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[Carry Nation wearing a black dress and holding a book]

Description: Photographic postcard of Carry Nation. Nation is dressed in a dark colored dress with buttons that run along the left side of the it. She has a matching cape over her shoulders. She has a long fabric headpiece covering the back of her graying hair. A white flower or bow is tied at the collar. She has three pins pinned to her cape - one is of a hatchet that is pinned on left side of cape. Nation is holding a book on her right hand and her left thumb is resting on a page.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Unidentified school portrait. Girls are on the left, boys are on the right.]

Description: Unidentified school portrait. Girls are grouped on the left, boys on the right. Photo is taken in front of a wooden school building with central double door, window on each side, bell at peak of the roof. Four teachers (3 female, 1 male) standing at center of the picture between the boys and girls. Image is matted on tan cardboard. Matte is missing completely from right side of picture. Image dimensions: 19.2 cm x 24.5 cm
Date: 1890
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Letter to J.T. Rogers concerning the James River Squadron Confederate Navy]

Description: Letter from Atlanta, GA May 27 (18)92 States that J.T. Rogers was steward or paymaster's clerk on the Gunboat Roanoke of the James River Squadron Confederate Navy from July 1864 up to the time of the evacuation of Richmond and that in that capacity he was efficient in the discharge of his duties and in every way entitled to, and worthy of confidence. Signed by Samual M. Tucker
Date: May 27, 1892
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Framed image of Mr. J.W. Slavin]

Description: Framed image of Mr. J.W. Slavin, proprietor of Thompsons Store between 1875 and 1920. Image: Charcoal-enhanced photographic print of Mr. J.W. Slavin. He has a moustache and receding hairline. Slavin is wearing a dark vest and suit jacket, ascot tie, and white shirt. Frame: Grey oval frame constructed of painted plaster over a wooden base. Raised design/appliqué at top, bottom, left, right with gold, orange, red, green, and blue highlights.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Framed image of Mrs. J.W. Slavin]

Description: Framed image of Mrs. J.W. Slavin, proprietor of Thompsons Store. Image: Charcoal enhanced photographic print of Mrs. J.W. Slavin. She is wearing cross-shaped earrings, dark high-collar dress with white collar and nine light colored buttons. Frame: Grey oval frame constructed of painted plaster over a wooden base. Raised design/appliqué at top, bottom, left, right with gold, orange, red, green, and blue highlights.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Train wreck. Two engines to the right of the photo.]

Description: Photo of train wreck. Railroad tracks in foreground, derailed and overturned rail cars next to track. Two engines at right of image. Man standing on top of wreckage at center of photo. Image is mounted on a tan cardboard matte. Image dimensions: 19.9 cm x 12.2 cm. Matte is missing upper right corner. No date. See 1972.093.165 for another view of the scene.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Train wreck. Southern Pacific engine is at center of image.]

Description: Photograph of train wreck. Southern Pacific engine is at center of image, second and third cars are crashed into one another. Overturned car or engine at right of image. Cotton in foreground, pile of dead cows or horses at center, men and boys lined up along a rope fence watching the scene. Photo is mounted on cardboard matte. Image dimensions: 19.3 cm x 12.3 cm Bottom left corner of matte is missing. No date. See 1972.093.166 for another view of the scene.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[An invitation to a wedding.]

Description: Copy of an invitation to a wedding. Invitation reads: Mr. And Mrs. J.H.P. Davis announce the marriage of their daughter Mary E. to Mr. Albert P. George, Wednesday, October the seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety six. Richmond, Texas. At Home after November the first. Richmond, Texas.
Date: October 7, 1896
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[The Ashley Davis family.]

Description: Photograph of the Ashley Davis family. From left to right as identified on the back of photo in pen: Mrs. Annie Davis Quinn, Dr. John Rich,( Annie's son) Max, Mr. And Mrs. Ashley Davis, Miss Bond, and Mrs. John Rich (Mary Davis). The children in the foreground (one on a rocking horse and the other in standing behind a wagon) are Ashley Davis Rich and Marshall Howard Rich, sons of Dr. John and Mary Davis Rich. Photo has family history written in blue ink on back of photo. Photograph is mounted o… more
Date: 1898
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Construction of the first bridge across the Brazos River]

Description: Photograph of the construction process of the first bridge across the Brazos River. There are men standing on the lumber being use to construct the bridge surface, and a man wearing a dark colored vest, white shirt, and light colored hat in the right corner of photo. An African-American boy walking toward camera in the right corner, and there are trees in background. Photograph is mounted on a gray cardboard matte.
Date: 1893
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Czech-Moravian farm in Ellinger, TX]

Description: Photo of Czech-Moravian farm, Ellinger, TX, ca. 1885-1900. Mother (Anna Kallus), father, and three children posed in front of farm house with two wagons and 4 horses/mules. Large tree in center background. White wooden house on left. Scanned image is of the copy.
Date: 1890
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Wedding portrait of Mary Kramr and Rehor Zapalac]

Description: Wedding portrait of Mary Kramr and Rehor Zapalac, 1891. The Zapalac family operated general stores in Fredek, TX and Sealy, TX. Zapalac is wearing a three piece suit with pin-striping. He has a flower pinned to the right side of the jacket. His hair is parted down the center. Kramr is wearing a satin jacket with buttons from neck to waist. Skirt is long and has lace trim in two rows near hemline; lace also at wrists and collar. Her veil reaches floor length. See accession file for supporting … more
Date: 1891
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Carry Nation. Nation is seated in a decorative wooden chair.]

Description: Photograph of Carry Nation. Nation is seated in a decorative wooden chair next to a round wooden table. She has her right hand on the back of an open book and her left hand on the open page of the book and she is posed as if she were reading. Nation, who has graying hair and wears wire-rimmed glasses, is wearing a white dress that has buttons that extend from her left shoulder to the thigh area. The dress has long sleeves and a bow tied at the collar. The photograph is mounted on a gray cardboa… more
Date: 1890
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum
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