T. and P. Hospital, Marshall, Texas

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Color tinted halftone postcard of the Texas & Pacific Railway Hospital, in Marshall, Texas, from around 1916. The view shows a grassy area in the foreground with a curving path and two trees. A man stands at the foot of one of the trees. The hospital appears to be a grouping of small residential-scale buildings with wood siding. The largest, on the left side of the card consists of two stories with a hipped roof and a cross gable roof extending on one side. A one story porch extends across the facade and part of one side. Smaller buildings are … continued below

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1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm.

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Curt Teich & Co. 1916~.

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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 38 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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Color tinted halftone postcard of the Texas & Pacific Railway Hospital, in Marshall, Texas, from around 1916. The view shows a grassy area in the foreground with a curving path and two trees. A man stands at the foot of one of the trees. The hospital appears to be a grouping of small residential-scale buildings with wood siding. The largest, on the left side of the card consists of two stories with a hipped roof and a cross gable roof extending on one side. A one story porch extends across the facade and part of one side. Smaller buildings are behind the front building. Printed below the image is the title, "T. & P. Hospital, Marshall, Texas." Printed on the back between the message and address sections: "C. T. American Art" and a small logo of a circle with the letters C T Co overlapping in the center and Chicago below them. The code A-68240 is printed above the address section. There is no postmark or address, but the following note is written in the message space: "Have to pay a dollar a month toward the upkeep of this. Hope I never have to use it. But that aint [sic] likely."

Physical Description

1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm.

Notes

The date of 1916 is based on the document "Guide to Dating Curt Teich Postcards," produced by the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. https://www.newberry.org/sites/default/files/researchguide-attachments/Teich_Postcard_Dating_Guide_2016.pdf

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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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  • 1916~

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  • Oct. 19, 2022, 9:35 p.m.

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  • Dec. 7, 2022, 6:52 p.m.

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Curt Teich & Co. T. and P. Hospital, Marshall, Texas, postcard, 1916~; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1512301/: 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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