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[McDaniel Home, Abilene]

Description: Photograph of the first home of Lavinia Parker McDaniel and George W. McDaniel in Abilene, Texas. This Victorian-era home, located at 774 Butternut, was built with lumber from the lumberyard of Robert Henry Parker, Lavinia Parker's father. The house has two stories, though the front is obscured by tall bushes and trees. A dormer emerges from the central hip roof which forms two gable ends in the front and one on each side of the house (one visible, at left). The house has two chimneys, and is b… more
Date: 1898
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.441206 -99.738430
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Thanksgiving Portrait, Dr. Wickliff Curtis's Home]

Description: Photograph of a Thanksgiving gathering at the Curtises (Dr. Wickliff Curtis and Mrs. Cress / Mrs. D Curtis) in 1898, arranged in four rows on the front steps of the family home. Names are listed on the back of the photograph. Top row, from left to right: Jim Goff, Oscar Bell, Ertha Cowden, George Lee, Hy Estes, Joe Brown, Bert Rawlins, John Draper. Second row from top: Frank Roses, Mollie Cornwell, Lilly Cowden, Proffessor Robert Ewing Rankin; third row, second from botom: Miss Birdie Shacklefo… more
Date: November 24, 1898
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Partner: Midland Historical Society
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