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[Postcard of a Man with a Banjo]

Description: Postcard of a man sitting on a wooden box and playing a banjo. Text written across the bottom and along the side of the front of the card reads: "I am reading the book Melody but it is not like this at all. Lill. E." Text in the upper left-hand corner of the card reads: "Thank you for the cute postal so much" The card is addressed to Miss Ellen Forsgard of Waco, Texas.
Date: August 16, 1907
Creator: Shreok, V. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from Hector Suyker to Emma Riecke - December 16, 1918]

Description: Letter from Hector Suyker to Emma Riecke discussing that there is still no news about his discharge. Hector mentions washing his clothing, the lack of work to do and the 3000 troops that have left his camp. His friend mac will be discharged direct by the Captain and Hector hopes if he goes to see him, he will also be dsicharged.
Date: December 16, 1918
Creator: Suyker, Hector
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Invitation to the Wedding of Sallie Parker and Thomas Middlebrook Willis]

Description: Photograph of an invitation to the wedding of Sallie Ann Parker and Thomas Middlebrook Willis. A note in the top left corner reads "To Ma & Pa." The invitation reads: "Mr. & Mrs. R. H. Parker Request your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Sallie, to Thos. M. Willis, Wednesday Evening, June 16th, at 8:30 o'clock. First Presbyterian Church. Reception at 9 o'clock. At home. Abilene, Texas. 1886."
Date: June 16, 1886
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Funeral Notice for Robert H. Thomason]

Description: Funeral notice for Robert H. Thomason, who died of "congestion of the brain" at 37 years old. The notice invites friends and acquaintances to his funeral and burial at Odd Fellow's Cemetery on South First Street in Waco, Texas.
Date: July 16, 1884
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Seven Men on Deer Hunt]

Description: Photograph of Frank B. Stevens, K. Stewart Tabb, J. H. Hejtmancik, Mert W. Colgin, Harry Gorman, Harlan Lester, and Henry Seale posing in front of a car at the Seale ranch with a house in the background.
Date: November 16, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Santa Fe Hospital]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of the Santa Fe Hopsital, a large four-story red brick building with six white columns on the porch; there is a lawn in the foreground some trees in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Santa Fe Hospital, Temple, Texas." There is a handwritten note on the back of the postcard.
Date: March 16, 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
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

[Postcard of the Sanger Avenue School]

Description: Postcard of the Sanger Avenue School in Waco, Texas. In the image students of the school are lined up in rows in front of the Sanger Avenue School building. The postcard is addressed to Beverly Lastinger from Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: September 16, 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard Souvenir of Waco]

Description: Postcard of a woman standing with baskets full of cotton in a cotton field. Handwritten text on the card reads: " I made a mistake in names, it should have been E[. . .] instead of Grost. Thus I will reach you before you write them. B[. . .] see what made me make such a mistake L[. . .] May." The card is addressed to Mrs. M. Linus H[. . .]" of Oakland, California.
Date: October 16, 1906
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Waco Central High School]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of Waco's Central High School, a large, two-story red brick building with three rows of windows, with trees in the foreground and houses and other trees in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Waco Central High School, Waco, Tex." There is a handwritten letter on the back of the postcard.
Date: June 16, 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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