[Jones County Courthouse in Anson, TX]

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Photograph of Jones County Courthouse in Anson, TX. A road runs across the bottom of the image with one car emerging from the image's left side, passing by a stop sign, while a second car drives off towards the right side. On the far side of the road sits he courthouse, surrounded by green trees and bushes planted near the curb that encloses the building. The bottom level of the building is made of red blocks while the rest of the courthouse is made of orange bricks, with one row of windows across the red section and three rows across … continued below

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1 slide : col. ; 5.5 x 5.5 cm.

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Creator: Unknown. July 1966.

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Photograph of Jones County Courthouse in Anson, TX. A road runs across the bottom of the image with one car emerging from the image's left side, passing by a stop sign, while a second car drives off towards the right side. On the far side of the road sits he courthouse, surrounded by green trees and bushes planted near the curb that encloses the building. The bottom level of the building is made of red blocks while the rest of the courthouse is made of orange bricks, with one row of windows across the red section and three rows across the orange section. The courthouse is rectangular in shape with sections that project outwards from the rest of the building centered on each of the courthouse's sides. Each of the projecting sections has a triangular pediment at its top along with red supporting columns. The front doors to the building are centered in the projecting section on the right side of the courthouse and have a short set of stairs leading up to them from the road. In the center of the building's flat roof is a clocktower made of orange bricks with white clockfaces on each of its sides. A silver dome sits on top of the clocktower and has a humanoid statue atop it, holding a sword in their right hand and scales in the left.

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1 slide : col. ; 5.5 x 5.5 cm.

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  • Preferred Citation: Historical Collection (U0663), University of North Texas Special Collections

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  • July 1966

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[Jones County Courthouse in Anson, TX], photograph, July 1966; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1940687/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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