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[Lone Star School]

Description: Photograph of several men, women, and children standing in front of the Lone Star School. There are two horse drawn carriages visible in the photograph. Typed on the back of the photograph is, "The Lone Star school, located midway between the towns of Claude and Panhandle, is reputed to have been the first established on the 'high plains' of Texas. This picture was made in 1894. Miss Cappie Potts was teacher. (Star-Telegram Feature story on this school published Sunday, April 5, 1936)."
Date: unknown
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Winn's Home]

Description: Photograph of Winn's home near Washburn, Texas, a two-story brick house with a small porch, with a silo and windmill behind the house on the left, an automobile on the right, several shrubs and trees in the foreground, and and empty plains and telephone poles in the background.
Date: [1911..1934]
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Washburn schoolroom]

Description: Photograph of a schoolroom in Washburn, Texas, taken on the last day of school. Viewed from the front, the room contains rows of benches. Composition books and other schoolwork are hung on the walls of the room.
Date: April 20, 1917
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Boy on horseback]

Description: Photograph of a young boy riding a horse at Goodnight, Texas. He is wearing short pants with long stockings, a jacket, a large bow around his neck, and a straw hat. A number of automobiles are visible in the background.
Date: October 6, 1916
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Columbia Wiggins and students]

Description: Photograph of students at the Washburn, Texas school, posed against an exterior wall of the school. The students are standing, kneeling, and sitting in three rows, with Columbia Wiggins, the teacher, at the rear.
Date: April 20, 1917
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Six Cowhands and Cow]

Description: Photograph of six unidentified cowhands branding a cow in a corral; the cow is held in a chute with its head sticking out in the front while one man appears to be sawing off part of its horn, another man is holding a reign, and two men are standing behind it, one holding a branding iron with smoke visible. The two other men are sitting and standing on the side watching and there is a windmill and a tree in the background.
Date: [1911..1934]
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Last Day at Washburn School]

Description: Photograph of faculty (far left) and students posing, standing and sitting in several rows, in front of the Washburn School, a two-story brick building, on the last day of classes; the boys are wearing dark suits and ties and the girls are wearing light-colored dresses and many have bows in their hair.
Date: April 20, 1917
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[People Dressed as Native Americans]

Description: Photograph of five unidentified people dressed as Native Americans in Washburn, Texas; the man on the left and the three young women are wearing dark colored clothes and feather headpieces and the boy on the right is holding a stick and a dark-colored hat.
Date: March 10, 1916
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Washburn School House]

Description: Photograph of a Fourth of July celebration at Washburn, Texas, a town consisting of a 2-story brick school house and several smaller homes, with many horse-drawn carriages and people in the foreground, and more people, horses, and plains in the background.
Date: July 4, 1913
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Washburn, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a Fourth of July celebration at Washburn, Texas featuring a large group of women and men standing around a long table in the foreground, with several horse-drawn carriages and automobiles on the right, and two small homes visible in the background on an empty plain.
Date: July 4, 1913
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
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