[Grand View Collegiate Institute]

Copy print of a photograph outside the Grand View Collegiate Institute, a two-story building with a square tower near the center. A large number of children and adults are standing on the grounds outside the school. Additional information about the location is printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Flag Raising at Train Depot]

Copy print of a photograph taken during a flag raising ceremony at the Texas Santa Fe Railroad depot in Cleburne, Texas. The depot is a large, two-story brick building and the uniformed soldiers and others preparing to raise the flag are standing on a balcony platform at one end of the building. A crowd of people and automobiles are completely filling the street in front and to the side of the building. Additional historical information is printed on the back.
Date: April 10, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mounted Flag Bearers at Johnson County Fair]

Copy print of two people wearing uniforms, mounted oh horseback, and holding flags in their left hands in front of a building. Other people and horses are partially visible behind them. Handwritten at the bottom of the image: "Johnson Co. first fair October 8-9-10-11-12-13-1917"; printed below the original photo: "Johnson County First Fair October 8-13, 1917." Additional historical context is printed on the back.
Date: October 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mary Emory Outside Her Home]

Copy print of Mary Emory standing on the ground next to a curved, raised porch on one side of her home. The house is a two-story building with wood siding and a hipped roof with gabled extensions; it also has Queen Anne-style embellishments including decorative woodwork along the rooflines and columns along the porch and balcony. More information about the history of the house is printed on the back.
Date: July 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First State Bank Holiday Card]

Copy-print of a holiday card produced by First State Bank in Rio Vista, Texas. The outside of the card includes two photographs of the employees, lined up outside the bank (with the text, "Greetings from the folks at Texas' largest Country Bank") and organized more informally at a company cookout, standing around or seated on bales of hay, in front of a small herd of cows with men on horseback (with the text, "Western View from our coffee bar window"). The inside of the card includes signatures from all of the employees and text for Thanksgiving and the holiday season with small illustrations of a turkey and holly leaves.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Band Performing at Hamilton's Furniture Store]

Copy print of a four-man band performing Hamilton's Furniture Store in Cleburne, identified as Ronald McRuiz seated at the drums (left) and Al Stricklin standing behind him, Bill Thacker seated at a piano (center), and Jesse Mears playing a fiddle next to a microphone (right). Thacker is facing away from the piano keyboard, clapping, with Stricklin. Unidentified persons afer visible behind the band. Additional information about the group is printed on the back.
Date: 197X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Boy Scout Troop #220]

Cropped copy-print of twenty Boy Scouts in troop #220 posing together for a group portrait. They are standing in three lines on stone steps outside a school in Godley, Texas and several of the boys in the front row are wearing uniforms. Their names are printed on the back.
Date: 1957
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
first fifty (open access)

first fifty

Souvenir pamphlet documenting the history of the First State Bank in Rio Vista, Texas along with photos of the bank and portraits of all the employees.
Date: 1970
Creator: First State Bank
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas. (open access)

A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas.

This book is a biographical view of Johnson and Hill counties and their history. The book uses many narratives of the individuals who helped shape Johnson and Hill county history. The book has various content including hundreds of brief biographies, including some illustrations.
Date: 1892
Creator: Lewis Publishing Company
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cleburne First Baptist Church]

Copy print of the First Baptist Church at Caddo and Willingham streets in Cleburne, Texas, situated between smaller buildings. The church is a two-story brick building with decorative windows and embellishments. The side facing the street includes a square tower at the right corner and a hexagonal tower at the left corner. More information about the church is printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1910 Grand View Girl's Basketball Team]

Copy photo of the 1910 girl's basketball team from the Grand View High School yearbook. The back row is identified from left to right as Bissibel Crouch, Kate Pierson, Marie Pool, and Mazie Petty. The front row from left to right are Vera, Harbin, Mrs. C.J Rootes, manager, Oscar A. Tarlton, coach, and Ozella Pierson.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men in Crouch's Cash Store]

Copy print of eight men standing inside a dry goods store, propped against the glass counters on either side of the aisle, and around the crates that are stacked in the center of the aisle. Cans and boxes are also visible on shelves lining the walls, behind the glass cases. Handwritten notes on the photo have numbered the men and provided identifications; additional information about the store is printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1910 Grandview Football Team]

Copy print of a football team portrait from the Grandview Tribune News. They are posing outside in two lines, with six of the boys kneeling in the front and the others standing behind; two of the players in the front are holding a football and a pennant on the ground. The players are identified at the bottom and on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Asberry Family Posing with Portraits]

