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1884 Courthouse

Photo collage with the 1884 Clay County Courthouse in the center surrounded by Henrietta officials and businessmen around 1890.

Date: 1890~

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

Andrew L. Bowers was born in 1852 in North Carolina. Upon moving to Texas, his first job was as a day laborer on an iron bridge at Columbus, TX. He was eighteen years of age. At nineteen he was promoted to foreman, with the Delaware Bridge Company. Afterward, he worked for the railroads, steadily climbing their ranks until he reached the position of Superintendent of Construction for the Northwest division, covering the area from Spring to Fort Worth. He eventually left the railroad, resigning … more

Date: 1897

Location: 31.762118 -95.630740

Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Aquoyote and Pau-goodl, Indian Warriors]

This photo is of Aquoyote "They Pulled Him off", standing, and Pau-goodl "Red Buffalo", sitting. Kiowa Indian Warriors. Photo circa 1890

Date: 1890~

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

[Arko, Comanche Warrior]

Comanche Warrior: Arko. Photo circa 1890, Indian Territory.

Date: 1890~

Creator: Irwin, William E.

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

Beach Mercantile

Photograph of store with seven people on porch. Photograph of the Beach Mercantile store in Van Horn, TX

Date: 1898~

Partner: Clark Hotel Museum

Beach Mercantile Co., c. 1898

Photograph of store with seven people on porch. Photograph of Beach Mercantile Co, with seven unidentified people on porch, Van Horn, TX c. 1898

Date: 1898~

Partner: Clark Hotel Museum

Beaver Creek School

Students at Beaver Creek School in 1895. First names of some students are handwritten on the photo.

Date: 1895~

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

[Beulah- Mrs. Dick Persifield's Buggy Horse]

Beulah- Mrs. Dick Percifields Buggy Horse. Photo circa 1890: Henrietta, Texas.

Date: 1890~

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

[Blacksmith Shop]

Four men and a horse standing in front of a blacksmith shop. Photo taken in 1890: Vashti, Texas.

Date: 1890

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

Cache Issue Station

Native Americans lined up to get government rations at the Cache Issue Station in Oklahoma (Indian Territory).

Date: 1895~

Creator: Snearly, Alice & Kelley, Lon

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

[Cambridge Common School]

Students posing for group photo. Photo circa 1890: Cambridge, Texas.

Date: 1890~

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

[Cambridge Common School]

Students posing for picture. Photo ca. 1890: Cambridge, Texas.

Date: 1890~

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

Clay County Commissioner's Court

Clay County Commissioner's court in 1897.

Date: 1897

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

[Clay County Court House]

Clay County Court House. Photo taken in 1897: Henrietta, Texas.

Date: 1897

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

[Clay County Jail]

Clay County Jail. Photo taken in 1890: Henrietta, Texas.

Date: 1890

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

[Comanche Family Portrait]

Photograph of a Comanche family. There is a man sitting in a chair in the center of the photo, there are two other people standing behind him, and a child leaning on his lap.

Date: 1890~

Creator: Irwin, William E.

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

[Company A, 2nd Texas Cavalry, Confederate States Army]

This group does not contain the entire membership of the Company, which is much regretted, but only those whose pictures could be obtained thirty years after the war. The Company was raised by Captain Peter Hardeman about the middle of April, 1861, in the Counties of Houston, Anderson, Cherokee and Nacogdoches, calling for twenty-five men from each of the Counties, and marched immediately to San Antonio, where the regiment was organized and mustered into the State service on May 17th, 1861. In … more

Date: 1895~

Partner: Palestine Public Library