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Autographed Photo of Champ Clark
Photograph of Champ Clark. Black and white photo. Autographed to Sam Rayburn by Champ Clark. Inscription on front of photo reads, "To Sam Rayburn, Your Friend, Champ Clark"
Date:
1850/1969
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photo of boy and girl in front of fireplace
Photograph of two children. The two children stand in front of a brick fireplace and mantel. The black and white photo appears to be circa 1950. The girl wears a light colored, short-sleeved, knee-length dress, white socks, black mary jane shoes and a ribbon in her hair. The boy wears dark slacks, a plaid sport coat, white button-down shirt and dark tie. A white pocket square is barely visible in his left pocket. He also wears dark colored shoes. The children are looking at one another in this photo. The girl has her left arm around they boy's waist, the boy has his right arm over the girl's right shoulder. In the background is a brick fireplace, with a mantel that appears to have Christmas cards displayed upon it. There is a glass vase or candle holder in the center of hte mantel. Pale, striped wallpaper can be seen above the mantel. A fireplace tool set stands at the right of the children along with a broom. The children stand on the bricked hearth.
Date:
1850/1969
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photo of Sam Rayburn beside cabin in Lenoir, Tennessee
Photograph of Sam Rayburn standing beside the cabin of his birth in Lenoir, Tennessee. Sam Rayburn is wearing a light colored suit, with white button down shirt and a dark tie. He wears a white Panama hat with a dark colored band. He stands resting his right hand on the side of the cabin. The cabin pictured is constructed of rough cut wood. It is two stories high and and the exterior of a stone fireplace stands to the left of Rayburn. The ground is covered with tall grass and weeds. The photo is black and white.
Date:
1850/1969
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photograph of Robert E. Lee
Photograph of Robert E. Lee. General Lee served as a Confederate General during the U.S. Civil War. He died on October 12, 1870. The photo is a head and shoulders view of Lee. He is wearing a dark suit, white shirt and black bow-tie. He has gray/white hair and a medium-length beard. Text under the image reads, "Last Photograph General Robert E. Lee."
Date:
1850/1969
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photograph of Ruth Bryan Owen
Photograph of Ruth Bryan Owen (1885-1954). Owen was the daughter of William Jennings Bryan. She served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1929-1933 representing Florida's Fourth Congressional District. She served as an Ambassador to Denmark from 1933-1936. The photo is black and white. In the portrait Mrs. Owen wears a pearl necklace and pearl earrings. Her hair is gray and is waved. She wears a floral print dress, only the collar can be seen. The background is all white.
Date:
1850/1969
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photographic portrait of Sam Rayburn
Photograph of. Sam Rayburn. The black and white photo shows Sam Rayburn from the knees up. He is sitting in a chair. He wears a dark, three-iece suit, white button-down shirt and dark, striped tie. A pocket watch chain can be seen at his vest. Rayburn rests his left hand on the arm of the chair. His right elbow rests on the opposite chair arm. The background is gray/ivory.
Date:
1850/1969
Creator:
Harris & Ewing
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photograph of Katherine Thomas
Photograph of Katherine (Kate) (Rayburn) Thomas. Katherine Thomas was one of Sam Rayburn's sisters. The photograph is a head and shoulders image of Mrs. Thomas. She wears a V-neck dress with shiny appliques on the shoulders. She wears a matching necklace. her hair is pulled back from her face in a low chignon.
Date:
1872/1971
Creator:
Gittings portrait studio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Samuel Edward Bartley high school graduation photo
Photograph of graduation high school class. The photograph was likely taken sometime between 1880 and 1910. The man seated in the middle of the front row is Samuel Edward (S.E.) Bartley, Sam Rayburn's brother-in-law. Mr. Bartley married Sam Rayburn's sister Medibel in 1902 and together they had two children. S.E. and Medibel moved into the Rayburn home in the 1940s. Mr. Bartley's high school graduation photo shows twelve students; nine girls and three boys. The girls all wear long sleeved, high necked, long, white guazy dresses. They all appear to have long hair, worn up. The boys wear three piece suits with white button-down shirts, ties and stiff collars. The front row is comprised of two girls sitting on the left, Mr. Bartley seated in the center and two girls seated at the right. The back row is comprised of a standing group of students. Two women, a boy, a girl, a boy and two women stand from left to right.
Date:
1880/1910
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographed Photo of Sam Rayburn
Photograph of Sam Rayburn. Sepia-toned toned photograph of Sam Rayburn from the chest up. He wears a dark suit, tie and white shirt. The photograph is autographed by Sam Rayburn. The words, "To my sister Meddie with my deepest affection--Sam Rayburn" are at the bottom of the photo. Meddie (Medibel Bartley) was one of Sam Rayburn's three sisters. She and her husband, S.E. Bartley lived in Sam Rayburn's home in Bonham beginning in the 1940s.
