Rescuing Texas History, 2011 - 38 Matching Results

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[Cars at Collingsworth Motor Company]

Photograph of two cars inside the Collingsworth Motor Company Ford Dealership, operated by Kelly Pigg. The car on the left side of the photograph is a convertible, and there is a large bouquet of flowers in front of the car on the right.

Date: 1948

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

Certificate of Honorary Membership in the Young Democratic Club of Nueces County, Texas

Certificate given to Sam Rayburn by the Young Democratic Club of Nueces County, Texas. Mr. Rayburn was given an honorary membership in the club on November 19, 1949. The document is printed on standard size ivory paper. The text of the certificate reads: "CERTIFICATE OF HONORARY MEMBERSHIP IN THE YOUNG DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT SAM RAYBURN IS HELD IN SUCH HIGH ESTEEM BY THE MEMBER- SHIP OF THIS ORGANIZATION THAT IT HAS ELECTED TO CONFER UPON HIM THE F… more

Date: 1949

Item Type: Text

Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Cleveland Dairy Day Milking Contest]

Photograph of a young girl milking a cow for the Cleveland Dairy Day Milking Contest. She is wearing a long polka dot dress and smiling towards the camera.

Date: 1948

Creator: Young, Moon

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Cleveland Historic Society

[Cleveland Dairy Days]

Photograph of contestants and cattle shown in the American Legion Rodeo Arena on the corner of Houston St. (Hwy321/105) & Legion Ave (now Charles Barker Ave). There are spectators seated in covered and uncovered stands around the arena. Two children are seated on top of the wooden fence in the bottom-right. The 2023 site contains a Wells Fargo Bank.

Date: 1948

Creator: Young, Moon

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Cleveland Historic Society

Closing Lines from the Novel, "Eben Holden"

Document with the closing lines from the book "Eben Holden" by Irving Bacheller, published in 1900. A handwritten note is at the bottom of the document with the words, "To Sam Rayburn, with deep affection--Gene Worley 10/17/49 Washington, D.C." Francis Eugene Worley was a democratic U.S. Representative from Texas who served in the House of Representatives from 1941 to 1950. Sam Rayburn "saw himself" in these closing lines from the book "Eben Holden." The text is black, printed on cream color… more

Date: 1941/1950

Creator: Bacheller, Irving

Item Type: Poem

Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Collingsworth Motor Company]

Photograph of the Ford Dealership at the Collingsworth Motor Company. There are five cars parked inside of a large garage. Two men in suits and hats are standing near a door at the end of the garage. The operator of the dealership is identified as Kelly Pigg.

Date: [1947..1948]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[Employee of the Santa Fe Railroad]

Cropped copy-print photograph of a young girl, "little barefoot" Lillie Snider, with her father Ed "Shorty" Snider. She is holding a lunchbox and facing towards the camera. Her father is an employee of the Santa Fe Railroad in Cleveland, Texas. He is standing behind her by a barrel on a wooden cart.

Date: 1941

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Cleveland Historic Society

[Fostoria Lumber Company Baseball Team]

Photograph of the Fostoria Lumber Company Baseball Team seated outside. There are nine men wearing white baseball uniforms and four other men seated with them. Fostoria was once a thriving lumber town with a hotel, company store, homes, schools, churches, and a cemetery. The 3rd man, back row: Joe Richardson. Last man, back row: Bidwell C. "Slick" McClelland Sr.

Date: 1949

Creator: Young, Moon

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Cleveland Historic Society

[Group outdoors in snow]

Photograph of a group of five people standing outdoors in the snow. They are pictured on the South side of Main Street in Dodson, standing in front of a cafe and barber shop. They are identified from left to right as Elton, McKinney, Bernice Riddle, Norma Copeland Coran, Abra Lewis, and Jo Ann Bowling Farris.

Date: 1941

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[Jim White standing on highway]

Photograph of a man identified as Jim White, standing on the reconstruction site of a highway. Writing on the back of the photograph states that the bridge being re-built was over Salt Fork of Red River on U. S. Highway 83, between Wellington and Shamrock. A gasoline truck and a wheat truck collided and destroyed the north part of the bridge.

Date: July 1949

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[Kelso Funeral Home]

Photograph of a burial service from Kelso Funeral Home. There is a hearse parked next to a tent with a crowd of people around it.

Date: 1941

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[Meekins Super Market]

Photograph of the inside of Meekins Super Market in Cleveland, Texas. Employees and Mr. and Mrs. Meekins are shown. From left to right the individuals are identified as Jim Grayson, Mr. Henry the Sunshine Salesman holding a box of Krispy Crackers, owners Jessie and Horace Meekins, J. D. Spiller, Douglas Mizell, Edna Wood Gilchriest, Ager Turner, and Mrs. Lavada Hutchinson. Seen behind the Meekins is a display of Nabisco Crackers, the cash register shows a sale of $3.89. Roi Tan cigars, King Edw… more

Date: 1949

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Cleveland Historic Society

[Nazarene Church]

Photograph of a Nazarene Church in the snow. There are two front entrances with stairs leading up to the doorways and a large window in between them.

Date: 1940

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[Photograph of a Bowling Game in Reverchon Park]

Photograph of young children bowling on the ground in Reverchon Park. They are playing with milk bottles and baseballs instead of the traditional bowling pins and balls. A baseball game is being played in the background behind a fence.

Date: 1943

Item Type: Photograph