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[Cotton Baling Inside Mill]

Description: Two near-identical images of a cotton baling press in use at a mill. A bale is at the front and a man is standing just behind it at left, near the machinery. There is a blur where the man moved during the exposure. Descriptive text printed below the images in the lower-right corner: "7722- Baling Cotton--a powerful press just releasing a 500-lb. bale--at a mill in Texas." The same text is printed on the back in six languages
Date: 1905
Creator: Sun Sculpture Works and Studios
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Man with Book]

Description: Portrait of an unidentified man wearing a dark suit, bow tie, and corsage posing holding a book next to a table in front of a painted backdrop.
Date: October 29, 1905
Creator: Conrads, A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Paul W. Dorbritz and Family]

Description: Photograph of Paul W. Dorbritz (1865-1925) and family. The family is pictured outside with a home in the background. There are 11 females in the picture all lined up with 2 males behind them. Handwritten text identifies 2 of the females as Ella, Hedwig (Heddy), and one of the men as Paul.
Date: 1905
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of Nellie Alexander and Three Others, 1905]

Description: Photograph of Nellie Farmer Alexander and three others in the woods. Text on the back reads: " Waco Texas...1905...Fishing Bosque River Near Waco...L-R...1___ 2___ 3 Nellie Farmer Alexander (1888 - 1955) 4...Taken By Zeta Farmer (1890 - 1934) ". The women appear to be eating plums and bananas.
Date: 1905
Creator: Farmer, Zeta Virginia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Paul L. Tyson]

Description: Portrait of Paul L. Tyson. A handwritten note on the front of the photo says "To Joe - whose friendship and memory is a treasure of by gone days. P. L. Tyson." Another note on the back of the photo reads: "Oct. 25, 1884 - Sept. 9, 1950. Football coach for Waco High School. Several state championships and one national championship. Oakwood Cemetery, Waco. Purchased at Joe L. Ward estate sale in Waco Nov. 2013."
Date: [1905..1935]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Providence Sanitarium, Waco]

Description: Photograph of Providence Sanitarium (later Providence Hospital), a large five-storied building with an arched portico with stairs leading to the entrance underneath, porches attached to the sides of the building, and arched parapets rising parallel with the building's hip roof. Cars are parked on the dirt road in front. The photographer's credit, reading "Gildersleeve", has been partially obscured on the bottom right.
Date: [1905..]
Creator: Gildersleeve
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.557404 -97.153702
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Unknown Children at Picnic]

Description: Photograph of an unknown group of children at a picnic. The children are pictured all close to one another with the girls wearing light colored dresses and the boys wearing various styles of dark colored clothing. They are standing barefoot in a small stream of water with a large tree in the background. Photograph was purchased at the Eichelberger-Harrison estate sale, Waco.
Date: August 16, 1905
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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