[A house in Decatur, TX]

Photograph of a house in Decatur, TX. A pale grassy hill rises from the bottom edge of the photo, a leafless tree sitting to the left at it top. Leafless bushes sit farther into the photo at the hill's top, partially obscuring leafy bushes and trees from view. A tall tree with green foliage rises along the right edge of the image, rising from the top of the hill into the sky. Beyond the green plants on the hill sits the house, one corner pointed towards the camera. The building is made of off-white bricks with faded red sloping roofing. The bottom half of the corner facing the camera is made up by arches supported by thin rectangular columns, all holding up a balcony with iron-wrought railing. Above the balcony, the walls of the building zigzag as the different sections of the house meet while a single row of tall windows spans their width. The red sloping roofing tops the edges of these sections, with iron-wrought railing at their tops. A tower sits near the right edge of the house and has A-frame shaped roofs on each of its four sides, its top disappearing off-camera. A chimney rises a shorter …
Date: February 25, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Denton County Courthouse in Denton, TX]

Photograph of Denton County Courthouse in Denton, TX. A road occupies the bottom edge of the image and includes a series of parking spaces occupied by three vehicles, all facing the yellow lawn of the courthouse. Multiple leafless trees occupy the lawn, as does a streetlight near the parked vehicles, while green bushes line the base of the courthouse's walls. The main part of the building is cubic in shape with walls made of orange bricks constructed to form three floors. On each side of the building are three rows of windows, all set into white frames, along with entryways consisting of short sets of stairs and brick archways held up by four red columns. Above each side's archway is a short wall set at the level of the second floor, each with four red columns sitting atop the walls and holding up a similar structure set at the level of the third floor. The columns at the third-floor level hold up large triangular pediments. At each corner of the courthouse is a tower which, similarly to the entryways on the sides, have red columns at each floor which hold up the floor above them. The towers have open-air balconies …
Date: February 25, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Young County Courthouse in Graham, TX]

Photograph of Young County Courthouse in Graham, TX. Paved ground spans the bottom of the photo, sitting next to a row of parking meters farther into the scene. A sidewalk runs alongside the meters, separating the paved area from the yellow lawn of the courthouse. A few trees grow along the edge of the sidewalk as well as the walkway that leads from the pavement to the building's entrance, which includes a set of stairs divided down the center by white railing. A line of bushes extends along the courthouse's base on either side of the stairs. Foliage from a tree obscures the doors to the building from view. The courthouse's tall front side fills the width of the photo and includes a central section with gray walls on either side. This central section has tall black windows divided by white lines spanning it, with orange walls running along the bottom edge of the wall as well as filling the top half of the wall. A tall, thin metal structure sits on the flat roof of the courthouse with powerlines running across the photo behind it.
Date: February 13, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Parmer County Courthouse in Farwell, TX]

Photograph of Parmer County Courthouse in Farwell, TX. A river extends from the bottom right corner of the image, running to distant trees in the left, middle area of the photo. On the right shore of the river are large fluffy trees whose foliage seems to stretch out towards the river. On the left shore, in the bottom left corner of the image, concrete slopes down into the water while a bit farther into the photo sits a sidewalk running alongside the river. Standing near the edge of the sidewalk closest to the viewer are two older adults: a man with glasses and short silver hair in a yellow short-sleeved shirt and dark line-patterned pants and a woman with short gray hair wearing a long-sleeved purple shirt and long pale-pink pants with open-toe sandals. Beyond the duo is a large tree with its branches outstretched over the edge of the river.
Date: February 21, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lipscomb County Courthouse in Lipscomb, TX]

Photograph of Lipscomb County Courthouse in Lipscomb, TX. The courthouse is surrounded by yellow grass as it faces the right edge of the photo. An off-camera tree's branches fill the top right corner of the photo while another tree grows to the left of a short set of stairs leading up to the courthouse's doors. Two rectangular blocks made up of red bricks sits on either side of the stairs, a material again only in bottommost level of the building which contains windows that sit just above the lawn. The doors of the courthouse meanwhile are set into white frames as are the windows around them, together forming a shape that curves into a half-circle at the top. Four white columns, two on either side of the doors, extend across two floors of the courthouse to support a white pediment attached at the roof's edge. On the white block between the columns and pediment is "19 Lipscomb Covnty 16" in dark letters. Two rows of tall windows, some with air conditioning units, span the width of both this side of the courthouse and the side facing the left edge of the photo, all set into walls made of yellow bricks. …
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Kaufman County Courthouse in Kaufman, TX]

