Photograph of a small guard house at Ft. Davis located in front of Sleeping Lion Mountain. The large rock formation towers over the guard house.

Photograph of the Chapel at old Fort Davis. The building itself is dilapidated with partially-boarded up windows and several holes in the roof. The surrounding landscape is hilly with sparse vegetation.

Photograph of a single-story adobe structure with a roof that has completely collapsed in the middle. The walls below the collapsed roof are mostly gone. There appear to be no windows on the remaining walls. The ground around the building is flat and sparsely vegetated.The back of the photograph notes that "this is what winds and time did to the last structure built on the post, in 1885. Picture taken by the author in 1961."

Photograph of the ruins of old Fort Davis taken from a distance. A long, low, skeletal structure stretches across a wide expanse of sparsely vegetated ground. Several hills loom in the background.

Photograph of the Officer quarters of old Fort Davis. There is a large rock formation behind the various buildings. The back of the photograph notes "The Gillespies lived in # 3 until Mr. Gillespie's death. When Mrs. Gillespie and Bess returned to Ft. Davis they lived in # 9. Later moved 'uptown' to the north half of the Jeff Davis Country Club."

Photograph of several buildings connected by fencing with a large yard in the middle. Several large hills loom in the background. Back of the photograph reads: "Picture of the Grierson Spring Valley "Ranch" near the northeast corner of Fort Davis. It was 'the Old Grierson Homestead.' Not to be confused with the big house a mile or so N. E. of the fort, which Harry and Bea Grierson occupied at least in the 1930s."

Photograph of the Limpia Post Office, a small wooden shack. Two horses and a cart stand in front of the building. The back of the card reads "Thirteen or fourteen miles down Limpia from Fort Davis. Windmill and tank are there now, no evidence of post office. Warren Bloys ran it for McCutcheon."

Photograph of 9 partners standing in the middle of a field of bare dirt breaking ground on the Fort Davis State Bank Bank in 1911. The back of the card identifies the partners as being, left to right; J. W. Espy, Charles Mulhurn, W. Keesey, Dr. W. T. Jones, W. S. Miller, Jim Davis (Sheriff), E. R. Robertson (Cashier), and H. A. King. The ninth partner is not identified.

Photograph of a large group of students and teachers posing in front of an adobe brick building. The back of the photograph Identifies Mrs. Mattie Belle Anderson as a teacher at Fort Davis School and identifies the rest of the subjects; "Front Row: Joe Epsy, Tella Duncan, Charles Jones, Dosie Duncan, Mattie Belle Anderson, O. Z. Finley, Ankie Duncan, May Carpenter. Back Row: Charles (Albert?) Carpenter, Will (Tim) Merrill, Kate Epsy, Sargie Espy, Ina Walbridge, Mabel Bloys, Osterson girl, Frankie and John Cowan, Frank Carpenter"

Photograph of Mrs. Mattie Belle Anderson posing on her 84th birthday. She is sitting and wearing a long, dark dress with boots and a light-colored collar. A note on the front of the photo reads "Mrs. Mattie Belle Anderson, a native from Kentucky, the early public school teacher in Ft. Davis in the 1880s. She later becomes Postmistress in 1886"

Photograph of Ernest H. Carlton holding a bushel of apples. He stands with his hand resting on his hip, wearing a vest that matches his dress pants and a light-colored collared shirt. He is also wearing a bowtie and a hat which casts a shadow that obscures most of his face.

Photograph of an older man with a long white beard standing outside of an adobe brick building holding a shotgun. A horse with a saddle stands behind him. The man is wearing a hat, a vest over a long-sleeved shirt, and a belt with various weapons attached. A note at the bottom of the photograph identifies him as "Mr. Granger."

Photograph of the Granger family sitting and posing on a porch. The six individuals are all in formal dress, sitting and looking to the right of the camera. There is a house made of adobe brick behind them on the left side of the frame. On the left side, there is a smaller adobe brick building behind a picket fence.

Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Merrill on their 60th wedding anniversary. They are dressed formally and seated in individual chairs next to each other. Mr. Jesse Merrill (left) is wearing a suit and tie and looking down. Mrs. Jesse Merrill is wearing a light-colored suit with a long skirt and a boutonniere and she is looking at something behind the camera. Three framed photographs occupy the wall behind them.

Photograph of Mrs. Nancy Whitaker Keesey taken from the torso up. She is wearing a ornate high-collared shirt with lace details and her hair is gathered on top of her head. She is looking to the right of the camera.

Photograph of several individuals gathered at a campsite for the Keesey Fishing Camp. A tent is pitched in the background. All of the subjects are standing except for one woman in a light-colored dress that is sitting on a log on the left side of the frame.

Photograph of Scott Locke (center left) holding a fish as four others point at and lean towards it. All of the subjects except for the man on the far right are wearing wide-brimmed hats. The woman on the far left is identified simply as Sarah while the remaining three subjects are unidentified. The back of the photograph notes that it was taken on a fishing trip in Balmorhea.

Photograph of a cowboy and a child, both on horses and wearing hats, looking at something to the left of the camera. The horses face the right side of the frame. The cowboy holds his horse's reins with his left hand and is resting his right on his thigh. The child is largely hidden behind the cowboy. A pointed hill looms in the distance.

Photograph of four women sitting on the ground at the edge of a bridge. They are sitting underneath several barren trees and wearing heavy winter dresses. The back of the photograph identifies 3 of the women. The subjects are, from left to right, Mrs. Nannie Keesey, Katherine Keesey Blank (Aunt Kate), an unidentified woman, and Miss Carmichael (niece).

Photograph of an Avery brand tractor coming up a dirt road pulling several trailers behind it. Two men work at the wheels of a trailer.

Photograph of dozens of military wagons and horses lined up in a wide expanse of flat, bare dirt.

Photograph of a group of 14 people largely belonging to the Espy, Filey, and Prude families posing for a picture in front of a brick wall with several large windows. A note lists the subjects as being, "seated left to right, Kate Espy Finley, Rowena Marley Espy, Jim Espy holding Joe Robert Espy, Lena Espy Miller, Audrey Miller, Sargie Espy Prude. Standing: Z. Finley, Rebecca Espy, Joe Espy, Lola Prude Espy, Gunter Prude, R. H. 'Judge' Espy, Chandler Prude."

Photograph of Reverend L. R. Milligan Performing a Baptism at Bloys Camp Meeting. Several individuals are gathered in the middle of a shallow pond to perform the baptism as dozens of onlookers stand on the shore. A large hill rises up in the background.

Photograph of Clemente Calderon "of Valentine," a campmeeting cook. He is wearing a wide-brimmed hat and apron and is using a tool with a long handle while looking down. Another man in a wide-brimmed hat is standing in the background and looking toward the camera.