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Our Home in Texas

Description: Postcard, Our Home in Texas. Wire fence in foreground. Man and dog on left. Children in between man and woman. Horses in background. Farmhouse on right. Barn on left with "H.F. Pitstick" painted on it.
Date: 1909
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Rosenberg High School students in front of open doors]

Description: Photographic postcard of Rosenberg High School students, 1919. Norveil Phillippi may be second boy from left on top row. The students are standing/sitting in the open double doorway of the brick building.
Date: 1919
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Rosenberg Public School in 1907]

Description: Photographic postcard of Rosenberg Public School, 1907. Mailed from Needville to Zionsville, IN April 23 1907 to David Phillippi. Bottom of postcard reads: Here is where you will go to school will send Norvel (?) a different one. The school building is a two story wooden building with an enclosure above the front porch. The building has a wooden fence around it. Wooden buildings in the background.
Date: April 23, 1907
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Group of people in front of a locomotive at Rosenberg, TX c. 1914]

Description: Photographic postcard of Locomotive at Rosenberg, TX, ca. 1914. Banner on locomotive reads, Santa Fe type mallet articulated compound locomotive. Largest locomotive in the world. Built at Topeka Shops. . . 1911 People are gathered along locomotive to view it. Harvey House in right background.
Date: 1914
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Rosenberg Public School students c. 1917]

Description: Photographic postcard of Rosenberg Public School students, ca. 1917. Four rows of students are standing in front of a white wooden building. Building has vines climbing up wall to far right of photo. Adult male standing on left of photo wearing a dark three-piece suit with white shirt.
Date: 1917
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Rosenberg Public School students c. 1916]

Description: Photographic postcard of Rosenberg Public School students, ca. 1916. Students are standing in front of a white wooden building. The teacher, wearing a dark three-piece suit, is standing to the right of photo. He has his hands behind his back. A bicycle wheel can be seen on far right of photo.
Date: 1916
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Portrait of Potato Farmers]

Description: Postcard of potato farmers in Fort Bend County. There is a man on a mule-drawn wagon in foreground. Photograph may be of prison farm laborers working in the field.
Date: 1909
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Rosenberg Public School students in front of closed doors]

Description: Photographic postcard of Rosenberg Public School students, 1919. Norveil Phillippi may be third boy from left on top row. The group of students are standing/seated in front of the double (closed) doors of the brick building. An adult woman dressed in dark skirt and jacket with white shirt (has large rounded collar) is sitting fifth from left in second row.
Date: 1919
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[West end of Rosenberg]

Description: Photographic postcard West end of Rosenberg, showing curve in road. Railroad overpass in background. Postcard mailed from Norveil Phillippi to his mother, Hattie Phillippi in Indianapolis, IN, May 9, 1932.
Date: May 9, 1932
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Railroad station in Rosenberg, TX]

Description: Photographic postcard of G.C.-S.F. and G.H.-S.A. station at Rosenberg, TX. Power line parallels two sets of RR tracks. Station is white building at center. Two water towers are visible behind and left of the station.
Date: unknown
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

["Main Street" in downtown Rosenberg, TX]

Description: Photographic postcard of downtown Rosenberg, TX, ca. 1920. left corner shows Eagle Cafe; Meyer-Forster Land and Loan is on right corner. Automobiles are parked along the streets.
Date: 1920
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Two children and three dogs in Rosenberg, TX]

Description: Photographic postcard of two children and three dogs in front of two story house in Rosenberg, TX. Boy is probably Norveil Phillippi. Reverse side is marked in pencil, This is the picture of our home. Hattie is Norveil Phillippi's mother. The family moved to the Rosenberg area between 1904 and 1908.
Date: 1916
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Brazos River bridge in Rosenberg. The river is dry under the bridge.]

Description: Postcard, Brazos River bridge, Rosenberg, perhaps at end of construction. A horse drawn buggy with a man driving it is on the bridge. Two adults and two children are also on the bridge. Two men are standing under the bridge in the foreground.
Date: 1909
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Men plowing (busting) land.]

Description: Postcard image of men plowing (busting) land. Three men on equipment behind tractor. Two men standing near automobile and one man in automobile.
Date: unknown
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Postcard from the Carry Nation Home in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.]

Description: Photographic postcard of the Carry Nation Home in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Two images appear on the postcard. On left, an exterior view of the house - a white wooden two story building with front porch and railed balcony. Potted fern hanging baskets can be seen hanging from the top of the porch. An American flag is flying from the second story balcony. A sign proclaiming the building as "Hatchet Hall" can be seen just below the flag. Another free-standing sign to the right of the sidewalk in f… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[500 Turkeys in Sugar Land]

Description: Postcard, Sugar Land, 500 Turkeys. Tenant cabins in background. Turkeys in center of photo. African-American man walking in (left) background.
Date: 1909
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[South Texas Prairie, car driving on the dirt road]

Description: Postcard, South Texas Prairie. Car on dirt road to the left of the photo. Fence line runs through center of photo. Farm house surrounded by trees is in the background.
Date: 1909
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Hogs and pumpkins in Sugar Land]

Description: Postcard, Hogs and pumpkins, Sugar Land. Pumpkins in foreground. Hogs in center of photo. Fence in background. Small white, wooden building in (far left) background.
Date: 1909
Partner: Fort Bend Museum
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