Resource Type

[Aubrey School Classes]

Photograph of a group of boys, girls, and adults posed in front of a brick school building.
Date: [1905..1906]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Charles August Moers taken in 1905. Photographed from the shoulders up.]

Photograph of Charles August Moers taken in 1905 (as identified on the back of photograph). Moers is wearing a dark three piece suit with white shirt and white tie. He has a small flower pinned on his left lapel. Photograph ends just below the shoulders. The photograph is mounted on a gray cardboard substrate. Bottom of cardboard reads: Morvan 1923 Canals, New Orleans, LA. Back of photograph has a notice written on the back about the quality of the photograph and "Morvan Art Studio, 923 Canal St. " Image dimensions are: 3.2 cm X 4.8 cm
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[J.H.P. Davis bank building in Rosenberg, Texas]

Photograph (copy) of the J.H.P. Davis bank building in Rosenberg, Texas in the early 1900's. Bank building is a two story brick building with an attached sidewalk cover. Windows on top floor have arched insets. Two men are walking on the sidewalk at the northeast corner of the building. Man on a dark horse in front of sidewalk to building. Other businesses to right of photo. Scanned image and dimensions are of the copy.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carry Nation in a wooden raised platform]

Photograph of Carry Nation. Written in the folder in blue ink: "Location unknown. Date: Probably circa 1905. Of many pictures of my grandmother, this is the only one I've ever seen where she was smiling. (signed) Alexander D. McNabb, July 24, 1975. " Photograph shows Nation in a wooden raised platform (wooden chair to right side of it). Nation, who has gray hair (in bun) and eyeglasses, is wearing a white floor-length skirt and white jacket and she is holding a bouquet of flowers on her left arm and an open book in her right hand. A crowd of people are standing around her. A black parasol can be seen in front of the white two-story building in the background. White label at the bottom of matte reads in black: Your Loving home defender, Carry A. Nation. Photograph is enclosed in a gray folder that has a matte for framing picture. Image dimensions are: 12.4 cm X 7.2 cm.
Date: July 24, 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carry Nation seated in a chair]

Photograph of Carry Nation. Nation is seated in a wooden chair and she is holding an open book. She has dark hair (partially gray) and is wearing wire-rimmed eyeglasses. She has on a white long-sleeved dress with white lace ruffle across the neckline and front of dress. Fireplace mantle in left background. Window in right background. Photograph is (framed) enclosed in a gray cardboard folder. Bottom of matte portion of folder has a white label that has black printing that says: "Your loving home defender, Carry A. Nation." Image dimensions are: 12.4 cm X 7.2 cm.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A group of students in front of the Jane Long School in Richmond, Texas.]

Photograph of a group of students in front of the Jane Long School in Richmond, Texas. Boy standing on the cement rail to right of steps (right of photo). Boy seated on rail to left of photo. Top of arched window can be seen in background.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lucile Wessendorff, daughter of Joe G. and Lila Baker Wessendorff.]

Photographic portrait of Lucile Wessendorff, daughter of Joe G. and Lila Baker Wessendorff. No date.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[J.H.P. Davis Bank (Davis & George Building).]

Photograph of J.H.P. Davis Bank (Davis & George Building), Southeast corner of Morton and 3rd, Richmond, TX. Two story stone and brick building with corner turret. Top floor windows are arched, framed with stone. Bob Wessendorff standing on bottom step, Walter Jones on top step. Unidentified African American man is talking with Wessendorff. Image is mounted on a white matte signed in pencil at bottom right, "Gillian." Image and matte are mounted in a black folder with "A Portrait" embossed on the front. Image dimensions: 9.8 cm x 14.6 cm
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[T.A. Wessendorff house, Richmond, Texas.]

photograph of T.A. Wessendorff house, Richmond, Texas, corner of Morton and 11th St. One story home with scalloped picket fence around the yard. Image is mounted on black cardboard substrate. Image dimensions: 17.8 cm x 12.4 cm
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Josephine Rich looking at a fire hydrant.]

