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[Receipt for teacher's salary]
Receipt for teacher's salary, 20 November 1896.
Date:
November 20, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[An invitation to a wedding.]
Copy of an invitation to a wedding. Invitation reads: Mr. And Mrs. J.H.P. Davis announce the marriage of their daughter Mary E. to Mr. Albert P. George, Wednesday, October the seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety six. Richmond, Texas. At Home after November the first. Richmond, Texas.
Date:
October 7, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Five young women and Four young men]
Group portrait of 5 young women and 4 young men. Portrait is informal, with one woman in the top row lighting a cigarette for the man on her right, and one man on the bottom row offering a cigarette to the woman on his left. Image is mounted on a cardboard substrate with scalloped edges. Photographer's mark: "George H. Wonfor, Artist and Photographer." Wonfor worked in Galveston 1896-1897.
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the T.B. Wessendorff Home]
Photograph of the T.B. Wessendorff home mounted on a tan cardboard matte. Matte is severely damaged: bottom edge is missing all the way across, as far as the edge of the image at the right end. Upper right corner is broken off; two cracks extend from edge of matte in to edge of image at left center. Photograph of a two story house with six columns along the front porch and a white picket fence that encloses yard. a woman and a man are seen with a baby, and two girls are standing on the porch to the right of the front door.
Date:
1896~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[T.A. Wessendorff residence on Morton St. at 11th st.]
Photograph of T.A. Wessendorff residence on Morton St. at 11th st., Richmond, taken about 1896. Mrs. Hattie Jones Wessendorff is standing on the porch. Image is mounted crooked on a black matte. Image is quite faded and yellow. Identification is written in blue pen on the back.
Date:
1896~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Students at Richmond Public School, dated 1896]
Photo of the Richmond School. Children and adults seated on the steps. The two boys seated on the bottom step, right have their arms across their chest. One of the double doors to the school building is open.
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Students at Richmond Public School, boy at the bottom right has a bandaged ankle]
Original mounted print on cardboard. Students at Richmond Public School taken March 8, 1896. Students are standing at the front of the school building near two large white columns. Boy in bottom, right corner is sitting. He has a bandage around his right ankle.
Date:
March 8, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kit Store and Ike Story Family
Postmaster Isaac Henry “Ike” Story sits in front of the post office and general store for the community of Kit. The sign on top of the building spells out the name of Kit, but with an eye instead of an "i". People in photo: Nancy Story (wife), Ike Story, Lillie Leona Story Kinney (daughter), Opal Elizabeth Kinney (granddaughter), and Sallie Jane Story Bell (daughter). The Kit community was about a mile east of where Irving would be established in 1903.
Date:
1896~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Normal Building
North Texas Normal College, Normal Building, ca. 1896. Brick building and trees
Date:
1896~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Students, North Texas Normal College
North Texas Normal College, students, 1896. Students sitting and standing in front of a brick building.
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A tree in front of the H. K. Mitchell house]
Photograph of a white wooden house with tin roof. Writing on back of photo reads: "Our Home Aug 31" 96 H. K. Mitchell". The house is a single story white wooden house with a covered front porch. There is a small white building with same design as the house on the left. The house and outbuilding are surrounded by a white picket fence. There are trees near the outside perimeter of the fence. A lamppost can be seen on far right near the intersection of two dirt roads. There is a white building partially obscured by trees on far left. The photograph is mounted on a gray cardboard substrate.
Date:
August 31, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The northwest corner of a white wooden house]
Photograph of the northwest corner of a white wooden house. The house has a porch that extends across a portion of the front of the house. A brick chimney of the house is seen on the right side of portrait; and a picket fence runs along the front of the house on the left. There is a man standing in the front yard of the home while a child is standing on far left, just outside of the picket fence, on the sidewalk. Trees in background. Writing in blue ink on back of photo reads: "Our House Made Jul 6 " 96. By H. K. Mitchell." The photograph is mounted on a cardboard substrate.
Date:
July 6, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A young woman wearing a white blouse with flowers around the neckline]
Studio portrait of a young woman. The woman is wearing a white full-sleeved blouse that has flowers along the left shoulder and rounded neckline. She has her hair parted down the center and pulled up into a bun near the crown of her head. The photograph is mounted on a tan cardboard substrate with silver text near bottom of cardboard that reads: "Weatherington, Velvet Finish. [underlined] Cottage Studio Cor. 16th St. and Avenue D, Temple, Tex." Brown text on back of photo reads: "The Cottage Studio, . . . Temple, Texas, Weatherington Bros., Prop's, Photographers and Portrait Artists. Old Pictures Copied In Any Style Practical Engraving And Designing For All Purposes. Photo Engraving and Half-Ton Etching On Copper, Steel And Zinc. All Work Warranted Permanent." Image dimensions are: 9.8 cm x 14.1 cm.
Date:
[1896..1898]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Wedding invitation to the Mary Davis and Albert P. George wedding]
Wedding invitation on off-white paper which reads: "Mr. & Mrs. J.H.P. Davis announce the marriage of their daughter Mary E. to Mr. Albert P. George. Wednesday, October the seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety six. Richmond, Texas. At Home after November the first, Richmond, Texas."
Date:
October 7, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Button - seal of the state of Texas in center states: "TEXAS PROTECT YOUR SEAPORT"]
Button. White background, seal of the state of Texas in center. "TEXAS PROTECT YOUR SEAPORT". Last pat. date July 21, 1896 Old Object Term: Commemorative pin
Date:
July 21, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Gold San Antonio ribbon with black letters]
Ribbon. Gold, with black letters "San Antonio Desires to Greet You in '96." (1896). Old Object Term: Commemorative pin
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Beige ribbon with blue star]
Beige ribbon with blue writing that states: "(large star at top) Galveston April 21, 1896. Texas Veteran Twenty-Third Annual ..Re-union.." Old Object Term: Commemorative ribbon
Date:
April 21, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Red Fort Worth livestock ribbon with brass tassles]
Red ribbon with brass tassels at bottom, reads "~ ASSO'N OF TEXAS" at top (partial), "WELCOME TO THE LIVE STOCK CENTER OF TEXAS, SOUVENIR, 1896" on button in center, "FORT WORTH, TEX. MARCH 10 - 11 - 12, 1896" at bottom Old Object Term: Commemorative ribbon, livestock
Date:
[1896-03-10..1896-03-12]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of La Plata Cemetery]
Photograph of a man standing by a fence near a tombstone in La Plata, TX in 1896. The photograph is displayed in the Deaf Smith County Museum.
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton City School Grade Three
Class picture of Denton City School's third grade. The teacher, Leona Gray, is to the far right.
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A portrait of a young Helen Edmunds Moore]
A formal portrait of Helen Edmunds at the age of 15. She is wearing her long hair up on top of her head and is wearing a white or pastel formal dress. This appears to be a debutante portrait. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "Sepha Edmunds 1896 Kansas City Mo."
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[William E. Irwin, Photographer of Indians]
Photographer of Indians: W.E. Irwin. Photo circa 1896 - 1898: Chickasha Indian Territory.
Date:
1896/1898
Creator:
Mankins, S. J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[David Craig Patton Residence]
D.C. Patton Residence. Photo taken in 1896: Henrietta, Texas.
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Three female students, graduation photo]
Three female Weatherford College students. Photo taken in 1896: Weatherford, Texas.
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History