Photograph of Kaufman County Courthouse in Kaufman, TX. The courthouse sits in front of a paved road which runs from the bottom left corner of the image to the right side, intersecting with a second road at the bottom of the photo. The corner of a sidewalk appears above the bottom right corner, occupied by a streetlight and a fire hydrant, as well as a short post reading "S Jackson" on its left side and "Nulserry" on its right. On the opposite side of the road, a sidewalk separates the pavement from the courthouse's lawn and is lined with parking meters. Growing in the lawn are small bushes and a few small trees, mostly planted around the three short white brick walls sitting in front of the courthouse's entrance. Two walkways run from the sidewalk, between the short walls, and up to the front doors of the courthouse, passing by a white statue on a tall rectangular base. The statue appears to be of a person holding a rifle while wearing a hat. The courthouse surrounds the statue as it consists of three tall rectangular sections, with one facing the sidewalk and sitting farther back while the other two are …
Date: February 27, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wheeler County Courthouse in Wheeler, TX]

Photograph of Wheeler County Courthouse in Wheeler, TX. A driveway extends from the foreground of the photo, leading to a paved road that runs alongside the edge of a sidewalk that sits in front of the courthouse. One car drives from the right side of the photo on the road while seven others sit parked in front of the courthouse. The building is wide enough to extend off-camera in both directions and is made up white bricks. The door to the courthouse sits in the center of the building with pilasters on either side of the entrance, while an overhanging ledge sits above. The courthouse has three rows of windows across its width, with the bottommost row sitting on the same level as the door. The top two rows are almost entirely covered by a row of tall columns. The flat roof of the courthouse is lined by an off-white balcony.
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bailey County Courthouse in Muleshoe, Texas]

Photograph of Bailey County Courthouse in Muleshoe, Texas. The courthouse is a wide building with two rows of windows spanning the width of the side facing the camera. Each row of windows begins and ends with a single pane window, with the top row having five double pane windows between them. The second row of windows has two double pane windows on either side of a set of double doors, totaling four windows for that row. The doors also have a small pediment supported by pilasters attached to the wall above them. The building's walls are made of red or orange bricks, with white strips at the top of the building near the roof's edge. A flat structure appears on the left side of the roof while a chimney rises from the roof's right side. A concrete walkway extends from the building's doors, at the end of which is a telephone pole on the left side and a pole flying the American flag on the right, each sitting in the corner of a yellow lawn. Trees growing at the left edge of the photo have no leaves while trees on the image's right edge gave yellow foliage. A curb in …
Date: February 26, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Anderson County Courthouse in Palestine, TX]

Photograph of Anderson County Courthouse in Palestine, TX. A paved road divided by a white line runs across the bottom of the photo and is separated from the courthouse's lawn by a sidewalk. A white car is parked in front of the sidewalk, towards the center of the photo. To the left of the car, in the courthouse's lawn, grows a leafless tree. The courthouse itself is made of red bricks and white stone, constructed in a rectangular shape with a flat roof lined with railing and a shiny, gold dome in the roof's center. The courthouse faces the right side of the photo and has an entrance shadowed by a rectangular overhang supported by brick columns. A short set of stairs leads up to the building's doors from the lawn. A row of windows runs along each side of the building's first floor. On top of the overhang sit many white columns that extend from the bottom of the second floor to the top of the third floor to hold up a large white triangular pediment. Two rows of windows, one each for the second and third floors, span the width of each of the courthouse's sides, all spaced …
Date: February 12, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Freestone County Courthouse in Fairfield, TX]

