Photograph of a newly constructed hotel at Port O'Connor.

Photograph of the residence of T. M. O'Connor in Port O'Connor. The house is a two-story structure with a large fenced yard and fields beyond the fencing.

Photograph of a house identified as the oldest house in Port O'Connor, Texas. The house is a small wooden, unpainted structure with an unpainted picket fence surrounding it.

Photograph of a water works pump engine and storage tank at Port O'Connor.

Photograph of cattle drinking from water hole.

Photograph of two unidentified men standing next to water pipes for a water line at Port O'Connor.

Photograph of construction work in Port O'Connor,Texas, located in southern Calhoun County. The town was established in 1909 on land formerly owned by Thomas M. O'Connor.

Photograph of an unidentified man having breakfast at a camp site at Sweet Bay Mott in Calhoun County.

Photograph of a campsite at Sweet Bay Mott in Calhoun County. A buggy can be seen behind a tent.

Photograph of a half-dozen cattle and two horses drinking from a watering hole. The horses are harnessed to a buggy loaded with goods; the driver sits beneath an umbrella.

Photograph of Joseph Daniel Mitchell sitting on the ground, having lunch at Sweet Bay Mott in Calhoun County Texas.

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "RIG COLLAPSES--The Topper I, an offshore oil drilling platform with 42 men aboard, capsizes in the Gulf of Mexico off Port Lavaca, Texas, Tuesday, dumping 42 crewmen aboard into the 55-degree water. All 42 were rescued. The rig owned by Zapata Offshore Corp., is resting in about 60 feet of water. One leg of the three-legged rig is all that is visible above water."

Photograph of the Grace Episcopal Church in Port Lavaca, Texas.

Photograph of the Grace Episcopal Church in Port Lavaca, Texas.

Photograph of the Grace Episcopal Church in Port Lavaca, Texas.

Photograph of the Grace Episcopal Church in Port Lavaca, Texas.

Photograph of the Calhoun County Jail in Port Lavaca, Texas.

Photograph of the Calhoun County Jail in Port Lavaca, Texas.

Photograph of the Calhoun County Jail in Port Lavaca, Texas.

Photograph of the Calhoun County Jail in Port Lavaca, Texas.

Photograph of the Calhoun County Jail in Port Lavaca, Texas.

Photograph of the Calhoun County Jail in Port Lavaca, Texas.

Photograph of the Indianola Cemetery in Calhoun County, Texas.

Photograph of the La Salle Monument (located at Indianola) in Calhoun County, Texas.