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[Portrait of Vocal Class Students]

Description: Photograph of 9 people. The vocal class is photographed in one full-length, front-facing pose. The women are all wearing light-colored blouses with lace detail and dark-colored skirts. Five women are wearing necklaces, three are wearing bow ties, and one is wearing a tie. Every woman has their hair pulled back; six women are wearing hair bows. Five women are visibly holding sheet music.
Date: unknown
Creator: Born, Julius
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: River Valley Pioneer Museum

[Fifth Through Eighth Grade Students]

Description: Photograph of Lower Valley School fifth through eighth grade students posing on the steps of the newer school building. The middle tall student in the back row is Bobby Weir. The second student from the left in the second row is Udo Schmoekel, and the fifth student from the left is Calun Weir. In the back row is Laurence Seiler. In the second row is Gladdis Haeckor. The first student from the right in the back row is Dorothy Stippe.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Northeast Lakeview College

[Hand Pitch Softball Team]

Description: Photograph of the Lower Valley School hand pitch softball team. In the top row are Cecelia Mueller Padalecki, Naomi Faye Snoddy Blacklock, Dorothy Katt Attkisson, Roland Mueller and Eduardo Arizpe. In the second row are Vernell Schmaekel, Marilyn Friesenhahn, Marlene Schmaekel DeWinne Friesenhahn and Oliver Grabe, Jr. In the front row are Verna Lee Gerth Beautnagel, Sylvia Katt Seiler, Margie Katt McCoy, Alfred Seiler and Harvey Seiler.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Northeast Lakeview College

[Lyndon Johnson Extending Hand Toward Elderly Man]

Description: Photograph of Lyndon Johnson extending a hand toward an elderly man. Johnson is holding a pamphlet in his left hand. Lady Bird is standing behind and between Johnson, the elderly man, and a third man with dark glasses. A basketball goal. is visible at the top right of the photo. A stack of books sits on a table below the men.
Date: unknown
Creator: Dietel, Norman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: LBJ Museum of San Marcos

Lower Valley School Reunion

Description: Pamphlet from the first reunion of Lower Valley School alumni which includes the program from the even, and text containing a history of the Lower Valley School and surrounding community as well as a timeline of the known teachers who worked at the school and a list of school trustees.
Date: 1987
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Northeast Lakeview College

[Parade Float Representing a School House]

Description: Photograph of a parade float that has been decorated to represent a school house and pulled on a truck bed. A bell has been built into the center of the structure. Underneath that, a scene has been painted showing a chalkboard, windows, and a map of a portion of the world. To the left, a boy sits on a stool while holding a dunce cap. Moving right, a group of children are on either side of a man who is facing the camera.
Date: unknown
Creator: Wallace, Sally Brittingham
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

Saint Mary's Academy 1916

Description: Photograph of the students that attend Saint Mary's Academy in 1916. Saint Mary’s Academy was opened in the fall of 1896 by the Sisters of Divine Providence as Beeville's first parochial school. Within a year a large two-story day and boarding school were added. Fire destroyed the academy building in December of 1930. St. Joseph’s School was built on the same location (400 N Tyler St). In 1996, Our Lady of Victory Catholic School and St. Joseph’s combined to form the new St. Mary’s Academy… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

San Domingo Schoolhouse

Description: Photograph of the small, wooden San Domingo school. This schoolhouse was built by Mrs. John (Sallie) Pettus in 1859 on the west side of the Dry Medio, and moved in 1867 to between the Medio and Dry Medio Creeks. The schoolhouse was moved again in 1870 to the banks of Toro Creek. Miss Gussie Hitchens, who later married John W. Flournoy, was the first teacher. In the late 1870’s the schoolhouse was moved to the San Domingo community about two miles west of the present Normanna town site.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Normanna School

Description: Photograph of an angled view of the Normanna school which is the first school in Normanna. This first school for Normanna was constructed in 1889 at the site of the present school, on the corner of Main and Live Oak Streets. Along with its function as a school, it was also used as a church, community center, and for other purposes. In the 1900's a two-story schoolhouse was erected, and in 1926 a new schoolhouse was built. In the late 1930's, the Normanna school was consolidated with the Pettu… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Public School In Pettus

