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[Postcard of a Woman and Child]

Description: Postcard depicting an unidentified woman, next to a wide bucket, seated with a child standing in front of her lap. Another woman, at left, offers an object to the child, while another individual stands at right holding a vessel. A crowd of people stand behind the bucket.
Date: unknown
Partner: Witte Museum

[Postcard of Two Adults Among Children #2]

Description: Postcard depicting two adults standing amid a large gathering of children outside a large building. The children wear hats and plain garbs, and the two adults, one woman (left) and one man (right) are also dressed in dark colors. The man wears a uniform resembling that of an early 20th-century soldier.
Date: unknown
Partner: Witte Museum

[Postcard of a Woman]

Description: Postcard depicting an unidentified woman stand in front of a crowd. She dons a light-colored hat and holds a wrapped item or stuffed animal in her hands, wearing mittens.
Date: unknown
Partner: Witte Museum

[Postcard of a Gathering]

Description: Postcard depicting a group of people seated around a wide metal bucket. A woman, seated in a dress, holds out a narrow spoon over the bucket (left), while another, clasping a bucket in her left hand and a child's hand in her right hand, stands and looks outward (right). Several people are seated behind the bucket.
Date: unknown
Partner: Witte Museum

[Postcard of Two Adults Among Children #1]

Description: Postcard depicting a large gathering of children outside a large building, with two adults standing amid the crowd. The children wear hats and plain garbs, and the two adults, one woman (left) and one man (right) are also dressed in dark colors. The man wears a uniform resembling that of an early 20th-century soldier.
Date: unknown
Partner: Witte Museum

[Three Men Standing]

Description: Postcard of three men standing on a wooden pier or bridge. They wear coats and hats, looking forward. Behind them are a set of bleachers and a large wooden lattice covered with ivies.
Date: unknown
Partner: Witte Museum

[Two Men and Tarpon]

Description: Postcard of two men with a catch of tarpon pinned on a stick along a beach coast. The man at right poses with a cigar and a fishing rod. Fishing boats are beached behind the two.
Date: 1912?
Partner: Witte Museum

[Postcard to James Ferdinand McCan - June 1924]

Description: Postcard to James Ferdinand McCan from a priest at the Grand Canyon. The priest writes of seeing McCan's painting, "The Monarch of the Golden West", and expresses appreciation for it. The front of the postcard is a view of the Grand Canyon from Yavapai Point, looking north.
Date: June 1924
Partner: Witte Museum

[Knights of Columbus Hall, Waco]

Description: Postcard of the Knights of Columbus Hall in Waco, Texas, a two-story hip-roofed building with a set of stairs and a portico extending from the entrance of the building. The Knights of Columbus emblem is placed on the portico, under the tiled roof, with gas lamps adjoining on both sides of the portico's pillars. Above the portico is a balcony with short stone corner pillars. Sidewalks and turf adjoin the building.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Franklin Street, Waco]

Description: Postcard image of Franklin Street in Waco, Texas, a wide paved road lined with large stone and brick buildings and shops. Horse-drawn carriages traverse down the road, near striped awnings and porch-like canopies. At left is a large, narrow teal tower with balconies and a spire. Other towers are along the right, heading into the background, with cone tops on towers along building facades.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Fifth Street, South from Austin Avenue]

Description: Postcard image of Fifth Street, looking south from Austin Avenue, in Waco, Texas. The road is at center, paved and filled with carriages and pedestrians, with a streetcar rail line embedded into the street. Large multi-storied stone and brick buildings stand on all four corners of the street, including a drug store with a prominent sign at right, and a home furnishings store in a light-colored building at left.
Date: unknown
Location: 31.556731 -97.131886
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[William A. Kendrick and Richard Hamorsky Exhibition Invitation]

Description: Postcard invitation to an exhibition of works by William A. Kendrick, a Texas landscape artist, and Richard Hamorszky, a bronze sculptor, at the Art Center of Waco. The front of the postcard shows a painting by Kendrick and a bronze sculpture by Hamorszky. Information about the exhibition is printed on the back of the postcard, along with directions to the Art Center, visiting hours, and dates.
Date: 2014
Creator: Art Center (Waco, Tex.)
Location: 31.591423 -97.170713
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard from Penelope and Charles Torter to Richard Morgan]

