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[Photograph of seven Sugar Land School teachers in front of a tree]

Description: Photograph (copy) of seven Sugar Land School teachers that lived together. They are: Gertrude Seal, Billy Barr, Beatrice Anderson, Ruth Barker, Molly Gilly, Ariann Maze, Etha Savage. All of the women are wearing dark colors except the second from left in back row; she is wearing a light colored dress with a sweater. The women are dressed warmly with stoles and coats. Trunk of a large tree on the left of the group. Houses in the background on the left and right of photograph. Scanned image is o… more
Date: 1921
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Photograph Of Etha Savage Johnson On A Tennis Court]

Description: Photograph (copy) of Etha Savage Johnson, a teacher at Sugar Land School taken in 1920-21. Johnson is wearing a white skirt with a white sailor-type blouse. A dark scarf is tied at the v-neck of the blouse. She is holding a tennis racket over her right shoulder. She has her left hand on the tennis net. Moss draped trees are in the background. Scanned image is of the copy.
Date: 1920
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Photograph of Etha Savage Johnson in a black dress]

Description: Photograph (copy) of Etha Savage Johnson, a Sugar Land teacher, taken in 1920-21. Johnson is wearing a black satin long sleeved blouse with a matching skirt that has flaps along the sides. A corsage can be seen pinned on her left hip. She is wearing a black hat, black stockings, and black shoes. She is standing in front of a wooden building (a screen door to the left).
Date: 1920
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Richmond School pupils, 7th through 10th grades]

Description: Photograph of the Richmond School pupils, 7th through 10th grades. There are eight boys (all wearing hats) sitting on the grass in the front row. Two girls are standing on a brick rail to the front steps on the right of photo. Students and teachers (2 on right) are also standing/sitting in three of the visible windows. Photograph is mounted on gray cardboard substrate. Cardboard is worn at edges with pieces being broken at top left, and bottom right and left. Back of photo in pencil: Richmond S… more
Date: 1906/1907
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Teachers and children at an unidentified school in New York]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified school in New York. The predominantly African-American school children are standing three rows deep, with a white female teacher on crutches on the right side of the picture, a white male teacher with glasses in back, center of the class and an African-American female teacher with glasses on the far left side of the class. There is one white girl with a ribbon in her dark hair, standing in the middle of the picture between an African-American boy on her right and… more
Date: April 16, 1953
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

Etta Jones

Description: Portrait of Etta Jones wearing a cape with a fur collar and black hat. She appears to be in a snow storm. The writing on the back reads, "Miss Etta Jones to Hallie." Hallie Thurman was friend who lived in Denton and both women worked and were unmarried. We believe this photo to have been taken around 1900 based upon her clothing, but not after 1909, as she was married in October and became Mrs. Etta Scott. She taught first grade and later high school. Originally, Sarah Etta Jones, she was born … more
Date: 1900~
Creator: Deane Photography
Partner: Denton Public Library

New Hope School Group Picture

Description: Group picture of school children of the New Hope School outside of the frame school building. Included are: (1)Andy Cain, (2)Tom Cain, (3)Jim Smith, (4)Jim Tidmore, (5)Lou Smith, (6)Essie Amos, (7)Minnie Lavender, (8)Mattie Hooks, (9)Tom Rose, (10)Dovie Elrod, (11)Jim Anderson, (12)Annie Doyle, (13)Julia Anderson, (14)Earnest Cain, (15)Riley Coffee, (16)Fannie Stanley, (17)John Doyle, (18)Mattie Tidmore, (19)Lavender (first name unknown), (20)Lee Parker, and (21)W. R. Nichols, teacher.
Date: unknown
Partner: Denton Public Library

Historic Plaque, Walter Prescott Webb's Formative Years

Description: Photograph of a historic plaque in Breckenridge, Texas. It reads: "Walter Prescott Webb's Formative Years. Noted historian Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963) came with his family to Stephens County at the age of four. Over the next seventeen years, Webb received an education in frontier life that formed the basis of his intellectual development and his theories on the role of the Great Plains in American history. Webb's father, Casner, was a rural schoolteacher and farmer. As he moved to differen… more
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Partner: UNT Libraries

[William R. Blocker Portrait]

Description: A portrait of William R. Blocker, dressed in a dark, three-piece suit with a white shirt and tie. In the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph is raised lettering reading "Bartlett Clarendon Tex". On the bottom of the portrait, written in cursive writing is "Bill Blocker." The photograph is accompanied by an envelope on which is written "When Will was at Clarendon College, 1922-23, 1923-24."
Date: [1920..1929]
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[Bellevue HS Faculty]

Description: Bellevue HS faculty: Virginia Gaines, Unk, Martha White, Frances Farr, Myrtle Early, CA Jolly Lucy Childress, Mr. Miller, Elvira Gilliland, W.A. (Bot) Greer. Photo taken in 1935: Bellevue, Texas.
Date: 1935
Partner: Clay County Historical Society
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