Date:
1882/1961
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of an Unknown Man Sitting on a Chair]
Photograph of an unidentified man sitting in a cushioned chair. He wears a large coat.
Date:
1883~/1889~
Creator:
Cadman, A. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Taking Cotton to to the Mill, Bonham]
Photograph of a line of mule-pulled wagons loaded with cotton along South Center Street in Bonham. Some structures are lined along the road in the background, and the old Fannin County Courthouse is visible in the background.
Date:
[1888..1929]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Laying the Cornerstone of the Fannin County Courthouse]
Photograph of the laying of the cornerstone of the Fannin County Courthouse in May, 1888. The ceremony was performed by a Masonic order, and they are identifiable in the photograph as individuals wearing white aprons around their waists. A man standing in a platform at center guides the cornerstone down to its place. The stone, a giant beige brick, hangs from above. A crowd of spectators, many wearing hats, are gathered around the ceremony.
Date:
May 1888
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Kate Rayburn]
Portrait of Kate Rayburn with her hair curled and wearing a dress with flowers on the collar.
Date:
1890~
Creator:
Hope Guthrie studio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photograph of a young Abner Rayburn
Photograph of Abner Rayburn. The black and white photograph is of a young Abner Rayburn, possibly at age nine or ten (around 1900). He wears a dark, double breasted coat with a white collared shirt. The studio portrait shows Abner from the waist up. Abner was born in 1891, the youngest of Sam Rayburn's siblings and the only sibling born in Texas (the Rayburn family moved from Tennessee to Texas in 1887). He died in 1914 of typhoid fever.
Date:
1891/1914
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Bonham Wholesale Grocery, Interior]
Photograph of the interior of the Bonham Wholesale Grocery, located along the railroad in south Bonham. In the room depicted here, workers stand to the left of a large gas stove in the middle of the area. Chairs and desks are located to the left in the room. Identified in the picture, from left to right, are: Alonzo Allen. Harry Roberts, June Kennedy, Claude Allen, Floy Campbell, and George Hancock.
Date:
[1895..1919]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Bonham Wholesale Grocery, Workers on Dock]
Photograph of workers along the dock of the Bonham Wholesale Grocery. The brick building of the grocery store behind them, the workers pose along the wooden dock, facing forward. Three workers are identified: the first from left, Floy Campbell; fourth from left, the first seated, Willie Milstead, and first from right, Hub [?].
Date:
[1895..]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Mattie Wier]
Photograph of Mattie Wier, a young woman in a light-colored gown with a ribbon attached to her lapel. She sits in a chair and has her right arm on an armrest.
Date:
1896~
Creator:
Guthrie, Hope
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Three Photographs of the McQuigg Home]
Three photographs of the McQuigg home and grounds. The top photograph shows Jesse P. Sewell in the McQuigg backyard garden with a crochet mallet in his hands behind his head. The second photograph shows Jesse and Daisy McQuigg in the yard of the McQuigg home in the summer of 1898. The final photograph shows the home of the three McQuigg sisters.
Date:
1898
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Bible Class at J. P. Sewell House]
Photograph of Bible school students at the home of J. P. and Daisy Sewell, showing the students standing near the opening of a fence. A horse can be seen to the left of the group. Note on the back of the photograph reads, "Picture #7. Home of J.P. Sewell and Daisy McQuigg Sewell, Bonham, Texas. All in the picture are Bible School students during a meeting held by E.G. Sewell and Sam Pitman [?] - 1900. Left to right: Elmo Moore - Bonham, Texas. Sam Pilsman in front of fence with derby. Sallie McQuigg - Bonham. [?] Friend, White [?], Texas. Rocie McQuigg, Bonham. J.P. Sewell, Daisy Sewell, Bonham. Lucy Dodd, Nashville, Tennessee.”
Date:
1900
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of a Couple]
Portrait of couple wearing formal clothing. Woman is seated while man is standing. Photo is mounted on a brown frame with the name of the studio printed, "Howse Bros. Studio, Ladonia, Texas."
Date:
1900~
Creator:
Howse Bros. Studio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of a Man and Woman]
Portrait of a man and woman, possible Kate Rayburn and her husband William Thomas.
Date:
1900~
Creator:
Foster
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Less Stone]
Photograph of Less Stone, pictured seated from the waist up. He wears a dark colored coat, a necktie, and a high-collared shirt. He has combed hair and looks forward.
Date:
1900~
Creator:
Trimble
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Lewis Garner]
Photograph of Lewis Garner, pictured seated from the waist up. He wears a dark-colored coat, a necktie, and spectacles. He has combed hair and looks to the right.
Date:
1900~
Creator:
Trimble
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Rayburn Sisters]
Portrait of sisters Lucinda, Kate, and Medibel Rayburn wearing dresses with high, lace collars.
Date:
1900~
Creator:
Hope Guthrie studio
System:
The Portal to Texas History