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[Photograph of August and Theresa Furchner, 1900]

Photograph of August and Theresa Furchner posing for a portrait. August Furchner is sitting in a wicker chair to the left, wearing a suit and hat. His wife Theresa is standing to the right with a hand on her husband's shoulder. She is wearing a floral embroidered dress with a striped collar and a floral hat.

Date: 1900

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Photograph of Oil Well Fire in Port Arthur, Texas, September 13, 1902]

Photograph of an oil well fire, with smoke roiling into the sky as eighteen men look on. A tank to the left of the blaze is itself giving off smoke. Industrial materials litter the foreground, and two intact oil rigs can be seen in the background. On the reverse side, there is a handwritten passage stating "Kieths Ward Fire - Texas Gusher throwing 200 ft and Higgins 10000 barrel Pressure Tank."

Date: September 13, 1902

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Photograph of Port Arthur High School Students, 1908-1909]

Photograph of freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior students of Port Arthur High School, 1908-1909. Principal Dilley is identified as standing to the far right. Superintendent J. H. Bright is standing at the far left behind a woman named Mary E. Donaldson. The students are arranged in three rows in front of a brick building with four tall windows behind them.

Date: 1908~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Photograph of Students and Teacher in Front of the Farm School, 1906]

Photograph of students and their teacher standing in front of Tyrrell School, known then as the Farm School in 1906. The gabled schoolhouse itself is a clapboard structure raised up off of the ground, with a short and broad stairway leading up to a porch. Two tall windows flank the centered door which itself is topped with a smaller window. A smaller structure can be seen in the background to the right. Standing on the porch from left to right: Alexie Bledsoe; Grace Hamilton; Jesse Hamilton; S… more

Date: 1906

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Photograph of the Hayne Family, 1906]

Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Hayne, Alda, and Andy (on the pony) in front of a house labeled 248 in Port Arthur, Texas. There are several houses on the fenced in property, three with visible chimneys and two with ornamental posted awnings. Walkways made up of crushed shells have been made outside of the fence. On the reverse mat side of the photo, the address is given as Houston Avenue and Fourth Street in Port Arthur.

Date: 1906

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast