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[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
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[1913 Buick]

Description: Photograph (copy) of a 1913 Buick with the top in place. Tin roofed barn with open doors in background. Another wooden building on right of photo (with open door.)
Date: 1914
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Men and women kneeling around a stone]

Description: Photographic print of nine men and women kneeling around a stone with "D. Rugeley" painted on it in white. Another women is standing partially out of the frame at the left. According to a paper taped to the back of the image, the picture was probably taken at the site where John DeForest Rugeley was killed (Sept. 1862) at Woodbury, TN during the Civil War. Rugeley was in Co. B of Terry's Texas Rangers and was from Matagorda County. Rugeley's sister Minnie married Col. Philip E. Peareson and… more
Date: 1905
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Four unidentified men in a 1913 Buick]

Description: Photograph (copy) of four unidentified men in a 1913 Buick. Driver is wearing a white shirt, dark tie and hat. The other men are wearing dark suits and white shirts. Man in back seat to right has his hat on his knee. Wooden building in background. Scanned image is of the copy.
Date: 1914
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Rosenberg High School, car parked to the left]

Description: Photograph (copy) of the Rosenberg High School. Written at bottom in white: HIGH SCHOOL. ROSENBERG, TEXAS. School building is a three story brick building. Several trees around the school obscure the view. An automobile (to left) parked under one tree. School was located facing Avenue H and 8th Street. Circa 1913-1967. It was torn down in 1967 for the construction of the Weingarten Plaza. Scanned image is of the copy.
Date: 1915~
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Dorothea Guenther. Taken while at Ogontz School in Pennsylvania.]

Description: Portrait of Dorothea Guenther taken while at Ogontz School in Pennsylvania. Dorothea is wearing a dress with tiny dark circles. It has a netting type layer of bodice with beadwork trim. Beads are also seen on the short sleeves. She has dark hair that is pulled up and toward crown of her head. She is sitting in a wooden chair and has her left hand on the armrest. Portrait ends at knees.
Date: 1912
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
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
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
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Jane Long Oil Portrait]

Description: Photograph of a framed Jane Long Oil Portrait (see 1987.003), taken before painting was altered to make Long look young. In dark wooden oval frame with berry or nut and leaf motif applique at top, bottom, left, right.
Date: 1915
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
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
Partner: Fort Bend Museum
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