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[Letter to an Editor of a Newspaper]

Description: Newspaper clipping containing several letters to the editor published in a Waco newspaper, starting with a poem from " Portfolio of a Deceased Confederate Soldier " and commentary providing insight on the soldier's life, family, property, and death. Other letters and articles discuss horse thieves that were shot, the Election Law that had recently been passed on the front, with text on the back describing recent events and anecdotes and bounties, with advertisements.
Date: August 1872
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of William King's Bridled Horse]

Description: Photograph of a dark-colored horse standing on a manicured lawn in front of a blank exterior wall of a two-story building with three windows. The horse is facing towards the camera, and towards a man holding the reins to the horse's bridle. There is a wooden, residential fence to the left of the horse. A handwritten note at the bottom of the photo indicates it was taken in September of 1917.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Photograph of William King's Horse in Harness]

Description: Photograph of a dark-colored horse standing in a gravel drive in a residential area. The horse is facing left, and is wearing a bridle and harness connected to something out-of-frame on the right. There is a house with wood-siding in the background, and a street in the background on the left. A handwritten note at the bottom of the photo indicates it was taken in 1917.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Photograph of William King's Horse]

Description: Photograph of a dark-colored horse standing on a manicured lawn in front of a blank exterior wall with two windows. The horse is facing left, towards a man holding the reins to the horse's bridle. A handwritten note at the bottom of the photo indicates it was taken in September of 1917.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[San Antonio Street Looking East]

Description: Photograph of a San Antonio street looking East. There are horses and carriages in the street as well as a trolley running through the middle of the road. There are some people pictured in the surrounding area as well as various businesses with signs reading, "J.R. Currie & Co.", "Berrott & Schuster", "Milwaukee Beer Hall", and "Boots & Shoes".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Photograph of Soldier on Horse at Fort Davis]

Description: Photograph of a man in a light blue, yellow, and navy cavalry uniform, holding a rifle and sitting on a honey-colored horse. His uniform is comprised of a black helmet with a long yellow plume, a navy jacket, light blue trousers with a yellow stripe down the leg, knee-high boots, and a saber attached to his hip. The horse is harnessed and saddled, with a small quilted blanket under the saddle. They are standing in a large, dry, dirt space, with three small, one-story houses in the far backgroun… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: University of Texas Permian Basin

Fireman's Picnic Parade

Description: Photograph of two elegantly-dressed women sitting in an elaborately decorated carriage attached to a dark horse, taken during the Fireman's Picnic Parade. A man stands in front of the horse looks toward the camera, holding the horse's reigns.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Southwestern University

[Photograph of Cowboy Sculpture in Front of Building]

Description: Photograph of a sculpture of a cowboy pulling on the reins of a horse and lifting a rifle above his head with one hand, as he looks back over his left shoulder. There is a light-colored stone building and shrubs in the background, a man and woman walking behind the sculpture, and a person sitting in a chair in the entrance to the building. There are handwritten notes about the location and date on the back of the photo.
Date: 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of H. L. Desmond with Colt and Dog]

Description: Photograph of a thin older man sitting on a bench next to an upturned wash tub, with his legs crossed, holding a shallow, dented pan for a small colt to put its head into. The man is wearing round glasses, a light-colored shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and light-colored pants. There is a light-colored, short-furred dog with floppy ears and dark spots sitting to the right of the man's legs. In the background, the corner of a wooden shed and thin, wood picket fence. There is a handwritten note… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of Women in a Parade, 1894]

Description: Photograph of six young women on a Slayden-Kirksey Woolen Mills Chariot in a parade. Text on the back reads: " 1894 Waco The queen was Miss Maude Chisolm of Waco & Maids of Honor she was sponsored by George Crippen of Waco...Texas Cotton Palace. ". Text on the front says " ~Slayden Kirksey Woolen Mills Chariot~ ".
Date: 1894
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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