Catholic Church and St. Mary's Academy, Marshall, Tex.

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Sepia postcard showing the Catholic Church and St. Mary's Academy, Marshall, Texas. An unpaved road is in the foreground. Behind a picket fence stands St. Mary's Academy on the right, a two story wood building with two-story porches along both visible sides. The church building stands to the left of that, a Gothic revival building with a steeply-pitched gable roof and a bell tower and entrance porch projecting from the facade. The church is faced with vertical wood siding. On top of the bell tower is a tall steeple with a cross on top. A small one-story wood cottage with … continued below

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1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.

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Creator: Unknown. [1907..1915].

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This postcard is part of the collection entitled: Sims McCutchan Collection and was provided by the Harrison County Historical Museum to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 16 times. More information about this postcard can be viewed below.

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Harrison County Historical Museum

The Harrison County Historical Museum’s Inez Hatley Hughes Historical Research Center provides opportunities to explore the past of Harrison County and Texas through its archive and artifact collections. As a county history preservation and research center, it collects, preserves, and makes available photographs, documents, books, and artifacts related to the history of Harrison County, its county seat Marshall, and Texas.

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Sepia postcard showing the Catholic Church and St. Mary's Academy, Marshall, Texas. An unpaved road is in the foreground. Behind a picket fence stands St. Mary's Academy on the right, a two story wood building with two-story porches along both visible sides. The church building stands to the left of that, a Gothic revival building with a steeply-pitched gable roof and a bell tower and entrance porch projecting from the facade. The church is faced with vertical wood siding. On top of the bell tower is a tall steeple with a cross on top. A small one-story wood cottage with gable roof is visible to the left of the church. Several trees are growing beside the church and in front of the school. Two telephone poles are on the side of the road. Printed in red ink on the top of the image is the title, "Catholic Church and St. Mary's Academy, Marshall, Tex." Printed in red ink on the back of the card in the lower left corner is: "Made in Germany," the code K 13413, and within a circle with two wings on the sides are the initials SL & Co., which was the logo of the New York City postcard publisher Samuel Langdorf & Co. There is no postmark or message on the back of the card.

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1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.

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Sims McCutchan Collection

Sims McCutchan’s collection of photographs, ephemera, and postcards provides documentation of many aspects of the history of Marshall, Texas, from the 19th through the mid-20th centuries.

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  • Dec. 7, 2022, 9:33 p.m.

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Catholic Church and St. Mary's Academy, Marshall, Tex., postcard, [1907..1915]; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1512273/: accessed May 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrison County Historical Museum.

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