Photograph of students situated in front of the Mesquite school circa 1900-1910. Anson Holley is second from the left in the back row.

Photograph of students situated in front of the Mesquite school circa 1900-1910.

Photograph of students situated in front of a blackboard in their classroom. Most students are standing, while a few are kneeling in the front of the group.

Photograph of the Holley family standing in front of their home in Mesquite, Texas. From left to right stand Adell, Eula, Nathanial A., Anson, Raymond, and Elsie.

Photograph of the Holley family standing in front of their home in Mesquite, Texas. From left to right stand Eula, Adell, Nathanial A., Anson, Raymond, and Elsie.

Photograph of the Mesquite High School football team situated in a field. The fifteen boys wear striped uniforms. One individual wears a leather helmet, while another holds a football.

Photograph of men standing in front of horse drawn carts which are piled high with bales of cotton.

Photograph of the loading area of Ellis & Allen Dry Food and Goods in Mesquite, Texas. Two men and two girls are standing on the dock, next to a shipment of shoes.

Photograph of four individuals in front of an old home. Two women, a man, and a small child are situated in the foreground. The women are seated in wooden chairs.

Photograph of people standing outside of a wooden building that has "Mineral Water Well No. 1. Bath House" written along its overhang. The crowd is mostly comprised of men wearing suits and hats, though five women can be seen on the porch to the left. Horse-drawn carts flank the structure. "Carbon Mineral Water Co." is written in script on a sign that is suspended from one of the building's gables.

Photograph of members of the Freeman family standing in front of their wooden home in Purmela, Texas. They are identified from the left as Alvin (age six), Louis (age eight), Way (age four), Alex, Thoyce (age two), Winnie, Lillian (age ten), and Vivian (age eleven). A windpump is visible in the background to the right. The reverse side of the mat has a note that says "To Dred & Emma."

Photograph of a group of men standing outside of William Windham's General Store in Hurst Springs, Texas. Several of the men are standing on the building's porch, while others are perched atop horse-drawn buggies to the left and right. Windham is standing at the center of the porch with a faint X above his head. The man in the buggy to the far right is identified as George McNeill.

Photograph of a group of men on- and in front of the porch of the Carbon Mineral Water Company and Bath House. Twelve men wearing dark suits, white aprons, and ornate collars bearing Freemason imagery. The men standing on the ground below the porch are wearing suits and white aprons. A door labeled "Office" is visible behind the men on the porch. Someone is standing within the doorway. The man standing on the ground a hat over his chest is identified as Custer Cox. The man on the top right with the sash is identified as William "Bill" Gilbert.

Photograph of the Coryell County, Texas, officers of 1908. Three rows of the men sit on the steps of the Coryell County courthouse. The men are identified from the top left as Pleas Post (collector), W. L. Carlyle (commissioner), J. O. Curry (commissioner), T. L. Allison (commissioner), J. P. Gardner (commissioner), G. E. Johnson (county attorney), Frank Parsons (janitor), W. W. Seeton (district clerk), Sam Davis (sheriff), R. T. Wilson (county clerk), Earl Stone (city marshal), John Caufield (county surveyor), R. E. West (county judge), Ben McClinton (deputy clerk), J. R. Saunders (county treasurer), illegible (county superintendent), Jim Shows (tax assessor), and Joe B. Watkins (justice of the peace).

Photograph of elderly Anna Maria Penn Ireland. She wears her grey hair in a bun. She is wearing wire-rim glasses and a dark overcoat.

Photograph of John M. Sharpe, Sr. standing in a photography studio. He is wearing a dark suit and a white shirt with a high collar. Typed notes on the back include biographical information for Sharpe, as well as indicate that this is a photograph from his wedding to Annie Emily Whittenberg.

Photograph of six young women wearing lightly hued dresses. They are arranged in a pyramid with Mamie Whittenberg standing above and behind the group, Fannie Clower and Hattie McSwain are positioned on the middle row, and Annie Whittenberg, Libby Cleveland, and Jessie Clower are seated on the bottom row. A typed note on the reverse side indicates that Mamie Whittenberg married J. L. Thorp in 1902 and Annie Whittenberg married J. M. Sharpe, Sr. in 1903.

Photograph of John Sharpe standing in front of a bush at the back porch of Rose Whittenberg's house. He is wearing a bowler hat, jacket, and a necktie tucked into a dark waistcoat.

Folder containing a portrait of Annie Sharpe while wearing a wedding dress. The folder is black, the photograph's mat is white with concentric ovals surrounding the oval photo of Mrs. Sharpe. Part of her dress extends outside of the photo and onto the mat. A thin piece of paper that covers the photo has brown foxing along its outer edge.

Photograph of a group of men sitting atop hay bales that are stacked on wagons drawn by pairs of mules. A line of storefronts and onlookers are visible in the background.

Postcard from Pharis Whittenberg to Annie Sharpe featuring the image of a young girl wearing a dress and a ribbon in her hair.

Photograph of John Sharpe leaning against a wooden chair and standing on the back porch of Rose Whittenberg's house. He is wearing a hat, jacket, and a necktie tucked into a waistcoat.

Photograph of a group of seven people sitting on the rocky beach beside a creek and having a picnic. The foremost women in white is identified as Annie Whittenberg.

Photograph of a man named Wilson standing at the top of a cliff called "Hell's Gate." Vegetation and a dirt path are visible below him.