Photograph of members of the Hallettsville Volunteer Fire Department standing with their vehicles in front of the Lavaca County Courthouse.

Aerial photograph of Hallettsville, Texas. Visible in the photograph is the Grant Lumber Building, Fink Hotel, Airdome, and the New Era Printing building. In the background are family homes and fields.

Portrait of students who attended Boethel School in 1924. There are four rows of male and female students posing outside. Behind the students there is a grouping of trees and a fence is visible. Accompanying information lists names of individuals. First Row: Lydia Spies, Hulda Boethel, Hilda Elstner, Ted Harvey (Teacher), Alice Renger, Josie Haas, Josie Haas, Lillie Chudei, Hattie Boethel; Second Row: Selma Galetka, Hattie Boethel, Sedonia Mikush, Annie Guetler, Doris Raymond, Pauline Koeler; Third Row: Hy. Olsovsky, Henry Guetler, Louis Boethel, Alfred Raymond, Hilmut Treptow; Fourth Row: Mary Olsovsky.

Photograph of multiple rows of field crops. An older man in a suit and hat is standing on the right side of the photograph, looking at the camera.

Photograph of the interior of Hallettsville Lumber Company. Four men are standing inside the store. In the foreground is a register and metal machinery is on the wood floor.

Portrait of students who attended Kinkler School during the 1932-1933 school year. There are three rows of male and female students posing outside, in front of the building. The school is one-story and has a front porch. To the left of the school are two trees.

Portrait of students attending Kinkler School during the 1920-1921 school year. There are three rows of male and female students posing in front of the school building.

Portrait of students attending Komensky School. There are six rows of male and female students standing outside in front of trees. In the foreground is a barbed wire fence.

Portrait of students attending Kominsky School during the 1924-1925 school year. There are five rows of male and female students posing in front of the school building. Accompanying information lists the two teachers as Ida Gallia Hrncir and Millie Elstner. The principal is Charles R. Hrncir.

Photograph of Lavaca County Courthouse. The Courthouse is a four-story stone building with a clock tower. Four men are sitting and standing on the front steps. In front of the main entrance are horse-drawn wagons.

Portrait of Lavaca County teachers posed in front of the Lavaca County Courthouse.

Lavaca River after the snowfall on February 15, 1895. The riverbanks are covered in snow and a wooden bridge is in the foreground. In the background are the H. M. Tippitt home and the Joseph Stanzel home.

Photograph of Lavaca River taken after the snowstorm in January 1949. The banks of the river are covered in snow. In the background, family homes and trees are visible.

Portrait of Live Oak School. The building has windows on both sides of the entrance and is made of brick. In the foreground is a dirt road.

Portrait of students attending Menger School during the 1930-1931 school year. There are four rows of male and female students posed outside of the school building. A boy in the first row is holding a sign that reads, "Menger School, March 18, 1931, Miss Vera Kasper, Miss Alice Kasper." The two teachers are identified as Miss Vera Kasper and Miss Alice Kasper.

Portrait of students in Gladys Kolkmans's class at New Kinkler School sometime between 1903 and 1907. There are five rows of male and female students posed outside of the school. Accompanying information identifies some students. "Front row, left to right: Unknown, Unknown, Leon Laas and Victor Appelt; Second row, left to right: Unknown, Rudolph Appelt, Unknown, Lillie Rothbauer, --- Schroeder, Henry Schaeffer; Third row, left to right: Bill Appelt, Edmund Fertsch, Unknown, Alfred Zappe, Unknown, Robert Fertsch (?), Unknown, Unknown; Fourth row, left to right: Leona Appelt, Alma Appelt, Unknown, Ida Schaefer or Velda Appelt, Unknown, Annie Appelt; Fifth row, left to right: Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Adolph Fertsch, Unknown Unknown; Teacher: Gladys Kolkman."

Portrait of students in front of Pagel Settlement School. There are three rows of male and female students posing outside of the school. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph listing some of the names of the students. "Fred Pustejovsky - top row-second from left, Henkis - Grahmann's, Wessel Paul Rother - front row - 4th from left, La Noe (Davenport) Gibson - 2nd row 5th from left, Lorraine (Davenport) Landry - 3rd row - 6th from left."

Photograph of a group of men having a picnic, with Albert Appelt Sr. in the far left of the photograph standing next to a wagon with his arm extended in a toast.

Photograph of "Appelt's Drive In Station" with signs advertising Goodyear Tires and Willard Storage Batteries, with the owner, mechanics, and a customer standing in the foreground.

Photograph of Appelt's Service Station with signs advertising Texaco Gasoline and Goodyear Tires, with Reinhart Lumber Yard next door and Lavaca County Courthouse visible in the background.

Photograph of the city of Hallettsville, Texas taken from the porch of the City Hotel looking towards Hallettsville square, with the hotel's sign visible in the foreground.

Photograph of the west side of Hallettsville square, looking north on Main Street from the New Era building, with First National Bank on the left.

Photograph of Ehler's Furniture and Appliance building on the Hallettsville square, taken from Texana Street looking toward the courthouse.

Photograph of Eilers Industrial School shop building, with another small building in a field in the background.