Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "HELPING JULIE BONDURANT , 21 months , park her Christmas gifts for the trip home are her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Bondurant.."

Photograph of a bespectacled man, Jake Wilhelm, speaking behind a podium on stage at the dedication of Ross Elementary. Three other individuals are seated on stage with him. The man in the middle of those seated is Walter Hall, the school principal. To his right is the Minister James C. Buckner of St. Christopher Church in League City. A floral bouquet and a large, leafy plant is surround the podium, which has a built-in speaker.

Photograph of Nell Megown Ross, an elderly woman in a wheelchair, at the dedication of Ross Elementary. She is a matriarch in the Ross family, for whom the elementary is named. People are mingling all around her. Three individuals directly surround her.

Photograph of Nell Megown Ross, an elderly woman in a wheelchair, at the dedication of Ross Elementary. She is a matriarch in the Ross family, for whom the elementary is named. Jim Harris (right), Margorie Singletary Richards, and Lorena Harbison (left) are standing near her and children are visible behind them. Text on the back of the photograph says: "Lorena Harbison (left), 1969."

Photograph of Nell Megown Ross, an elderly woman in a wheelchair, at the dedication of Ross Elementary. She is a matriarch in the Ross family, for whom the elementary is named. Jim Harris (right), Margorie Singletary Richards, and Lorena Harbison (left) are standing near her and children are visible behind them. Text on the back of the photograph says: "Ross Elementary School Dedication. Lorena Harbison, lady on left; Nell Katherine McGowen Ross in wheelchair; Margorie Singletary Richards, Grand Daughter of George Washington Butler; Jim Harris, Ross's son-in-law on right."

Photograph of Nell Megown Ross, an elderly woman in a wheelchair, at the dedication of Ross Elementary. She is a matriarch in the Ross family, for whom the elementary is named. A few members of her family surround her. From left to right is her son-in-law, James Harris, her daughter, Betsy Ross Harris, and her granddaughter, Betsy Ross (later Betsy Ross Stephens).

Photograph of a middle-aged Charles Kilgore, the youngest son of Theodore and Zonnie Kilgore. He is wearing a dark suit jacket over a shirt and a tie. There is a small pin attached to his jacket lapel.

A view of the reflecting pool at Memorial Park taken near the walkway and monument. Across the road can be seen houses and businesses.

A view of Memorial Park from outside the wall. The angel statue and the monument near the reflecting pool can be seen in the distance. Near the monument, several men are standing. A grounds-keeping truck is visible in the distance.

A view of the reflecting pool at Memorial Park. A monument stands at the far right, but the wording on the monument is not readable. In the background is a truck with four men working on landscaping around one of the walks.

A young girl dressed in good clothes holds a spray of flowers to place on a memorial in Memorial Park, recognizing the victims of the 1947 Texas City Disaster. She stands between a raised plaque and the anchor monument in the park. In the background, other persons attending the memorial service can be seen.

Photograph of Galveston County Courthouse in Galveston, TX. A road runs along the bottom edge of the image, separated from the sidewalk parallel to it by a line of grass. Towards the left side of the photo, the sidewalk splits off into three paths that head left, right, and center through patches of grass occupied by bushy trees and palm trees of varying heights. At the center of the intersection of the sidewalks is a short planter with a bush of red flowers in it. In a nearby patch of grass is a black sign on a short pole with the Texas state silhouette at its top and indistinguishable text below. On that same patch of grass, near the right edge of the photo, is a simple white bench with a person in a yellow shirt sitting on it. A short distance into the image, beyond the grass and trees, is the courthouse building. A short rectangular building with walls that are white on the bottom half and red on the top half sits in front of a much taller building that is also rectangular, though entirely white in color. The shorter building has one row of windows clustered near …