Four Generations in One Portrait

Four generations of in one portrait. Identified (from back to front) are Mary Camp Gober, Julia Ann Gober Wright, Effie Wright Williams, and Myrtle Branche Williams.
Date: July 1899
Creator: Williams Art Company
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Denton County Fair and Blooded Stock Association 1899] (open access)

[Denton County Fair and Blooded Stock Association 1899]

This Denton County Fair and Blooded Stock Association program includes a schedule of events and races during September 12-16, 1899. The program also contains advertisements for various fair attractions and businesses in Denton including shoe stores, furniture stores, grocers, confectioneries, butcher shops, launderers, hotels, barbers, restaurants, gun stores, and drug stores. The association bought a tract of land which was bounded by Avenue A on the west, Welch Street on the east, W. Hickory on the north, and Mill Street on the south end. The some forty acres held a race track and a stable, which was on the north end. The fairgrounds remained there until 1903.
Date: 1899
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

A. H. Gee's Home in Pilot Point

Unidentified girls in school uniforms are playing basketball in the foreground while a group of unidentified adults look on from behind. In the background, center-frame, A. H. Gee's house rises up. On the right side of the frame a windmill is visible above the treeline in the background. Note on the front of the photograph, "Lumber was hauled from Jefferson, Texas." On the back of the photographs is written, "Earl Selz, 1899."
Date: 1899
Creator: Bennett, Doug
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Twins with Ponies]

Photograph of twin children, both wearing white suits and hats, one standing next to a pony with a dog nearby, and the other sitting on a pony.
Date: 1899~
Creator: Williams Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Grade Class of Stonewall Jackson School]

Photograph of the first graders of the Stonewall Jackson School. The teacher, standing in the back, is Miss Maggie McNeil (Mrs. C. C. Yancey), and the students are: (left to right) first row: Fred Collins, Sidney Lacy, Lloyd Garrison, Lucille Redmond, Jennie Mae McNeill, Josie Fulmer, Mary Fox, Odessa Peters (or Peterson), and Ethel Masters; middle row: Olive Collins, Finley Hare, Robert Wheeler, Bruce Wheeler, Richard Ashby, Carl Cunningham, Will Grube, Jack Skiles, Frank Wheeler, Joe Pratt, and Ione White or Eula Mae Brown; top row: Birdie Fulmer, Roy Stegall, Grover Campbell, Melissa Smith, Johnnie Sneathing, Lillie McCoy, Elba Henderson, Hallie Sneathing, Maggie Cunningham, Lucy Mae Ewan, Alvin Marchbanks, Eunice Jackson, Herbert Halliday, and Jerome Zumwalt.
Date: 1899
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

North Ward Class of 1899]

Photograph of the North Ward School building in Denton, Texas, with the entire student body standing in front of the school. The photograph was taken in 1899.
Date: 1899~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History