Murphy Historical Society Inc. - 514 Matching Results

Search Results

[Aerial Photograph of the Back Farm near Murphy, Texas]

Aerial photograph of the Back Farm located in Collin County, Texas; the home backs up to a small road running from left to right in the picture.

Date: 1962~

Item Type: Photograph

[Aerial Photograph of the Back Farm near Murphy, Texas]

Aerial photograph of the Back Farm located along Brand Rd. in Collin County, Texas; the road runs right in front of the house with the farm in the background.

Date: 1962~

Item Type: Photograph

[Aerial Photograph of the Turneys' Farm]

Aerial photograph of Turneys' farm located on FM 544 in Murphy, Texas; this photo shows the grouping of the farm buildings with the large open fields in the front and back.

Date: 1970

Creator: O'Neill, J.

Item Type: Photograph

[Announcement of the Marriage of Jewell Reeves and Jack D. Hudson, April 23, 1924]

Card from Mrs. and Mrs. F. M. Reeves announcing the marriage of their daughter, Jewell, to Jack D. Hudson on April 23, 1924.

Date: 1924-04-23~

Item Type: Text

[Art Print of the Matlock Home]

Art print of an artist's rendition of the Matlock Home near Murphy, Texas; the house is two stories with windows along the upper and lower floors. The note printed on the reverse side of the picture says this was made "before the house was razed and replaced with a modern brick home." The note further says that Milton Meredith Matlock built it "when he settled on the land just South of the Back Homeplace."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Certificate of Membership to Scottish Rite for Lee Frith Turney]

Certificate of membership to the Scottish Rite Society in Dallas, Texas, issued to Lee Frith Turney in 1924.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

[Certificate of Membership to the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine]

Certificate of membership for the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America, Hella Temple in Dallas, Texas, issued to Lee Frith Turney in 1924.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

[Christmas Card]

Christmas Card illustrated with a scene of a a couple and two children walking up to a house where another couple and child are standing. The card is signed "Jo" and there is a handwritten note on the back addressed to "Aunt Edna" expressing well wishes in the holiday season.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

[Christmas Card from Lois and Patricia Matlock to their Grandmother]

Christmas greeting card from Lois and Patricia Matlock to their grandmother with an illustration of a snow house among trees.

Date: 191X

Creator: Matlock, Lois & Matlock, Patricia

Item Type: Text

[Christmas Card from the Plano Lodge No. 114]

Christmas greeting card from the Plano Lodge No. 114 "Wishing you a Merry Christmas" and "Best Wishes for the New Year."

Date: 191u-12

Creator: Plano Lodge No. 114

Item Type: Text

[Christmas Photograph of the Turney Family and Friends]

Photograph of he Turney Family as well as some of their friends on Christmas Day 1918. Baldwin Gonzales is standing at the front in his U. S. Army uniform and Lee Turney is standing in the back between two women and is wearing a suit.

Date: December 25, 1918

Item Type: Photograph

[Class Prophecy for the 1907 Class of Texas Baptist University]

Class prophecy describing a person's eventful day dream that included a woman creating pictures in the room of different individuals; the pictures continue to appear and then disappear and showing different women in different locations. The last line of the piece comes after the person had awoken: "I was forced to turn from the glamers into the future and come back to the tasks of the present."

Date: 1907

Item Type: Photograph