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."

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.

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.

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."