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- [Postcard of Sirlido Dominguez and His Family]
- Postcard of Sirlido Dominguez sitting in a chair, with his wife and daughter standing on either side of him. There is nothing written on the back of the postcard.
- [Photograph of Men Making Sotol]
- Photograph taken in Coyame, Chihuahua, Mexico in 1920. Mr. Nestor Baeza is on horseback and the other men are making sotol, a drink similar to tequilla. This was smuggled into the US during prohibition. Mountains are in the background.
- Eclipse Windmill
- Photograph of an eclipse windmill, the type that was used before the steel windmills came to West Texas. It was built out of wood. There is a woman, some cattle and water tanks near the windmill.
- [Photograph of Maria and Daniel Brito in Big Spring, Texas]
- Photograph of Maria and Daniel Brito standing out of doors near some plants in Big Spring, Texas around 1920.
- Brite Ranch Headquarters in the 1920s.
- Panoramic photograph from the 1920s of the Brite Ranch headquarters. This was a 125,000 acre ranch in Presidio County in West Texas. The photo shows (L-R): the main house, the barn, the shed, the fort, and the store. A group of unidentified people stand near the house. This photo was included in a report by Andrew Wells for an American History class at Marfa High School on January 13, 1975.
- Mrs. L.C. Brite
- Photograph of Mrs. L.C. Brite. She wears a beaded dress and necklace and holds a fan in her left hand. She also wears glasses. She was born in Missouri in 1875.
- [Trucks used in Marfa during the 1920s and 1930s]
- Group of four trucks used to transport goods around Marfa. These trucks were some of the first trucks in the Marfa transportation business. The four trucks are in a row in the center of the photograph. Three unknown people are also in the photograph. From left to right: On the first truck, a woman sits on a truck fender; a man stands to the right of the third truck; a man stands to the left of the fourth truck.
- [Jose Cenicero transports school children on two trucks for a picnic]
- Jose Ceniceros takes two trucks full of school children on a picnic. Approximately 45 individuals are in the photograph. Three men are standing the center of the photograph and in the far right corner three women and one man is standing. The remaining individuals are on the two trucks.
- [Altar of Sacred Heart Catholic Church]
- Altar of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
- [Men's Society of St. Joseph at St. Joseph's Day procession]
- A parade of more than fifty men are marching in the Men's Society of St. Joseph's Day Procession outside St. Mary's Catholic Church rectory. The rectory is in the left corner of the photograph. Several older model cars from the early 20th century are also in the photograph.
- [St. Mary's Catholic church before first renovations]
- Architecture of St. Mary's Catholic church before the 1920s renovations.
- [Bob Carr in early 1920]
- Photograph of Bob Carr smoking a pipe in the 1920s.