Portrait photograph of Sarah Johnson holding a book. Photograph was taken circa 1870.

Tintype portrait of two men, one with a mustache wearing a suit and hat and sitting in a chair, and the other standing next to him wearing a suit and top hat.

Copy negative of an artist's portrait of Clara Ann Hefner and Katie Syrena Hefner as toddlers sitting in chairs.

Copy negative of an artist's portrait of Clara Ann Hefner and Katie Syrena Hefner as toddlers sitting in chairs.

Photograph of Little Big Mouth (Little Shield), an Arapaho, and his lodge. Photo by William Stinson Soule. Copy Neg. by Barney Hillerman, early 1870s.

A photograph of the building that house The Sentinel newspaper in Rusk, Texas.

Dan Coble sitting in wicker chair. Charles Lawrence is standing. Coble was a gunslinger killed in a gun battle in Witchita Falls, TX. Lawrence was killed in that same shoot out.

Photograph of downtown Longview, Texas in its early years. There are many unidentified brick buildings pictured in the photograph. There are horse-drawn carriages parked throughout the downtown area, and there are people walking in the street.

Photograph of a young men standing against a picket fence in Longview, Texas. From left to right, the men pictured are Jerre Turner, Dan Gans, Hardy Cook, Joe Boring and June Bivins.

Photograph of Longview, Texas railroad workers posing next to Engine Number 154. From left to right, the men pictured are: J. W. Kinney, Switchman; Dee Moore, Longview Switch Engine; B. C. Todd, Sr., Fireman; W. J. Padon, Engineer; and Joe Still, Engine Foreman.

Photograph of four railroad workers posing next to a train in Longview, Texas. The engine is a 4-4-0 locomotive with the initials for Houston and Great Northern Railroad Company (H & G N R Co. #2) on the tender car and San Jacinto on the cab.

Photograph of a Sunday school picnic. A large group of people is posing in a line outdoors. Two women are holding umbrellas, and everyone pictured is wearing a hat. Small children are seated in the front row.

One of the early "California Limiteds" entering the suburbs of Los Angeles, possibly dating from the late 1870's. The ten-wheeler, type 4-6-0, heading the train bears an original Santa Fe engine No. 54, indicative of ancient age. At the turn of the century the Santa Fe owned a large fleet of these locomotives: 478 ten-wheelers; these were versatile engines, known as "Jack of all Trades." However, no steam locomotives of this type were built to Santa Fe blueprints later than 1901. Observe the consist: the old weather-worn wooden railway post office car in the lead and the other open-platform wooden cars - all heated by potbellied iron stoves which burned wood or coal, and illuminated by kerosene. In this era, travel by rail had potential hazards but its popularity never waned.

Charles Wesley Street, 1835-1905.

Elizabeth DeBarger McGuire Street, 1856-1881. She died from tuberculosis at age 24.

Photo of what is commonly called a "Railroad Mansion". One of the large homes built by the magnates of the I&GN Railroad. It is not known where this house was located, but it was most likely south of the railroad tracks along S. Sycamore or S. Magnolia streets in Palestine.

Photo of the second Courthouse that stood in Palestine, Anderson County. It served the county from approximately 1860 until 1885.

Photo of an undentified man taken at the Naschke Studio, Galveston Texas. Back of photo reads: "1870 - came to Palestine 1885"

Photo of Main Street, Elkhart.

Photo of downtown Elkhart made before the town burned down.

Photo of one of the steamboats that went up and down the Trinity River from Galveston to Magnolia Landing.

Photo of four unidentified men thought to be steamboat captains.

Photo of the second Courthouse that stood in Palestine, Anderson County. It served the county from approximately 1860 until 1885.

Photograph of John Lynn Bennett. He sits on a chair covered in a patterned blanket, and one arm is placed on the back of the chair. He looks to the side, open-mouthed, and wears a white gown.