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["The Louisiana Daylight" passing L & A Junction]

Texas and Pacific's "The Louisiana Daylight", train No. 28, eastbound, headed by Engine No. 709, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive passes L & A Junction near Waskom, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[T&P Train #712]

Photograph of T&P train #712 in Marshall, Texas next to a large water tank. There are two people in the background in front of a train car. Written below the image are "Marshall, Texas Sept 9 1949" and "H. K. Vollrath."
Date: September 9, 1949
Creator: Vollrath, H. K.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[View From Atop T&P Train #616]

Photograph of the view from on top of T&P train #616 with two men visible in the cab. Written below the image are "T&P #616 5 miles west of Marshall, Texas 1949 after having been repaired from a boiler explosion caused by low water L-R H. R. Chaffin of Timken Roller Bearing and Homer Ricks of the T&P" and "Luther Weber Photo."
Date: 1949
Creator: Weber, Luther
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Train Engine #651 and Car]

Photograph of a train engine and attached cars on railroad tracks, viewed from the side. "651" and "Texas & Pacific" are visible on the side. Additional tracks lay in front, grass between them. Trees and poles rises above the train in the background. Handwritten text below the image says, "Marshall, Texas Sept 5 1949."
Date: September 5, 1949
Creator: Carlson, R. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sam Houston Elementary School, Marshall, Texas, Classroom with students and teacher, 1949]

Photograph taken in a classroom of Sam Houston elementary school in Marshall, Texas showing students, some sitting at desks and others standing in back with their music teacher, Mrs. Sims McCutchan, Jr. in the very back. The walls are of painted horizontal boards, with three multipaned windows with curtains and above those windows, just under the ceiling, three smaller, horizontal windows. A blackboard with Christmas greetings and decorations is on the other visible wall. The desks are old desks with cast iron frames with desk on one side and folding bench on the other. Between two of the windows, examples of students' art work are mounted, and "Girl Scout Laws" hang between the other windows. An empty desk in the front right of the photo shows the book shelf under the desk surface and what appears to be a book bag hanging from the corner of the iron frame. An unidentified male, possibly another teacher, is seated in front of Mrs. McCutchan. On the back of the photograph Mrs. McCutchan wrote: "1949, I was transferred to Sam Houston School to teach only music classes in grades 8 classes of music from 3rd through 7th grades."
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sam Houston Elementary School Class Picture, Marshall, Texas, 1949-50]

Group photograph of a class of Sam Houston Elementary School students, posed in four rows on steps in front of the school. One teacher, Mrs. Sims McCutchan, Jr. (Miss Johnnie), stands on the far left, and an unidentified teacher stands on the right.
Date: 1949/1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Presentation of Scrapbook to Teacher]

Photograph of a young girl presenting a scrapbook to Mrs. Sims McCutchan, Jr. (Miss Johnnie). The picture ran in the Marshall News Messenger on 1/23/49 accompanying an article about the presentation of the scrapbook, which contained drawings and poems by South Marshall School 5th & 6th graders before Mrs. McCutchan left to teach at Sam Houston School. Mary Ann Simmons made the presentation and Harold Collier looked on. The photograph was taken in the Girl Scout room at the city park, identified in the article as the Maverick Corral, where the students had been housed during the fall 1948 semester.Mrs. McCutchan wrote notes on the back explaining the context. Attached on the back is a form used by the newspaper for processing the photo.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mrs. Johnnie McCutchan School Portraits, 1949-50]

Strip of four identical portraits of Mrs. Johnnie McCutchan, smiling broadly. Printed beneath each is the caption "School Days, 1949-50." Printed in ink on back: "Miss Johnnie."
Date: 1949/1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History