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[Valentine's Day Card]

Description: Valentine's Day card, specifically for a sister, with a red rose on the front of it and a typed note inside. A handwritten note on the back of the card says, "Was just wishing I had Valentines to send and took a walk down the avenue and found these - I'm not going to try to live up to all this loving talk in these. I feel a lot of it though. Ruth is in bed today with cold. Hope she is better tomorrow for we are to have turkey dinner with them Monday night. Have had a hard time getting a visit w… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Birthday Greeting Card]

Description: Birthday greeting card with a red ribbon running through it. The card has a picture of an older woman surrounded with a wreath of flowers, and includes text: "Greetings from 'Mama Sue' on her ninetieth birthday, December 25, 1948."
Date: December 1948
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[School Report Card and Class Roster]

Description: School report card and class roster, including grades for arithmetic, reading, spelling, and writing. The students listed are Alice Hammer, Ella Hammer, Granville Twity, Roy Thompson, Melvin Tarver, Gay Tarver, Ora Parker, Flora Parker, Roy Parker, Elma Parker, Sam Crownover, Charlie Moore, Eva Moore, Willie Click, Lewis Click, Ralph Hollis, Floyd Clutter, Frank Click, Henry Apple, Frank Hollis, and Lillie Apple.
Date: [1900..1901]
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[1949 Inauguration Ticket]

Description: Ticket to the 1949 inauguration ceremonies. The ticket reads: "President's Platform. Inauguration Ceremonies. January Twentieth, 1949. Admit the Bearer to the Senate Wing of the Capitol and through the Rotunda Door to the President's Platform" and is signed "Carl Hayden, Chairman, Committee on Arrangements." The back of the invitation is signed "Joseph C. Duke, Sergeant at Arms, U. S. Senate."
Date: January 20, 1949
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[1949 Inauguration Event Schedule]

Description: Card with a schedule of events for the 1949 inauguration written on it. The events range from Saturday, January 18 to Thursday, January 23, and include dinners at the Mayflower Hotel and a buffet luncheon at the White House.
Date: [1949-01-18..1949-01-23]
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Flower Label from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Sam Rayburn]

Description: Label for flowers sent to Sam Rayburn in honor of his sixtieth birthday from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The label has a picture of The White House and is addressed to "The Speaker of The House of Representatives." At the bottom of the label is text which reads "Perishable flowers. Keep from frost and extreme heat."
Date: January 6, 1941
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Congressional Record Page, Sixty-Third Congress, Third Session]

Description: Congressional Record page from the 63rd Congress, 3rd session. The page includes a speech by Hon. William Kettner of California in the House of Representatives, a letter written by W. R. Hervy, and another letter written by Motley, Hewes Flint, Dana Reid Weller, William Rhodes Hervey, and Samuel E. Burke, all past Grand Masters of Masons. The speech and letters are related to the Los Angeles investigation into "The Alleged Oath or Obligation of the Knights of Columbus."
Date: January 29, 1915
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Group Portrait of Men and Women]

Description: Photograph of a group of men and women dressed up and standing in front of a house. One man is wearing a chef's hat, and another man and two women are wearing all-white suits. Two men in the front row have ribbons on their lapels, though the text on the ribbons is not legible. The address number if the house is 1510.
Date: unknown
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Photograph of Old Corner Drug Store]

Description: Copy negative of a postcard with an image of a building in West, Texas with two signs: "D & C Blume" and "Old Corner Drug Store," and a wagon parked in the street next to it. Printed text at the top of the postcard says "Old Corner Drug Store and Side Street, West, Tex." It was mailed September 1910.
Date: March 29, 1973
Partner: Dublin Historical Museum

[Photograph of Horse Creek Bridge]

Description: Copy negative of a postcard with an image of Horse Creek Bridge in Comanche, Texas. A handwritten note at the top of the postcard says: " Will sure visit S'-ville in a short time. Are anxious to see you. Can't you come over soon? Lovingly, E. W."
Date: March 29, 1973
Partner: Dublin Historical Museum
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