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[Clipping: The Red River War]

Description: Clipping of a running newspaper column titled "A Step Back in Time" discussing the 9-day "war" between Texas and Oklahoma around the Red River in 1931. It provides information about the context, the incident, and later history of the bridge and the center of the events. Portions of another article and advertisements are on the back of the clipping.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Location: 33.823581 -96.532366
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[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

[Portrait of an Unknown Child with a Pitchfork]

Description: Photograph of an unknown child standing in a white shirt and work pants, gripping with both hands a long pitchfork resting on his shoulder. He faces to the right, standing on a dirt patch in front of a painted background and next to a small pile of straw to his left and a wicker hat with a ribbon to his right.
Date: unknown
Creator: Josey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Mr. Byrd, Heading to New Mexico]

Description: Photographs of a Mr. Byrd, heading west from South Carolina to New Mexico by ox-wagon. He is depicted here resting and eating in the Chickasaw Nation, seated on a stool with a plate in his hands and a cup on a small box in front of him. His covered wagon is behind him, with packages laid to its side. Oxen are seated at left, resting on the grass. Trees and bushes are scattered in the background.
Date: June 1, 1906
Creator: Eichelberger, George W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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