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[Starr Home, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Photograph of the Starr Family home, also called Maplecroft, that was built by Frank Starr in 1871 on West Travis St., Marshall, Texas. It is a two-story, side gable, house, with wood siding and one central dormer with two arched windows. A white picket fence with a decorative wood gate and gateposts stands in front. A one story porch with simple square posts spans the facade.
Date: 193X
Creator: Barnes, Julian, 1904-1985
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.541658 -94.370992
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Firestone Stores Truck, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Photograph of Firestone Stores Studebaker pickup truck parked by a brick side wall of a commercial building. A sign saying "Firestone Tires" has been mounted on the rim of the truck bed. Painted on the passenger door: "Firestone Stores, 306 N. Washington, Dial 961."
Date: 195X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Copy of a 1920s Photograph of Fire Trucks Parked in the Square, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Copy print of part of the Harrison County courthouse square in Marshall, Texas, with fire department vehicles and staff in the foreground and buildings in the background. Businesses visible in the background include Garrett's Furniture & Stoves and McPhail Hardware. Painted on the side wall of the furniture store is a large "Drink Dr. Pepper" sign.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Smith Steel Casting Co., Marshall, Texas]

Description: Color halftone postcard showing an interior view of the Smith Steel Casting Co., Marshall, Texas. The view shows two large crucibles being tilted to pour molten metal into a smaller container of a mold. Several workers are on the foundry floor assisting with the process. Printed in the lower left corner of the image is the logo of an "S" within a diamond shape. Printed in the message section is a form reply for receipt of an order. Printed between the message and address sections is: "Bob Burn… more
Date: 197X
Creator: Smith Steel Casting Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Scene on North Square - Marshall, Texas

Description: Photo-postcard of the northeast corner of the Harrison County Courthouse square in Marshall, Texas, ca. 1952. Recknagel Drug Store is in the left foreground and the trees next to the courthouse are on the right. The courthouse is not visible. Hotel Marshall is visible, as well as Home Furniture Co. and Kariel Clo. Co. on the east side of the square, and electric fans are visible in a few of their second floor windows. The street and most of the parking spaces are empty. A street light is on th… more
Date: December 12, 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Post Office, Marshall, Tex.

Description: Photo-postcard of the Marshall, Texas, post office building showing the facade and the west side of the building. Two automobiles are parked in front of the building and one is visible on the side. Two pedestrians are walking on the sidewalk. The building is located at 100 E. Houston St. Bushes have been planted across the front and side of the building. There is a metal trash bin with a pyramidal top next to the streetlight at the right corner of the building. There also is a flagpole and high… more
Date: 195X
Creator: L. L. Cook Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of a Boat Landing at Caddo State Park]

Description: Color halftone postcard showing a boat landing on the bayou of Lake Caddo, near Marshall, Texas. The wooden boat landing with a corrugated iron roof is in the foreground on the left. Two people are standing on it, and an empty rowboat is next to it. A red canoe with one person in it paddling is moving towards the landing. Trees are in the background. There is no postmark or message on the back of the card. Printed on the back of the card at the end of the image caption: "Ektachrome by Helen O'… more
Date: 195X
Creator: O'Brien, Helen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of Bob Hope Motel, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Color halftone postcard on textured linen paper showing the Bob Hope Motel, Marshall, Texas. The view shows the office building and the section of the motel to its right. The office is a front gable, one-story building with a cross-gable wing in back. There is a sign saying "Bob Hope Motel" on a pole in front, and "Bob Hope Motel" is also in the front gable. Beds of flowers are at the base of the sign, the office building and the other buildings. Four outdoor chairs are placed on the side of t… more
Date: [1930..1945]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of Caddo Lake with Four People in a Motot Boat among the Trees]

Description: Color halftone postcard showing Lake Caddo, near Marshall, Texas. Water is in the foreground with trees growing from the water on the sides and in the background. A small boat with an outboard motor on the back is in the middle, with four people in it fishing. There is no postmark or message on the back of the card. Printed on the back of the card at the end of the image caption: "Ektachrome by Helen O'Brien. Printed at the bottom of the message section: "Pub by Eastex Photo Supply, Marshall, … more
Date: 195X
Creator: O'Brien, Helen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of Bob Hope Motel, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Color halftone postcard on textured linen paper showing the Bob Hope Motel, Marshall, Texas. The view shows the highway in the foreground, then the parking lot, then the motel . A front gable one-story office building is in the center of the parking lot with a sign on a pole in front of it. The low, one-story motel building stretches behind it. Small motel room facades with entrance door and one window alternate with open garage spaces. Included in the caption on the back of the card are featur… more
Date: [1930..1945]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Post Office, Marshall, Texas

Description: Color halftone postcard of the Marshall, Texas, post office building showing the facade and the west side of the building. The building is located at 100 E. Houston St. The title at the top of the card is "Post Office - Marshall, Tex." and the code 68234-N is on the lower right. There is no postmark or message on the back of the card. Printed between the message and address sections: "Genuine Curteich-Chicago 'C.T. American Art' post card (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.}"
Date: [1931..1945]
Creator: Curt Teich & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Post Office, Marshall, Texas

