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[Austin College]

Description: Photograph of Austin College in Sherman, Texas. There are two buildings visible in the background. Written on the bottom of the photo is "[sic] Austin College, Sherman ~." Beneath the image are "Scenes along the T&P 1895-1896" and "T&P."
Date: 1895/1896
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

Building Exterior

Description: Copy negative of Josh Dishman Cotton Gin. In the picture there is a big house with many windows and a barn attached to the side of the house. In the picture there are three people standing outside a door on a small deck. Also on the piture a wagon with a man on it is being pulled by two horses. Behind them is another barn type building attached to the house. On the picture there is writing that reads " Uncle John Dishman's gin, Collinsville, Texas (1895)"
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Denison Water Works]

Description: Copy photo of Denison Water Works amid a small forest of trees. There is a large plume of black smoke. Written on the bottom of the photo is "Denison Water Works." Written underneath the image are "Scenes along the T&P 1895-1896" and "T&P."
Date: 1895/1896
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

Family on Hillside; Men by Car in Country

Description: Copy negative of two pictures. The top picture is of William Morris and the Morris family posing in a large field in Grayson County, Texas. The bottom picture is of Gazzie and Art Morris standing by the back of a car in front of a mountain near Albany, Texas.
Date: 1920~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Family Portrait

Description: Copy negative of a portrait of the Buchanan family, with the parents sitting in chairs, three children sitting on hay bales, two children standing, and two babies in the parents' laps. Pictured are Robert Lee, George Young, Mary L. A., Henry William Andrew, Mary Prichard, Charlotte, Joseph C. Buchanan, and three others.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Family Portrait

Description: Copy negative of a Curry family portrait with Oscar H. Curry, Arthur H. Curry, Mary S. Curry, William A. Curry, Lucretia Curry, and Mary Elizabeth Short Curry. The two parents are sitting, and the children are standing behind and between them.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Family Reunion

Description: Copy negative of John and Jennie Dishman with other family members at a family reunion. The group includes seven women, two men, one girl, one boy and a dog. All of the women except one are wearing light-colored dresses, the men are wearing suits and ties and the young boy is wearing a loose-fitting shirt. The group is seated on a porch and a stoop. A typed note beneath the photograph reads, "Uncle John & Aunt Jennie Dishman & family, about 1908 (Collinsville, Tex)".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Forbis Family Portrait

Description: Copy photograph of a portrait of the Forbus family. Luther and Nannie Forbus stand behind their two youngest children Mary Frances Forbis and Orval John Forbis, who stand and sit on stools. The children, a toddler and a baby, wear white dresses. Nannie Forbus also wears a white dress with a flower pinned to the front. Luther Forbus wears a three-piece suit. Behind them is a painted backdrop of curtains. Below the photograph is a typed note that says, "Luther & Nannie Forbus and daughters."
Date: 1895/1896
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Grayson County, Fannin District

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Grayson County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1885
Creator: Thielepape, George F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

House Exterior With Family

Description: Copy photograph of Jack and Tilda Perkins with their four daughters and their families. The family group is posed outside a two-storey house. There is a wooden fence on which many children are sitting. Above the photo is a typed note that says, "Uncle Jack and Aunt Tilda, with their four daughters and their families, Whitesboro, Texas, about 1885.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter and attached letter: From R. N. McMichael to Jack Ross - September 3, 1954]

Description: A letter written to Mr. Jack Ross, Parole and Probation Compact Administrator, Austin, Texas from G. R. Klopfenstein, Chief (by R. N. McMichael, Placement Supervisor), Bureau of Probation and Parole, Columbus 15, Ohio, dated September 3, 1954. McMichael refers to the request of a pre-parole investigation advising that a health report of Subject 95040 OP has been attached. Postscript by McMichael advises that a detainer filed against this subject by the Sheriff of Grayson County, Texas has been… more
Date: September 3, 1954
Creator: McMichael, R. N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from E. P. Wooten to T. N. Carswell - October 3, 1942]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, 24th District United Texas Drys, from E. P. Wooten, Clerk, Grayson County Baptist Assn., Whitewright, Texas, dated October 3, 1942. Wooten replies to a letter from Carswell which was addressed to Rev. L. R. Lamb and assures Carswell that the Association is unalterably opposed to the liquor traffic.
Date: October 3, 1942
Creator: Wooten, E. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Mrs. Jewel Biggerstaff to Blanche Perry]

Description: Letter and envelope from Mrs. Jewel Biggerstaff to Perry thanking her for the baptistry painting for the church in Tom Bean, Texas. Mentions receipt of the painting, installation, check to cover costs, and details about Biggerstaff's health and that of her mother.
Date: December 14, 1943
Creator: Biggerstaff, Jewel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library
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