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Camp Fern, Marshall, Texas

Black and white photo-postcard showing ten girls and young women riding horses in a meadow with trees in the background at Camp Fern, near Marshall, Texas. In white letters on the bottom of the image is the title, "Camp Fern. Marshall, Texas." The postmark on the back of the card is dated Jun 14, 1943, and the card is addressed to Mrs. J. T. La Rue, Athens, Texas.
Date: June 14, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Methodist Church, Marshall, Texas

Black and white postcard of the First United Methodist Church, located at 300 East Houston St., in Marshall, Texas, photographed in the early 1920s. The building was constructed in 1861. It is a front-gable brick-masonry structure in a Greek revival style with a bell tower and steeple on the peak of the front gable. Three sets of steps ascend to the entrance porch, which has four tapered square brick columns surmounted by a pediment. The view shows the facade and the right side of the building with its raised basement windows visible. At the top of the image, printed in red is the title, "Methodist Church, Marshall, Texas." Printed on the right side of the i mage in red: "Fry Hodge Drug Co., Marshall, Texas." There is a postmark dated May 14, 1923 on the back. The card was addressed to Miss Sallie Woodrome, Yoakum, Texas.
Date: May 14, 1923
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History