Copy print of Asberry children and siblings posing outside with framed portraits of other family members. At the left side of the image, a young girl (Scottie Mariah) is standing next to a woman who is seated (Mary Mariah Ewing); Mary is holding her baby son (Clyde Earnest), and her older son (John Thomas) is leaning against her left side. In the center of the image, siblings James Scott, Alexander Selman, and Addie Lillian are standing behind individually-framed portraits of James and Mary. Behind them, decorative quilts appear to have been hung over wood siding and a framed family portrait of James Daniel Asberry, his wife Mary Scott Richardson, and their daughters (Estella and Cordelia) is hanging above Mary M. E. Asberry. Additional family information is printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Asberry Family Portrait]

Cropped copy print of a cabinet card portrait of the Asberry family posing in front of a decorative background. The parents are seated in the front (James Daniel, left and Mary Scott Richardson, right) and their two daughters -- Estella and Cordelia Reece -- are standing behind them. Additional information is printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Doctors Robert and Larkin Harris]

Cropped copy-print a photograph taken inside the medical office of brothers Robert L. and Larkin L. Harris. Near the center of the image, one brother is seated in front of a desk situated in a corner of the room and the other brother is facing him, seated in a rocking chair to the right. The room has patterned wallpaper, decorative rugs on the floor, and additional furniture around the edges of the image. Other information about the Harrises and the location are printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[F. D. Pinion & Son Gin]

Copy print of a photograph taken near the F.D. Pinion & Son Gin in Grand View, Texas, where multiple wagons are parked outside the building. Additional information about Pinion and the location is printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ewing Family Portrait]

Copy print of an Ewing family portrait including James Henry (left), Mariah Sprague (right), on either side of their daughter, Mary Mariah. They are seated in front of a decorative backdrop and Mary is leaning against her father's leg. Family information is printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Criner Street, Grand View]

Copy photo looking east along Criner Street in Grand View, Texas from the early 1900s. The street is lined with businesses and other buildings, and there are a number of horse-drawn wagons parked or driving along the street, as well as people standing near wagons or along the sides of the road.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Medical Office of Dr. L. L. Harris]

Reprint of a photograph taken outside the medical office of Dr. Larkin L. Harris in Cuba (Sand Flat), Texas. Dr. Harris is seated in a horse-drawn wagon at left, near the front porch where his wife (Nellie Gipson Goldman) is standing, and his sister-in-law (Catherine Goldman Smith) is holding the reins of a horse next to the fence on the left side of the image. The building is a small, one-story building with wood siding a Queen Anne-style embellishments including scalloped gable ends and jigsawn designs around the roof of the porch. Other information about the Harrises and the location are printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group Photo of Confederate Veterans in Cleburne, Texas]

Photograph of the Pat Cleburne United Confederate Veterans, mostly likely in front of the Johnson County Courthouse. There are forty-five people in the photo and they are labeled with numbers which correspond the the list at the bottom of the photo. The identifying information includes each person's name and where they served in the Civil War. Several of the men are using crutches and are amputees, and most of the men are wearing suits.
Date: 1893~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Jury in the New Courthouse, 1913]

Photograph of the first jury, judge, and attorneys involved in the first trial in the new courthouse, likely in Johnson County. There are fifteen portraits, each labelled with the pictured man's name underneath. Listed from left to right and top to bottom; "M. M. Co[a]llings," "A. D. Ewing," Jno. I. Rogers, foreman," "M. C. Myers," "L. P. Shirley," "W. H. Bennett," "H. W. Renfro," "Jno. Prest[..]," "Tom W. Hines," "J. R. Scott," "F. P. West," "Co. Atty. J. K. Russell," "Judge O. L. Lockett," "[..] Co. Atty. W. E. Myers," and "Brooks Thompson."
Date: 1913
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photo of Major E. M. Heath, L. M. Head, A. A. Head and Confederate Soldiers]

Photograph of several confederate soldiers and nurses at a reunion of confederate soldiers. The man in the top right is identified as "Major E. M. Heath" and the woman next to him is one of his daughters. The front left man is "A. A. (Ben) Head," and the front right man is "L. M. (Bud) Head." The other two women are nurses and the other men are not identified. There is an attached note on the left side of the photo listing details about the pictured people.
Date: [..1902]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Horses and Carts in Cleburne's Market Square]

Photograph of many horses and carts in Market Square in Cleburne, Texas. There are some business names printed on the roofs of the buildings bordering the square and the Johnson County Courthouse.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History