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Hefner Family Reunion

Hefner Family Reunion

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Copy negative of two pictures at a family reunion. The top picture is of seven women standing in a field looking to the right. They are from left to right Myrtle Milling Hefner, Jennie Robinson, Lela Cummings, Katie Syrena Hefner Hughes, Mollie Corbett Hefner, and Ethel Stewart Hefner. The bottom picture is of six people standing in front of a tree in a field with a house and another man in the background. They are from left to right Katie Syrena Hefner Hughes, Clara Ann Hefner Smith, Warren Hefner, Tom Clyde Hefner, Lela Hefner Cummings, and Mary Virginia Hefner Robinson.
Holding Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
Family Picture

Family Picture

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Copy negative of the Hefner family, gathered outdoors. The group includes sixteen women in high-collared dresses, twenty-one men in suits and ties, eleven young girls, nine young boys and five babies. In the background are trees.
Holding Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
Bridge Over River

Bridge Over River

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Copy negative of the Eliasville Bridge over the Brazos River in 1909. The bridge is crowded with people.
Holding Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
Family Picture

Family Picture

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Copy negative of the Hefner family, gathered outdoors. The group includes sixteen women in high-collared dresses, twenty-one men in suits and ties, eleven young girls, nine young boys and five babies. In the background are trees.
Holding Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
Group Portrait

Group Portrait

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Copy negative of three men and three women. In the back row, left to right, is Martin Hudspeth, Lena Hudspeth, Alpha Omega Weatherford and Jim Norton. In the front row is Lee Corbett and Lela Hefner. The men are wearing button-up shirts, neckties and cowboy hats. The women are wearing dresses and tall hats. Mrs. Hudspeth wears a necklace and a belt.
Holding Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
Portrait of Women

Portrait of Women

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Copy negative of a portrait of Eula Norton and May Brockman wearing high collared jackets and upswept hair.
Holding Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
Family Reunion

Family Reunion

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Copy negative of five members from five generations of a family at the Hefner family reunion and Warren Hefner's birthday. From left to right they are Warren Hefner, Katie Syrena Hefner Hughes, Will Hughes, and Edna Hughes Wood and daughter.
Holding Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
[Letters of Rev. Dr. Thomas McHutchin Cunningham]

[Letters of Rev. Dr. Thomas McHutchin Cunningham]

Date: 1918
Creator: Cunningham, Thomas McHutchin
Description: The Rev. Dr. Thomas McHutchin Cunningham (March 22, 1887 - March 3, 1979) wrote these letters to family members from April 14, 1918 to November 28, 1927. The letters detail his life as a minister in Texas and other locations. The letters are written from Stamford, Spur, Eliasville, Sherman, Gainesville, Orange, Boston (Mass.), Richmond (Va.), and Knoxville (Tn.). The letters detail church news, family life, and travel on the S.S. Leviaton in 1927 to visit London, Paris, and Jerusalem.
Holding Partner: Other