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Abilene Library Consortium
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Abilene Photograph Collection
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Latimer Papers
26
Don Hutcheson Aerial Photograph Collection
20
T. N. Carswell Collection
12
Sayles and Sayles Collection
9
Jesse Wallace Williams Map Collection
6
William J. Bryan Collection
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K. K. Legett Collection
1
O.K. Hobbs Plat Book
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Baby in Chair; Baby in Stroller
Copy negative of two pictures. The picture on the left is a portrait of baby LaNelle Hefner in 1914. The picture on the right is of LaNelle sitting in a chair and baby Kit Carson Hefner in a stroller on a porch in front of a door in 1916.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Big Springs
Topographic quadrangle map of Big Spring, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, landmarks, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. A location diagram is included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date:
1954
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Crew at Home Site
Copy photograph of a building crew standing on the porch of a house. Seven men stand on the upstairs porch of a light-colored wooden house. The house has several columns around the downstairs porch.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Exterior
Copy negative of the exterior of Hefner Hotel in Sweetwater, Texas. There are a few men posing in front, and two vehicles can be seen off to the side.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Exterior
Copy negative of a card, showing a picture of the Hotel Hefner in Sweetwater, Texas. The card has the address, rates, and a description of the services provided by Doctors Hefner and Brown, who are located at the hotel.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Exterior
Copy photograph of the exterior of the Roscoe school building. The building is a three-storey brick structure with a tower. Behind the school are a windmill and water tower.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child in Yard; Child in Yard
1 copy negative of 2 images. The first image is of a baby, Kit Carson Hefner. She is in the yard, opening the gate of a white fence. Several other houses can be seen in the background. The second image is of Kit standing in the middle of the same yard, wearing a hat.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Historians Meet At Hotel Today]
Newspaper clipping with an article describing a meeting to take place of the West Texas Historical association at the Wooten Hotel. The meeting is said to feature senator W. J. Bryan as a speaker. Partial articles ar visible int he clipping and a cartoon of a train is printed on the reverse side.
Date:
1946
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Nolan County's Pioneers Named]
Newspaper clippings of an article about Nolan County citizens in 1880.
Date:
19uu
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Map of Parts of Jones, Taylor, Fisher, and Nolan Counties.
Survey map of parts of Jones, Taylor, Fisher, and Nolan Counties, showing rivers, towns, boundaries, creeks, original land grants or surveys, roads, and blocks of land. A legend indicating drilling wells, gas wells, abandoned wells, and dry holes is included in the lower-left corner of the second sheet. Handwritten notes have been made on the map in red pencil to outline specific tracts of land. Scale [ca. 1:66,667] (2000 varas to the inch).
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Conqueror of the Chiefs Tablet with Drawings]
A red Conqueror of the Chiefs Tablet containing drawings and writings by Roy Crane, including map tracings and reproductions.
Date:
[1910..1920]
Creator:
Crane, Roy, Jr.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Conqueror of the Chiefs Tablet with Drawings]
A red Conqueror of the Chiefs writing tablet containing drawings and writings by Roy Crane, including ships, trains, maps, and automobiles.
Date:
1912
Creator:
Crane, Roy, Jr.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence between Henry Sayles and J. Carlisle, September 21, 1891 - September 28, 1891]
Letter from J. Carlisle to Henry Sayles inquiring about using a property in Nolan County until Sayles is able to sell it. A response from Henry Sayles to J. Carlisle is written on the back, laying out terms under which he will agree to lease the property.
Date:
1891-09-21/1891-09-28
Creator:
Carlisle, J. & Sayles, Henry
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Downtown Street Scene
Copy negative of a street in downtown Roscoe, Texas. There are stores and power lines along each side, people on the sidewalks and street, carriages, and horses.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Exterior of Hospital
Copy negative of the exterior of Andrew Hefner Hospital in Sweetwater, Texas in 1912. Several people are posing for the picture on the porch and steps.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Family in Car
Copy negative of a family in a car. In the front seat are Francis Marion Hefner and Jonathan Stone driving. In the back seat are mother Lela Hefner Cummings and children Maurice, Alpha Theta, and Imogene.The car is on a dirt road with a field and fence in the background, and has a trunk tied to the side.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Family in Front of House
Copy negative of a family standing in front of a house with horses. There are seven children, a man, and a woman. Two of the boys are holding horses. The house has a porch and a fence around it, and there is a small water tower behind it.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Family in Yard
Copy negative of H. L, Edna, Lucille, Ray and Roy Knight. There are two images, the one on the left is of a baby on a yard looking down at a tilted over tricycle, with a big two story house in the background. The picture on the right is of a family, with a man and a woman standing behind four young children of different ages.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Family on Front Porch
Copy negative of a family sitting and standing on the porch of a house with two chimneys.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Family Photo at Home
Copy negative of a woman, child, and man sitting on the steps in front of a house in Roscoe, Texas. The house is wooden, and there are a door and rocking chair on the porch behind the family.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Farmers With Cotton Bales
Copy photograph of farms with cotton bales. Several farmers stand behind a barbed wire fence with cotton bales in trucks. Behind them is a wooden building with a tall chimney.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Foreshortening and Exaggerating Action Comics with Criticism]
Cartoon drawings of people in action - some drawn by Roy Crane, Jr., and some drawn by Charles N. Landon - with notes and criticisms handwritten around the drawings.
Date:
[1915,1916]
Creator:
Crane, Roy, Jr.
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Girls with Dolls; Portrait of Mother and Child
Copy negative of two pictures. The first is of Ova Milling Brown and LaNelle Hefner in costumes holding baby dolls with men, a horse and buggy, and houses in the background, taken in Sweetwater in 1916. The second picture is a portrait of mother and daughter Lydia Young and Verna Nell Young taken in the mid 1920's in Eastland.
Date:
1916
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Group Camping
Copy photograph of a group of seven people camping. There appear to be three men and four women present. The man in the foreground is holding a shotgun. Seated on the ground near two kettles are a man and a woman, and behind them are three other women and a man shielding his face with his hat.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History