[Portrait of Mary Myrtle Wright]

Portrait of Mary Myrtle Wright, wearing a white dinner gown trimmed with possibly chenille or lace. The sleeves of the dress have small puffs at the shoulders. She is standing with her left hand on her hip, wearing fingerless mitts.
Date: 1890~
Creator: Jones Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Henry B. Selby]

Portrait of Henry B. Selby with a white beard and wearing a suit and Albert watch chain.
Date: 1890~
Creator: Kirkness Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Scrapbook Page: Chain Gang] (open access)

[Scrapbook Page: Chain Gang]

Scrapbook page with a photograph of several men standing in a loose semi-circle, with two hounds in the foreground. Horses hitched to wagons are visible in the background. A handwritten note below the image says "About 60 yrs ago, people who were picked up and put in jail worked their fines out by working on the roads. They were chained together while they worked. And bloodhounds were carried along. (This picture brot. [sic] by the "Rose Twins" Bertie & Myrtle, 1960)." We think that this might be a photograph of Lawrence T. Fox, who was in charge of the chain gangs, and his two bloodhounds, Lula and Lottie. Mr. Fox was "appointed foreman of Chain Gang No.2" in November 1896.[Record and Chronicle, Nov. 13, 1896] Bertie and Myrtle Rose were sisters, born in 1887. The use of chain gangs for road repair had been instituted somewhere around 1887 and was seriously criticized by the Denton County News on August 20, 1908, as being a waste of taxpayer money and providing poor road repairs.
Date: [1890,1900]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History