Description: Letter to Richard Morgan (1877–1964), rector of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Bonham lodging at the Dupont Hotel in Wilmington, Delaware, from Charles and Penelope Torter. The front of the postcard depicts the west side of the Courthouse Square in Bonham, looking north from Main Street. Buildings line the west and north side of the square, including the First National Bank building on the street corner. Cars drive along the paved road at left and are parked on the curb at right, alongsid… more
Date: [1891..1915]
Creator: Torter, Charles & Torter, Penelope
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[Postcard to Miss Eddie Handy - May 8, 1909]

Description: Postcard from Midland addressed to Miss Eddie Handy[?] in Maverick, Texas. The front of the postcard depicts a Fourth of July parade in downtown Midland, going down Main Street with the Llano Hotel at left and several pedestrians and parked carriages watching horse-drawn parade floats and decorated cars.
Date: May 8, 1909
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[James and Henry McCan with Tarpon]

Description: Postcard of James Ferdinand and Henry McCan with a catch of three large tarpon hung on a rafter. Both men stand with their fishing rods.
Date: 1912
Partner: Witte Museum

[Artillery at Mounted Drill, Camp MacArthur]

Description: Postcard of artillery at a mounted drill exercise at Camp MacArthur, Waco. Artillery batteries on wheels are pulled by horses mounted by soldiers, riding on a plain dirt field and picking up dust behind them. Other cavalry riders follow.
Date: 1917~/1919~
Creator: Mann, Fred
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Company B Football Team, 127th Infantry Regiment]

Description: Postcard of a football team from the 127th Infantry Regiment, Company B. They mostly wear light-colored striped shirts, standing in two rows. A man at center, along the bottom row, holds a ball; a goalie with a dark shirt is seated at second from right with a helmet. One of the seated men, first from left, holds a white dog. The men stand in front of the encampments at Camp MacArthur.
Date: 1917~/1919~
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Company Street, Camp MacArthur]

Description: Postcard of a company street at Camp MacArthur, with encampments alongside a dirt road. Two buildings are specified in pen: a bath house, a low rectangular building at center left, and a space between two camps at right, which shows where the stove is.
Date: 1918-03-15/1918-10-20
Creator: Mann, Fred
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Wallace Carvell in Uniform]

Description: Postcard of Wallace Carvell, a World War I soldier, in uniform. He stands straight with his chin raised in front of an Alamo backdrop.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[F. C. Olds' Residence, Waco]

Description: Postcard of Frederick Charles Olds' residence on Austin Avenue, Waco. The house here is a two-storied house with a large portico set on stone pillars and balconies on both floors extending in both directions for the house's front facade. A covered driveway juts out from the house's side at left, with a paved pathway leading up to the side of the house.
Date: December 24, 1908
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Waco Suspension Bridge During a Brazos River Flood]

Description: Postcard depicting a flood on the Brazos River, with the Waco Suspension Bridge in the background. The floodwaters nearly reach the bridge's deck and lap onto its side. Multiple buildings are visible on the left side of the river.
Date: 1913
Creator: McCall
Location: 31.561204 -97.127150
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Flood Damage in East Waco]

Description: Postcard of a flood and damage on Elm Street in East Waco. The floodwater appears to be knee-high, and houses are upturned and pushed aside, with fences felled, power lines tipping, and debris floating in the water. A carriage pulled by a horse pulls a handful of people eastwards, towards the photographer. Numerous intact buildings are behind the damaged structures, and in the far background, the silhouette of the ALICO building is visible.
Date: 1913
Creator: McCall
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Downtown in Wortham, Texas]

Description: Postcard of downtown in Wortham, Texas. Dozens of black cars are parked on the road's curbs, lined with tall and narrow shop buildings. A bustling crowd walks under power lines along the sidewalk and across the roads.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jackson
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Sawing Wood for the Cook, Camp MacArthur]

Description: Postcard of soldiers sawing logs of wood on a saw horse. Two workers hold a bow saw, while another holds it down on the saw horse. To the left are piles of uncut wood.
Date: 1917~/1919~
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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