[Ned Connor Gibson in uniform.]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph (copy) of Ned Connor Gibson. Ned is wearing a military uniform in this portrait that is taken to knee length. The dark jacket has three rows of buttons down the front of the jacket and has tassels on the shoulders. His lighter colored pants have a stripe down the sides. Gibson is holding his tassel-topped hat in his right hand and his sword at this hip with his left hand. A table can be seen in bottom left corner. Flowers in background top right. Scanned image is of the copy.
Contributing Partner: Fort Bend Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1451/
Will and David Coble
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Will and David Coble. David H. Coble is the great-great grandfather of Drex Baker on his mother's side. David served in the Confederate army, Company 44, Regiment G, 1863-1865
Contributing Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth17181/
Darrius and Ada Colley
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Darrius and Ada Colley standing together.
Contributing Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth17175/
Dan Coble and Charles Lawrence
Date: July 1, 1870
Creator: unknown
Description: Dan Coble sitting in wicker chair. Charles Lawrence is standing. Coble was a gunslinger killed in a gun battle in Witchita Falls, TX. Lawrence was killed in that same shoot out.
Contributing Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth17184/
[Wedding portrait of Louis J. Maresh and Louise Mary Zapalac]
Date: 1910
Creator: unknown
Description: Wedding portrait of Louis J. Maresh and Louise Mary Zapalac, 1910. Louis is wearing a dark suit with white shirt and tie. He has a flower pinned on his right lapel. He is holding Louise's hand in his right hand. Louise is wearing a white blouse with shirring at top and lace insets. The belted waist leads to the skirt which begins pleating at midway point of floor length. Bows and lace accent the pleating. Her veil has white floral at top and tulle falls to floor behind her. Zapalac designed and sewed wedding dresses as a young woman. Profits from her work reverted to her parents' store. Zapalac received portraits of the couple in their ensembles as her part of the payment. The Maresh family lived in Sealy until 1924, when they moved to FBC and bought a farm at the intersection of Harlem and Madden Roads (north of the prison farm). Scanned image is of the copy.
Contributing Partner: Fort Bend Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1910/
Uriah and Sarah Hettie Castleberry
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Uriah and Sarah Hettie Castleberry. Sarah's maiden name was Wilkinson.
Contributing Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth17210/
Joel Bobo
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Portrait of Joel Bobo
Contributing Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth35066/
[Ed Bell, Storyteller]
Date: August 1978
Creator: Informedia
Description: Color photograph of an elderly man wearing a captain's cap standing before a microphone. He is identified as Ed Bell, a storyteller from Indiana, who is a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth285318/
[Bruce Roark, Maker of Musical Instruments]
Date: August 1978
Creator: Smith, Jim
Description: Color photograph of an elderly man playing a wooden double-necked guitar at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Several more wooden stringed instruments are hanging on the wall behind him. The man is identified as Bruce Roark, who makes instruments.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth285279/
[Daisy Potter Eating an Eggroll]
Date: August 1978
Creator: unknown
Description: Color photograph of a woman named Daisy Potter, also known as the Possum Queen. She is a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is laughing while holding an egg roll in a napkin, just before she eats it.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth285258/