Photograph of Byrd III and brother John Williams with the family dog, Brownie, near Point Fermin in San Pedro, California.

Photograph of a couple standing outside of a house on Denton Street in Gainesville, Texas. The couple is unidentified, but the man is possibly Charles Rowland Williams. He is wearing a white hat with a three piece suit and the woman is wearing a lace patterned dress with ribbon details. The woman is holding onto the man's elbow and her body is turned towards his, although both are smiling at the camera. They are standing in front of the side of a house and the side of the covered porch is visible behind them. There is another house across the street that has a fence running around it.

Photograph of a house on Denton Street in Gainesville, Texas. The house is designed in the Craftsman style and is two stories. There are porches on both stories of the house that wrap around from the front to the side. The bottom porch is covered and has white pillars while the top porch is not covered and has a white railing. The house is covered in a light colored siding and the bottom of the first story porch is covered in brick. The porch of another house is visible on the left side of the image and another house is visible through the trees on the right side of the image.

Photograph of heavy construction equipment on a road in the desert. In the foreground of the image, one of the machines is on the road and another is beside the road. The machine on the road has two tall wheels and has a canopy covering the cab. The machine next to the road has smaller, spoked wheels and a barrel shaped cab. There are two more machines in the background of the image at the end of the road. The road is made up of light colored gravel that has strips of solid material on the edge of the road to hold the rocks in place. The desert around the road is flat with no grass and there are mountains in the background of the image.

Photograph of Irene Biffle Williams with her sons John, Charles, and Byrd III at Donner Lake in California. The members of the family are all wearing dark coats with hats and they are standing on the shore in front of the lake. There are three tall trees to their right and there are mountains covered by trees in the background of the image on the opposite shore of the lake.

Photograph of Irene, Charles, John, and Byrd Williams III standing in their backyard.

Photograph of Irene Biffle Williams pushing a stroller outside of the Williams's home in El Paso. It is unclear which of her children she is pushing in the stroller. Irene is wearing a hat with a long black sweater and skirt and she has her back to the camera. The front yard of the house has no grass and is all dirt and rocks. The house is made of a light colored brick and stone and has a covered porch. There is a house to the right of the Williams's home that is made of the same materials and in the same style.

Photograph of Byrd Williams III standing on the shore in Los Angeles with his brother John. Both of the boys are wearing long dark coats and hats and Byrd is holding onto family's dog Brownie's leash. The boys are standing on top of a hill which is on the shore of the ocean, and there are stairs and pathways leading down from the top of the mountain to the water below. On top of the mountain, there are multiple small structures that are made of a trellis like material, and in the background there is another small building visible. There are people gathered around these buildings and there is a treeline behind them. Directly behind the boys, there is a small patch of very thick grass and plants.

Photograph of men working on a sewage disposal system in Fort Worth. The construction site has ditches that are dug down the center and there are pipes scattered around the site. The workers are standing around one of the ditches and are two of them are shoveling dirt from the ditch. There is a small building at the back of the site and there are a few trees on the right side of the image. In the background of the image there is a small hill and behind this the tops of trees are visible.

Photograph of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Photograph of an oil derrick in a port in Los Angeles. The derrick is in the middle of the water, and there is a tall tower and some other structures on the platform where it is located. There are some ships and boats in the water around the derrick and along the shore of the water there are buildings, power lines, and factories.

Photograph of the cliffs of Point Fermin with the lighthouse in view.

Photograph of the construction of a road in the desert. The road looks to have been covered in asphalt and there are two construction machines that look like tractors in the background of the image. On the right side of the road, there is a cement structure and some metal cans. The area surrounding the road is flat with no trees and there are mountain ranges in the background of the image.

Photograph of a road that is under construction in the desert. The road is covered in large rocks, and the edge is paved with cement. There is a wheel barrow laying on its side on the right side of the road and there is heavy construction equipment in the background of the image at the end of the road. The desert is flat with no trees and in the background on the left side of the image there are mountains.

Photograph of the ocean, with the side of the Cliff House in view, also known as the "Gingerbread Palace."

Photograph of a view of the Truckee river, looking west from one of the bridges in Reno, Nevada.

Photograph of a view of the Truckee river, looking west from one of the bridges in Reno, Nevada. The river runs between a street and a row of houses. The street has a bridge that is supported by wooden structures. Two individuals can be seen traveling along the street. A mountainous landscape is visible in the background.