Photograph of Freestone County Courthouse in Fairfield, TX. A multi-lane road occupies the photo's foreground and is divided from a parking lot by a concrete median. The lot is empty and fills the space between the road and the courthouse. Near the curb dividing the parking lot from the courthouse's lawn is a telephone pole and two small payphones, all sitting in the left half of the image. On the opposite side of the lawn is a white pole and a small cannon. Trees with and without leaves, as well as small bushes, occupy various spots across the lawn. A walkway divides the lawn into halves leading from the parking lot to the front doors of the courthouse. The building is made of orange bricks with white stone accents in small amounts. The entrance includes a short set of stairs leading from the walkway to the red front doors of the building, which are shaded by an overhead projecting section of the courthouse that sits on four tall white columns. The entire entrance portion of the building projects outward from a wider section of the courthouse, which itself has a wider section behind it, creating a three-tiered appearance. Across all …
Date: February 27, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Erath County Courthouse in Stephenville, TX]

Photograph of Erath County Courthouse in Stephenville, TX. The courthouse is a three-story building made of white stone and red brick with a large clocktower atop it. Each side of the building has three rows of windows with the bottom row's windows having curved tops, the top two rows being rectangular, and all having red-brick borders. Each side of the building has two sections projecting from the rest of the courthouse with one window on the first floor and two windows on the second and third floors. Each of these sections end in triangular roofs with three small circular windows at their tops. The clocktowers sits in the center of the grey-green tiled roof and has three narrow windows on each side, above which are half circle shuttered windows. Above those, on each side, is a dark clockface with white markings. The clocktower rises to a point, creating a tall triangular tower roof. Around the courthouse are short and tall trees along with bushes, all growing in short yellow grass. A sidewalk surrounds the courthouse, which separates the building from the road around it. A median runs from the bottom left corner of the photo into the bottom center and …
Date: February 13, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, TX]

Photograph of Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, TX. The courthouse is made of white stone decorated with faded red accents and has windows with brown frames. One entrance to the building faces towards the right edge of the photo and had a short set of stairs that lead up to three white arches, their tops outlined in red. The arches stick out from the building, as does the pediment attached to the edge of the building's roof, supported by tall red columns and containing a red star motif inside its pediment. The columns' height spans two levels of the building. The expanse of wall behind and on either side of the columns and the arched entrance below them is juts out from the building, as does the side of the building facing the left edge of the photo. This creates the appearance of towers at each corner of the courthouse, each one topped with a red dome and a white carved shape. The bottom row of windows spanning the perimeter of the courthouse have curved tops with red curving lines above them, except for rectangular windows in-between the corner towers. The second row of windows are all rectangular with horizontal …
Date: February 12, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Dallam County Courthouse in Dalhart, TX]

Photograph of Dallam County Courthouse in Dalhart, TX. The courthouse is made of red bricks of varying colors and white stone that accents windows, floor sections, and the roof. A short set of stairs leads up to the entrance of the courthouse, which faces the camera and has windows placed low to the ground on either side of them. Two white doors with large windows in them and white curing stone above them sit at the top of the stairs. There's a window with a single white stone above it on either side if the doors, as well as four windows in a row above them. Four columns rise in front of both rows of windows to support a pediment with the "Dallam" and "1992" and "Covnty" carved into white stone rectangles set into the bricks. A white stone overhang runs above the pediment and along the rest of the building, dividing the bottom two rows of windows from a third row. On either side of the section of the courthouse with the columns and pediment are additional walls set slightly farther back, each with the same number of window rows. Another set of walls are set behind those walls, …
Date: February 15, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Eastland County Courthouse in Eastland, TX]

Photo of Eastland County Courthouse in Eastland, TX. The courthouse is made of small, pale-yellow bricks and large stone blocks. The entrance of the building faces the right side of the photo and is made entirely of the stone blocks, which form three arches at the top of the stairs with the words "Eastland County Courthouse" carved above. Two stone plinths sit on either side of the stairs. The first floor of the building, at the same level as the arches, is also built out of stone and has a row of windows extending across the width of the building, along with another row of window below it at ground level. Above these rows and the roof of the arched entryway are more windows, creating two more rows. Between each row are lines of stone circles or shield shapes that serve as ornamentation for the building. The sections of building on either side of the entryway into the courthouse have flat roofs whose height stops a few feet short of the building sections behind them. In the center of the courthouse, behind the arches at the front, rises the tallest part of the building which has four visible rows of …
Date: February 13, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hemphill County Courthouse in Canadian, TX]

