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History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties.

Description: Book containing a brief overview of the state of Texas and more specific focus on six specific counties, with extensive biographical sketches about persons related to the history of those places. An alphabetical index of persons who are included follows the table of contents at the front of the book.
Date: 1893
Creator: Lewis Publishing Company
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Portrait of a Mother and Her Two Children]

Description: Black and white portrait of Hansigne Larsen Wind and her two children, Ebbe and Abelone. Hansigne is seated in a wooden chair and is dressed in a long, dark gown. The children are standing on either side of Hansigne, with their arms placed in her lap. The back of the mat has a handwritten note which says, "Leaving Iowa to visit mother's family taken in 1895. Mother Ebbe. Daddy left for Tex in 1894, Oct. We 3 joined him here in June 1895."
Date: 1895
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

The A. S. G.

Description: Photograph of a group of people labeled as The A. S. G. They are standing under trees and are wearing pioneer clothing. A Conestoga wagon stands to the left of the group.
Date: June 1896
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

The A. S. G. 96

Description: Photograph of a group of people labeled as The A. S. G. They are standing under trees and are wearing pioneer clothing. A Conestoga wagon stands to the left of the group.
Date: June 1896
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

[Group of Pioneers]

Description: Photograph of a group of men and women pioneers. L-R: Fay Turner-now Mrs. J.B. Chase of Boston, Ray Orgain-artist and designer in NY, Grace Elser-now Mrs. Hammett Hardy, May Tarlton and John Tarlton, with guitar, Bert Rose and Grace Hollingsworth behind, Gene Orgain, Lena Evans-now Mrs. Ed Callier of Dallas, Maurice Winfrey with parasol, Frances Tarlton-now Mrs. Lee Ellis.
Date: 1897~
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Nine People on Horseback]

Description: Photograph of nine people on horseback in front of the three story Shackelford County Courthouse. The people are, from left to right: Laura Reynolds; Mary Conrad; Annie Lou Powell; Ewing House; Merle Reynolds (on "Jumbo"); Ethel Matthews (on "Geronimo"); Will Larn; Lucile Matthews (on "Chappo"); and Fern Newcomb. They are wearing pioneer clothing.
Date: 1897
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

[Photograph of West Texas Picnic]

Description: Photograph of three women and a man eating in a field with four horses. Written on the back of the photo, "A pioneer West Texas picnic party, Misses Mary, Annie and Lelia Smith, and George Mayes eating watermelon which washed down the Blanco Canyon during a flood in 1899."
Date: 1899
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Hereford Residents]

Description: Photograph of early settlers of Hereford, Texas. The adults stand by the wagon on the right, and the children sit on the grass. There is a white horse by the two wagons on the left, and another dark horse on the far right.
Date: 1900
Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
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