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[Postcard of a Webb Fire Engine Test]

Postcard of a fire engine spraying water at a building with two large smokestacks. The photograph was captured from a distance above, and many people can be seen observing the scene below. A printed note on the back of the postcard says, "Test of the "Webb" Motor Fire Engine, Through Deck Turret on "Webb" Motor High Pressure Wagon. Height of Stack 246 ft. Size of Nozzle 1 5/8 inches. It was estimated that at times this stream reached nearly 300 feet perpendicularly."

Date: February 9, 1912

Creator: Inbody, J.

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Postcard of Richmond Fire Department]

Postcard of the Richmond Fire Department in front of a fire station on a street corner. The fire fighters are formally dressed, and standing with a horse-drawn carriage. The back of the postcard has a handwritten message that says, "Knowing you collect fire dept. cards, I'm sending you one from Richmond, where I am today."

Date: February 29, 1908

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Postcard with a Photograph of the Fort Wayne Fire Department Performing Engine Tests]

Postcard with a photograph of members of the Fort Wayne Fire Department spraying water on a large building in the city. According to the photo, this was a part of some engine tests that they were performing at the time; one set of firemen is standing in the street on the right and another set is standing on the corner in the foreground.

Date: [1909..1912]

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Postcard of the Indiana Harbor Fire Station]

Postcard with a photograph of fire station number 1 in Indiana Harbor, Indiana; judging by the sign on the front of the building, it was built in 1908. There are six firefighters standing outside of the station, two of them are sitting on a carriage with ladders in it.

Date: [1909..1912]

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Postcard with a Photo of the East Chicago City Hall and Fire Station]

Postcard with a picture of the East Chicago city hall and fire station buildings; both buildings are designed in the same style. The city hall is situated in the foreground of the photo, while the fire station can be seen in the background.

Date: [1909..1912]

Creator: Schlieker's Pharmacy

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Photograph of Dr. James Franklin Sutherlin]

Photograph of Dr. James Franklin Sutherlin posing next to a fireplace. He is wearing a vest and a coat, and his right arm is resting on a decorated pillar or counter to his right.

Date: September 27, 1883

Creator: Cadwaller

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Private Collection of the Sutherlin Family

[Clyde Champion Barrow Wanted Report, 05/08/1933 - Dallas, Texas Police Department]

Wanted report for Clyde Barrow on the charges of suspicion in a bank robbery attempt at Lucerne, Indiana around May 8, 1933. It states that he was joined by one man and two women. In addition, a car stolen from San Angelo, Texas was recovered near the site of the robbery. This is a copy report from Lucerne, Indiana that was filed in Dallas, Texas.

Date: unknown

Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Letter from "El Medico Director" to Corporal John C. Szymezak, 30 March 1929]

A joke letter from "El Medico Director Ud. S. Loco" to Cpl. John Szymezak with orders for him to return to the United States from Nicaragua for admission to a sanitarium.

Date: unknown

Creator: Stone, George W.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Fort Worth Aviation Museum

[Letter from James W. Hunt to Roger A. Burgess]

A two-page photocopy of a letter from James W. Hunt to Professor Roger A. Burgess of Childress, Texas, dated July 22, 1927. The letter provides some information Hunt felt necessary to the completion of a thesis by Burgess, and concerns historical information regarding the plains of Texas and the Estacado.

Date: July 22, 1927

Creator: Hunt, James W.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: McMurry University Library

[Wanted Poster: John H. Quilhot, Southbend, Indiana, February 15, 1916]

Wanted Poster for John H. Quilhot, issued in Southbend, Indiana, February 15, 1916.

Date: February 15, 1916

Creator: Hickman, T. L.

Item Type: Image

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mary E. Taylor to Nelle Turney, April 1, 1962]

Letter from Mary E. Taylor to Nelle Turney discussing Mary's ancestors, the Murphys, from North Carolina and the research she did to trace her family tree.

Date: April 1, 1962

Creator: Taylor, Mary E.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Sutherlin Family Genealogy Charts]

Genealogy charts for members of the Sutherlin family, including Edgar Brown Sutherlin, Ruby Maurine Sutherlin McElroy, Clyda Waneta Sutherlin Bowman, James Edgar Sutherlin, James Franklin Sutherlin, Clyda N. Sutherlin, and John Harvey Sutherlin. The charts include information concerning births, military service, marriages, and deaths.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Text

Partner: Private Collection of the Sutherlin Family

[U.S. War Department General Court-Martial Orders 191]

Document outlining the trial of Second Lieutenant Frank Webb on charges of violating the 95th and 96th Articles of War, including the final verdict and sentence.

Date: August 29, 1918

Creator: United States. War Department.

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[U.S. War Department General Court-Martial Orders 190]

Document outlining the trial of Second Lieutenant Frank Webb on charges of resisting arrest including the final verdict and sentence.

Date: August 29, 1918

Creator: United States. War Department.

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Portrait of an Unidentified African American Woman]

Photograph of an unidentified African American woman posing for a portrait. She wears her hair up, gathered behind her head. She is wearing a dark-colored dress with a light-colored collar.

Date: unknown

Creator: Hall, Howard G.

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 37.970452 -87.573272

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard to Mrs. Sallie Beard, January 28, 1935]

Postcard to Mrs. Sallie Beard, discussing the sender's two-week stay in Boerne, Texas so far, including the state of the weather. The front of the postcard features a photograph of Ye Kendall Inn, in Boerne, a long, two-story plantation style house with porches on both stories and a screened-in sun room on the far left side. The gravel driveway that runs parallel to the house is lined with trees, and has four automobiles parked on it. The name of the house is printed at the bottom of the postca… more

Date: January 28, 1935

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library