[Portrait of a Boy]

Portrait of a young boy standing on a thick rug next to a wooden chair.
Date: [1897..1899]
Creator: Wisdom
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bowser and Blewett Family Trip to Oklahoma

Copy photograph of a group of people identified as the Bowser family and Blewett family. They are posing in a camp with two covered wagons and a tent. Children are standing outside of the tent. The families camped while going to Oklahoma in 1897. Maimie Bowser kept a diary of the trip.
Date: August 1897
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Horsedrawn Fire Engine]

Photograph of three men behind the reigns of a horse-drawn buggy with a water engine at the rear, and a young boy in overalls standing nearby. John Clark sits on the left, notable for his figure immortalized on the Firemen's Monument in Fair Park. At the center is Dutch Herman, a civilian, and on the right is Al Kaufman. The boy in overalls is known as W. J. "Bill" Cox.
Date: 1897
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History