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[Belle Ryon Davis wearing a dark dress with buttons down the front of the dress]

Description: Photograph of Belle Ryon Davis. In the bust portrait, Davis is wearing a dark dress with shirring on right shoulder and intricate beadwork on the left shoulder. Buttons run down the front of the dress beginning just below the high necked collar. Where the collar splits into a short "v", a half-moon shaped (diamond?) stick pin is attached. A chain is slightly visible from fifth button. Davis has curled hair at forehead and around temples with the rest pulled back into a bun. The photograph is mo… more
Date: [1879..1885]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

[Belle Ryon wearing a dark colored dress and dark trim]

Description: Photograph of Belle Ryon (Davis). Belle is wearing a dark colored dress with shirred front and fur or fringed trim along either side of bodice and back of high neck collar. She has a brooch at center of the collar. Belle is wearing ear drop earrings. Belle's hair is curled at her forehead and then swept back and up into a bun at the crown of her head. The photograph is cropped by fading just below the shoulders. The photo is mounted on a tan cardboard substrate.
Date: [1879..1885]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

[Dew House]

Description: Photograph of the Dew House after being remodeled. The house is white with several large windows in the front as well as a walkway leading up to the front of the house lined with bushes.
Date: 1870~/1976~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend History Association

[Ella Graves, wife of Albert Lamar George]

Description: Oval, bust photograph of Ella Graves, wife of Albert Lamar George. It is an identical image of 2000.012.006 Ella has dark hair with a light colored bow in it. She is wearing dangled earrings, an oval broach and a long necklace. She has a white, lacy collar on her light colored dress with dark stripes around the neck line.
Date: [1877..1880]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

Fort Bend County

Description: Map of the Gulf Coast region covering Fort Bend County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 1873
Creator: Jessen, A. C. & Lungkwitz, Herman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Improvement in Hoes.

Description: Patent for an improved, lightweight hoe with beveled blades used for "weeding cotton and other plants" (lines 13-14) and cutting grass without damaging the stalks, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date: March 19, 1878
Creator: Eggleston, Walter H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[An infant sitting in a chair and wearing a white gown with lace insets]

Description: Photograph of an infant. The infant is thought to be Albert Peyton George (born October 7, 1873). A note attached to the tissue paper enfolding the photograph reads: "Photo found in trunk w/ "MDG" initials on porch of ranch house - possibly portrait of A.P. George as infant - see initials on back. V. O. 11-28-83." Penciled at top and back of photograph is the initials "A. P. G. ". In the portrait, the infant, who is wearing a white gown with lace insets at shoulders and end of sleeves, is sitti… more
Date: [1874..1875]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

[Photograph of Ella Graves, wife of Albert Lamar George]

Description: Photograph of Ella Graves, wife of Albert Lamar George. She is sitting on a chair with her left hand holding a pencil and resting on a side table. Her right hand is folded across her body. She is wearing a light-colored dress with dark lines around the edges and a lacy collar. Her hair is down and pulled back with a white ribbon. The portrait ends at her knees. Attached to a cardboard substrate.
Date: 1877
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

[Photograph of J.H.P. Davis]

Description: Photograph of J.H.P. Davis. Davis is wearing a tweed jacket (top button is buttoned), white shirt, and bow tie. Davis has short dark hair (slightly gray at temples) parted on his left side, and thin dark mustache. Written on back of photograph in pencil: "JHP Davis". The bust portrait was taken by "Rose" of "Galveston" as written at the bottom of the bevel edged cardboard substrate. Pose is similar to 2000.007.002.
Date: 1879
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

[Photograph of J.H.P. Davis]

Description: Photograph of J.H.P. Davis. In the bust portrait, Davis is wearing a tweed jacket with the top button buttoned, white shirt, and dark tie. His short dark hair (graying at temples) is parted on his left side and he has a thin, dark mustache. The photograph is mounted on a cardboard substrate. Same pose as 2000.007.001.
Date: 1879
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park
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