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[A young man wearing a striped three-piece suit.]

Description: Photograph of a young man wearing a striped three-piece suit. He has on a white shirt with a short tie of dark and white design. He has curly hair, parted on his left side. He has a short, thin mustache and short, trimmed beard. Photograph is mounted on tan cardboard substrata with red trim around edge. Bottom of photo reads in red: Blessing & Co. Galveston. Back of photo: B&C interwoven, Blessing & Co. 174 Tremont Street (written on drawn banner), Galveston. Vine in background. Top, right corn… more
Date: 1872
Creator: Blessing and Co.
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[William Kinchen Davis with gray hair and a gray mustache]

Description: Photograph of William Kinchen Davis. Davis, who has graying hair and gray mustache, is wearing a dark three-piece suit (watch fob across vest), white shirt, and dark tied tie. The top of a cane is visible to the bottom left center of the photograph. The portrait ends just below the waist. The photograph is mounted on a cardboard substrate. Back of photograph in ink: Wm D. Davis Richmond Texas; in pencil: 30 Proofs B235434 [lines] B24535-2 Single Columns (?) 2 3/4 x 3 1/2 WKD/Ph 2:2. In blue ink… more
Date: [1872..1875]
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

[Gideon Gooch]

Description: Gideon Johnson Gooch was born on April 3, 1844 and served as Mayor of Palestine from 1872 until 1873. He died on January 31, 1906 and is buried in the East Hill Section of the Palestine City Cemetery.
Date: 1872
Partner: Palestine Public Library

Mary Camp Gober

Description: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mary Camp Gober, age 46, looking into the camera. In writing on the back of the photograph: "Mrs. Mary Camp Gober, mother of Mrs. W. C. Wright. Mama's photograph was taken in Atlanta, GA, May 2, 1872, Age 46 yrs, 2 months, 12 days. The first Confederate woman from Denton County to be enrolled in the Stone Mountain Book of Memory is Mrs. Mary Camp Gober. The name of Mrs. Gober is the 3rd from Texas to be entered in the Silver Book memorializing wives of Confede… more
Date: May 2, 1872
Creator: J. T. Jones
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Confederate States Loan]

Description: A bond dated July 1872, guaranteeing "the sum of Fifty Dollars with Interest to be paid the the bearer of this bond, at the seat of government or such place of deposit as may be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury". It has John H. Reagan, Postmaster General of the Confederacy's photograph on it.
Date: July 1872
Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Richardson's new map of the state of Texas, prepared for the Texas almanac, 1873]

Description: Hand drawn color-shaded map showing counties, cities, rivers, creeks, railroads, roads, and topographical features of Texas as of 1872. Insets of Plan of Matagorda Bay, Plan of Galveston Bay, Plan of the northern part or panhandle of Texas, Plan of the great west, and Plan of Sabine Lake.
Date: 1872
Creator: G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Appointment certificate

Description: Appointment of Bryan Callaghan as Notary Public for Pecos County, Texas; notation on back of document indicates Callaghan was underage and the certificate returned
Date: May 19, 1872
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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