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[Adults and Children Gather for Country Sporting Event]

Description: Photograph of a group of people posing together for a country sporting event. Older girls and women stand to the left and older boys and men stand to the right behind a fence. Many of them are carrying farming implements. A mixed group of younger children sits by an open gate on the left. A small livestock pen has a boy seated beside it to the right. The heads of two reined horses are visible in the foreground at the bottom of the photo.
Date: 1896%

[Custer Cox and Schoolchildren]

Description: Photograph of a group of boys and girls of various ages standing with Custer Cox in front of the door of a schoolhouse. The group is arranged in three rows, with younger children standing in the front and middle rows and older children standing on either side of Custer Cox in the back row. Cox is wearing a suit with a boutonniere and stiff white collar. The children in the front row are barefoot. A handwritten note on the reverse side of the mat says "Custer might be teacher."
Date: 1896~

[Early Physicians of Coryell County, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a group of physicians wearing suits, vests, and ties. The men are arranged in front of a backdrop painted to resemble an ornate archway. A fur rug lies below them. Five of the men sit on a tasseled chaise longue. The man sitting in the center is identified as O. G. Gilder, and the man at the right end is E. B. Baker. The standing man is Andrew Graves.
Date: 1898~

[Eighteen Women in a Photography Studio]

Description: Photograph of a group of eighteen reunited school friends sitting in front of a photography studio's forest backdrop. The women are wearing dresses and are arranged in three rows. They are identified on the back of the photo. "Josey Girls of 1898 - 1899" is handwritten on the mat above the photo.
Date: [1898..1899]

[Joyce Family Outside of a Home]

Description: Photograph of the Joyce family posing in front of a house. Three women and two men stand in the back row, with the two men holding very young children. Two elderly men and a woman sit beside a younger woman who is flanked by a standing boy and girl. The blurry image of a dog can be seen to the right. Two of the people present are identified as John Dell Joyce and Sarah Abigail Joyce.
Date: 1895~

[Lone Star Brass Band]

Description: Photograph of members of the Lone Star brass band posing together with their instruments. The thirteen white men are arranged in three rows, with six standing in the background, five kneeling in the middle, and two sitting in front. A bass drum to the right has the words "Carbon Band" written along its rim and "Lone" written above a star. A United States flag hangs in the background to the left. The leftmost man in the back row is identified as Custer Cox.
Date: 1896~

[Photograph of the Children of Almis and Alice Newton]

Description: Copy print photograph of a black and white portrait of the children of Almis and Alice Newton standing together in front of a wooden house and window. A crate topped with a bucket can be seen to the right. The children are identified from the left as Ada, Monroe, W. A. (Buddy), Carl, Minnie, and Maggie. The portrait is lying against a dark blue sofa.Original photograph taken ~1897, copy photo taken 1998
Date: 1897
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