[African American Family Sitting on Porch Steps]

Photograph of an African American couple sitting on a porch on either side of a young boy. The man on the right holds a newspaper and wears a hat. the notation on the back side of the photo reads: "Negros living in our back yard - about 1919"
Date: 1919~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Men with Wagon Load of Hay; Three People with Hay Stack

Copy negative of two pictures. The first is of Daniel Ray (D. R.) DeRusha and Dal Robinet loading hay, taken in Santa Anna in the late 1920's. One man has a team of mules on the left, and the other is on top of a wagon full of hay pulled by a horse team on the right. The second picture is of, from left to right, R. L. DeRusha, Bill Kruger, and Daniel Ray DeRusha working at a haystack at the R. E. DeRusha Farm in Coleman County in 1919.
Date: {1919,1928~}
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

People on Wagon in Front of House; Four People in Garden

Copy negative of two pictures. The first is of R. E. DeRusha and his "hoodlum wagon" and crew returning to the threshing machine after a rain in Santa Anna in 1919. There are four people on the wagon being pulled by a dark colored horse in front of a house and fence. The second picture is of, from left to right, Daniel Ray (D. R.) DeRusha, Romara Ray DeRusha, Julia Etta Ely Cook, and an unknown girl together in a garden with a fence and trees in the background taken near Truby in 1942.
Date: {1919,1942}
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History