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[H.G. Thompson and I. H. Kempner, Sr.]

Photograph of left to right: H.G. Thompson and I. H. Kempner, Sr. (as printed on the back in pencil) at an Imperial Sugar Company employee recognition dinner. Thompson is wearing a three piece wool suit with dark tie. He has thinning gray hair and wire rimmed eyeglasses. He has a carnation pinned on his left lapel. He has his hands behind his back. Kempner, who is standing in front of a microphone, is wearing a pin-stripe dark three-piece suit with dark tie. He also has a carnation pinned on his left lapel. Kempner has his left hand in his pants pocket and is holding a page of paper in his right hand. A group of people can be seen seated in the background. Back of photo, stamped in purple: Bob Bailey fine photograph Fairfax 3765 1302 Rusk Avenue Houston 2, Texas. Negative Number 10864-7.
Date: 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Jon J Rogers from Forest Park Cemetery] (open access)

[Letter to Jon J Rogers from Forest Park Cemetery]

letter to Jon J Rogers from Forest Park Cemetery about his request to bury his wife, non catholic, in a catholic cemetery
Date: April 19, 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Written marriage declaration of John J Rogers and Julia Ann Rogers] (open access)

[Written marriage declaration of John J Rogers and Julia Ann Rogers]

Written declaration that John J Rogers and Julia Ann Rogers were Married July 3, 1917 in Kankakee, Illinois. Their child was not given a name until August 11, 1918--the time it was baptized as Lillian Jane Rogers at the All Saints Catholic Church in Houston.
Date: February 12, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
John Jerome Rogers deed to Forest Park Cemetery (open access)

John Jerome Rogers deed to Forest Park Cemetery

John Jerome Rogers deed to Forest Park Cemetery
Date: April 27, 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History