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[Jackson County Courthouse in Edna, TX]

Photograph of Jackson County Courthouse in Edna, TX. A green lawn fills the bottom half of the photo as a tall tree shades the bottom right corner of the image. Additional plants the form of bushes appear along the walls of the courthouse and extend outward in lines from its entrance. A walkway in the right side of the photo leads from the front doors of the courthouse to the right edge of the image, disappearing off-camera. A planter of short bushes sits next to the walkway, near the courthouse's entrance, while a nearby flagpole flies the American and Texas flags. The courthouse building is rectangular in its general shape, with a smaller rectangular section attached to the courthouse's right corner extending perpendicular to the main part of the building. The smaller section has two large windows at its left end and a row of small windows along its upper right corner. The main section of the courthouse has glass front doors at its center with a line of windows to the door's right shadowed by a long metal rectangular affixed to the wall above. The metal rectangle has a simple red clockface at its left end while a row …
Date: October 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wharton County in Wharton, TX]

Photograph of Wharton County in Wharton, TX. A green lawn occupied by large bushes and tall trees leads up from a sidewalk to the white walls of the courthouse, which faces towards the left edge of the image. The building has a short section a taller portion rising above it, both made of white concrete. The entrance to the courthouse is in the shorter section and appears in the left side of the photo with a small set of stairs leading up to its glass doors. "Wharton County Courthouse" is written above the entrance to the building, though the words in the photo are reversed. A row of short windows along the ground and a row of taller windows both span the width of the building. The roof of both the shorter and taller sections of the courthouse have flats roofs. The taller section also has two rows of tall windows across its width as well as a clockface above the two central set of windows in its front wall.
Date: October 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bastrop County Courthouse in Bastrop, TX]

Photograph of Bastrop County Courthouse in Bastrop, TX. The lawn of the courthouse fills the foreground of the photo, filled with trees growing from yellowing grass. Near the bottom left corner of the photo sits a small stone slab with a laurel wreath inscribed near its top along with "Major Joseph O. Sayers" written underneath. Farther into the photo, near the corner where the front and side of the courthouse meet, stands a white obelisk with a picture on each of its visible sides: a pair of crossed swords on the left side and two crossed flags on the right side. The courthouse itself is a white rectangular building lined with green bushes along its base, its entrance facing the left side of the photo while a clocktower sits in the center of its flat roof. The entrance to the building is shaded by a rectangular pediment supported by columns, above which sits railing. Foliage from a tree growing near the courthouse's entrance obscures the visual details of the second and third floors of the building's front. On the other side of the courthouse, the one that faces the right side of the photo, there is a row of windows …
Date: April 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Guadalupe County Courthouse in Sequin, TX]

Photograph of Guadalupe County Courthouse in Sequin, TX. The building is white and rectangular with a flat roof and two grey doors leading into it. The courthouse faces the camera directly and has one row of ground level windows with two more rows above it. A wall spanning the center of the building sits in front of the courthouse's building, with bushes running along it base. A short set of stairs leads up to the wall, extending from a walkway a pedestrian approaches, which leads to a sidewalk running around the lawn. Trees grow at each edge of the photo, with foliage spilling into the photo. A blue car is parallel parked next to the sidewalk in the right side of the image, while a brown car similarly parked sits across the road closer to the camera.
Date: July 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Cameron County Courthouse in Brownsville, TX]

Photograph of Cameron County Courthouse in Brownsville, TX. Two cars are visible at either side of the photo, both parked in front of the sidewalk running alongside the courthouse's green lawn. Green trees grow throughout the lawn, their foliage partially obscuring the courthouse. The building is square in its general shape and is made of pale red bricks. A short set of stairs leads up to the front doors, which face towards the right side of the photo. Three rows of windows set into white frames span the width of all the building's sides. Four columns sitting atop the entryway to the courthouse rise up past two floors to support a rectangular pediment with the words "Cameron County Courthouse" written out on it. A similar structure is partially visible on the left side of the building, which face the left edge of the photo. Above the pediments and running along the roof's edge is a decorated wall, its bricks decorated with white stone. Multiple tall, thin metal structures of varying shapes sit on top of the courthouse's flat roof, one of which resembles an empty flagpole.
Date: October 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jasper County Courthouse in Jasper, TX]

Photograph of Jasper County Courthouse in Jasper, TX. A paved road runs across the foreground of the photo while a slightly blurry parking meters appears in the bottom left corner. In front of the sidewalk across the road, slanted white lines have been painted on the road to indicate parking spaces. A short set of stairs extend from the sidewalk to a concrete walkway that leads up to another short set of stairs, which sit in front of the courthouse's front door. On either side of the walkway is the courthouse's lawn, which is filled with fluffy green bushes and tall trees with equally expansive foliage, obscuring the ends of the courthouse. The building appears rectangular in is general shape and has smooth off-white walls, an upward-sloping roof covered with red shingles, and tall windows set into white frames. The front door of the building is dark green with a half-circle shaped top, set into the center section of the wall which has a triangular pediment above it at the roof's edge. On the pediment is the wire outline of a star. Across the visible wall of the courthouse are two rows of tall windows, all curved at the top …
Date: August 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Sabine County Courthouse in Hemphill, TX]

Photograph of Sabine County Courthouse in Hemphill, TX. A paved parking lot occupies the foreground of the photo, occupied by multiple vehicles. A strip of yellow grass with telephone poles sitting in it separates the parking lot from the courthouse. A large tree grows behind the rightmost pole, partially obscuring the right side of the courthouse. The front side of the building faces the left side of the photo and has smaller trees growing around it. The courthouse's walls are a pale yellow, and its roof is made up by gray shingles. A set of stairs lined in red along its walls rises up to the front doors of the building, which sit in a large second-floor alcove set into the building. Rectangular columns rise through and beyond the alcove, ending at the top of the third floor of the building. The courthouse has a total of three rows of windows with the bottommost row being at the level of the entrance's stairs. The roof of the building slopes up to a flat top except for a triangular section that sits above the center of the front side of the building.
Date: August 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Newton County Courthouse in Newton, TX]

Photograph of Newton County Courthouse in Newton, TX. The courthouse sits on a green lawn and is partially obscured by the foliage of tall trees planted throughout the lawn. The building is made of orange stone with white tiles on for the roofing and includes a tall clock tower at its top. The entrance of the building faces the left side of the photo and has two white doors shadowed by a balcony, above which is a column of three sets of windows. The entire building has four rows of windows spanning the width of its sides, with the topmost row of windows projecting out from the roof slightly. The clocktower on the roof sits on a short sloping base and has rectangular columns that hold up the tall sloping top of the tower, which has a white clock set into each of its sides.
Date: August 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[San Augustine County CH - San Augustine]

Photograph of San Augustine County CH - San Augustine. A yellow and green lawn surrounds the courthouse along with a line of shrubs and a handful of trees, with a tall stone slab sitting on a base in the lawn. The stone has some readable text including "In memory of those who lost their lives", "Killed in action", and "Killed in service", likely indicating it's a memorial. A sidewalk cuts through the lawn from the left side of the photo and leads up to the front doors of the courthouse. The doors have dark glass as do the three columns of windows above them. The building is made of an off-white stone with black scuffs in various places, and has a roof covered in light-colored tiles that slope upwards slightly. Across the walls of the courthouse are three rows of windows, with the row of smaller windows placed just above the ground at the bottom of the building.
Date: August 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library