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[Herbarium Sheet: Vitis cinerea #296]

Description: Specimen of a Vitis cinerea, var. Floridana, Munson plant, collected by T. V. Munson. Text at bottom of page: "Vitis Cinerea, var. Floridana, Munson. (V. Carbaea, Engelm.) South Florida."
Date: unknown
Creator: Munson, T. V. (Thomas Volney), 1843-1913
Partner: Grayson College Foundation

[Account of Wallace Family History]

Description: This is a document from the Charles B. Moore Collection. In this document, Moore discusses the Wallace family education and military history. Moore states that most of the family went to school with slaves or with freed African Americans.Moving from the family's educational history, he notes the wars that the Wallace men fought in, details the campaign to North Georgia to fight the Indians, and recalls an incident which occurred travelling to Georgia on the Mississippi River. Israel Moore, Joh… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Moore, Charles B. Moore
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The Havana Special" over the water]

Description: The Florida East coast Railway takes to the water with its Key West extension. No. 85 southbound, "The Havana Special" goes out to sea about four years after the right of way's completion in 1912. To the right of the viaduct is the Atlantic, while the Gulf of Mexico is to the left. This railroad, badly wrecked by a hurricane in 1936, was abandoned and a motor road was laid over it.
Date: 1912
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Children on the running board of a motor car]

Description: A photograph of three children standing on the running board of a motor car with the top up. The reverse side includes a manufacturing stamp that reads, "PRINTED AT THE GIBSON KODAK STORE - JACKSONVILLE, FLA." This item was originally part of a scrapbook assembled by Thomas Norwood Carswell, largely containing items related to his time at Simmons College (Abilene, Texas).
Date: [1909,1915]
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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