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Air Base Water Pump

Description: Photograph of an air base water pump pumping flood water in Abilene. There is a pipe spewing water in the front and a hose and pump in the back. There is a car in the background.
Date: 1950
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Boys in Chemistry Class

Description: Copy negative of students Bill Wright, Jr., Robert Hopkins, and Terrell Hamilton working in a chemistry class in Abilene High School. The boys are wearing aprons, working at a table with beakers, and there are more supplies on the shelves behind them.
Date: 1950~
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Calliope

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry College calliope on the street in front of the Metro Theater in Abilene with a group of people standing around it in the mid 1950's.
Date: 1950~
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Couple by House

Description: Copy negative of Mamie Hatchett and John Berry in Stephens County, Texas where he was born. They are standing on the left of the picture with a dog, in front of a stone house with a car partially visible in the foreground.
Date: 1950~
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Couple on Horses

Description: Copy negative of Joan Medford riding a dun or buckskin horse named Sandy and Johnny Medford on a horse named Carbon Copy in a field with trees on John Berry's Ranch.
Date: 1950~
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Group by Bus

Description: Copy negative of people standing in a line outside a building by a bus at a Wholesaler's Trade Trip. They are standing near stores titled Saddle Shop, Friendly Finance Co. Personal Loans, and Retail Merchants Association.
Date: 1950~
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Headstone, Cemetery

Description: Copy negative of two pictures of headstones for Ely family members in the cemetery in Ely, Texas with other headstones and trees in the background. The stone on the left is for L. W. Ely who was born January 18, 1829 and died May 11, 1904.
Date: 1950~
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High School Reunion

Description: Copy negative of a group of nine people standing outside a building in Clyde, Texas at a High School Reunion. There are a car and motorcycle parked in the background on the right.
Date: 1950~
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Horn Trio, Trumpet Section

Description: Copy negative of McMurry College Band members, from left to right, Don Hamilton, Willis Gidden, and Bob Newman in uniform, playing trumpets in the late 1950's. Two are standing, and the one on the right is sittting, and there are five pictures and a map on the wall behind them.
Date: 1950~
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Horses in Field

Description: Copy negative of three horses in a field in front of a pond at John Berry's ranch taken in the late 1950's. The pinto in the middle is children's horse Polly, and the one on the right is a yearling.
Date: 1950~
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Kraft Cheese Display at Thornton's #1

Description: Photograph of a product display in a grocery store identified as Thornton's. The display consists of bottles of Kraft brand oil in small boxes surrounding an oven. On top of the oven, there are three signs, two of which are the same. Text on the duplicate signs say "Free Recipes Here! How to make any cake (requiring shortening) with Kraft All-Purpose Oil Fully Pink 29¢;" they also have a picture of a cake missing a slice on them. The headline on the middle sign says "Ladies! You Can Win Val… more
Date: 1950
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Kraft Cheese Display at Thornton's #1

Description: Photograph of a display for a grocery store identified as Thornton's. The display consists of a tall stack of packages of Kraft's Parkay Margarine sitting besides a meat display case; the display case is filled with various meat products. On top of the case, there is a television set with packages of Kraft's Parkay Margarine displayed beside it. Beside the margarine, there are various canned and bottled products. There are four identical signs in the display; text on the signs say "Win a 21"… more
Date: 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Kraft Cheese Display at Thornton's #2

Description: Photograph of a display for a grocery store identified as Thornton's. The display consists of a tall stack of packages of Kraft's Parkay Margarine sitting besides a meat display case; the display case is filled with various meat products. On top of the case, there is a television set with packages of Kraft's Parkay Margarine displayed beside it. Beside the margarine, there are various canned and bottled products. There are four identical signs in the display; text on the signs say "Win a 21" RC… more
Date: 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Kraft Cheese Display at Thornton's #2

Description: Photograph of a product display in a grocery store identified as Thornton's. The display consists of bottles of Kraft brand oil in small boxes surrounding an oven. On top of the oven, there are three signs, two of which are the same. Text on the duplicate signs say "Free Recipes Here! How to make any cake (requiring shortening) with Kraft All-Purpose Oil Fully Pink 29¢;" they also have a picture of a cake missing a slice on them. The headline on the middle sign says "Ladies! You Can Win Valuabl… more
Date: 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Man with Colt

Description: Copy negative of Arkie Pierce leading a young dark colored horse near a stone fence stacked by John Berry at Berry Ranch in the late 1950's. There are two other men in the background by the gate.
Date: 1950~
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Mare with Foals

Description: Copy negative of a light colored Quarter Horse mare and two foals, one dark and one light colored, standing in a fenced area with a feed trough on the ground and trees in the background.
Date: 1950~
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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