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Beeville High School Building 1912

Description: Photograph of Beeville's first high school which was dedicated in Oct. of 1912. The two story brick building was located at 601 East Hayes Street, and was named for Captain Allen Carter Jones. Captain Jones’ heirs, following the example of Captain Jones who had donated six acres of land for a school house in 1886, donated the land for this first high school. In 1957, a new A.C. Jones High School was built at 1900 N. Adams Street. This school house became Thomas Jefferson Junior High until it… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Boy on Pony by Barn

Description: Copy negative of a little boy on a pony in front of a barn. Next to the pony is a donkey. In the background is a picket fence and vines. Printed across the bottom margin is, "W. Fischer's, Extra Finish, Photo Car".
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Bryant Family in 1906

Description: Photograph of the Bryant family in 1906. Standing L-R: May, Edd, Alva, Claudia and Marcellus Douglas (bare footed). Seated L-R; Ella Gertrude Sojourner Bryant with Katie on her lap, Richard Jeremiah "Dick" Bryant with Mattie on his leg. Not shown are Ella, Ellen and Cherry who were born after 1906.
Date: unknown
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Catholic Church and St. Mary's Academy, Marshall, Tex.

Description: Sepia postcard showing the Catholic Church and St. Mary's Academy, Marshall, Texas. An unpaved road is in the foreground. Behind a picket fence stands St. Mary's Academy on the right, a two story wood building with two-story porches along both visible sides. The church building stands to the left of that, a Gothic revival building with a steeply-pitched gable roof and a bell tower and entrance porch projecting from the facade. The church is faced with vertical wood siding. On top of the bell to… more
Date: [1907..1915]
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Girl in front of Church

Description: Copy negative of Willie Hardie Walker standing out front of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church grounds. She is wearing a scarf around her head and an apron over her dress. She stands with both hands on her hips looking into the camera. Behind her is the church which is surrounded by a white picket fence.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Girl with Dog

Description: Copy negative of Pat McDaniel as a young girl. She is wearing a striped shirt, denim pants and a cap. She is seated in a wagon with a cocker spaniel dog and puppy. In the background is a white picket fence. Beneath the photograph are the words, "Holiday Greetings."
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Home in South Midland]

Description: Photograph of homes on the southern side of Midland in 1892. The home at right, one-story and gable-roofed with a windmill, sits on the corner of Kentucky Avenue and Baird Street, and was the early home of J. H. Mims. The house at left, mostly identical to Mims', was the early home of Fred Cowden. Bare grassland surrounds the homes.
Date: 1892
Partner: Midland Historical Society

House

Description: Copy negative a house at 1500 North 2nd Street in Abilene, Texas belonging to F. W. Jones. The house has a front porch with columns and is surrounded by a picket fence.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Lizzie Crossen

Description: Photograph of Lizzie Crosson at age 80, in August 1924, seated out of doors near a picket fence under a tree. She wears a long dress and has her hair pulled up. This photo was included in a research paper by Marion Quick for an American History class at Marfa High School in 1967.
Date: unknown
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Lizzie Crossen

Description: Photograph of Lizzie Crosson seated out of doors near a picket fence under a tree. She wears a long dress and has her hair pulled up. This photo was included in a research paper by Jon Polson for an American History class at Marfa High School in January 1978.
Date: unknown
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Locke Home, Version 1]

Description: Photograph of the Locke home, with two women and a dog seated on the front porch. Inscription in ink on the back states: "Locke Home, Fannin & Grove, demolished 1956." Version one shows slightly more of the right side of the house than Version two, and it is printed darker. The house is a one-story side-gable house of wood siding, two chimneys, and four slender square columns supporting ornate scroll-sawn decorative brackets. Two ferns are on stands on the porch, and a picket fence and two tre… more
Date: 1900~
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Locke Home, Version 2]

Description: Photograph of the Locke home, with two women and a dog seated on the front porch. Version two shows slightly more of the left side of the house than Version one, and it is printed lighter. The house is a one-story side-gable house of wood siding, two chimneys, and four slender square columns supporting ornate scroll-sawn decorative brackets. Two ferns are on stands on the porch, and a picket fence and two trees are in front of the house. The figure in back is Sarah Dycke Locke, and the figure… more
Date: 1900~
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Man and Woman in Farm Yard

Description: Copy negative of two images. The image on the left shows Matilda Skenell Key Hefner as an elderly woman. She is wearing a shawl around her head, holding a basket and standing in front of a house. The image on the right shows Francis Marion Hefner in a cowboy hat holding Kit Carson Hefner as a baby. Behind them is a picket fence.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Man and Woman in Farm Yard

Description: Copy negative of two images. The image on the left shows Matilda Skenell Key Hefner as an elderly woman. She is wearing a shawl around her head, holding a basket and standing in front of a house. The image on the right shows Francis Marion Hefner in a cowboy hat holding Kit Carson Hefner as a baby. Behind them is a picket fence.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Man and Woman in Farm Yard

Description: Copy negative of two images. The image on the right shows Matilda Skenell Key Hefner as an elderly woman. She is wearing a shawl around her head, holding a basket and standing in front of a house. The image on the left shows Francis Marion Hefner in a cowboy hat holding Kit Carson Hefner as a baby. Behind them is a picket fence.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Man with Horse Drawn Commercial Wagon

Description: Copy negative of Olen Stevens wearing overalls and a hat. He is leaning against the rear of a horse-drawn commercial wagon. On the awning of the wagon is the word, "ICE" and beneath it is painted, "Abilene Ice Co." Two dark horses are harnessed to the wagon and a house is in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Marion Sims McCutchan Sr. Family Album ca. 1900-1915]

Description: Photograph album of the Marion Sims McCutchan, Sr. family, missing its cover. The photos are pasted on the gray paper pages. Photographs include interior and exterior shots of the family home at 2105 Rosborough Springs Road, Marshall, Texas, and the barn. Most of the photos show the three sons of the family, Robert Lewis McCutchan, born 1903, Marion Sims McCutchan, Jr., born 1905, and Kenneth Shannon McCutchan, born 1912, but a few photos also include their parents Sims, Sr. and Mary.
Date: 1900/1915
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Mims Home, Midland]

Description: Photograph of the Mims house on South Baird Street in Midland, a two-story wooden house with, two chimneys, an arched entrance extending over the entryway, gable roofing, and a bay window jutting out from the side of the structure. The Mims family stands against the picket fence, behind which are trees and large bushes.
Date: 1895
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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