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[Art Print of the Matlock Home]

Description: Art print of an artist's rendition of the Matlock Home near Murphy, Texas; the house is two stories with windows along the upper and lower floors. The note printed on the reverse side of the picture says this was made "before the house was razed and replaced with a modern brick home." The note further says that Milton Meredith Matlock built it "when he settled on the land just South of the Back Homeplace."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Christmas Card with a Short Poem]

Description: Christmas card from Fowler's Grocery with an illustration of a snowy scene and a piece of text printed below that wishes a Happy New Year and Merry Christmas; at the end the note says thank you "for your business during the past year."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Christmas Postcard to a Mother]

Description: Christmas postcard from an individual to their mother saying they are sending a lot of cards and she should send them to whoever she wants to. The illustration on the front of the card shows a Santa Claus surrounded by children; he is holding a tablet that says: "My Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas."
Date: 191u-12
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Class Prophecy for the 1907 Class of Texas Baptist University]

Description: Class prophecy describing a person's eventful day dream that included a woman creating pictures in the room of different individuals; the pictures continue to appear and then disappear and showing different women in different locations. The last line of the piece comes after the person had awoken: "I was forced to turn from the glamers into the future and come back to the tasks of the present."
Date: 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Land Deed to the Church of Christ in Murphy, Texas]

Description: Land deed from James T. Murphy and Emma Murphy to R. A. Sale and Han Murphy for the "consideration of twenty dollars." The purchasers are elders "of the Church of Christ at Decator, Collin County," and the next paragraphs detail the perimeters of the land and the purposes of the land, that being "used for Church purposes."
Date: May 20, 1886
Creator: Taylor, Mrs. Frank H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Lee Frith Turney's Birth Certificate]

Description: Birth certificate of Lee Frith Turney that includes the names of his parents, his birth legitimacy, and location where he was born. The next two sections include affidavits saying the accuracy of the information, and that it has been accepted with the state registrar.
Date: January 22, 1942
Creator: Harwood, George W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Letter from the Trans-State Oil Company to R. B. McMillen, January 23, 1935]

Description: Letter from Claude Kavanaugh, of the Trans-State Oil Company, to R. B. McMillen concerning the value of Big Indian properties being highly valuable and "are going to be mad more valuable." This letter is in response to the huge amount of mail received by the unite holders from his original general letter. Also included is a flash announcement which, at the end, asks the unit holders to "sign and send in the enclosed proxy so that we may represent you...to defeat the present sale of the proper… more
Date: January 23, 1935
Creator: Kavanaugh, Claude
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Nelle King Turney's Birth Cirtificate]

Description: Birth certificate of Nelle King Turney from 1942 stating her parents' names, her full name, as well as two affidavits acknowledging the accuracy of the information printed above. Also included is a small certificate from the Collin County Clerk stating that the birth certificate is accurate and true.
Date: January 23, 1942
Creator: Hagy, W. C. & Neilson, H. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.
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