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[Steam powered tractor with farmer]

Description: Postcard issued by Bank of the Southwest using images from F.J. Schlueter Collection. Image is of a steam powered tractor with farmer standing on the back. Farmer is in the process of plowing the field. Text on the back of the postcard reads, "Even in its early days, Houston was an agricultural center. Farm machinery such as this steam tractor helped Houstonians make the most of their natural resources. Photograph from the Bank of the Southwest--F.J. Schlueter Collection." Image is from ca… more
Date: 1915
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Two oil derricks]

Description: Postcard issued by Bank of the Southwest using images from F.J. Schlueter Collection. Image is of two oil derricks. Car and wagon are on the road in front of the derricks. Text on the back of the postcard reads, "For a long time, oil has been the biggest game in town. Even in 1916 when Houston thoroughfares had as many horses and buggies as automobiles. Photograph from the Bank of the Southwest--F.J. Schlueter Collection." Image is from ca. 1920, but postcard is from ca. 1970.
Date: 1916
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Two women in an automobile]

Description: Postcard issued by Bank of the Southwest using images from F.J. Schlueter Collection. Image is of two women in an automobile, one at the driver's wheel and one in the back seat. Text on the back of the postcard reads, "By 1910, the horse and buggy had begun to give way to the automobile. Houston Streets were never the same again. Photograph is from the Bank of the Southwest--F.J. Schlueter Collection." Image is from ca. 1910, but postcard is from ca. 1970.
Date: 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Illustration of Mirabeau B. Lamar]

Description: Black-and-white drawing of Mirabeau B. Lamar, visible from the chest up, wearing a dark-colored suit jacket and bowtie, with a light-colored, collared shirt. It is in a black frame that is aged in some spots. Text printed below the image: "Mirabeau B. Lamar. The Father of the Texas Public School System."
Date: 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Jane Long's Piano in the museum.]

Description: Photograph of Jane Long's piano in the Fort Bend Museum. The piano is dark-colored and has several items on top of the lid, including a lamp (left), a violin laying on its side (center), and a decorative plant (right). It is in front of a brick wall, direclty below a painted portrait of Long and to the right of framed, printed text (not readable).
Date: [1972..1987]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.580465 -95.761822
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Musical group in Richmond, Texas.]

Description: Photograph of a musical group in Richmond, Texas. The first woman to the left on the front row is identified (on back in pencil) as Maude Blake Dyer, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. J. E. Dyer. Group of six women and four men holding string instruments. Five women are seated and four men and one woman are standing behind them. Dyer is wearing a white dress with puffed sleeved and ruffles at neckline and bodice. Sleeves are full at wrists. She is holding a banjo. The photograph is mounted on a pale gra… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[John McNabb]

Description: Photograph of "John McNabb, perhaps about 1890. Born in Scotland in 1806. (Exact date unknown). Died April 27, 1894; a member of the Santa Fe Expedition. His remains were removed from the family cemetery northwest of Rosenberg to Morton Cemetery in Richmond in the sprint of 1974." This description was written on the back of the photograph in ink. McNabb has thinning gray hair and is wearing a plaid suit (top button buttoned) with a dark wide tie, and a white shirt (collar of shirt barely visib… more
Date: 1890
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Portrait of Ethel Peareson, Dell Rugeley, Ada Rugeley, and Kate Peareson]

Description: Photograph of "Ethel Peareson (Mrs. P. G. Huston, Bay City); Dell Rugeley, Ada Rugeley, and Kate Peareson (Andrus, Richmond)" as identified on the back of the picture in blue ink. Photo is of four young girls all posed with their bodies leaning toward each other (top two, bottom two). The girls are wearing high-necked dresses with large ruffles around neckline and shoulders. Two girls on the right have on white dresses and the two girls on the left have stripe print (second row right girl's dre… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum
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