Photograph of Josephine Rich looking at a fire hydrant in front of the T.B. Wessendorff home (as identified on back of photo). Cement curbs, sidewalk, and very small bare tree in foreground. Woman is wearing a white blouse and dark skirt. Two and a half story, white, wooden house in the background.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men and women kneeling around a stone]

Photographic print of nine men and women kneeling around a stone with "D. Rugeley" painted on it in white. Another women is standing partially out of the frame at the left. According to a paper taped to the back of the image, the picture was probably taken at the site where John DeForest Rugeley was killed (Sept. 1862) at Woodbury, TN during the Civil War. Rugeley was in Co. B of Terry's Texas Rangers and was from Matagorda County. Rugeley's sister Minnie married Col. Philip E. Peareson and moved to Richmond in 1867. See paper on back of photo for additional family information. Substrate has been cropped close to image at bottom, right, and top sides. Substrate at left side is missing several large pieces. An 8.5 cm x 5.5 cm triangle is missing from the image at the center top. Upper right corner of image is missing. 4 cm semi-circular area is missing from image near bottom of right edge. Small triangular area is missing from image at bottom left.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men, Women, and Children in front of a grove of trees]

Photographic group portrait of men, women, and children, taken in front of a grove of trees. All are dressed up, as for church or a celebration. Single boy in white clothes and straw hat is sitting on the ground in front of the rest of the group. Photograph has extensive mechanical damage. All four corners of mounting substrate are broken. Photographic surface is cracked and flaking.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Campbell Family and Residence, Richardson, Texas

Two men and 1 woman standing in front of a wood clad residence. The rear, roofed, porch is facing; the front porch is just visible on the far left of the photograph. From left to right: A man is standing in front of a dark horse. A small dog is perched on the hind-quarters of the horse. A man is standing in front of a small black and white dog. The dog is sitting on a wooden box/crate. A woman is standing at the front corner of the porch, beneath a medium tree. She is holding a palm fan.
Date: 1905~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

North Texas State Normal College faculty, 1905.

E. H. Thompson, physiology & Algebra; Emma Mitchell, History; Annie Moore, Psychology & Methods; Mrs. Pearl Cardon McCracken, Librarian; W. H. Long, Natural Science. Five individuals in different images on a single page.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

North Texas State Normal College faculty, 1905.

Illustrated sheet containing five individual, oval-shaped portraits of faculty members at North Texas State Normal College. They are identified as: Edith L. Clark, Literature; W. H. Bruce, Mathematics; L. D. Borden, Physical Science; F. A. Hauslein, Latin; and Annie Webb, Blanton English.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

North Texas State Normal College faculty, 1905.

Mrs. H. A. Lewis, American History; J. A. Sanders, Arithmetic and Book keeping; J. S. Kendall, Pres.; Mattie Simkins, Drawing; M. Manora Boylan, Music & Reading. Five individuals in five different images on a singe page.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cotton year in Killeen, Texas

Photograph, taken 1905 or 1906, depicts cotton loaded on a railroad car. A group of men stand atop the bales and alongside on a platform; men sit in two horse-drawn drays next to the pile of bales. The caption for the photograph reads: Loading bales of cotton on flat cars at Santa Fe Station in a bumper cotton year. Two-wheeled drays (left) hauled bales from cotton yard located in the 400 block of Avenue D.
Date: 1905~/1906~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Killeen Public School

An unidentified class from the Killeen Public School
Date: 1905~
Creator: Gray's Studio
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fourth Grade Students, Killeen Public School, 1905]

Fourth Grade Students, Killeen Public School.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Avenue D School, about 1905]

The Avenue D School, abut 1905, the building was enlarged in 1909.
Date: 1905~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Killeen School, 1905

Students of the Killeen School around 1905.
Date: 1905~
Creator: Killeen Daily Herald
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four Boys]

Photograph of four boys, three wear hats and they all have ties. The two in front are seated in wicker furniture and wear knickers. Text on the photo reads,"Seated-Graydon Cole and Claude Gilmer Standing L-R: "Chic" Pennington and Todd Patton 1905-1910".
Date: 1905~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dr. Spivey and others in a car]

Five gentleman in a car; Dr. Spivey (driving); Back seat: Robert Callahan; Charlie Hairston; Horace Law. Featured in the background are Horace Law's Barber Shop, and Cox's Studio.
Date: 1905~/1910~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Buildings destroyed by tornado 1905]

Buildings destroyed by 1905 tornado. Shows railroad in foreground. Jerry Thompson's book, Laredo: A Pictorial History, describes this photo as damage to buildings of Mexican National Railway, totally destroyed by the tornado.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History