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[Carnegie Public Library]

Description: Postcard image of the Carnegie Public Library in Corsicana, Texas. In the image the large white colored library can be with rounded windows, decorative roof, and white columns on either side of the entrance. In front of the church a small boy is leaning with his bike up against a tree. Handwritten text on back is addressed to Miss Merle Cook.
Date: 1912
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard

[Clara Evans' Wedding Journal]

Description: Journal belonging to Clara Evans detailing her relationship with John T. Willis, Sr., from their first meeting to their wedding. Newspaper announcements, wedding invitations, fabric samples from Clara Evans' bridal trousseau, pressed flowers, and photographs have been pasted into the book, along with descriptions of important events written by Clara Evans. It also contains articles pertaining to the Willises' Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1967.
Date: 1917/1967
Creator: Willis, Nannie Clara Evans
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Location: 31.554850009752382 -97.15775699999995

[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~
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[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
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[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
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[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard

[Cottages at Scott & White Sanitarium]

Description: Postcard of a color image of two cottages at the Scott & White Sanitarium, two two-story white buildings with columns in the front and balconies on the second floor, with a row of trees in front of them and a blue sky in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Cottages, Scott & White Sanitarium, Temple, Texas." There is a handwritten note on the back of the postcard.
Date: September 24, 1910
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[Cotton Yard in Waco]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of several rows of cotton bales and men with horses and carriages in a cotton yard in Waco; there are factories and other buildings featuring advertisements and some trees in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Waco, Texas. Cotton Yard." There is a handwritten letter on the back of the postcard.
Date: October 7, 1914
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard

[Couple Playing Cards on a Porch]

Description: Photograph of a group of people sitting on the porch of a house. A man and woman sit on the steps playing cards. He holds his in his hands, while hers rest on her lap, as she has food in her hands. In the left background, a woman and a little girl wearing a heavy fur-lined coat, hat, and muff stand. A man wearing a flat cap sits on the porch behind the couple playing cards.
Date: 1913
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

Directory: Austin Avenue Methodist Church

Description: Book from a Methodist church in Waco that is a directory of members and businesses, encouraging the congregation to shop within its local community. The date "1910-1914", can be seen written in pencil on the the top right corner of the first page.
Date: 1910~/1914~
Creator: Austin Avenue Methodist Church
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book

[Douglas Select School]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of the Douglas Select School, a two-story house with a porch and two rows of windows, with a row of trees in the foreground and other buildings in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Douglas Select School, Waco, Texas, the Educational Center of Texas."
Date: 1912
Creator: Miller, Mrs. Herman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard

[Drill Field of Camp MacArthur]

Description: Postcard image of soldiers on the drill field of Camp MacArthur in Waco, Texas. Text on the front reads "a typical scene on the drill field at Camp MacArthur Waco, Texas". Handwritten text on the back reads "I received your letter in good health and hope that this card will find you the same". The postcard receiver is written to be Mr. Henry Huizen.
Date: November 29, 1917
Creator: Mann, Fred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard

[Edgefield Baptist Church Congregation, 1910]

Description: Photograph of a congregation posing in front of the Edgefield Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. The congregation is seated in several rows, and most of the people in the arrangement are children, with men and women mostly packed on the steps of the church at upper center. A boy, denoted in pen as Delman[?] holds a banner reading "EDGE FIELD"; on his left is another individual specified as "Andy". Along the bottommost row is a girl pointed out as "Billie". A note in the top left corner states that … more
Date: 1910~
Creator: Gildersleeve
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.546505 -97.110612

[Elks Club in Ft. Worth, Texas]

Description: Postcard image of the Elks Club lodge in Fort Worth, Texas. The lodge is two stories built in a Spanish style with clay roofing tiles, rounded windows and iron work around the archways on the first floor. Trees are visible around the exterior of the lodge near the steps leading up to the entrance. Handwritten on the text address Miss. Sadie Costa of Roswell, New Mexico.
Date: 1912
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
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