Description: Photo-postcard of the Marshall, Texas, post office building. The three windows on the right are partially open and the front doors are open. The building is located at 100 E. Houston St. A tall flagpole stands to the right of the building. The title at the bottom of the image is "Post Office, Marshall, Texas." There is no postmark or message on the back of the card.
Date: 196X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of Cypress Trees in the Water, Caddo Lake State Park, Karnack, Texas]

Description: Color halftone postcard of cypress trees growing from the water at Caddo Lake State Park, at Karnack, near Marshall, Texas. The view is filled with the tree trunks and branches and the reflections of the tree trunks on the water. Printed on the back of the card between the message and address sections: "The finest American made view post cards - The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y." There is no postmark or message on the card.
Date: 193X
Creator: Albertype Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of Devil's Elbow, Big Cypress Bayou, Caddo Lake]

Description: Color halftone postcard showing a fishing area called Devil's Elbow on Big Cypress Bayou of Lake Caddo, near Marshall, Texas. The water is in the foreground and grass and trees are in the background. There is no postmark or message on the back of the card. Printed on the back at the end of the image caption: "Color photography by Robert Lomax. Printed at the bottom of the message section: "Pub by Eastex Photo Supply, Marshall, Texas. 90330." Printed between the message and address sections: "G… more
Date: 196X
Creator: Lomax, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of Exterior of T. J. Taylor Store, Karnack, Texas]

Description: Color halftone postcard showing the T. J. Taylor store in Karnack, Texas. Taylor was the father of Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Johnson. The view shows a 19th century two-story brick commercial building with later additions on three sides. The building is not in good condition and does not appear to be in use. A sign on what appears to have been a gas station addition says, "T.J. Taylor, Dealer in Everything." There is no postmark or message on the back of the card. Printed at t… more
Date: 196X
Creator: Baxter's Photo Supply
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of Howard C. Bennett Student Center, East Texas Baptist College, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Color halftone postcard of the Howard C. Bennett Student Center, East Texas Baptist College, in Marshall, Texas, taken sometime in the 1970s. The building was constructed in 1973. The two-story brick and glass modern building has two wings visible in the view, the one on the left has a wall of glass panels with entrance doors on the lower right, next to the wing that projects to the right to form an L. There is a large pine tree on the left in the foreground. Printed on the back between the me… more
Date: [1973..1979]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of Fly 'N Fish Motel with Runway, on Caddo Lake, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Color halftone postcard showing the Fly 'N Fish motel and airport on Caddo Lake, near Marshall, Texas. In the foreground are two small airplanes parked in the grass by a runway. On the other side of the runway is the motel. One-story wings for the rooms extend on either side of a two-story front-gable building that probably housed the dining room and dance floor mentioned in the card's caption. Automobiles are parked in front of the wings with the rooms, and a number of people are clustered in … more
Date: 195X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Post's Garage, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Photograph of Post's Garage showing stucco retail building with Texaco gas pumps under the awning. Behind the stucco building is a larger gable-roof garage building sided in corrugated iron with a pickup truck parked beside it. Part of a raised nineteenth century cottage is visible to the right of the gas station. Signs on the service station include one for Studebaker authorized sales & service and Willard Storage Batteries.
Date: 194X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of the Gables Restaurant, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Color halftone postcard of the Gables Cafe, Marshall, Texas, probably from the late 1950s. The one-story side-gable building consists of a central red-brick cottage with a small cross-gable entrance and white wood-siding additions on both sides. A tall sign on the right with lights, mounted on a single pole says "Gables Cafe." Attached to the sign's pole is a round sign for the Lions Club. A metal structure on the roof supports lighted letters spelling "The Gables Cafe." A number of automobile… more
Date: 195X
Creator: Davis, Tiny
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Postcard of the Gables Restaurant, Marshall, Texas, night view]

Description: Color halftone postcard of the Gables Cafe, Marshall, Texas, taken at night sometime after a 1974 rebuilding. The illuminated signs include a large rectangular sign supported by two posts in front of the entrance that says "The Gables Restaurant" and a rooftop sign that says "The Gables Cafe." Another sign with smaller letters runs along the ridge of the roof and says "Home of the Little Loaf of Bread." Automobiles and a pickup truck are parked in the parking log in front. There is no postmark… more
Date: 1974~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Rockefeller Hall, Bishop College, Marshall, Texas, 6-J-64

Description: Black and white photo-postcard of Rockefeller Hall of Bishop College, Marshall, Texas. The three-story brick building has a gambrel roof with a row of nine small dormers with round-arched windows on the roof. Two exterior staircases across the facade leading from the front porch to the dormers was probably a later addition for fire safety. A drainpipe from the roof gutter is visible on the left part of the facade. A tree and bushes are in the foreground, as well as a telephone pole. At the bott… more
Date: 194X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum
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