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[Abilene Graphic Arts Association Promotional Card, 1960]

Description: Card from the Abilene Graphic Arts Association promoting various printing companies from Abilene. The card face is mostly white, with a black triangle on the left side overlapping onto a red heart on the middle of the card and a yellow rectangle on the right side where the information is written. On the reverse is information about the printers in Abilene.
Date: 1960
Creator: Abilene Graphic Arts Association
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Aviator and Airplane]

Description: Postcard photograph labeled "Aviator Fowler and F. C. Olec Passinger at Abilene Tex. Copyright by Bradford Drug Co." Two men wearing dark-colored clothing are seen standing by an early bi-plane.
Date: unknown
Partner: McMurry University Library

[Blank Postcard of Women's Memorial Model]

Description: Blank postcard with a picture of a miniature model of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial built in Arlington National Cemetery. Text on the back can be seen with information on how to register a name with the memorial or to make donations.
Date: unknown
Creator: Women in Military Service for America Foundation (U.S.)
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Blank Women's Memorial Postcard]

Description: Blank postcard that has a colored, conceptual design drawing of The Women in Military Service for America Memorial. The postcard is included with a business envelope and a blank donation response paper.
Date: unknown
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Building Exteriors

Description: Copy photograph of two images. The first image, a postcard for Brownwood, Texas, is split into three smaller images. The left image is of Daniel Baker College, a three storey stone building. The center image shows a river scene and a child playing in the water. The right image shows Center Avenue, including traffic on the street and several storefronts. The second image shows the Brownwood courthouse, a two-storey stone building surrounded by a wooden fence.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Camp Barkeley Barracks]

Description: Postcard of the barracks area of the Armed Service Forces Training Center at Camp Barkeley in Abilene, Texas.
Date: [1941..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

Commercial Avenue, Looking North, Coleman, Texas

Description: Postcard featuring Commercial Avenue looking north towards the Coleman Courthouse. A mule team is in the center of the street and wagons are in front of stores on either side of the road.
Date: 1883~
Partner: Coleman Public Library

[Common Sense Exterminator]

Description: Postcard with an illustration of a rat wearing a top hat, pince-nez, and tails. According to the information on the back of the postcard, the image is from an early-twentieth century advertisement for rat poison.
Date: unknown
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Court House and Jail, Coleman, Texas

Description: Postcard of the courthouse and jail of Coleman, Texas. The image has been colorized, with the roof of the courthouse building tinted pink.
Date: 1883~
Creator: Bradford and Co.
Partner: Coleman Public Library

Courthouse Exterior

Description: Copy negative of the Taylor County Courthouse building in Abilene on a postcard. There are notes hand written on it by a woman named Gladys
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Early American Life Order Card]

Description: Order card from Early American Life Magazine for the Christmas season.
Date: [1985..]
Creator: Early American Life Magazine
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Four Men and Women Sitting on the Front Steps of a Building]

Description: Postcard featuring Dr. Manker, Mildred McClellan, Amelia Alexander, and Dr. Crawford sitting on the front steps of a house. Handwriting on the postcard indicates that they were spending the month at Monteagle, Tennessee.
Date: 1907
Partner: Coleman Public Library

High School, Coleman, Texas

Description: Postcard featuring a tinted image of Coleman High School. The brick building has three floors and a central belfry. The top two floors are tinted pink.
Date: 1883~
Creator: Bradford & Co.
Partner: Coleman Public Library

House Exterior

Description: Copy negative of a postcard showing Oliver Loving's residence in Graham, Texas. The picture is of a large multi-level house with four trees and a white fence in front.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Humor Postcard, Apple; Humor Postcard, Pumpkin

Description: Copy photograph of two humor postcards advertising for Bradshaw, Texas. In the top postcard two oversize apples are carried on a train. In the bottom postcard an oversize pumpkin is carried on a train. Text on both cards reads, "The Kind We Raise in Bradshaw, Tex."
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Humor Postcard, Potato; Humor Postcard, Corn

Description: Copy negative of two humor postcards advertising for Bradshaw, Texas. In the top postcard two oversize potatoes are carried on a train. In the bottom postcard an oversize cob of corn is carried on a train. The text on both cards reads, "The Kind We Raise in Bradshaw, Tex."
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Dan Childress to Sayles & Sayles, November 22, 1939]

Description: Postcard from Dan Childress to Sayles & Sayles discussing the court case, Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Co. vs. W. O. Rainwater, and informing Sayles & Sayles of the motion to dismiss the appeal.
Date: November 22, 1939
Creator: Childress, Dan
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Mac Woodward and Bernice Gaines in Tom Thumb wedding

Description: Postcard featuring Walter M. Woodward standing with Bernice Gaines in front of a painted backdrop. Woodward wears a child's tuxedo and Gaines wears a child-sized wedding dress.
Date: 192X
Partner: Coleman Public Library

Mary McClellan

Description: A photograph of Mary McClellan when she was a very young girl. She is wearing a white dress and is standing outside of a house beside a broad-leafed plant.
Date: unknown
Partner: Coleman Public Library

McClellan Inn

Description: Postcard featuring the McClellan Inn in Elgin, Texas. The building has two main floors with an open porch and balcony. Several people can be seen standing on or beside the porch.
Date: 1912~
Creator: Smith Photo
Partner: Coleman Public Library

[Orville and Wilbur Wright Postcard]

Description: Blank postcard with an illustration of the faces of Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright. On the back of the card is a short text that reads, "The three careers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, printing and publishing, bicycle making and repair, and aeronautics are memorialized Carillon Historical Park."
Date: 1988
Creator: Brunsman, August E.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

T&P 610

Description: Postcard of a painting of T&P train #610 with a large plume of dark grey smoke rising from the engine. The artist's information is printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: Smith, Frank
Partner: The Grace Museum

[T&P Christmas Card]

Description: T&P Christmas card and magazine clipping with an illustration of T&P train #614 and a cowboy to the left of the train and a large plume of smoke rising from the engine. On the clipping is printed "5008 West of the Pecos - Texas & Pacific 'Between El Paso and Pecos, this handsome Texas Type locomotive rumbles through the quiet of the prairie evening, etc.' 'May Peace be your Gift at Christmas and your Treasure through all the Year.'" On the back of the card the same Christmas quote is printed, a… more
Date: unknown
Partner: The Grace Museum
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