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[Multi-story home with fence]

[Multi-story home with fence]

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a large two-story home behind a fence. A dog is shown in the yard of the home.
Holding Partner: Heritage House Museum
Texas and Pacific Railway Depot, Paris, Tex.

Texas and Pacific Railway Depot, Paris, Tex.

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Color postcard picturing the Texas and Pacific Railway Depot in Paris, Texas. It is a red brick building with many gables, a cart in front of it and a fence beside it. The correspondence says, " Dear Little Precious, Poppa is sick this morning and wants to see you awfully bad. we will all be mighty glad when Dec comes if it brings you and Mud. Lovingly, Auntie." It is addressed to Miss Rosa Louise Dill, 206 East 5th Street, Oklahoma City, Okla. It is postmarked Oct. 15, 1907.
Holding Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes
First Baptist Church, Paris, Tex.

First Baptist Church, Paris, Tex.

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Color postcard depicting First Baptist Church in Paris, Texas. The church is a large brick building with a tall bell tower. It has a wrought iron fence surrounding it. Written on the front of the card, " Oct. 14, 1907 Auntie's Birthday". Correspondence on the back reads, " Your "Auntie" is the biggest ______ in the state of Texas for I have missed 2 days already sending you a card. I've got a bushel to tell Mud if I ever get time to write. "Auntie" It is addressed to Miss Rosa Louise Dill, 206 E 5th Street, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Holding Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes
[Orange, Texas in 1895]

[Orange, Texas in 1895]

Date: 1895
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Fifth and Main Street location in Orange, Texas in 1895. Main was only a bayou crossed by the Fifth Street bridge. TheFirst Baptist Church is under construction in the background. Wooden fences surround nearby homes.
Holding Partner: Heritage House Museum
Stuck in the Mud

Stuck in the Mud

Date: 1900 - 1930
Creator: Bradly, Bill
Description: Car stuck in the mud near Hereford, TX.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
[Family in Their Front Yard]

[Family in Their Front Yard]

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a family with two young children posed outside the front of their home. The mother sits in a swing holding both children. A wire fence surrounds the yard. The house has a chair on the front porch.
Holding Partner: Log Cabin Village
[J.O. Sims' House]

[J.O. Sims' House]

Date: c. 1919
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of J.O. Sims' house, looking east, before 1919. There is a railroad track running next to the house and a body of water in the foreground of the picture.
Holding Partner: Heritage House Museum
[Snow Scene]

[Snow Scene]

Date: 1895
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a rare occurrence in Orange, Texas, a snowy day. Trees, homes and yards are blanketed in snow during the winter of 1895.
Holding Partner: Heritage House Museum
[Seven Men by a Fence]

[Seven Men by a Fence]

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of seven men standing by a white fence. Behind them is a grove of trees.
Holding Partner: Heritage House Museum
[Man sitting on a fence]

[Man sitting on a fence]

Date: 1907
Creator: Long, F.G.
Description: Color postcard depicting a man sitting on a high picket fence above a little bull dog and his hat on the ground. Pasted to the card is a round object resembling a basketball or football with "Water Mullin, don't touch me" written on it. It is addressed to Mr. Earl Dill, 206 East 5th Okla. City. It is postmarked Omaha, Neb. on Oct 6, 1907.
Holding Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes
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