Description: Postcard of school children standing in front Pettus school. In 1892 this one-room schoolhouse, 18’ by 24’, was built in Pettus. It had two windows on the north side and two windows on the south. The boards on the inside of the east end were painted black to be used for a blackboard. The only door was to the west. The benches were home-made and the children brought their own lunches and water to drink. Miss Evelyn Hardeman was the first teacher and she had 13 students in grades first throu… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Map of Pettus

Description: Document of a hand-drawn map showing where the first four schools in Pettus were located. The first school appears to be behind John Pettus' home, the namesake for Pettus. Aside from the Pettus homestead, the map is a bird's eye view of a grid consisting of thirty-six different blocks. The third school is in block thirty-one, the second school is in block seventeen, and the fourth school is outside of the grid, close to block fifteen. There are two thin lines that are drawn halfway down and ac… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Skidmore School 1916

Description: The first school in Skidmore was a three-room wooden structure and Professor L.W. Bell was the superintendent. In about 1909 the old school building was abandoned and this large two-story red brick schoolhouse was built closer to the street. The building had four wings, built in the form of a cross. This red-brick building was condemned in the late 1920’s and razed in 1929. It was replaced with a seven-classroom that had a large auditorium and library. In the 1950’s space became a problem, … more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Skidmore High School in 1929

Description: Postcard showing the Skidmore High School in 1929. This modern seven-classroom school was built with a large auditorium and library after the old high school was condemmed in the late 1920's. Professor R.J. Gladney was superintnedent then. This high school was used until the present one was built in 1953, when a larger high school became necessary.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Caesar High School 1913-1914

Description: A picture of students in front of Caesar High School in 1913-1914. Located in the northern part of Bee County, the settlement of Caesar was started in the early 1890’s. Most of the settlers were farmers and ranchers. Not much remains of the settlement of Caesar today, but it once had a post office, store, school, gin, and a Baptist Church.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Orangedale Public School 1913

Description: Photograph of children that appear to be playing in front of the Orangedale School in 1913. In the early 1900’s the Wangeman Ranch was divided into small tracts and sold mostly to people from Northeastern and Eastern States who wanted to settle here and produce citrus fruits, particularly oranges. From which they derived the name Orangedale, and it was lcated about five miles west of Beeville on the road to Mineral. Around 1906 the settlers began to arrive to Orangedale. Included among these… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Educational Day at Bee County Fair, 1912.

Description: Photograph of educational day at the Bee County Fair in Bee County, Texas in 1912. The photograph was taken from a high vantage point overlooking the large crowd of school children and teachers holding up banners. Beeville Superintendent W. E. Madderra is visible in the central foreground standing in front of the large crowd. The Fair was a speculator event in Beeville until its demise in 1933.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

[Groundbreaking for Bob Hope High School]

Description: Photograph of a man identified as Bob Hope holding a framed certificate at the Bob Hope High School for Hughen School groundbreaking. He is standing wearing a suit with a crawfish pin on his jacket lapel, and is standing at a microphone. Legible text on the certificate says "The Bob Hope High School for Crippled Children Diploma to Bob Hope." A crowd of people is in the background. Legible text below the photograph says "[P]2E91 4 Col N-2A."
Date: 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Port Arthur College]

Description: Photograph of Port Arthur College. Several buildings are visible, including Marconi Tower, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Port Arthur Manual Training High School. The photograph is fuzzy as if taken from a fair distance away where the focus is thrown off. Beyond the college, the canal and Sabine Lake are visible.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Popeye]

Description: Photograph of a man identified as Lawrence P. Arnold. Arnold is wearing a sailor suit and has a pipe in his mouth. He is dressed as Popeye, a newspaper comic strip character, and is standing in front of Robert E. Lee Elementary School.
Date: unknown
Creator: Conley Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library
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