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Building Exteriors

Description: Copy photograph of two images. The first image, a postcard for Brownwood, Texas, is split into three smaller images. The left image is of Daniel Baker College, a three storey stone building. The center image shows a river scene and a child playing in the water. The right image shows Center Avenue, including traffic on the street and several storefronts. The second image shows the Brownwood courthouse, a two-storey stone building surrounded by a wooden fence.
Date: unknown

Exterior Building

Description: Copy negative of two buildings. The barracks are located in Camp Bowie. Camp Bowie, located at Brownwood in Central Texas, was a military training center during World War II. It was established in September 1940 as an infantry and artillery training center. The sign on the front of the first building has the text "Engineer" printed on it and hangs next to the door. The barracks are lifted off of the ground and appear to be made of wood.
Date: unknown

Football Team

Description: Copy photograph of the Howard Payne College 1909 football team. The team is seated on the steps of a building and are posed in three rows. In the first row, two men pose lying down with a football. Six men, including a man in a suit, tie and hat, sit in the second row, and five men sit in the third.
Date: unknown

Music Group

Description: Copy photograph of a Howard Payne College band posing with their instruments in three rows. Three women and four men stand in the back row, two women and one man sit in chairs in the second row, and four men and one child sit in the first. To their right is a drum with "Howard Payne College 1906" written on it.
Date: unknown

Portraits of Men

Description: Copy negative of a page of portraits with a handwritten label at the bottom that reads: "Theophilian Literary Society. Howard Payne College. Brownwood, Texas. 1909." There are sixty oval-shaped portraits of young men in suits. The portraits are arranged in six rows on the page and the name of each student is written below (some names are partially or completely illegible).
Date: unknown

Portraits of Women

Description: Copy photograph of a page from a Howard Payne College yearbook displaying the portraits of the forty-six women that make up the JSH Literary Society. The letters "JSH" appear in the middle of the page, and the "S" is backward.
Date: unknown

Map of Portions of Eastland, Brown, and Comanche Counties

Description: Blue line print of survey map of portions of Eastland, Brown, and Comanche Counties in Texas, showing rivers, creeks, towns, boundaries, original land grants or surveys, roads, and blocks of land. The blocks of land colored yellow denote Texas and Pacific Railway Company land. A diagram of a section is included in the lower-right corner. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Date: July 1, 1967
Creator: Stakemann, M.

[Letter from Gordon Griffin to Members of the Texas Service Stations, Associated, April 9, 1955]

Description: Letter from Gordon Griffin to Members of the Texas Service Stations, Associated discussing a bill regarding the taxation of trading stamps. Mr. Griffin attaches a copy of an audit by Walter Leach. The audit was on questionnaires about trading stamps from the Texas Retail Grocers Association and the Texas Service Stations, Associated.
Date: April 9, 1955
Creator: Griffin, Gordon

Brownwood

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Brownwood, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet) and spot heights. A location diagram is included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Location: None

[Letter from Harry E. Rather to T. N. Carswell - July 13, 1943]

Description: A letter written to Mr. Thos. N. Carswell, c/o Local Board No. 1, Selective Service, Brownwood, Texas, from Harry E. Rather, Department Adjutant, The American Legion, Austin, Texas, dated July 13, 1943. Rather recounts the events of the morning both before and after they received Carswell's letter, describes the new membership as a pleasant surprise and advises that Carswell has saved his Division while reviving a "goose-egg" Post.
Date: July 13, 1943
Creator: Rather, Harry E.

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Robert G. Davis, Daniel Baker College - May 29, 1942]

Description: A letter written to Dr. Robert G. Davis, President, Daniel Baker College, Brownwood, Texas, from T. N. Carswell, Chairman 24th Senatorial District Drys, dated May 29, 1942. Carswell requests a reply to a letter written on March 6 in regards to the question of what Christian Colleges are doing about the use of Beverage Alcohol.
Date: May 29, 1942
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
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