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[Cornerstone ceremony, West Texas State Normal College administration building]

Description: Photograph of a crowd assembled for the laying of the cornerstone of the new West Texas State Normal College building. A group of Masons are performing a ceremony on a raised platform before the partially completed building while an assembled crowd watches from below and from various points on the building's framework.
Date: September 15, 1915
Creator: Lusby, Maidens Stennett

[Crowd assemblng for cornerstone ceremony, West Texas State Normal College]

Description: Photograph of spectators gathered in and around a wooden grandstand for the cornerstone ceremony for the new West Texas State Normal College administration building. The grandstand is decorated with bunting, flags, and college pennants. Railroad tracks, constructed to allow delivery of building materials, run to one side of the grandstand, and a stationary train sits on the tracks in the background. A house and outbuildings are also visible in the background.
Date: September 15, 1915
Creator: Lusby, Maidens Stennett

[Crowd assemblng for cornerstone ceremony, West Texas State Normal College]

Description: Photograph of spectators gathered for the cornerstone ceremony for the new West Texas State Normal College administration building. Several men stand on a platform facing the crowd. Several people are holding umbrellas and men wearing Masonic regalia are visible in the crowd. Several automobiles and a horse and buggy are parked behind the audience, and a saddled horse is hitched to a rail fence running along a roadway leading to the site. Houses and other buildings are visible in the backgr… more
Date: September 15, 1915
Creator: Lusby, Maidens Stennett

[The first four year summer graduating class at West Texas State Normal College]

Description: Photograph of members of the first 4-year summer graduating class at West Texas State Normal College. Students are standing in front of an old wooden building that has sunlight shining through the overhead slats of wood. Five of the eight students are identified on the reverse as: Earl S. Sparks, Omar Kirk, Dave Payne, Earl Stanley and Mary Dale.
Date: 1915

[Landon and Bob and Three Children]

Description: Photograph of Landon and Bob and three children sitting in a yard with shrubs and a wooden fence in the background. One of the men is wearing a shirt and tie and is sitting on the grass on the left with a baby on his knee, the other man is sitting in a rocking chair with a child sitting on the edge of the seat, and a third child wearing a light-colored dress and a bow in her hair is sitting in the grass on the right.
Date: October 24, 1915

Laying corner stone of the new West Texas State Normal College, Canyon, Tex., Sept. 15, 1915

Description: Photograph of a crowd assembled for the laying of the cornerstone of the new West Texas State Normal College administration building. A group of Masons are performing a ceremony on a raised platform before the partially completed building while an assembled crowd watches from below and from various points on the building's framework.
Date: September 15, 1915
Creator: Lusby, Maidens Stennett

[Lola Fishing]

Description: Photograph of Lola, a young girl wearing a light-colored dress and a bow in her hair, fishing in a water tank in a corral while an unidentified woman watches her. Part of a wagon is visible in the foreground and behind them there is a wooden fence, a barn, and trees in the background.
Date: October 18, 1915

[Man and Women in Canyon]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified man wearing a dark suit and tie and a hat and three women wearing dark dresses and hats sitting on the steps of the ruins of the West Texas State Normal College administration building in Canyon City with a water tower visible in the background.
Date: February 17, 1915

[Shacks at West Texas State Normal College]

Description: Photograph of temporary classroom buildings, a windmill, and a two-story building at West Texas State Normal College with a pile of rubble in the foreground and telephone poles in the background. Referred to as the "shacks," the temporary buildings were used as classrooms after the fire that destroyed the main building of the college in 1914.
Date: February 17, 1915

[Shuey's automobile]

Description: Photograph of three people in an automobile with plains in the background; both men are wearing dark suits, ties, and hats, and the woman is wearing a dark dress and a hat. One of the men is sitting in the front seat holding the steering wheel and the other man and the woman are in the back seat. The man in the back seat is Henry Shuey; the woman is probably Mrs. Shuey.
Date: February 14, 1915

[Three Girls by a Fence]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified young woman and two girls wearing light-colored dresses posing standing in a yard with their arms on each other's shoulders; the girls on the left and right are wearing hats and the one in the middle has a bow in her hair and there is a picket fence in the background.
Date: October 24, 1915
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