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[Keepsake and letter]

Description: Scan of a keepsake next to a letter, the letter reads "I made this little keepsake from a counter---- which was woven by my grandmother from home --- thread and given to my mother on her wedding day May 15, 1834. Mother, December 25, 1915. Two negro women with a child were given her also - wouldn't they make queer bridal presents for this century? Who can say Christianity is not making ----!"
Date: 1843/1915

[Portrait of Byrd Sr.]

Description: Portrait of Byrd Williams Senior with a blank expression on his face. He is wearing a suit with a bowtie and has a walrus style mustache. Byrd is standing with one arm resting on the back of a chair.
Date: [1848..1895]

[Portrait of Byrd Williams Senior]

Description: Portrait of Byrd Williams Senior with a blank expression on his face. He is wearing a suit with a bowtie and has a walrus style mustache.
Date: [1848..1895]

[Ambrotype of an unknown woman and child]

Description: Photograph of an ambrotype photograph of an unknown woman and a child in an case. It was in the belongings of Byrd Moore Williams upon moving to Texas from Tennessee, and only has the word "Johnson" on it.
Date: 1850/1870
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Sr.

[One-Thousand dollar note]

Description: A one-thousand dollar note made out from the Confederate States of American, willing to pay to bearer one-thousand dollars with interest of ten cents per day --- 28th, 1961.
Date: 1861

[Photograph of Charles Dickens sitting at table with book]

Description: Photograph of Charles Dickens sitting at a table and holding up a book with his hand. There are other items on the table as well and drapes behind the table handing from the ceiling. It appears that the table and chiar are on a raised platform. A stamp in the bottom left corner reads "London Stereoscopic Coy Copyright".
Date: 1861
Creator: C. Natkins

[Photograph of Charles Dickens pulling on wrist-cuff]

Description: Photograph of Charles Dickens, author, standing beside a desk and chair in a full suit and long jacket. One hand is tugging at the jacket-cuff of his other and on the table beside him is an upturned top hat. There is detailed wainscoting on the wall behind him.
Date: 1867
Creator: Mason & Co London

[Photograph of Charles Dickens writing at desk]

Description: Photograph of Charles Dickens, author, sitting in a wooden and padded chair at a cluttered desk and writing on papers. He is wearing a dress coat and shiny shoes. A curtain hanging from the ceiling is draped in the corner over the desk and a top hat is on the ground beside the chair.
Date: 1868
Creator: J. Gurney & Son

[Rio Grande Railroad]

Description: Photograph of a group of men gathered on a wooden platform, looking at the camera. A locomotive is stopped on the tracks next to them, with railcars attached to it. The railroad was built in 1868 in Isabel, Texas.
Date: [1868..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
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