Joshua Crittenden Chilton, President of Texas Normal College and Teachers Training Institute, 1890-1893. Man in a suit.

North Texas Normal College, students, 1896. Students sitting and standing in front of a brick building.

North Texas Normal College, college orchestra, 1898, President Terrill, left, back row. Men and women, seated and standing, holding stringed musical instruments.

John Jackson Crumley, President of North Texas Normal College, 1893-1894. Man in suit

Menter B. Terrill, President of North Texas Normal College and North Texas State Normal College, 1894-1901. Man in suit

Student body, 1895, North Texas Normal College. Students standing in front of a brick building.

North Texas Normal College, Students and President Kendall, 1894. Individuals in suits and dress seated and standing in a room.

North Texas Normal College, Normal Building, ca. 1896. Brick building and trees

First building on Texas Normal College and Teachers Training Institute campus, located on corner of Hickory and Avenue B. Constructed 1891. Large brick building and trees

Large group of unidentified people in an unknown room.

Studio portrait of ten unidentified young women.

Photograph of five men posing on horseback. Stables can be seen in the background with rooftops of many homes behind them. The men are wearing boots, white shirts, vests, and hats. A Rope is attached to the saddles of some horses. The man on the far left is Will Huffman, next is a man named Brown, in the middle is John Calvin (Jack) Christal, followed by Rufus "Ruf" D. Fry, and another unidentified man named Brown.

Tractors, one possibly steam, grading the road. Early wooden structures and one brick or stone building on right. Man on left is Dr. Ervin Howard, first doctor in Sanger. May 23, 1892

Photograph of students and faculty of the North Texas Normal College, 1891-98. Men, women, and children are seated and standing before the front entrance of the Normal Building, some on the steps, and some in the window looking out. The first and second men seated at far left are tentatively identified as (1) Jesse A. Sanders, Treasurer, and instructor of mathematics and bookkeeping, and (2) Menter B. Terrill, President, and instructor of Pedagogy, Psychology, Ethics and Logic. Photographic print mounted on card backing. Handwritten notation at lower right of mount: "The School Group about May 1897 or '98". Reverse of mount with offset image from another photograph, and handwritten note "Class 1897 or 1898". The Normal Building was constructed in 1891 as the first permanent building on the NT campus, and served until 1907 when it was struck by lightning and burned.

Photograph of students posing on the steps of the Normal Building. Built in 1891, the Normal Building was the first building built on the North Texas Normal College campus, on what is now the corner of Oak and Avenue B. In 1907, the building was struck by lightning and destroyed. The photograph shows the front entrance stairs of the building, with two women and a man seated on the ground in front, and a group of 46 men and women standing on the stairs. Photograph taken between 1891 and 1907.

Photograph of the May 1895 North Texas Normal College student body. Handwritten notation on the left margin with an arrow pointing to "M.B. Terrill" and a handwritten notation on the right margin with an arrow pointing to "Mrs. M.B. Terrill." There is a handwritten notation on the bottom left hand corner stating "R=Miss Ruby Terrill" followed by partially illegible "Dean of [illegible] U. of T. (1931)." The letter "R" is written on a student in the bottom left hand corner identifying her as Miss Ruby Terrill.

Photograph of the May 1895 North Texas Normal College student body. Handwritten notation on the left margin with an arrow pointing to "M.B. Terrill" and a handwritten notation on the right margin with an arrow pointing to "Mrs. M.B. Terrill." There is a handwritten notation on the bottom left hand corner stating "R=Miss Ruby Terrill" followed by partially illegible "Dean of [illegible] U. of T. (1931)." The letter "R" is written on a student in the bottom left hand corner identifying her as Miss Ruby Terrill.

Photograph of a name plate for Menter B. Terrill 1894-1901 glued to a piece of paper. The name "Davis" is also visible on the paper. Menter B. Terrill was President of North Texas Normal College and North Texas State Normal College from 1894-1901.

Photograph of the May 1895 North Texas Normal College student body. Handwritten notation on the left margin with an arrow pointing to "M.B. Terrill" and a handwritten notation on the right margin with an arrow pointing to "Mrs. M.B. Terrill." There is a handwritten notation on the bottom left hand corner stating "R=Miss Ruby Terrill" followed by partially illegible "Dean of [illegible] U. of T. (1931)." The letter "R" is written on a student in the bottom left hand corner identifying her as Miss Ruby Terrill. There is a large white "X" across the photograph.

Photograph of students, faculty, and others posed along the south side of the Normal Building, North Texas Normal College, Spring 1896. The 69 men and women are seated or standing outside, while 11(?) are hanging out of or looking out of windows in the background. Photographic print mounted on card backing. Handwritten notes on reverse: "Mrs. Will M. Smith Frisco Tex. Spring of 1896", "312" and "Class 1896". The group is posed against the Normal Building, constructed in 1891 as the first permanent building on the NT campus. It stood until being struck by lightning in 1907, when it burned to the ground.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Louisa Owsley in a light-colored blouse and dark hat. On the back of the photo is handwritten: "Dr. Louisa Owsley, Mother of A. C. Owsley, Sr., Grandmother of Clark, Lou, Stella, Eunice, Henry, Charlotte & Alvin. Louisa Owsley came here from Missouri in 1872 from Missouri with her husband, Dr. Henry Owsley, an allopath. She died in 1908." From newspaper articles, we have found that Louisa Owsley was born in Caldwell County, Kentucky in 1830 and died in Denton County in 1904. She was a midwife and homeopathic doctor.

Portrait of Ed Reed (on right), Belle Starr's son, and Edgar Clark of Denton, Texas, with an unidentified man on the left. They are standing by a wooden contraption and in front of a painted backdrop. Both men are wearing similar rings on their left ring fingers. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, Edgar Clark was born in May of 1870 and living with his widowed mother and siblings at the Clark home located at the corner of Center (which is now Carroll Blvd) and Mulberry streets in Denton, Texas. His occupation was listed as "bartender." James "Ed" Edwin Reed was born in California on February 22, 1871 to Myra Maybell Reed, who later became known as Belle Starr. He was shot and killed in Claremore, Indian Territory [Oklahoma], on December 14, 1896 while attempting to arrest two men - J. N. Clark and Joe Gibbs - charged with peddling whiskey. He was previously a deputy U.S. Marshall and was known for the killing of two outlaw brothers in Wagoner, Oklahoma: Zeke and Dick Crittendon. Ed Reed's notorious past included horse theft and stolen property in Fort Smith, Arkansas (c1889), and along with his brother, Russell, the murder of James …

Portait of Lou Hann and her art class, five individuals standing behind four sitting. They are identified as (top row, left-to-right) Lula Blewett, Zilpha Eads, Effie Wright, Myrtle Bacon, Clara Hann, (bottom row, left-to-right) Myrtle Wright, Lou Hann, and Georgia Carruth.

Four generations of in one portrait. Identified (from back to front) are Mary Camp Gober, Julia Ann Gober Wright, Effie Wright Williams, and Myrtle Branche Williams.