Grave of Indian "Emily"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the grave of Indian "Emily" She was a young girl in a legend of west Texas that was raised by a white family at Fort Davis. She warned them of an Indian attack as she was dying of a mortal wound.
Contributing Partner: Marfa Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth40080/
[Campground Cemetery]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: This photograph shows a large headstone in an area surrounded by a white fence with a gate. The area is in the midst of a field covered in yellow brush. In the background, there are trees and mountains in the distance. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "John & Eva Means buried on camp ground."
Contributing Partner: Marfa Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth40046/
[Campground Cemetery]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: This photograph shows a large headstone in an area surrounded by a white fence with a gate. The area is in the midst of a field covered in yellow brush. In the background, there are trees and mountains in the distance. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "John & Eva Means buried on camp ground."
Contributing Partner: Marfa Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth40061/
[Johnson Family Cemetery]
Date: unknown
Creator: Dietel, Norman
Description: Photograph of the Johnson Family Cemetery. Stone walls surround the site, and tombstones are visible underneath oak trees.
Contributing Partner: LBJ Museum of San Marcos
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth63729/
[Johnson Family Cemetery]
Date: October 18, 1959
Creator: Dietel, Norman
Description: Photograph of the Johnson Family Cemetery. Stone walls surround the site, and tombstones are visible underneath oak trees.
Contributing Partner: LBJ Museum of San Marcos
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth63718/
[Homage At A Grave]
Date: 191?
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a large crowd of revolutionists gathered to render homage at a grave. The men stand in an open area wearing suits and hats. There are buildings and dead trees in the distance.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth63573/
[Bodies on the Battlefield]
Date: 191?
Creator: unknown
Description: Copy negative of dead revolutionists about to be buried in a Juarez cemetery. The revolutionists were executed. There are many graves and crosses in the middle ground. The city behind the graves is EL Paso, Texas. The Franklin Mountains are in the background.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth63527/
[Grave of Arthur Stilwell Smith]
Date: unknown
Creator: Everett, James
Description: Photograph of a grave surrounded by a small picket fence. The tombstone identifies the grave as Arthur Stilwell Smith's and reads, "Born May 1896; Died May 1896; First Birth, First Death in Port Arthur." A sticker on the back of the photograph identifies the photographer as James Everett from Groves, Texas.
Contributing Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth202088/
[Two Women At the Unveiling a Historic Marker in the Danevang Cemetery]
Date: 1994
Creator: unknown
Description: Black and white copy print of two elderly women standing next to a large tombstone in the Danevang Cemetery before the unveiling of a historical marker. Their names are Elsie Christensen and Helena Lauritsen. The woman standing to the left of the tombstone is pointing to the covered historical marker in the background. The other woman stands behind the tombstone, out of view except for her shoulders and up; her head is turned away from the camera and toward the historical marker. Their shadows are cast on the well-manicured grass. The historical marker is erected right off of a paved pathway and beside a flagpole. There are few trees in the distance.
Contributing Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223469/
Remembering the Dead
Date: 1910/1920
Creator: Aultman, Otis A.
Description: Photograph of Mexican Federal Soldiers next to a grave. This group of Mexican Federal soldiers has gathered around this unidentified grave at an unknown location in Mexico to pay their respects. It appears that the deceases grave was dug out in the middle of this community or where he died because there are no other graves around. In the background a battered building and gazebo.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth63207/