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[Portrait of Richard C. Smith]

Description: Portrait of Richard C. Smith as a young boy, sitting on the edge of an ornate wicker chair. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Richard C. Smith, 1888-1936, Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas."
Date: 1895~
Creator: Sanders, M. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Joyce Family Outside of a Home]

Description: Photograph of the Joyce family posing in front of a house. Three women and two men stand in the back row, with the two men holding very young children. Two elderly men and a woman sit beside a younger woman who is flanked by a standing boy and girl. The blurry image of a dog can be seen to the right. Two of the people present are identified as John Dell Joyce and Sarah Abigail Joyce.
Date: 1895~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of Katie Hines]

Description: Photograph of Katie Hines sitting in a large wicker chair. She appears to be eight or nine years old and is wearing a calf-length skirt or dress. "Katie Hines Lyon, Texas" is written on the back.
Date: 1895~/1899~
Creator: Machann, Joseph J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Curtis Estate

[Photograph of Three Children]

Description: Photograph of three children, two girls and a boy. The older girl is seated and the other two children are standing. The boy is wearing a bow at his collar and the girls' dresses are light-colored with high collars and puffed sleeves. They are possibly the children of John Mercer Moody; Lottie, Mercer, and Eda Belle Moody.
Date: 1895~/1897~
Creator: Willyerd
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of the Curtis Estate

[The Wismar Family]

Description: Photograph of the Wismar family. The family pictured includes Mr. F. L. Wismar, Mrs. Sophia S. Wismar, Fred Wismar Jr, and young girls Edna and Anna Wismar. The adult Wismars are positioned sitting down with young Anna on Mr. Wismar's lap. Edna and Fred Jr. are positioned standing up in between their parents. The whole family is pictured wearing dark color clothing.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Forbis Family Portrait

Description: Copy photograph of a portrait of the Forbus family. Luther and Nannie Forbus stand behind their two youngest children Mary Frances Forbis and Orval John Forbis, who stand and sit on stools. The children, a toddler and a baby, wear white dresses. Nannie Forbus also wears a white dress with a flower pinned to the front. Luther Forbus wears a three-piece suit. Behind them is a painted backdrop of curtains. Below the photograph is a typed note that says, "Luther & Nannie Forbus and daughters."
Date: 1895/1896
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive vehicle-wheel in children's carriages with a double-felly wheel meant to broaden "the tread thereof sufficiently to prevent the wheels falling into cracks between boards of board walks, such as are common in the suburbs or rural districts" (lines 15-19). The spokes are like that of a single-felly wheel.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[First Section House in Germania]

Description: Photograph of the first section house built in Germania, Midland County, for Texas and Pacific railway workers. The section house sits behind the railway, and is a narrow two-story wooden frame building with a gable roof and a picket fence next to the railway. Workers stand on the railway, a handcar on the rails, a child playing with a shovel next to the rails, and several women standing behind, nearer to the picket fence.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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