Photograph of three unidentified men, members of the Palm family, standing and sitting on boulders on the side of a small body of water with large boulders in the background. One of the men is standing leaning against a boulder on the left and the other two are sitting on two smaller boulders on the right. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of an unidentified woman (possibly Mathew Palm's wife) wearing a light-colored dress and hat posing balancing between two large boulders with trees and vegetation in the background and more boulders in the foreground.

Photograph of Mathew Palm and three young men (possibly his sons) standing and sitting on top of a large boulder with trees and hills in the background and more boulders and trees visible in the foreground.

Photograph of Mathew Palm sitting on top of a large boulder with two women wearing light-colored dresses and hats and a young man wearing a dark suit, with another woman wearing a light dress and hat standing on a smaller rock on the right, and a cliff behind them in the background.

Photograph of Mathew Palm and his family sitting on a large boulder with trees in the background; Palm and his wife are sitting in the back with their three children (two young women and a young man) sitting in front of them. The men are wearing dark suits, ties, and hats and the women are wearing light-colored dresses and hats.

Photograph of Mathew Palm and his son sitting on top of a large boulder during a family trip to Blue Springs; there are trees and more boulders in the background.

Photograph of an unidentified man wearing a dark suit and tie and a hat and three women wearing dark dresses and hats sitting on the steps of the ruins of the West Texas State Normal College administration building in Canyon City with a water tower visible in the background.

Photograph of temporary classroom buildings, a windmill, and a two-story building at West Texas State Normal College with a pile of rubble in the foreground and telephone poles in the background. Referred to as the "shacks," the temporary buildings were used as classrooms after the fire that destroyed the main building of the college in 1914.

Photograph of temporary buildings and a windmill at West Texas State Normal College. Referred to as the "shacks," the temporary buildings were used as classrooms after the fire that destroyed the main building of the college in 1914.

Photograph of an unidentified man, a member of the Shuey family, posing sitting on top of a large pile of boulders with trees visible in the background, taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of four unidentified men, members of the Shuey family, sitting on the edge of a cliff during a family trip to Blue Springs; there are several treetops visible below in the foreground and rocky hills in the background.

Photograph of seven unidentified members of the Shuey family sitting in groups of 2-3 on several large boulders with trees on the hillside in the background. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of several unidentified members of the Shuey family posing sitting and standing on a large boulder with trees visible on a hillside in the background. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of seven unidentified members of the Shuey family posing on and behind a rock during their trip to Blue Springs. Four of them (two young men and two young women) are sitting on a rock and two men and a woman are standing behind them. There is a small body of water next to them on the right and there are trees visible on the side of a hill in the background.

Photograph of ten unidentified members of the Shuey family sitting and standing around a picnic basket and a blanket covered with plates of food with trees and part of a cliff visible in the background. The men are wearing dark suits and ties and the women are wearing dresses or skirts and hats. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs

Photograph of two unidentified members of the Shuey family laying down in a crevice under a large boulder during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of an unidentified woman wearing a light-colored dress and head covering drinking from a glass bottle with other members of the Shuey family standing by a picnic basket and blanket behind her; there are trees and rock formations in the background behind them. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.

Photograph of four unidentified men and two women holding hands and climbing up the steep side of a mountain in the Blue Springs area with rocks and plants in the foreground and mesas, trees, and clouds visible in the background.

Photograph of a group of unidentified people sitting on top of a large boulder overlooking a small body of water and a man crouching by the water's edge below.

Photograph of several unidentified people posing in two groups, one sitting on top of several large boulders and another standing and sitting between two boulders below, with trees in the background.

Photograph of several unidentified men holding a woman's arms and lowering her down from a pile of large boulders while another man gets ready to catch her from below and three other women watch (two sitting behind the men on top of the boulders and another standing below).

Photograph of a group of unidentified people standing and sitting on a large boulder with several piles of smaller rocks visible in the foreground below them and trees and the side of a cliff in the background.

Photograph of a group of unidentified people posing sitting and standing on a pile of large boulders and two men standing on a large tree branch above.

Photograph of two unidentified men wearing light-colored shirts, ties, and hats standing on top of two large boulders with trees and a cliff visible in the background.