Photograph of an air base water pump pumping flood water in Abilene. There is a pipe spewing water in the front and a hose and pump in the back. There is a car in the background.
Copy negative of students Bill Wright, Jr., Robert Hopkins, and Terrell Hamilton working in a chemistry class in Abilene High School. The boys are wearing aprons, working at a table with beakers, and there are more supplies on the shelves behind them.
Copy negative of the McMurry College calliope on the street in front of the Metro Theater in Abilene with a group of people standing around it in the mid 1950's.
Copy negative of Mamie Hatchett and John Berry in Stephens County, Texas where he was born. They are standing on the left of the picture with a dog, in front of a stone house with a car partially visible in the foreground.
Copy negative of Joan Medford riding a dun or buckskin horse named Sandy and Johnny Medford on a horse named Carbon Copy in a field with trees on John Berry's Ranch.
Copy negative of two HSU Cowgirls in western clothing with the HSU Six White Horses in a corral. There are more horses in the background on the left and a barn on the right.
Copy negative of people standing in a line outside a building by a bus at a Wholesaler's Trade Trip. They are standing near stores titled Saddle Shop, Friendly Finance Co. Personal Loans, and Retail Merchants Association.
Copy negative of two pictures of headstones for Ely family members in the cemetery in Ely, Texas with other headstones and trees in the background. The stone on the left is for L. W. Ely who was born January 18, 1829 and died May 11, 1904.
Copy negative of a group of nine people standing outside a building in Clyde, Texas at a High School Reunion. There are a car and motorcycle parked in the background on the right.
Copy negative of McMurry College Band members, from left to right, Don Hamilton, Willis Gidden, and Bob Newman in uniform, playing trumpets in the late 1950's. Two are standing, and the one on the right is sittting, and there are five pictures and a map on the wall behind them.
Copy negative of three horses in a field in front of a pond at John Berry's ranch taken in the late 1950's. The pinto in the middle is children's horse Polly, and the one on the right is a yearling.
Photograph of a product display in a grocery store identified as Thornton's. The display consists of bottles of Kraft brand oil in small boxes surrounding an oven. On top of the oven, there are three signs, two of which are the same. Text on the duplicate signs say "Free Recipes Here! How to make any cake (requiring shortening) with Kraft All-Purpose Oil Fully Pink 29¢;" they also have a picture of a cake missing a slice on them. The headline on the middle sign says "Ladies! You Can Win Valuable Prizes in Thornton's Cake Bake Contest." That sign also lists prices and cooking ingredients, and has illustrations of a cake, oven, Kraft brand oil, and the exterior of Thornton's. In the background of the photograph, there are aisles of groceries, an unidentified man, and a banner sign that is partially visible.
Photograph of a display for a grocery store identified as Thornton's. The display consists of a tall stack of packages of Kraft's Parkay Margarine sitting besides a meat display case; the display case is filled with various meat products. On top of the case, there is a television set with packages of Kraft's Parkay Margarine displayed beside it. Beside the margarine, there are various canned and bottled products. There are four identical signs in the display; text on the signs say "Win a 21" RCA Victor Color TV Set in Parkay Margarine's BIG $75,000 Jingle Contest 45 Color TV sets - 354 Prizes in all...3 Contests First contest closes March 12, 1955 Second contest closes March 26, 1955 Third contest closes April 9, 1955." There is also an illustration of Parkay Margarine on the signs. In the background, there is a door and vent; there are streamers above the television.
Photograph of a display for a grocery store identified as Thornton's. The display consists of a tall stack of packages of Kraft's Parkay Margarine sitting besides a meat display case; the display case is filled with various meat products. On top of the case, there is a television set with packages of Kraft's Parkay Margarine displayed beside it. Beside the margarine, there are various canned and bottled products. There are four identical signs in the display; text on the signs say "Win a 21" RCA Victor Color TV Set in Parkay Margarine's BIG $75,000 Jingle Contest 45 Color TV sets - 354 Prizes in all...3 Contests First contest closes March 12, 1955 Second contest closes March 26, 1955 Third contest closes April 9, 1955." There is also an illustration of Parkay Margarine on the signs. In the background, there is a door and vent; there are streamers above the television.
