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[Carry Nation seated in a chair]

Description: Photograph of Carry Nation. Nation is seated in a wooden chair and she is holding an open book. She has dark hair (partially gray) and is wearing wire-rimmed eyeglasses. She has on a white long-sleeved dress with white lace ruffle across the neckline and front of dress. Fireplace mantle in left background. Window in right background. Photograph is (framed) enclosed in a gray cardboard folder. Bottom of matte portion of folder has a white label that has black printing that says: "Your loving h… more
Date: 1905
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Charles August Moers taken in 1905. Photographed from the shoulders up.]

Description: Photograph of Charles August Moers taken in 1905 (as identified on the back of photograph). Moers is wearing a dark three piece suit with white shirt and white tie. He has a small flower pinned on his left lapel. Photograph ends just below the shoulders. The photograph is mounted on a gray cardboard substrate. Bottom of cardboard reads: Morvan 1923 Canals, New Orleans, LA. Back of photograph has a notice written on the back about the quality of the photograph and "Morvan Art Studio, 923 Canal S… more
Date: 1905
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[J.H.P. Davis bank building in Rosenberg, Texas]

Description: Photograph (copy) of the J.H.P. Davis bank building in Rosenberg, Texas in the early 1900's. Bank building is a two story brick building with an attached sidewalk cover. Windows on top floor have arched insets. Two men are walking on the sidewalk at the northeast corner of the building. Man on a dark horse in front of sidewalk to building. Other businesses to right of photo. Scanned image and dimensions are of the copy.
Date: 1905
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[J.H.P. Davis Bank (Davis & George Building).]

Description: Photograph of J.H.P. Davis Bank (Davis & George Building), Southeast corner of Morton and 3rd, Richmond, TX. Two story stone and brick building with corner turret. Top floor windows are arched, framed with stone. Bob Wessendorff standing on bottom step, Walter Jones on top step. Unidentified African American man is talking with Wessendorff. Image is mounted on a white matte signed in pencil at bottom right, "Gillian." Image and matte are mounted in a black folder with "A Portrait" embossed … more
Date: 1905
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Josephine Rich looking at a fire hydrant.]

Description: Photograph of Josephine Rich looking at a fire hydrant in front of the T.B. Wessendorff home (as identified on back of photo). Cement curbs, sidewalk, and very small bare tree in foreground. Woman is wearing a white blouse and dark skirt. Two and a half story, white, wooden house in the background.
Date: 1905
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Men and women kneeling around a stone]

Description: Photographic print of nine men and women kneeling around a stone with "D. Rugeley" painted on it in white. Another women is standing partially out of the frame at the left. According to a paper taped to the back of the image, the picture was probably taken at the site where John DeForest Rugeley was killed (Sept. 1862) at Woodbury, TN during the Civil War. Rugeley was in Co. B of Terry's Texas Rangers and was from Matagorda County. Rugeley's sister Minnie married Col. Philip E. Peareson and… more
Date: 1905
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Men, Women, and Children in front of a grove of trees]

Description: Photographic group portrait of men, women, and children, taken in front of a grove of trees. All are dressed up, as for church or a celebration. Single boy in white clothes and straw hat is sitting on the ground in front of the rest of the group. Photograph has extensive mechanical damage. All four corners of mounting substrate are broken. Photographic surface is cracked and flaking.
Date: 1905
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Third Street and Church Street, Rosenberg, Texas]

Description: Postcard image of the corner of Third Street and Church Street, Rosenberg, Texas. Small wooden building on left. White two-story house surrounded by white picket fence on right. White church building in background. Dirt street in foreground. Blank (white) strip across entire bottom of photo. Yellow stain across right from top to bottom.
Date: 1905
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Carry Nation in a wooden raised platform]

Description: Photograph of Carry Nation. Written in the folder in blue ink: "Location unknown. Date: Probably circa 1905. Of many pictures of my grandmother, this is the only one I've ever seen where she was smiling. (signed) Alexander D. McNabb, July 24, 1975. " Photograph shows Nation in a wooden raised platform (wooden chair to right side of it). Nation, who has gray hair (in bun) and eyeglasses, is wearing a white floor-length skirt and white jacket and she is holding a bouquet of flowers on her left a… more
Date: July 24, 1905
Partner: Fort Bend Museum
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