Cook standing in a field beside a watering trough with a car in the background in New Mexico in 1945.
Date: {1938,1945}
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Man and Women in Yard

Description: Copy negative of entertainer Will Rogers and three women standing in an area in front of a fence, trees, and windmill. Two of the women are in riding gear, and Rogers is wearing suspenders and a hat.
Date: 1930~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Family Reunion

Description: Copy negative of five members from five generations of a family at the Hefner family reunion and Warren Hefner's birthday. From left to right they are Warren Hefner, Katie Syrena Hefner Hughes, Will Hughes, and Edna Hughes Wood and daughter.
Date: 1930~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

"Fannin's Fight," March 19, 1836.

Description: Map of Fannin's Fight, showing the Texas Infantry, breastworks, and lines of assault by Mexican Dragoons and Infantry. Lines of march used by Colonel Fannin and General Urrea are also shown. Note: "[shows] rise of six feet, behind which Mexican Artillery fired, on the 20th." There are also notes on the type of cannons used. Distances to various cities are given. No scale indicated. On verso: Photograph of boats docked at harbor in the town of Dover, England.
Date: 1938?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Sketch of Rath City or Old Reynolds

Description: Sketch map of the trading post called Rath City, or Camp Reynolds, showing gun magazines, hotels, graves, corrals, and a few unidentified buildings as well as ownership of land. Notes on source information is included beneath the legend, in the upper-right corner. Scale [ca. 1:1,500] (125 feet to the inch).
Date: 1936
Creator: Riney, W. A.; Rath, Charles & Moore, W. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Combat near the "Mission Concepcion," by Colonel James Bowie's Battalion, October 28, 1835.

Description: Map of combat at the Battle of Concepción during the Texas Revolution, showing lines of assault by Mexican infantry, cannon, and dragoons, and lines held by Captain Fannin's and Captain Coleman's companies. The battlefield is surrounded by wooded terrain and lies next to the San Antonio River. No scale indicated. On verso: Photograph of a family making a sandcastle on a beach on the South Coast of England.
Date: 1938?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 29.391202 -98.496519
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

The Comanche Country, 1875

Description: Military map of the Indian Territory in the Great Plains, showing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas. The map includes military trails and posts (abandoned and occupied). State lines, towns, railroads, bodies of water, and areas of elevation are also included. Towns enclosed in brackets were established after 1875. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1933
Creator: Riney, W. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

New Hampshire

Description: Map of New Hampshire and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing counties, towns, roads, water bodies, boundary lines, forts, and includes explanatory notes on certain geographic features. There is also an inset map in the upper-right corner titled "A General Map of the River St. Lawrence above Montreal to Lake Ontario with the Adjacent Country on the West from Albany & Lake Champlain," with major cities, lakes, rivers, and falls labeled. Relief shown p… more
Date: 1937
Creator: Blanchard, Joseph; Langdon, Samuel & Jefferys, Thomas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas: San Marcos Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of San Marcos, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing Guadalupe, Gonzales, Hays, and Caldwell Counties. The map includes county lines, towns, roads, railroads, rivers, creeks, and schools. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000
Date: 1931
Creator: Marshall, R. B.; Herron, W. H.; Stiles, Arthur; McLaughlin, Fred; Forster, William J.; Elliott, Herman R. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

General Highway Map Collin County, Texas

Description: Highway map of Collin County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools and churches), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, oil or gas wells, and state roadside parks. Map includes twelve inset maps - Weston, Melissa, Valdasta, Allen, Altoga, Climax, Culeoka, Copeville, Lavon, Inset No. 1, Renner, and Josephine - and an extensive legend indicating geographical and human-made features. Scale [ca… more
Date: 1939
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

North Carolina (western part, i.e., Tennessee)

Description: Map of Tennessee and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing towns, roads, American-Indian reservations, rivers, creeks, and mountain ranges, with explanatory notes on road conditions. Map includes a legend in the lower-left corner and an inset map, titled "A Map of the United States of America," at the top of the map, below the title. The inset map designates Tennessee (marked as North Carolina) within the larger scope of the United States at the time.… more
Date: 1938
Creator: Smith, D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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