Photograph of a product display in a grocery store identified as Thornton's. The display consists of bottles of Kraft brand oil in small boxes surrounding an oven. On top of the oven, there are three signs, two of which are the same. Text on the duplicate signs say "Free Recipes Here! How to make any cake (requiring shortening) with Kraft All-Purpose Oil Fully Pink 29¢;" they also have a picture of a cake missing a slice on them. The headline on the middle sign says "Ladies! You Can Win Valuable Prizes in Thornton's Cake Bake Contest." That sign also lists prices and cooking ingredients, and has illustrations of a cake, oven, Kraft brand oil, and the exterior of Thornton's. In the background of the photograph, there are aisles of groceries, an unidentified man, and a banner sign that is partially visible.
Copy negative of an HSU Cowgirl and Cowboy in western costumes. She is sitting on a fence and he is standing on the left. The Riding School building is behind them.
Copy negative of Arkie Pierce leading a young dark colored horse near a stone fence stacked by John Berry at Berry Ranch in the late 1950's. There are two other men in the background by the gate.
Copy negative of a light colored Quarter Horse mare and two foals, one dark and one light colored, standing in a fenced area with a feed trough on the ground and trees in the background.
Copy negative of two pictures. The one on the left is of John Berry and three other men, including a policeman, sitting on the porch of the wood paneled house at Berry Ranch. The picture on the right is of three men and a dead coyote in a field at Berry Ranch. There are two men standing, one of them a policeman, and one man is sitting in a wheelchair in front of them with a gun.
Copy negative of a group of men on a porch at Berry Ranch. The men sitting in the front are John Berry (left) and a policeman. One of the men in the back is Wolf Hunt.
Photograph of a young Diana Sandefer standing on a chair to touch the Lions Club International patch on the back of a man's shirt. Diana wears a black dress with an adult cowboy hat and a tiny purse across her body. She holds a baby doll by the arm in her left hand.
Photograph of the Hardin-Simmons University bookstore, showing the entrance and one side of the building. The one-story building has wooden siding painted white and striped awnings over the front windows. The building has two book store signs, one above the entrance doors and the other in the front lawn.
A pPicture postcard titled: "Undercut of a 12 Ft. Washington Douglas Fir Tree." Photo by Sorrenson Photo. The reverse side includes correspondence from Hill addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene Machine Co., Abilene, Texas postmarked LONGVIEW WASH. APR 4 1950. "Will write you when I get back to Albuquerque - Regards to all."
A formal request from the state of California for a Pre-Parole Investigation for Inmate 9803-A. The request is dated December 15, 1950 and is addressed to John B. Shepperd, Secy of State, Austin, Texas, Attn: Miss Sybil Dickinson, Austin, Texas from Fred Finsley, Deputy Administrator Parole Matters, Sacramento, California. Attached is an institutional processing photograph of Inmate 9803-A, Folsom State Prison.
Copy negative of two women standing outside the Abilene State School Beauty Shop. The woman on the left is Agnus Gertrude Cook DeRusha, and the woman on the right is an unknown client.
Copy negative of two pictures. The first picture is of the Wallace Grocery Store and Gas Station with a car parked under the front and another building on the right. The second picture is of the barn where the Ely's lived in Ely, Texas with three people in front of it.
Copy negative of a female HSU trick rider standing on a white horse, twirling a rope in front of the Riding School building. There are two other white horses in the background by the building.
Copy negative of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, District 6 meeting at the home of Mrs. Hart Shoemaker on Riverside Dr. in Abilene. There are six women standing in front of a house with stone archways.
Copy negative of a women's club meeting at Weldon Edwards Ranch. Sixteen members of the Thursday Club and a little girl are posed on the porch in front of a window of a house.
Photograph of a display window at Woolworth Drug Store in Abilene, viewed from the sidewalk. There are signs, merchandise, and decorative cows behind the glass.
Photograph of a display window at Woolworth Drug Store in Abilene, viewed from the sidewalk. There are signs, merchandise, and decorative cows behind the glass.
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