Photograph of Hemphill County Courthouse in Canadian, TX. The courthouse is a square building made of red brick with white-frame windows and a clocktower. It sits on a yellow lawn with leafless trees, contained by a short pale wall. Below and next to the wall is a sidewalk that runs alongside a curb that three cars and a truck have parked in front of, facing away from the camera. The ground they park on is made of grey break, laid out in rows. The entrance the courthouse has two doors containing and bordered by windows and faces the left side of the photo. Three rows of windows span the width of each side of the courthouse, with the bottommost rows partially peeking above the edge of the ground. A fire escape on the right side of the building, which faces the right edge of the photo, extends from the third floor to the ground. The clocktower of the courthouse sits on the building's flat roof and has a row of thin windows under its clockfaces, which are shaded by short white overhangs covered by blue roofing. A dome sits at the top of the clocktower with two thin poles or …
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Henderson County Courthouse in Athens, TX]

Photograph of Henderson County Courthouse in Athens, TX. A multi-lane road runs across the bottom of the photo, separated from a parking lot by a yellow curb. A single car sits in the parking lot in front of a sidewalk lined with parking meters. Beyond the sidewalk is the yellow lawn of the courthouse, occupied by tall leafless trees and short bushes. In the right side of the photo, four people stand around a tall bush while facing the courthouse. A concrete walkway in the left side of the photo leads from the edge of the parking lot to the set of stairs leading to the building's front doors. The entrance of the courthouse includes two glass doors set into white frames with a small triangular pediment above them while a larger pediment sits above all three of the building's floors, affixed to the edge of the courthouse's flat roof. Four white columns support the large pediment, two on either side of the front doors, and rest on white rectangular bases. The section of the building that the pediment and front doors are attached to has two additional sections diagonally connected to it, one of the left and one on …
Date: February 27, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hamilton County Courthouse in Hamilton, TX]

Photograph of Hamilton County Courthouse in Hamilton, TX. A parking lot with long yellow blocks dividing it horizontally sits in the foreground before the courthouse and has, in the right side of the photo, a blue car parallel parked next to a yellow block beyond which is an off-white car parked facing the camera. A figure in long clothing and carrying a bag approaches the cars form the left side of the photo. At the edge of the parking lot running alongside the edge of the courthouse's lawn is a short fence held up by blocks. The lawn beside it is yellow and has multiple tall, leafless trees. The courthouse itself faces the right side of the photo slightly and is made of large, pale-orange stone blocks. The entrance has a short set of wide stairs and one set of doors one set of windows on either side of them, along with three windows above. Four pairs of white columns sitting on stone bases hold up a wide white pediment with the words "Hamilton County Courthouse" above its bottom edge in brown letters. A circular design with a star at its center sits in the middle of the pediment above …
Date: February 12, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hansford County Courthouse in Spearman, TX]

Photograph of Hansford County Courthouse in Spearman, TX. A car parks in front of the courthouse as it faces the camera from behind a row of tall, leafless trees. Both the courthouse and the street in front of it are made of bricks, though the road's are dark brown while the courthouse's are orange. The lawn around the courthouse is yellow and has a few bushes planted near its trees. A flagpole flying both the American and Texas flags sits at the end of a walkway that leads to the windowed doors of the courthouse. White stone outlines both the doors to the building and the second-floor windows above them. The courthouse itself has a flat roof and two rows of windows spanning the central section of the building and the shorter sections on either side of it. At the bottom of the rightmost section of the building, peeking above the ground, is another row of windows.
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hardeman County Courthouse in Quanah, TX]

Photograph of Hardeman County Courthouse in Quanah, TX. A blue-gray car drives past the camera while three more vehicles, a red truck next to a blue van and white car, park in front of the orange brick and stone courthouse. The stone appears mostly as a base under the courthouse's lowest row of windows. The entrance sits into the building a short distance and includes two windowed doors with one window on either side of them, along with a row of four windows above. Two white columns sit on either side of the doors and hold up a short balcony above the doors and row of windows. A third row of windows fills the space above the balcony. On either side of this entry section of the courthouse are three rows of windows, with three windows in them each. On the left side of the building, which faces the left edge of the photo, is a second columned entrance, this one with a small pediment sitting above it, and a fire escape extending from the third floor to ground level. The roof of the courthouse is a pale blue and slopes upward to a small tower sitting at its center. …
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Collingsworth County Courthouse in Wellington, TX]

