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T. and P. Hospital, Marshall, Texas

Color tinted halftone postcard of the Texas & Pacific Railway Hospital, in Marshall, Texas, from around 1916. The view shows a grassy area in the foreground with a curving path and two trees. A man stands at the foot of one of the trees. The hospital appears to be a grouping of small residential-scale buildings with wood siding. The largest, on the left side of the card consists of two stories with a hipped roof and a cross gable roof extending on one side. A one story porch extends across the facade and part of one side. Smaller buildings are behind the front building. Printed below the image is the title, "T. & P. Hospital, Marshall, Texas." Printed on the back between the message and address sections: "C. T. American Art" and a small logo of a circle with the letters C T Co overlapping in the center and Chicago below them. The code A-68240 is printed above the address section. There is no postmark or address, but the following note is written in the message space: "Have to pay a dollar a month toward the upkeep of this. Hope I never have to use it. But that aint [sic] …
Date: 1916~
Creator: Curt Teich & Co.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall Baptist College, Marshall, Texas

Color tinted halftone postcard of the administration building of the College of Marshall, in Marshall, Texas, from 1916-1930. The main building was completed in 1916 and opened as a junior college in the summer of 1917. The school is now East Texas Baptist University. The red brick building has three floors and a raised basement with stairs leading to the central entrance. Printed below the image is the title, "Marshall Baptist College, Marshall, Texas." Printed between the message and address sections: "C. T. American Art" and a small logo of a circle with the letters C T Co overlapping in the center and Chicago below them. There is a message written across the entire back of the card, but no address or postmark.
Date: [1916..1930]
Creator: Curt Teich & Co.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

College of Marshall, Administration Building, Marshall, Texas

Color tinted halftone postcard of the administration building of the College of Marshall, in Marshall, Texas, from around 1916 or 17. The main building was completed in 1916 and opened as a junior college in the summer of 1917. The school is now East Texas Baptist University. The image looks like a rendering of the building rather than a photograph of the actual building. Two figures are drawn in the foreground and the blue sky is an addition. The building has three floors and a raised basement with stairs leading to the central entrance. Printed on the top of the image is the title, "College of Marshall Administration Building, Marshall, Texas." Printed on the left edge of the back of the card: "E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee." Printed on the lower right corner of the back is the number 8788. There is no postmark or message on the back.
Date: [1916..1917]
Creator: E. C. Kropp Co.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Attachment. (open access)

Type-Writer Attachment.

Patent for a typewriter attachment that shifts the carriage by foot rather than by hand.
Date: August 15, 1916
Creator: Ward, Mizell Benjamin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

View Showing Square, Marshall, Texas

Color tinted halftone postcard showing the Harrison County courthouse square in Marshall, Texas, with a group of horses and wagons in the foreground, trolley tracks passing between the wagons and the courthouse green, buggies and automobiles parked by the courthouse green, and commercial buildings on the right. Printed on the back between the message and address spaces: C. T. American Art and a small logo of a circle with the letters C T Co overlapping in the center and Chicago below them.
Date: 1916
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History