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[Adults and Children Gather for Country Sporting Event]

Description: Photograph of a group of people posing together for a country sporting event. Older girls and women stand to the left and older boys and men stand to the right behind a fence. Many of them are carrying farming implements. A mixed group of younger children sits by an open gate on the left. A small livestock pen has a boy seated beside it to the right. The heads of two reined horses are visible in the foreground at the bottom of the photo.
Date: 1896%
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Custer Cox and Schoolchildren]

Description: Photograph of a group of boys and girls of various ages standing with Custer Cox in front of the door of a schoolhouse. The group is arranged in three rows, with younger children standing in the front and middle rows and older children standing on either side of Custer Cox in the back row. Cox is wearing a suit with a boutonniere and stiff white collar. The children in the front row are barefoot. A handwritten note on the reverse side of the mat says "Custer might be teacher."
Date: 1896~
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Lone Star Brass Band]

Description: Photograph of members of the Lone Star brass band posing together with their instruments. The thirteen white men are arranged in three rows, with six standing in the background, five kneeling in the middle, and two sitting in front. A bass drum to the right has the words "Carbon Band" written along its rim and "Lone" written above a star. A United States flag hangs in the background to the left. The leftmost man in the back row is identified as Custer Cox.
Date: 1896~
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell
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