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[Sowell's Bluff Bridge: Suspension Tower]

Description: Photograph of the Sowell's Bluff suspension bridge, viewed from the banks of the Red River. Prominently at center is one of the bridge's suspension towers, atop which fly two American flags. Below on the deck, pedestrians and a single car move along the bridge and over the river, while some people stand along the sandy edges of the river among pieces of wood debris and small bushes.
Date: 1927
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.753913 -96.196776
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[Sowell's Bluff Bridge: Inauguration Ground View]

Description: Photograph of the inauguration of the Sowell's Bluff Bridge as viewed from the banks of the Red River. The bridge is located above, with people standing in it and a sign hanging over the span of the bridge, depicting caricatures of Oklahoma and Texas shaking hands. Spectators watch the bridge's opening from below, most wearing hats and looking upwards.
Date: 1927
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.753913 -96.196776
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[Sowell's Bluff Bridge: Platform on Bridge Deck]

Description: Photograph of the Sowell's Bluff suspension bridge over the Red River on its opening day, with a wooden platform built along the wooden guardrails along the side of the bridge. People are standing on the platform and looking out alongside a metal sign with an American flag flying above and the banks of the Red River visible below. The ceremony here may be the inauguration of the bridge. Written on the back of the photograph: "ISABEL MOOR WHEELER, Breaking Beech."
Date: 1927
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.753913 -96.196776
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[Letter from W. R. Ely to State Highway Commission of Oklahoma - November 3, 1927]

Description: A letter written to the State Highway Commission of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, from W. R. Ely, Member Texas Highway Commission, Abilene, dated November 3, 1927. Letter of introduction for Mr. T. N. Carswell of Abilene, Texas as a representative of the various towns touched by Highway No. 4 in Texas and an advisement that he has the endorsement of the Texas Highway Commission.
Date: November 3, 1927
Creator: Ely, W. R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Trails made and routes used by the Fourth U.S. Cavalry: Under command of General R.S. MacKenzie in its operations against hostile Indians in Texas, Indian-Territory (now Oklahoma), New Mexico and Old Mexico during the period of 1871-2-3-4 and 5

Description: Military map of the routes used by R.S. Mackenzie and his troops, including New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas as well as parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and Mexico. The map shows routes, trails, railroads, roads, camps, old forts, other landmarks, battles with American Indians, and names and locations of American Indian tribes in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Scale [ca. 1:1,405,436] (23.76 miles to the inch).
Date: 1927
Creator: Dorchester, E. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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