Resource Type

[Photograph of J.H.P. Davis]

Photograph of J.H.P. Davis. Davis is wearing a tweed jacket (top button is buttoned), white shirt, and bow tie. Davis has short dark hair (slightly gray at temples) parted on his left side, and thin dark mustache. Written on back of photograph in pencil: "JHP Davis". The bust portrait was taken by "Rose" of "Galveston" as written at the bottom of the bevel edged cardboard substrate. Pose is similar to 2000.007.002.
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of J.H.P. Davis]

Photograph of J.H.P. Davis. In the bust portrait, Davis is wearing a tweed jacket with the top button buttoned, white shirt, and dark tie. His short dark hair (graying at temples) is parted on his left side and he has a thin, dark mustache. The photograph is mounted on a cardboard substrate. Same pose as 2000.007.001.
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of J.H.P. Davis. Davis is wearing a tweed jacket]

Photograph of J.H.P. Davis. Davis is wearing a tweed jacket (top button is buttoned), white shirt, and bow tie. Davis has short dark hair (slightly gray at temples) parted on his left side, and thin dark mustache. The bust portrait was taken by "Rose" of "Galveston" as written at the bottom of the bevel edged cardboard substrate. Pose is similar to 2000.007.002.
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Belle Ryon wearing a dark colored dress and dark trim]

Photograph of Belle Ryon (Davis). Belle is wearing a dark colored dress with shirred front and fur or fringed trim along either side of bodice and back of high neck collar. She has a brooch at center of the collar. Belle is wearing ear drop earrings. Belle's hair is curled at her forehead and then swept back and up into a bun at the crown of her head. The photograph is cropped by fading just below the shoulders. The photo is mounted on a tan cardboard substrate.
Date: [1879..1885]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Belle Ryon Davis wearing a dark dress with buttons down the front of the dress]

Photograph of Belle Ryon Davis. In the bust portrait, Davis is wearing a dark dress with shirring on right shoulder and intricate beadwork on the left shoulder. Buttons run down the front of the dress beginning just below the high necked collar. Where the collar splits into a short "v", a half-moon shaped (diamond?) stick pin is attached. A chain is slightly visible from fifth button. Davis has curled hair at forehead and around temples with the rest pulled back into a bun. The photograph is mounted on a tan cardboard substrate.
Date: [1879..1885]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Masonic Institute, 1879-80, #1]

Photo of Masonic Institute. Photo taken between 1879-1880: Weatherford, Texas.
Date: 1879/1880
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Masonic Institute, 1879-80, #2]

Photo of Masonic Institute. Photo taken between 1879-1880: Weatherford, Texas.
Date: 1879/1880
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Baker's Transfer Line]

Photo of Baker's Transfer Line. Photo taken in 1879: Weatherford, Texas.
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Spring Street - Palestine]

Photo of Spring Street in Palestine with a view of the railroad tracks and a wooden depot.
Date: 1879~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Photo of Battle of San Jacinto Survivors

Photograph of three survivors of the Battle of San Jacinto: George W. Petty, L.C. Clemons, Moses A. Bryan
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tarrant County Courthouse and Public Square in 1879

Photograph of the Tarrant County Courthouse and public square. The courthouse is in the center of the photograph and surrounding the building are many men in jackets and cowboy hats with wagons pulled by horses. In the foreground is a wagon topped with haystacks and men standing on top of it. In the background are several buildings and a stack of lumber. A piece of paper at the bottom of the photograph reads, "The Public Square and Court House in 1879. To the East can be seen the Old Masonic Hall with belfry and opposite (south) the old jail."
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Pecan Street (6th Street) Before Driskill Hotel]

Photograph of Pecan Street (6th Street) looking east from Colorado circa 1879, taken before the Driskill Hotel was built. Hamilton Biscoe Hillyer's gallery is in the photograph.
Date: 1879~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Two Unknown Women]

Portrait of two unknown young ladies. One lady is seated, while the other is sitting on the armrest of her chair.
Date: 1879/1909
Creator: Fey & Braunig
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Mary Lindenberg Braunig]

Portrait of Mary Lindenberg Braunig. She is posing in a window with lace curtains.
Date: 1879/1909
Creator: Fey & Braunig
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Longview Sawmill Workers]

Photograph of the Longview Sawmill workers in Longview, Texas. The mill was located on Mobberly Street. There is a tan border around the exterior of the photograph.
Date: 1879
Creator: Culpepper, Cody
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tree in a Boulder]

Photograph of a tree growing through a boulder, with the boulder cracked midway. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph says, "Tree splits a granite boulder near Marble Falls, TX, Llano County 1879."
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Marble Falls]

Photograph of the town of Marble Falls. Dirt roads criss-cross into the town. There are two circles of buildings in the distance, with people and horses standing in the dirt roads. A handwritten note on the back says, "Marble Falls, Texas 1879, Bank Saloon, Granite [Mountain?]"
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado River, Texas near Marble Falls

Photograph of a river and the surrounding landscape near Marble Falls. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph says, "Colorado River, Texas - 1879, near Marble Falls, below the falls."
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Marble Falls]

Photograph of a river at Marble Falls, Texas. The water is flowing down layers of flat rock. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph says, "Marble Falls, Texas 1879, Granite Shoals, Looking North [illegible]."
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mrs. Dan F. Cole Photograph]

Portrait of Mrs. Dan F. Cole in dress with a high chair in front of a neutral background.
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History