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[American Red Cross Representatives]

Description: Photograph of a group of women in the League City Red Cross, sitting together at a small table and making blankets. According to a handwritten note on the back, most of the women are identified from left to right as the wives of their husbands, namely: Mrs. O.V. King, Mrs. John P. Atkinson, Mrs. Salmon, Mrs. Birkmeyer, and Mrs. Benson.
Date: [1917..1918]
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[Children with American Red Cross Representatives]

Description: Photograph of a large group of children seated together with a few American Red Cross representatives in front of a bandstand in league City. They are all wearing nurse caps with the Red Cross emblem on the front. A Red Cross flag is hung up behind them.
Date: [1917..1918]
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[Gas Well]

Description: Photograph of the first gas well in South Texas on Byrnes Ranch in McMullen County. William Donald Stephenson was the driller and it was part of the Grubstake Investment Association.
Date: 1917
Partner: Midwestern State University

Harris, Thomas Newton, Family, Richardson, Texas

Description: Informal family group photograph, standing and seated on a side porch of a house. The porch extends around the corner of the building to the right. Visible on the right are fences and another building. Standing on the porch are three women, the first only partially visible, with a girl standing in front, one man in a three-piece suit, one young woman, a woman in profile, and two elderly women (7 women, one girl, one man). Seated in front, on the edge of the porch, is a moustached man in a su… more
Date: 1917/1918
Partner: Richardson Public Library

[Little Green School: First Grade Class]

Description: Postcard featuring on the front a class portrait of the 1917 first grade class of the Little Green School in League City. They are arranged in three rows outside of the school building; the first two rows are seated while the third row is standing. According to writing on the back of the postcard, the little girl on the first row in the dark sweater is Flora Atkinson. The information also state that the first grade teacher was Miss Labuzan.
Date: 1917
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[Flag Raising at Train Depot]

Description: Copy print of a photograph taken during a flag raising ceremony at the Texas Santa Fe Railroad depot in Cleburne, Texas. The depot is a large, two-story brick building and the uniformed soldiers and others preparing to raise the flag are standing on a balcony platform at one end of the building. A crowd of people and automobiles are completely filling the street in front and to the side of the building. Additional historical information is printed on the back.
Date: April 10, 1917
Partner: Johnson County Historical Commission

[Flack Family Picture]

Description: Photograph of Flack family at their home in McGregor, Texas in June 1917. The photograph reads, "Mother Mrs. C.S. Flack, Ruth Flack, Milton Flack, Al Flack, Willie Flack. Husband and Father of Children Peter J. Flack deceased 9-10-1899."
Date: June 1917
Partner: Midwestern State University

[Mounted Flag Bearers at Johnson County Fair]

Description: Copy print of two people wearing uniforms, mounted oh horseback, and holding flags in their left hands in front of a building. Other people and horses are partially visible behind them. Handwritten at the bottom of the image: "Johnson Co. first fair October 8-9-10-11-12-13-1917"; printed below the original photo: "Johnson County First Fair October 8-13, 1917." Additional historical context is printed on the back.
Date: October 8, 1917
Partner: Johnson County Historical Commission
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