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[Students and Teachers in Front of Schoolhouse]

Description: Photograph of schoolchildren and teachers in front of a schoolhouse that has wood paneling and four tall windows. Boys are seated in the front row along with a man kneeling in the center, while older children and adults stand in the back. Text written in the bottom-left corner says: "Colbert, I.T. Public School. Mar. 6".07. Prof. H. G. King, Prin. Hendricks Photo, Denison Tex." A boy near the far left, center row, is marked with red pen. There is a handwritten list of names and numbers on t… more
Date: March 6, 1907
Creator: Hendricks Photo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Marie Bartholomew

[Postcard from Kate to Mrs. W. A. Scott, February 12, 1924]

Description: Postcard from Kate to Mrs. W. A. Scott with an illustration of two children with a caption that reads: "Tell me, Sweet does that heart of thine Cherish a thought that is hope to mine?" The note on the card tells Scott that she should come up to Durant to visit but that Kate's children has had the chicken pox.
Date: February 12, 1924
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Postcard from Kate Matlock to Edna Matlock, February 12, 1924]

Description: Postcard from Kate Matlock to Edna Matlock saying that her children have had the chicken pox and that is why she has not written often. The illustration on the front of the card shows a little girl playing with a stick and a hoop; the note next to the picture reads: "This simple little card I send Is just to say to you That if it rains or if it shines My love for you is true."
Date: February 12, 1924
Creator: Matlock, Kate
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Sowell's Bluff Bridge: Platform on Bridge Deck]

Description: Photograph of the Sowell's Bluff suspension bridge over the Red River on its opening day, with a wooden platform built along the wooden guardrails along the side of the bridge. People are standing on the platform and looking out alongside a metal sign with an American flag flying above and the banks of the Red River visible below. The ceremony here may be the inauguration of the bridge. Written on the back of the photograph: "ISABEL MOOR WHEELER, Breaking Beech."
Date: 1927
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.753913 -96.196776
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[Sowell's Bluff Bridge: Inauguration Ground View]

Description: Photograph of the inauguration of the Sowell's Bluff Bridge as viewed from the banks of the Red River. The bridge is located above, with people standing in it and a sign hanging over the span of the bridge, depicting caricatures of Oklahoma and Texas shaking hands. Spectators watch the bridge's opening from below, most wearing hats and looking upwards.
Date: 1927
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.753913 -96.196776
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[Sowell's Bluff Bridge: Suspension Tower]

Description: Photograph of the Sowell's Bluff suspension bridge, viewed from the banks of the Red River. Prominently at center is one of the bridge's suspension towers, atop which fly two American flags. Below on the deck, pedestrians and a single car move along the bridge and over the river, while some people stand along the sandy edges of the river among pieces of wood debris and small bushes.
Date: 1927
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.753913 -96.196776
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[Postcard from Kate Matlock to Edna Matlock]

Description: Postcard from Kate Matlock to her mother, Edna Matlock, asking her how she is feeling lately and saying that she should come visit "when you can." The illustration on the front of the card shows a burning candle behind a few puffy flowers; there is a lengthy note on the side of the picture wishing a happy Thanksgiving.
Date: 191u-11-25
Creator: Matlock, Kate
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Clipping: The Red River War]

Description: Clipping of a running newspaper column titled "A Step Back in Time" discussing the 9-day "war" between Texas and Oklahoma around the Red River in 1931. It provides information about the context, the incident, and later history of the bridge and the center of the events. Portions of another article and advertisements are on the back of the clipping.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Location: 33.823581 -96.532366
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History
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