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[Postcard of a Man and Baby]

Description: Postcard of a man and baby photographed outdoors. The man, wearing a suit, stands in the background beside a tree while the baby, in a white dress, stands in the foreground looking at the ground. No message is written on the back of the postcard.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Photograph of Galveston Island Hurricane]

Description: Photograph of the Galveston Island hurricane. The Ursuline Convent and Ursuline School, built by Nicholas Clayton in Galveston, can be seen with wreckage in the foreground. It stood on the block bounded by 25th Street and 27th Streets, between Avenue's N and O.
Date: 1900
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Bridge Being Built over the Brazos River]

Description: Photograph of a group of men building a truss bridge over the Brazos River. Many of the bridge's vertical and crossed beams are already in place. A crane on the right rests on a rail track that extends onto the bridge. Men stand idle to the left with barrels, tools, and a pile of rope at their feet.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palo Pinto County Historical Association

[Indian Creek School]

Description: Photograph of a group of people posing in front of a music school in Indian Creek, Texas. They are arranged three vague rows behind a piano. Most are holding booklets. A woman and five young girls are sitting on the ground to the right.
Date: 1900
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palo Pinto County Historical Association

[Indian Creek School]

Description: Photograph of a group of people posing in front of the Indian Creek School for music in Palo Pinto County, Texas. They are arranged in four vague rows behind a piano. Most are holding booklets. Most of the group members are men but for three women positioned beside and in front of the piano.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palo Pinto County Historical Association

[Photograph of the Hopkins Family]

Description: Photograph of the Hopkins family posing together in front of a wooden building that is identified as Jesse Hayes' place. Two pairs of men and women stand behind a group of children and an elderly woman. Both men wear dark cowboy hats, though the man on the left wear suspenders while the man on the right wears a jacket. Both women are wearing white dresses. The elderly woman seated to the left is wearing a dark dress and holds a handkerchief in her right hand. Eight young children of various age… more
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palo Pinto County Historical Association

Belle of the Ball

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about a fictitious story explaining scenes, people, and events a young woman in the early 1900s might have experienced.
Date: January 21, 1971
Creator: Newton, Larue
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Carbon Mineral Water Company and Bath House]

Description: Photograph of people standing outside of a wooden building that has "Mineral Water Well No. 1. Bath House" written along its overhang. The crowd is mostly comprised of men wearing suits and hats, though five women can be seen on the porch to the left. Horse-drawn carts flank the structure. "Carbon Mineral Water Co." is written in script on a sign that is suspended from one of the building's gables.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Freemasons in Front of the Carbon Mineral Water Company and Bath House]

Description: Photograph of a group of men on- and in front of the porch of the Carbon Mineral Water Company and Bath House. Twelve men wearing dark suits, white aprons, and ornate collars bearing Freemason imagery. The men standing on the ground below the porch are wearing suits and white aprons. A door labeled "Office" is visible behind the men on the porch. Someone is standing within the doorway. The man standing on the ground a hat over his chest is identified as Custer Cox. The man on the top right with… more
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Portrait of a Group of Men and One Woman]

Description: Portrait of a group of eleven formally dressed men in three rows, either standing, sitting in chairs or sitting on the floor. In the middle of the group, sitting in a chair, is one woman wearing a white dress. Photograph border includes the name and logo of the portrait studio, "Driver, Commerce, Tex."
Date: 1900~
Creator: Driver
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Portrait of a Couple]

Description: Portrait of couple wearing formal clothing. Woman is seated while man is standing. Photo is mounted on a brown frame with the name of the studio printed, "Howse Bros. Studio, Ladonia, Texas."
Date: 1900~
Creator: Howse Bros. Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Chon Dominquez

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Chon Dominguez, who made trips every week to Shafter, Texas, carrying tanks of oil for the usage of the mine machinery. Grammatical corrections are made in red ink, and the questions posed in red ink are answered or clarified in blue ink on the back of the preceding page.
Date: 1966
Creator: Quintanan, Frankie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Memorial Service: Kathleen Menard - April 24, 1978]

Description: Script for the memorial service of Kathleen Menard at Nalley-Pickle Rosewood Chapel on the morning of April 24, 1978. Kathleen Menard attend and graduated valedictorian form Marfa High School in Marfa, Texas. Kathleen Menard was deeply devoted to her father, Frank Duncan, and helped him in his photography business.
Date: 1978
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Biography of Mr. Victor Dominguez

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Mr. Victor Dominguez, who was an employee at the Murphy-Walker Grocery Store in Marfa, Texas, until her started a taxi stand, and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Dominguez, Sr., a ranching family.
Date: 1966
Creator: Dominguez, Alice
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library
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