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Bancroft Lumber Company

Description: Photograph of the Bancroft Lumber Company yard. In the foreground are wooden beams and chains. On the right side of the frame is a metal fence and on the left is a large warehouse. In the background is a smokestack and a water tower.
Date: unknown
Partner: Heritage House Museum

Bancroft Shingle Mill Crew in 1880

Description: Photograph of the Bancroft Shingle Mill Crew. There are twenty-seven men, all standing except seven who are seated. One row of men are standing on the ground and the other row is on a platform behind them. The men are wearing button-up shirts, some are wearing vests, suspenders or jackets and all except one are wearing hats. In the foreground are wooden beams and bits of wood. Written on or above some of the men are the numbers 1 through 10.
Date: 1880
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Barber Shop]

Description: Photograph of a barber shop. Customers and barbers are shown looking at the camera. There are four customers and barbers on the left side of the photograph. There are two ceiling fans visible in the shop
Date: unknown
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Barber Shop]

Description: Photograph of a barber shop. There are six men looking at the camera while two customers are being shaved. The barbershop was located on 5th St. and Front St.
Date: unknown
Partner: Heritage House Museum

Barge Built by Orange Car and Steel

Description: Photograph of a river barge with a large crane on the right side of the frame. There are eleven workers in hats standing on top of the barge. In the foreground are steel beams and canisters amongst weeds. Typed on a piece of paper that is glued to the bottom of the mat is, "This is a barge, which is one of three we built for the U.S. Government in 1924. It was an all rivet barge made by the Orange Car and Steel. Mr Ben Glover was Shop foreman. It was built about half way from the shop and… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Heritage House Museum

Baseball Players Training in Orange, Texas

Description: Photograph of eleven baseball players in baseball uniforms and baseball gloves. Two other men are standing with them, one in pinstripe pants, hat, and necktie and the other wears a pocket watch, hat and is holding a cigar. In the background is a fence and bleachers upon which a woman and two boys sit.
Date: unknown
Partner: Heritage House Museum

Bengal Guards on Train to Chicago

Description: Photograph of the Bengal Guard on a train to Chicago. There are at least eleven women wearing light-colored coveralls with the words, "Bengal Guard, Orange, Tex." printed on the back. In the center is Lewis Gay, a man in a cowboy hat, boots, western shirt and tie leaning over another man with a small girl on his lap. Lewis Gay was the Drill Master of the Bengal Guards in the late 1930s. Another girl sits on the lap of a woman on the right side of the frame. Some of the women wear head scarv… more
Date: 1940/1941
Partner: Heritage House Museum
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