Photograph of Collingsworth County Courthouse in Wellington, TX. The courthouse is made up by orange brick decorated with portions of white stone. One entrance of the building faces the right edge of the photo and is made up by a large rectangle of white stone with two archways cut into it and a small set of stairs leading up to them. Above the entrance, three rectangular sections of orange brick stick out from the building slightly, topped with white stone possessing the images of humanoid figures carved into them. A second entrance appears on the left side of the building and is obscured by a short tree with dark foliage from which a flagpole flying the American flag emerges. Each side of the courthouse has three rows of tall windows, some with air conditioning units attached to them, and is lined with bushes with little to no leaves on them. Each corner of the building is shorter than the rest of the courthouse, leaving the corner sections with only two rows of windows. In the gaps above these sections are singular windows on each wall with faces carved from white stone placed above them. A yellow lawn surrounds the courthouse, …
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Comanche County Courthouse in Comanche, TX]

Photograph of Comanche County Courthouse in Comanche, TX. The courthouse is made up of small pale stones and has one tall section in its center with sections of varying shorter heights on either side. The central part of the building has two rows of tall windows and a white set of double doors for an entrance. The doors face the camera and have a carved eagle placed above them and a short set of stairs leading away from them. A dark blue box with a red top sits in front of the stairs. The short sections on either side of the central portion of the building have one row of windows, a few with air conditioning units attached to them. Behind these are slightly taller sections with a row of windows in each. Behind each of these sections is one more rectangular portion of building rising slightly taller than the previous ones. In front of the courthouse are dark bushes, tall fuzzy trees, and a leafless tree, all sitting in a yellow lawn enclosed by a curb. A parking lot occupies the photo's foreground in front of the courthouse and has a curb running across the image's width, dividing the …
Date: February 12, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, TX]

Photograph of Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, TX. The courthouse is made of faded orange bricks and resembles a cube in its general shape, though multiple sections project outwards from the rest of the building. One side of the building with a simple entrance of stairs and one door faces the right side of the photo while a more intricate entrance consisting of double doors set into a projecting section of the building serve as the base for four tall columns, which hold up a portion of brick wall with a clockface in its center. A second clockface is visible at the top of the right-facing side of the courthouse, similarly set into a brick wall that runs along the edge of the building's flat roof. Three rows of windows span the width of the courthouse's sides, with a fourth row of smaller windows running along the base of the walls near the ground. Spanning from bottom of the left entrance's stairs to the bottom of the right entrance's stairs is a curving, gravel-filled portion of ground bordered by a curb. Parking meters spaced at regular intervals line along the curb and have two cars parked near them, one on …
Date: February 25, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lamb County Courthouse in Littlefield, TX]

Photograph of Lamb County Courthouse in Littlefield, TX. Paved ground surrounds the courthouse, interrupted by a median extending from the left edge of the photo into the center. A white car drives around the edge of the median, away from the camera and approaching a blue car parked in front of the courthouse to the right of the doors. Two trees sit on either side of the doors, with a flagpole standing next to the left tree. The entrance to the courthouse has white doors with a grid of square windows across them on the white walls around the doors. Surrounding this entryway is a darker material with the words "Lamb County" visible on it above the doors. The dark building material is used throughout the first-floor level of the building, while a lighter brick material is used for the second floor and a short rectangular structure on top of the roof. Two rows of windows span the width of the building, one across each floor of the courthouse.
Date: February 26, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Sherman County Courthouse in Stratford TX]

Photograph of Sherman County Courthouse in Stratford TX. A walkway comprised of squares leads up to a corner of the courthouse, patches of grass growing between some of the cracks in the path. On either side of the path is green grass with tall trees growing in the right half while a short tree grows in the left half. The courthouse is made of white stone blocks and a has pink-tiled overhang running below the edge of the roof on each side of the building. Above the overhang is a tan wall that has a shape including rectangles with a half-circle at their top used at the left, used three times on each side of the building at the left, right, and center of each side. The doors into the building are on the side of the building facing the left edge of the photo, shaded by an overhang with a balcony atop it. The Overhang is supported by rectangular columns on short white walls what sit on either side of dark pink stairs that lead from the ground to the doors into the courthouse. Attached to the corner of the building facing the camera is a wire that stretches …
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library