[Gallatin School, 1915]

Copy negative of the Gallatin School class of 1915-16. The school house in the background was the first brick house built in the community. Only a few pupils have been identified. In the center of the front row dressed in full suits are Lonnie Jenkins and Stokes Conway. Fifth from the right end of the front row is Letcher Clifton.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Liberty Hotel]

Copy negative of the Liberty Hotel decorated for the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival in the late 1930s. Cars are parked on either side of the street, and a group of unidentified people ascend the stairs to the entrance.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rusk Courthouse Square]

Copy negative of Rusk's courthouse square during an early county fair. In the background, a merry-go-round can be seen. Many people line the streets, and to the left a cart drawn by a horse or mule bears children. The steeple in the center background belonged to an early Methodist Church. Tents have been set up in the square, and a bandstand has been set up in the left foreground.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Queen Jerry Peacock]

Copy negative of Jerry Peacock on the Queen's Throne in Ragsdale Park during the 1937 Jacksonville National Tomato Festival.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Receipt from Bolton Hardware]

Copy negative of a receipt from Bolton Hardware, for barbed wire bought by Mr. C. K. Lang, on May 2, 1893.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Home of John Irwin]

Copy negative of the home of John Irwin in Reklaw, Texas. The fence is in the foreground, and people stand on the porch, although none of them have been identified.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Amphitheater at Love's Lookout Park]

Copy negative of stone seats at the amphitheater at Love's Lookout Park in Jacksonville. Trees and shrub are visible in the background.
Date: September 18, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Coronation of Jerry Peacock]

Copy negative of the coronation of Jerry Peacock being crowned queen of the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival by Lieutenant Governor Walter Woodul. Women and men in fancy dress watch as Woodul places the crown on Peacock's head. Woodul looks at the camera, while Peacock looks straight ahead. The child second from the right is Betty Jane Acker, and the girl to her right is Frances Carolyn Wood. None of the other attendees have been identified.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Russell W. Goodson #1]

Copy negative of a portrait of a bearded man, Russell W. Goodson.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Russell W. Goodson #2]

Copy negative of a portrait of a bearded man, Russell W. Goodson.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Diploma from Rusk Junior College]

Copy negative of a diploma from Rusk Junior College awarded to John T. Jenkins, and signed by: M. W. Robinson, President of College; Hattie Seale Joplin, Dean; M. C. Parish, President of the Board of Trustees; G. S. Houston, Secretary of the Board of Trustees. It is dated June 1921.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rusk City Bakery]

Copy negative of the sales area of the City Bakery. Mr. Smart, on the left, and Mrs. Summers, on the right, were both employees. The display cases are full of baked goods.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rusk Penitentiary]

Copy negative of a paper from the office of D. O. Pollard, Underkeeper of Rusk Penitentiary.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the Cherokee County Clerks' Office]

Copy negative of the County Clerks' Office at the Cherokee County Courthouse. Two men sit on either side of a standing man, in an office. The man on the left is George Houston.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rusk College Class of 1925]

Copy negative of the Rusk College graduating class of 1925. None of the students have been identified. The front row sits, while the back two rows stand. All of the students are wearing their caps and gowns.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mearl and Gloria Guinn]

Copy negative of a young woman, Mearl Guinn, holding up a baby, Gloria.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mr. and Mrs. John Garrison Ellis #2]

Copy negative of a portrait of Mr. and Mrs. John Garrison Ellis. Mr. Ellis is seated and Mrs. Ellis is standing behind him with her hands on his shoulders. The photograph is in a mat with an oval window. A handwritten note on the mat, below the image, says "J. G. Eillis and wife, Margarette Ann Ellis."
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Martha Ann Jones Goodson #1]

Copy negative of a portrait of Martha Ann Jones Goodson.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tomato Exhibit]

Copy negative of a man, Dr. P. A. Young, showing members of the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival queen's court experiments being conducted to find remedies for diseases that attack tomato plants. The two women on the right are unidentified.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Burchfield Children]

Copy negative of Anita Burchfield, standing, and Durel Burchfield, sitting, on a dirt road. Both children are looking down at the tire tracks on the road. A house is in the left background, and a car is in the right background.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Guinn Children]

Copy negative of Bryan Guinn and Gloria Guinn. Gloria stands behind Bryan, and both are pretending to push an automobile.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mr. and Mrs. John Garrison Ellis #1]

Copy negative of a portrait of Mr. and Mrs. John Garrison Ellis. Mr. Ellis is seated and Mrs. Ellis is standing behind him with her hands on his shoulders. The photograph is in a mat with an oval window. A handwritten note on the mat, below the image, says "J. G. Eillis and wife, Margarette Ann Ellis."
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Summons to Mayor's Office]

Copy negative of a summons to the office of the Mayor of Rusk. It reads: "You are hereby commanded to summon David M. Cook to be and appear before me at my Office in Rusk on the third Saturday in June being the 19 day of said month to answer the complaint of [illegible] in a plea of debt by note for the sum of Thirteen 68/100 dollars; then and there to show cause if any why judgment should not be given against him for said money. Herein fail not, and a due return make to me of this writ as the law directs. Given under my hand, at Office, this the 7th day of June A .D. 1858. Signed E. W. Busby, Mayor."
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of a Woman]

Copy negative of a photo of a woman, who is believed to be either Fannie Goodson Duke or Mary Ann Rebecca Murdoch.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History