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[Clarke and Parker Home]

Description: Photograph of the Sallie Ann Clarke and Robert Henry Parker home in Abilene, Texas. This structure was the first two-story frame house in the town, located at the corner of 2nd Street and Butternut. The house contains a covered porch with a balcony above, with two chimneys. A gutter along the roof carries water to a cistern for rainwater at left. A white picket fence demarcates the house's lawn. The Parker family sits on the porch in front of the main door, and a small child looks out the windo… more
Date: unknown

[Clarke and Parker Home, Side View]

Description: Photograph of the Sallie Ann Clarke and Robert H. Parker home in Abilene, Texas. The house is a two-storied building with a hip roof and vines and trees obscuring walls and windows for privacy. A hedge of bushes grows along the road at right. Under a small grove of trees and shade sits Sallie Ann Clarke Parker in a wicker rocker, wearing a black dress and surrounded by family.
Date: unknown

[Close-Up of the Grave Marker of Mary Allen Smith]

Description: Photograph close-up of the grave marker of Mary "Polly" Allen Smith in the cemetery behind the Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr. house. It reads "In memory of Mary, consort of Rev. Anthony G. Smith. Born Dec. 21st, 1777. Died April 19th, 1857. For fifty years, the skyward road she trod and found at last the Paradise of God. Our mother."
Date: June 23, 1977
Creator: Willis, T. Bradford

[Coffin with Lace Pall]

Description: Photograph of a coffin covered by a lace pall and bouquets of flowers on a raised wheeled platform. A man at right appears to place a bouquet of flowers at the head of the coffin, while two funeral-goers stand to the left of the coffin. A hearse is faintly visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bartlett's Studio

[Columbia Bonner Portrait]

Description: Photograph of Columbia Bonner, visible from the chest up. She is posing in front of a light colored background while wearing a light-colored top that includes a high neckline. Text on the back identifies Curtis from San Antonio, Texas as the photographer.
Date: 1895-08-2X
Creator: Curtis

[Company B Football Team, 127th Infantry Regiment]

Description: Postcard of a football team from the 127th Infantry Regiment, Company B. They mostly wear light-colored striped shirts, standing in two rows. A man at center, along the bottom row, holds a ball; a goalie with a dark shirt is seated at second from right with a helmet. One of the seated men, first from left, holds a white dog. The men stand in front of the encampments at Camp MacArthur.
Date: 1917~/1919~

[Company Street at Camp MacArthur]

Description: Postcard of a dirt road lined with tents on both sides and a group of five soldiers in uniform and hats on the right and two soldiers standing on the left; there are other soldiers, houses, and telephone poles in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "No. 1. A Company Street. Camp MacArthur, Waco Texas. © F. Mann. 10/20/17."
Date: October 20, 1917
Creator: Mann, Fred

[Company Street, Camp MacArthur]

Description: Postcard of a company street at Camp MacArthur, with encampments alongside a dirt road. Two buildings are specified in pen: a bath house, a low rectangular building at center left, and a space between two camps at right, which shows where the stove is.
Date: 1918-03-15/1918-10-20
Creator: Mann, Fred

[Compress in Temple]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of the Temple Cotton Compress, a wooden structure with a tower and smoke stack, with rows of bales of cotton and several men moving individual bales in the foreground. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Compress, Temple, Texas." There is handwritten correspondence on the back of the postcard.
Date: May 1, 1909

[Compressing and Loading Cotton]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of a boat loaded with cotton bales in a canal with several men standing in front of a cotton compressing and loading facility and a railway bridge in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Compressing and Loading Cotton, Houston, Texas."
Date: July 26, 1911

[Compton's Funeral Home]

Description: Postcard of a color image of Compton's Funeral Home in Waco, a large house covered in ivy, with two large trees in the foreground, an automobile on the right, and trees in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Compton's Funeral Home, Waco, Texas."
Date: unknown
Location: None
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