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[Three People Seated Together]

Description: Photograph of three young people (two women and one man) seated together by a wall. A newspaper page is posted on the wall behind the subjects with a title that reads, "The Hemphill County News."
Date: unknown
Creator: Minton, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Seated Woman with Drink]

Description: Photograph of a woman with long, curly, dark hair seated in front of a newspaper posted on a wall. She is holding a glass bottle in her right hand and leaning her head on her left pointer finger.
Date: unknown
Creator: Minton, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Man Asleep]

Description: Photograph of a man wearing glasses and a white shirt asleep against a poster on the wall. The poster reads, "The Hemphill County News."
Date: unknown
Creator: Minton, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Three Seated Young People]

Description: Photograph of three young people (two women and one woman) seated on each other's laps in front of a wall. A calendar on the wall reads, "The Hemphill County News" with the month of May below it.
Date: unknown
Creator: Minton, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Street in Business District]

Description: Photograph of a street through the business area of a small town. Several shops and stores, including a meat market, line the sides of the street where horse-drawn wagons with groups of people are traveling.
Date: unknown
Creator: Mugg, Kilo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Creek Bed]

Description: Photograph of the Little Robe Creek bed near Higgins, Texas. The creek bed is mostly dry with a small amount of water running to the side and large branches and limbs lying on the dry portions. Many trees are growing on the side of the creek bed.
Date: unknown
Creator: Mugg, Kilo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[People in Lumberyard]

Description: Photograph of a group of children playing in large puddle in the middle of a lumberyard. A large stack of lumber is to the left and several adults are on a car in the puddle to the right, with several more standing to the side.
Date: unknown
Creator: Mugg, Kilo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Higgins Business District]

Description: Photograph of a street in downtown Higgins with several horses and horse-drawn carts in the middle of a business-lined street while a large group walks down the right-hand side of the street. Several of the buildings along the street belong to a lumber company.
Date: unknown
Creator: Mugg, Kilo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Two Women and Baby]

Description: Photograph of two women in white dresses seated on rocking chairs, holding a young baby between them. The child is wearing a long, white gown and white booties.
Date: unknown
Creator: Mugg, Kilo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Railroad by Town]

Description: Photograph of a set of railroad tracks running by an area with numerous houses, sheds, and shacks around a grid of roads. A single boxcar is sitting on the tracks towards the left.
Date: unknown
Creator: Mugg, Kilo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Man on Soap Box]

Description: Photograph of a man, wearing a shirt and tie, holding a picture of a man labeled as "Eugene V. Debs" and pointing at it with his right hand. He is standing on a soap box in front of a painted backdrop of a stairway.
Date: unknown
Creator: Mugg, Kilo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Photograph of Martha Rayburn

Description: Portrait of Martha Rayburn, Sam Rayburn's mother. She is wearing a dark dress with a high collar and glasses. Her light hair is braided and pulled back. It is matted on a dark board with the company's name embossed on the bottom of the board.
Date: unknown
Creator: Howse Bro's Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Photograph of Sam Rayburn and his sisters, Katherine (Rayburn) Thomas and Medibel (Rayburn) Bartley

Description: Photograph of Sam Rayburn and two sisters; Katherine [Kate] (Rayburn) Thomas and Medibel [Meddie](Rayburn) Bartley. The women are on the left wearing dark dresses with brooches. Sam Rayburn is wearing a dark suit and tie. They are standing outside Sam Rayburn's home, near the screened porch on the south side of the home.
Date: February 2, 1957
Creator: Eastman Kodak Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Photograph of Sam Rayburn With Four Siblings

Description: Photograph of Sam Rayburn with four of his siblings. The black and white photograph was taken on the day of the dedication of the Sam Rayburn Library, October 9, 1957. The photo was taken in the parlor of Sam Rayburn's home. From left to right are: Tom Rayburn, Medibel (Rayburn) Bartley, Sam, Katherine (Rayburn) Thomas and Richard "Dick" Rayburn. The men wear dark suits with ties. The women wear dresses. They are sitting on a sofa that is now located in Sam Rayburn's bedroom. The Porfirio Sa… more
Date: October 9, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Waller Family Coat of Arms

Description: Print of the Waller family coat of arms. Painted by Odine Mhoon. Odine was married to Sam Rayburn's nephew Morris Lightfoot in 1956. They divorced and Morris eventually remarried. The ivory colored paper displays the Waller coat of arms in shades of brown, black, gold, gray, white, blue, green and red. A shield at center shows three gold walnut leaves between two silver bands. At the top is a walnut tree with a pendant shoing three fleurs de lis (the arms of France) with the motto above, "… more
Date: 1850/1969
Creator: Odine Mhoon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Portrait of Abner Rayburn

Description: Photograph of Abner Love Rayburn, Sam Rayburn's youngest brother. He is wearing a dark dress suit and bow-tie. It is matted on an oval board. Abner Rayburn was the only Rayburn sibling to be born in Texas. All of Sam Rayburn and his other nine siblings were born in Tennessee. Sam Rayburn was grooming Abner towards a career in politics. Abner died in 1914 of typhoid fever. He was 23 years old.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Print of Sam Rayburn

Description: Print of Sam Rayburn based on an original painting by Douglas Chandor. Sam Rayburn sits at a desk. He is wearing a dark, three piece suit with a blue striped tie and white shirt. He sits in a green leather desk chair. His left arm rests on the desk. He holds a book in his lap with his right hand. Chandor created three of these paintings. One was given to the East Texas State University (Now known as Texas A&M--Commerce), the Capitol in Austin, Texas and one hung in Sam Rayburn's private o… more
Date: 1850/1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Photograph of Martha Rayburn

Description: Photograph of Martha Rayburn. She is the daughter of Sam Rayburn's brother, Richard. This is her high school graduation photo. She is wearing a knit sweater with a collar as well as a double-strand necklace of pearls and pearl earrings. Information about the photograph or the subject is printed on the back, but has faded beyond recognition.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Painting of Sam Rayburn

Description: Painting of Sam Rayburn. He is seated at a desk and wearing a dark blue suit with a red-brown tie. Two piles of paper are on the desk as well as a few trinkets.
Date: unknown
Creator: Stone, E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson]

Description: Signed portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson sitting in a leather chair. He wrote "For Speaker Rayburn- To a great Texan who has made his country, his party, and his times greater. With warm admiration- Lyndon B. Johnson".
Date: unknown
Creator: Moss Photo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Photograph of Sam Rayburn

Description: Photograph of Sam Rayburn. The photo is a head and shoulders view of Mr. Rayburn. He wears a dark suit jacket, dark tie, white button-down shirt, and a tan colored cowboy/fedora style hat. This image was taken of Mr. Sam later in his life, most likely between 1950 and 1961.
Date: 1950/1961
Creator: Wichita Falls Times and Record News, Photographer Jim Cochran
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site
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