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[Early Jacksonville Business District]

Description: Copy negative of Jacksonville's business district prior to 1917. The long building to the left was the Spear House and then the Pearl Hotel. The tall building in the center foreground was the first home of the First National Bank. A windmill and water tank can be seen on the far right. The Union Baptist Church is on the left, while the Benson Chapel Methodist is on the right. At the far upper right is the Ragsdale home. The building in front of the hotel was the first home of the International … more
Date: November 19, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Bicycle for Two]

Description: Copy negative of Mr. and Mrs. Graham McCarroll on their "Bicycle Built for Two" act in the Tomato Festival pageant. Mrs. McCarroll (nee Beryl Bolton) sits in front of her husband.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Tomato Shed]

Description: Copy negative of workers unloading tomatoes from a farmer's vehicle at a tomato shed. Baskets full of tomatoes are piled on top of one another to the left. A worker stands in the middle of the shot holding a full basket of tomatoes. Next to him, another man looks at the camera over his shoulder. More workers can be seen in the background. A sign declares the shed to belong to a J. W. Patton.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Trestle Building]

Description: Copy negative of a trestle building for Texas and New Orleans Railroad off W. Larissa St. in Jacksonville.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Goodson Family]

Description: Copy negative of the Goodson family. The children on the steps in the first row are Joy Milstead, Inez Milstead, Marie Henderson, Maxine Caveness, Billy Wayne Henderson, and Rayford Milstead. Those in the second row are Hershall and Marguerite Goodson, Ella Mae and Jacob Watson Goodson, Curtis and Lois Goodson, and Willie and Allie Inez Milstead. The people on the top step are Alvin Milstead, Alma Spraggins, Pearl Henderson, and Jesse Bruce Goodson.
Date: November 18, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Parade Float, 1940]

Description: Copy negative of the Humble Oil & Refining Co. parade float in 1940. Claude Wilson, left, and Roy Forrest and George Turner on the right, mount horses beside the float. The building in the background is the East Side Elementary School, where the parade began.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Gober Brothers]

Description: Copy negative of the Gober brothers, the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Gaines Gober. All of them were involved in business, on Kickapoo St. in Jacksonville. From left to right, they are George Gober, Tom Gober, W. S. "Bill" Gober, Fred Gober, and Hansford Gober.
Date: November 19, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Queen Jerry Peacock]

Description: Copy negative of Jerry Peacock on the Queen's Throne in Ragsdale Park during the 1937 Jacksonville National Tomato Festival.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Coronation of Jerry Peacock]

Description: Copy negative of the coronation of Jerry Peacock being crowned queen of the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival by Lieutenant Governor Walter Woodul. Women and men in fancy dress watch as Woodul places the crown on Peacock's head. Woodul looks at the camera, while Peacock looks straight ahead. The child second from the right is Betty Jane Acker, and the girl to her right is Frances Carolyn Wood. None of the other attendees have been identified.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Early Jacksonville Business District]

Description: Copy negative of Jacksonville's business district prior to 1917. The long building to the left was the Spear House and then the Pearl Hotel. The tall building in the center foreground was the first home of the First National Bank. A windmill and water tank can be seen on the far right. The Union Baptist Church is on the left, while the Benson Chapel Methodist is on the right. At the far upper right is the Ragsdale home. The building in front of the hotel was the first home of the International … more
Date: November 19, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[First Stone of Jacksonville Public Library]

Description: Copy negative of Mrs. C. A. Childs (nee Minnie Lattimore) bent over to lay the first stone for the Jacksonville Public Library in 1940. The project manager, George Booth, is to the left. The workman standing behind Childs is unidentified. The building in the left background is the old Etex Hotel.
Date: November 19, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Tomato Exhibit]

Description: Copy negative of a man, Dr. P. A. Young, showing members of the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival queen's court experiments being conducted to find remedies for diseases that attack tomato plants. The two women on the right are unidentified.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Jacksonville High Band]

Description: Copy negative of the Jacksonville High School Band of 1937-38 performing in the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival parade. None of the band members have been identified.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Candidates for Queen]

Description: Copy negative of three women, all candidates for queen of the National Tomato Festival, outside the Tomato Leaf Disease Laboratory in Jacksonville. Frances Stevens is on the right; Kathryn Turner, queen in 1940, stands in the middle; and Fannie Byrd Bolton stands to the right.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Tomato Festival Princesses]

Description: Copy negative of six young women, princesses from towns and communities in East Texas who took part in the annual Tomato Festival, sitting on a wall, hands clasping their left knees. Katherine Vining is second from the left. The rest are unidentified.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Unloading at a Tomato Packing Shed]

Description: Copy negative of unknown male workers unpacking tomatoes from the D. B. Bruno Shed in Jacksonville. Two automobiles are parked in front of the shed, and baskets of tomatoes are placed on the ground. Empty baskets are stacked to the right.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Festival Parade]

Description: Copy negative of the National Tomato Festival parade in Jacksonville. The First National Bank building has been decorated. In the far left background, the East Side Elementary School can be seen. A parade float moves down the street.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Grading Tomatoes at Packing Shed]

Description: Copy negative of workers grading tomatoes at a packing shed in Jacksonville. The man in the far right background is Sam Boles. None of the other workers have been identified.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Jacksonville Business District]

Description: Copy negative of Jacksonville's business district prior to 1900. Building on the left was Heidelberg Hotel, while the building on the right was Charles H. Martin's Real Estate agency. The tall building on the left farther south is the First National Bank. The tall building on the right to the south of Martin's was the Ragsdale Brothers Store, with the Opera House on the second floor. The second tall building in the left background was the J. A. Templeton Building. Trees line the street on both … more
Date: November 19, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Queen Jerry Peacock]

Description: Copy negative of Jerry Peacock on the Queen's Throne in Ragsdale Park during the 1937 Jacksonville National Tomato Festival.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission
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