[Locke Home, Version 1]

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Photograph of the Locke home, with two women and a dog seated on the front porch. Inscription in ink on the back states: "Locke Home, Fannin & Grove, demolished 1956." Version one shows slightly more of the right side of the house than Version two, and it is printed darker. The house is a one-story side-gable house of wood siding, two chimneys, and four slender square columns supporting ornate scroll-sawn decorative brackets. Two ferns are on stands on the porch, and a picket fence and two trees are in front of the house. The figure in back is Sarah Dycke … continued below

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1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 14 cm on mount 15 x 20 cm

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Creator: Unknown. 1900~.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Sims McCutchan Collection and was provided by the Harrison County Historical Museum to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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The Harrison County Historical Museum’s Inez Hatley Hughes Historical Research Center provides opportunities to explore the past of Harrison County and Texas through its archive and artifact collections. As a county history preservation and research center, it collects, preserves, and makes available photographs, documents, books, and artifacts related to the history of Harrison County, its county seat Marshall, and Texas.

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Photograph of the Locke home, with two women and a dog seated on the front porch. Inscription in ink on the back states: "Locke Home, Fannin & Grove, demolished 1956." Version one shows slightly more of the right side of the house than Version two, and it is printed darker. The house is a one-story side-gable house of wood siding, two chimneys, and four slender square columns supporting ornate scroll-sawn decorative brackets. Two ferns are on stands on the porch, and a picket fence and two trees are in front of the house. The figure in back is Sarah Dycke Locke, and the figure in front may be Katie McAllister. Part of the bottom board of the mount has broken off.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 14 cm on mount 15 x 20 cm

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The house was built in Marshall, Texas, by Calvin Locke (1798-1877) on the northwest corner of Fannin and Grove (407 W. Fannin). By the time of this photograph, ca. 1900, his daughter Sarah Dycke Locke was living in the house, with her widowed daughter Katie McAllister and her two children.

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Sims McCutchan Collection

Sims McCutchan’s collection of photographs, ephemera, and postcards provides documentation of many aspects of the history of Marshall, Texas, from the 19th through the mid-20th centuries.

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[Locke Home, Version 2] (Photograph)

[Locke Home, Version 2]

Photograph of the Locke home, with two women and a dog seated on the front porch. Version two shows slightly more of the left side of the house than Version one, and it is printed lighter. The house is a one-story side-gable house of wood siding, two chimneys, and four slender square columns supporting ornate scroll-sawn decorative brackets. Two ferns are on stands on the porch, and a picket fence and two trees are in front of the house. The figure in back is Sarah Dycke Locke, and the figure in front may be Katie McAllister.

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  • 1900~

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  • Oct. 19, 2022, 9:36 p.m.

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  • July 14, 2023, 6:37 p.m.

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[Locke Home, Version 1], photograph, 1900~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1512365/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrison County Historical Museum.

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