[Joe B. Matthews Sitting Outoors on a Folding Chair]

Photograph of Joe B. Matthews sitting outdoors in a brown folding chair. He is wearing a hat, glasses, jacket, spotted black tie, slacks, and cowboy boots.
Date: December 24, 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men and Women around an Outdoor Picnic Table]

Photograph of men and women gathered around an outdoor picnic table that is covered with a box and bucket. Automobiles are visible in the background through trees.
Date: December 24, 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People at an Outdoor Picnic Table]

Photograph of a group of people at an outdoor picnic table. Several people sit at the food and drink laden table. Two men stand on either side. In the foreground to the left, a teenage boy holds a crutch. To the right near a car's open trunk, a man holds food.
Date: December 24, 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tom and Matt Blanton at a Picnic Table]

Photograph of Tom and Matt Blanton sitting at an outdoor picnic table. Tom, left, is wearing a blue shirt and a spotted blue tie. The dark haired Mat, right, has an open shirt and striped pants, and carries a tin cup in his right hand a cigarette in his left.
Date: December 24, 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tom Blanton with Shotgun Standing over a Dead Hog]

Photograph of Tom Blanton holding a shotgun and standing over a dead hog. He is wearing a lightly colored hat, blue denim jack, and blue jeans. They are in a wooded and shrubby area.
Date: December 24, 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Men and a Dead Hog]

Photograph of two men in blue denim standing over a dead hog. The man on the left is a senior, wears a black fedora hat, and holds an axe over his shoulder. The smiling young man to the right, Tom Blanton, holds a pistol in his right hand.
Date: December 24, 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Men and a Turtle]

Photograph of two men standing over an overturned turtle. The man to the left, Tom Blanton, leans over the turtle wielding an axe. The man to the right holds a foot on the creature. The remnants of a fire are to the right of the pair, and benches covered with materials are in the background.
Date: December 24, 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Watt Matthews Standing over a Dead Hog]

Photograph of Watt Matthews standing over a dead hog. He is wearing a lightly colored hat, blue denim jacket, dark blue jeans, and black boots. The hog and an axe lies at his feet. Materials lie in front of trees and shrubs in the background.
Date: December 24, 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cowboy Wrangling a Snake]

Photograph of a cowboy wrangling a snake over a crate. He is using a two piece bamboo and metal rod to life the creature.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cowboys, a Horse, and Industrial Vehicles on a Hillside]

Photograph of cowboys, a horse, and industrial vehicles on a rocky hillside. A man stands alone to the lower left, while a group of three cowboys stand near a horse in the center. The yellow vehicles, the left of which is manned, appear to the upper left.
Date: 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cowboys and Animals in a Dusty Clearing]

Photograph of two cowboys in a dusty clearing with horses and cattle. One man stands behind a group of horses to the left, while the other man sits atop a horse near a green livestock bed truck on the right. Cattle are distributed around the area with some in the clearing and some under trees to the left.
Date: 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cowboys at a Pond]

Photograph of two cowboys and horses on a wooded dirt road in front of a pond. The person to the left is partially undressed and carrying clothes. The man on the right is fully clothed and sitting atop a white horse. A wooden pier extends over the pond, and a rope is tied from it and wound around some trees and into the water.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cowboys Holding Down a Calf near a Cow]

Photograph of three cowboys with a restrained calf. A man on the right kneels on the calf's neck, pinning it down. Another man on the left is kneeling down and touching the animal. A third man is gazing into the nostrils of a horned brown and white cow (right). They are on a rocky beach of a pond.
Date: 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Formally Dressed Men and Women]

Photograph of men and women in formal dress who are posing for a photo at the wedding of John Matthews. Two women in dresses stand at either end of the back row, while two men in tuxedos partially sit upon the edge of a central loveseat. The loveseat is filled with three older women in formal clothing. The people are, from left to right: Ethel Casey; Joe B. Matthews; Lucile Brittingham; May Blanton; Susette Burns; Watt Matthews; and Sallie Judd.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four Cowboys on Horseback behind a Boy]

Photograph of four cowboys riding horses behind a boy. Ranch buildings can be seen behind them.
Date: 1940~
Creator: Wallace, Sally Brittingham
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Iced Windpump]

Photograph of a cowboy standing to the left of a windpump that is covered with icicles.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men at a Rocky Outcropping]

Photograph of men at a rocky outcropping. A man kneels in the middle of the photo near a cleft in the earth.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men at Camp]

Photograph of men at a campsite in wooded ranch land. Men and cooking utensils are scattered around the dark tent. Clothing hangs from a small tree in the center of the photo. A man to the left holds a rifle.
Date: 1940
Creator: Wiseman Studio
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men in a Horse-Drawn Wagon]

Photograph of three men sitting in a carriage drawn by a lightly colored horse. They are in the middle of a rocky dirt road with a small, columned building to the left, a large building obscured and in the background, and a three story building to the right near a car.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men Working on a Rocky Outcropping]

Photograph of men with picks and tools striking the earth at a rocky outcropping.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People Swimming]

Photograph seven people swimming in body of brown water in a wooded area.
Date: 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People with a Horse and Car at a Dirt Road]

Photograph of people standing at and near a dirt road. A black car with a yellow license plate sits in the dirt road with a man standing to the left of it. Off the road to the left, three people are around a horse. A younger person is in mid leap behind the horse.
Date: 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Joe B. Matthews]

Photograph of a bespectacled Joe B. Matthews wearing a dark three piece suit with a striped tie.
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Cowboys Around a Downed Calf]

Photograph of three cowboys around a downed and roped calf. The bespectacled man kneeling on the left holds a bottle in his right hand and touches a cloth to the animal's side with his left. The kneeling man on the right has the calf pinned under his knee. A third man sits to the upper left.
Date: 1940
Creator: Blanton, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History