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[GeeGee Home]

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."
Date: April 1902
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Home of E. H. Carlton]

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."
Date: 1902?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sarah and Scott Locke at U Up U Down Ranch]

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.
Date: 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Harold King Sitting in a Buggy]

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.
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Collin County Tax Receipt #6055] (open access)

[Collin County Tax Receipt #6055]

Receipt for state, county, and school taxes paid in 1901 as assessed for property in Collin County.
Date: January 1901
Creator: Powell, Yancy
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Collin County Tax Receipt #5865] (open access)

[Collin County Tax Receipt #5865]

Receipt for state, county, and school taxes paid in 1902 as assessed for property in Collin County.
Date: January 10, 1902
Creator: Powell, Yancy
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Collin County Tax Receipt #5997] (open access)

[Collin County Tax Receipt #5997]

Receipt for state, county, and school taxes paid in 1902 as assessed for property in Collin County.
Date: December 30, 1902
Creator: Van Brown, R.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Collin County Tax Receipt #6176] (open access)

[Collin County Tax Receipt #6176]

Receipt for state, county, and school taxes paid in 1904 as assessed for property in Collin County.
Date: January 29, 1904
Creator: Van Brown, R.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Collin County Tax Receipt #11967] (open access)

[Collin County Tax Receipt #11967]

Receipt for state, county, and school taxes paid in 1905 as assessed for property in Collin County.
Date: December 29, 1905
Creator: Van Brown, R.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Collin County Tax Receipt #5824] (open access)

[Collin County Tax Receipt #5824]

Receipt for state, county, and school taxes paid in 1908 as assessed for property in Collin County.
Date: January 1, 1908
Creator: Moore, W.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Election Precinct No. 25, Collin County, Texas, September 30, 1905: Return of an Election] (open access)

[Election Precinct No. 25, Collin County, Texas, September 30, 1905: Return of an Election]

Document certifying the return of an election for stock laws held on September 30, 1905 at Murphy, Texas in Election Precinct No. 25 of Collin County, Texas. The vote was reported 22 for and 15 against.
Date: September 30, 1905
Creator: Poindexter, Tom
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Special Election, Election Precinct No. 25, Collin County, Texas, September 30, 1905: Tally List] (open access)

[Special Election, Election Precinct No. 25, Collin County, Texas, September 30, 1905: Tally List]

Tally list for a special election held in Murphy, Texas, Election Precinct No. 25 of Collin County, to determine whether horses, mules, jacks, jennets, and cattle shall be permitted to run at large in the county.
Date: September 30, 1905
Creator: Turner, J. B.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Lace Blouse]

Photograph of a woman wearing a light colored blouse with a high collar, lace, and tucks. The date, "Apr. 1901," is written on the back on the back of the photograph.
Date: April 1901
Creator: Pennington & Burger
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Text Describing a Wire-Stretching Invention] (open access)

[Text Describing a Wire-Stretching Invention]

Drafted text describing an invention to stretch, splice, and repair wire for fencing, outlining the specific components that the inventor wants to patent.
Date: 1900~
Creator: Click, John J.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. J. Click to W. H. Kuykendall - February 11, 1901] (open access)

[Letter from J. J. Click to W. H. Kuykendall - February 11, 1901]

Letter from John J. Click to Reverend W. H. Kuykendall discussing Click's conversion from Methodist to Baptist and asking for more information about a "Boy Preacher" that they have heard works with Kuykendall and would like to invite to their congregation.
Date: February 11, 1901
Creator: Click, John J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. J. Click to J. H. Major - March 8, 1900] (open access)

[Letter from J. J. Click to J. H. Major - March 8, 1900]

Letter from J. J. Click to John Major discussing a trip that Major is taking to Arkansas, regarding a possible business deal that can be made to sell a quilting-related invention of Click's.
Date: March 8, 1900
Creator: Click, John Jones
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lon Poling to J. J. Click - March 4, 1900] (open access)

[Letter from Lon Poling to J. J. Click - March 4, 1900]

Letter from Lon Poling to J.J. Click, asking to sell Click's quilting invention in Alabama and Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Date: March 4, 1900
Creator: Poling, Lon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Official Certificate for U.S. Patent 692984] (open access)

[Official Certificate for U.S. Patent 692984]

Official certificate issued by the U.S. patent office along with the text of a patent for an ironing board that has adjustable height and can be folded for storage.
Date: February 11, 1902
Creator: United States. Patent Office.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lucy Tate, Ariel Rendall, and Others]

Photograph of seven young men and five young women standing in a line in front of a porch railing on the side of a brick building. The young women are in the center wearing skirts and light-colored blouses, four of the young men are on the left, and another three are on the right. Most of the young men are wearing shirts and slacks except for the man on the far left, who is wearing a suit and tie, and another man on the far right, who is wearing a coat. The two young women in the center are identified as Lucy Tate and Ariel Rendall and the two young men on the far left are identified as Ralph Schmeling and Leonard Hobbs.
Date: 1909~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Brownsville Public School Faculty]

Photograph of Brownsville Public School faculty members posing sitting in several rows on the steps leading up to a porch in front of a brick building. Most of the teachers are women, wearing light-colored dresses or skirts and light-colored blouses, except for two men wearing dark suits and ties, who are sitting in the middle of the second row. On the far right someone wearing a dark-colored suit is visible standing behind the railing on the porch and on the left there is a window.
Date: 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[High School Students]

Photograph of a group of high school students standing in several rows on the steps leading up to a porch in front of a brick building. The young men, wearing light-colored shirts or shirts and ties, are standing on the left and the young women, wearing light-colored dresses or skirts and blouses, are standing on the right. Professor Hallmark, a man with a mustache wearing a dark suit, is standing in the middle of the back row. In the second row the second young man from the left is Ralph Schmeling and the third young woman from the left is Sarah Hobbs.
Date: 1909
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1907 (open access)

Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1907

Weekly newspaper from Carrollton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 30, 1907
Creator: Risien, John T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 13, 1906 (open access)

Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 13, 1906

Weekly newspaper from Carrollton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 13, 1906
Creator: Risien, John T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1907 (open access)

Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1907

Weekly newspaper from Carrollton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 9, 1907
Creator: Risien, John T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History