Photograph of a large group of students and teachers posing in front of an adobe brick building. The back of the photograph Identifies Mrs. Emily Anderson Merrill as a teacher at Fort Davis School and identifies the rest of the subjects; "Front row: Chess Carpenter, Doug Duncan, Pearl Richmond, Lela Chadborn, Edna Bloys, Emily Merrill?, Frank and Charlotte Webster, and Dutchovers (?) Back Row: Hugh Cavitt, Mac & Alice Sproul, Scottie Finley, Lee Sproul, Maude Carpenter, Judge Espy. Kitty Cavitt, Bon Finley, Warren Bloys, Don Chadbourn, and Dutchovers"

Photograph of a large group of students and teachers posing in front of an adobe brick building. The back of the photograph Identifies Mrs. Mattie Belle Anderson as a teacher at Fort Davis School and identifies the rest of the subjects; "Front Row: Joe Epsy, Tella Duncan, Charles Jones, Dosie Duncan, Mattie Belle Anderson, O. Z. Finley, Ankie Duncan, May Carpenter. Back Row: Charles (Albert?) Carpenter, Will (Tim) Merrill, Kate Epsy, Sargie Espy, Ina Walbridge, Mabel Bloys, Osterson girl, Frankie and John Cowan, Frank Carpenter"

Photograph of Sarah and Scott Locke, two leashed dogs, a cat, a horse, and an unidentified woman standing outside of a tent pitched at U Up U Down Ranch. Their camp is set up at the base of a hill underneath several mature trees. The ground in front of them is bare dirt.

Photograph of a large, two-story house with a wrap-around porch that is surrounded by a light-colored picket fence. On the right side of the photograph, another building is visible in the background. On the left side, there is a large rock formation in the background. The back of the photograph notes the name "Roy Bloys."

Photograph of a single-story brick house with a large front porch. The house sports a set of bay windows on its right side. Several chairs rest on the porch. The ground in front of the home is bare dirt. The back of the photograph reads "Jeff Davis County Club. Jeff Davis Auxiliary April 1902. Meat market. Musgrave lived here. Had a pool hall torn down and rebuilt by Jim McElroy as a duplex. Made into one house by Leonard Rinehart."

Photograph of Harold King smoking a cigar and sitting in a buggy. He is wearing a light-colored suit with a bowtie and a hat. Several cars are parked outside of a building behind him on the right side of the frame.

Photograph of several individuals gathered at a campsite for the Keesey Fishing Camp. A tent is pitched in the background. All of the subjects are standing except for one woman in a light-colored dress that is sitting on a log on the left side of the frame.

Photograph of the Merrill family posing for a group portrait. The back of the photograph identifies the subjects as Richard, George, Mrs. J. W., and Alice.

Photograph of 9 partners standing in the middle of a field of bare dirt breaking ground on the Fort Davis State Bank Bank in 1911. The back of the card identifies the partners as being, left to right; J. W. Espy, Charles Mulhurn, W. Keesey, Dr. W. T. Jones, W. S. Miller, Jim Davis (Sheriff), E. R. Robertson (Cashier), and H. A. King. The ninth partner is not identified.

Photograph of the Merrill Ranch taken around 1916 on a cabinet card. The home has dark colored siding and is surrounded by lush greenery. A vegetable garden is visible in the foreground.

Photograph of a Caterpillar tractor coming up a sloped dirt road in Pinto Canyon. Several men stand on the road beside the tractor. The dry, hilly landscape is dotted with sparse shrubbery.

Photograph of dozens of military wagons and horses lined up in a wide expanse of flat, bare dirt.

Photograph of three soldiers riding motorbikes on a dirt path that cuts through a small rock formation. The soldier closest to the camera has a motorbike with a side car. All three men are wearing collared shirts and wide-brimmed hats.

Photograph of an old government pumphouse and tank in Ft. Davis, Texas. Both the pumphouse and the tank are made of stone bricks and sit on and at the base of a hill, respectively. A large tree looms over the scene.

Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Merrill on their 60th wedding anniversary. They are dressed formally and seated in individual chairs next to each other. Mr. Jesse Merrill (left) is wearing a suit and tie and looking down. Mrs. Jesse Merrill is wearing a light-colored suit with a long skirt and a boutonniere and she is looking at something behind the camera. Three framed photographs occupy the wall behind them.

Photograph of five founders of the Fort Davis Historical Society standing in front of an an old adobe brick building at Fort Davis. The subjects are, left to right: Espy Miller, Rowena Fenstermaker, Ralph Yarbrough, Barry Scobee, and Leslie Fenstermaker.

Photograph of a single-story adobe structure with a roof that has completely collapsed in the middle. The walls below the collapsed roof are mostly gone. There appear to be no windows on the remaining walls. The ground around the building is flat and sparsely vegetated.The back of the photograph notes that "this is what winds and time did to the last structure built on the post, in 1885. Picture taken by the author in 1961."

Album of various images taken during the 1890s in the Fort Davis, Texas area, with handwritten identifications and notes. Most of the images are of the landscape in the area, as well as people and some buildings. A handwritten letter at the front identifies this as a Christmas gift for "Papa Carpenter" from Billie, Lee, and David. The album cover is red with a decorative gold pattern around the edges and the word "SNAPS" printed in the center.

Photograph of Tony Medley holding a garden tool with a long handle in his left hand while standing in a patch of gravel outside of an adobe building with striped awnings. A portion of a patch of foliage is visible in front of him on the right side of the frame. He is wearing a long-sleeved collared shirt and high-waisted slacks with a cowboy hat. He is turned toward the right side of the frame.

Photograph of a series of small, brick buildings lining a packed dirt street, including an S. A. Thompson survey office. Several people stand outside of the buildings.

Photograph of an adobe house with a goat standing on the ledge of the window. The back has "adobe house old in 1900 with goat" written on the back.

Photograph of the parsonage of a Baptist Church. The house is a small, single story structure with a wraparound porch that is surrounded by a low fence. The back of the photograph notes that it was "built by Knox."

Photograph of Barry Scobee (left), Fort Superintendent Franklin Smith (center), and a third, unidentified man (right) posing in a wide and flat landscape before a large rock formation. All three of the men are wearing suits and ties. Several single-story buildings with large porches occupy the ground beneath the rock formation.

Photograph of C. H. Bird's apple orchard in full bloom. The trees are arranged in straight rows with a generous amount of space between each individual tree. The ground beneath the trees is largely bare. A densely vegetated hill rises up in the background on the left side.