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[Buildings and People in Port Arthur]

Description: Two photographs taken in Port Arthur, Texas. The top photograph shows the exterior of the old Sabine Hotel. A horse-drawn carriage is stopped in front of the porch, where a group of people stand. In the bottom photo, a large group of men and boys in swimming outfits sit and stand on the grass.
Date: 1895
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

Texas Carlsbad Water

Description: A group of people stand outside Texas Carlsbad Water. The Carlsbad was one of the earlier, and more popular drinking pavilions in Mineral Wells. It was located on NW 1st. Avenue, at NW 4th Street, directly across the street west of the Crazy Well. Its slogan was: Makes a man love HIS wife, Makes a woman love HER husband, Robs the divorce court of its business, Takes the temper out of red-headed people, Puts ginger into ginks and pepper into plodders. Please note the suppo… more
Date: 1895?
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[The Brownies of Palestine]

Description: A Collage of prominent Palestine businessmen titled "The Brownies of Palestine" "Wish you a Happy New Year". Photos are identified left to right as: F. Hufsmith, D.J. Price, V.F. DuBose, J.W. Cuningham, N.R. Royal, W.M. Lacy, Henry Ash, A. Teah, G.A. Wright, W.P. Siddons, A.R. Howard and W.J. Taylor. A minstrel-style caricature of a Black man is featured on the left as a drummer.
Date: 1895
Partner: Anderson County Historical Commission

[The Brownies of Palestine]

Description: A Collage of prominent Palestine businessmen titled "The Brownies of Palestine" "Wish you a Happy New Year". Photos are identified left to right as: F. Hufsmith, D.J. Price, V.F. DuBose, J.W. Cuningham, N.R. Royal, W.M. Lacy, Henry Ash, A. Teah, G.A. Wright, W.P. Siddons, A.R. Howard and W.J. Taylor. A minstrel-style caricature of a Black man is featured on the left as a drummer.
Date: 1895
Partner: Anderson County Historical Commission

[Fort Worth University Medical Department First Term]

Description: Photograph of the Medical Department in their first term at Fort Worth University. The group of all men are positioned in front of a brick wall with tall windows, arranged in four rows with the front row seated. They all wear dark suits, and most wear bowler or top hats. Written in pen on the photograph next to a man in the top row at right is "Dr. Walter Allen." The photograph is mounted to a black board with a strip of paper at the bottom with printed text that reads: " Medical Department, Ft… more
Date: January 25, 1895
Creator: Swartz View Co.
Partner: Tarrant County Archives

[Four Young Women Playing Instruments]

Description: Photograph of four young women sitting in a portrait studio while they play instruments. They are playing a mandolin, a harmonica, a flute, and a guitar. The reverse side of the image reads "To her "flute teacher" from Birdie Apr. 7 - 1895. Baylor."
Date: April 7, 1895
Creator: Hillyer, H. B.
Partner: Coleman Public Library

[Family of Doctor Manoah Mortimer and Rosa Elizabeth Woodward]

Description: Photograph of the family of Doctor Manoah Mortimer and Rosa Elizabeth Woodward. They are identified from left to right: Lee (age 10), Mary (age 16), Smith (age 1), Manoah Mortimer (age 46), Robena (age 3), Samuel Andrew (age 23), Rosa Elizabeth (age 40), Valin (age 5), and Calisto (age 11). The reverse side of the photo also includes some family history as well as birth and death dates.
Date: 1895~
Partner: Coleman Public Library

[Portrait of a Family of Seven]

Description: Photograph portrait of a family of seven. Three boys stand behind their seated parents. A girl is standing to the right of the seated woman. The man has a young girl sitting in his lap. Hats lie on the ground before them.
Date: 1895
Creator: George, J. W.
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

[Bonham Wholesale Grocery, Workers on Dock]

Description: Photograph of workers along the dock of the Bonham Wholesale Grocery. The brick building of the grocery store behind them, the workers pose along the wooden dock, facing forward. Three workers are identified: the first from left, Floy Campbell; fourth from left, the first seated, Willie Milstead, and first from right, Hub [?].
Date: [1895..]
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[City Meat Market, Midland]

Description: Photograph of the interior of a meat market in Midland, Texas, displaying cuts of meat on a marble countertop with innards and other organs hanging from above. Three workers stand behind the counter along chopping boards and weights, with stacks of buckets and a large metal safe along the counter. Two workers are identified: Ben Ethridge (possibly left) and his son, Buster Ethridge; the third worker, obscured by the hanging meat, is unidentified.
Date: 1895
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Leaders, 1895]

Description: Photograph of early Midland leaders gathered together in two rows. They pose in an empty, upper-story room, with four chairs and a rug. Front row, from left to right: Burl Aycock, John Scharbauer, Chris Scharbauer, George D. Elliot. Back row, from left to right: Jim Flanigan, Clarence Scharbauer, and Lewis Wall.
Date: 1895~
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Five Wells Cowboys]

Description: Photograph of "5 [Wells] [Cow]boys," pictured together in two rows in the grass and facing forward. Several people are identified by name: 1, Andrew Allen, standing first from left; 2, Timberline, seated first from left; 3, Wild Bill seated second from left; 4, Doc Sears, standing second from left; 5, Jim Darling, seated third from left; 6, Jim Smith, standing third from left; 7, Tom Hudspeth, seated fourth from left; 8, Henry Williams, standing fourth from left; 9, Elmer Greenled, seated four… more
Date: 1895
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[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
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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