Copy negative of the 1st, 2nd, and possibly 3rd grades of Turney School in 1936. In the back, teacher Christine Hensley stands. In the front row, left to right: Jackie Ray Henderson, Burton Fling, unidentified boy, Roger Lee Northern, Kenneth Neal Meador, Joe Francis, and James Lewis Meador. In the middle row: Maxine Brody, Opal Hopwood, Norma Sue Smith, Nettie Merle Smith, Shirley Meador, Toy Curry, Patsy Ruth Thompson, Connie Moses, two unidentified girls, and Jean Bolton. In the back row: J. W. Delaney, Curtis Francis, Homer Wright, C. L. Wheeler, Dillard Hurley, an unidentified boy (last name McNaughton), two more unidentified boys, and Fannie Lou Meador.
Copy negative of an aerial view of downtown Rusk. The courthouse is in the middle of the photo. A monument to Confederate veterans is at the left of the square, while the Claiborne Hotel is on the north side. Buildings at the northeast of the square were built for county and district clerks.
Copy negative of a scene at a sawmill. Men stand in front of an uncompleted shed with many animals. Most of the men are unidentified, but one of them is Arthur Ford.
Copy negative of The Bargain Store in Rusk. Three men stand behind the display case. In the center is Marvin Troublefield, an employee, and one of the others is W. J. Deckard, the owner. The identity of the other man is unknown. Merchandise is displayed on shelves behind the counter.
Copy negative of Mr. and Mrs. Graham McCarroll on their "Bicycle Built for Two" act in the Tomato Festival pageant. Mrs. McCarroll (nee Beryl Bolton) sits in front of her husband.
Copy negative of a brick plant of New Birmingham. A tramway is visible, leading from the pit to the plant. This was used by cars to carry clay to the plant. Mules line up at the tramway. A brick drying shed is in the upper left of the photo.
Copy negative of a brick production plant of New Birmingham. There are bricks on the floor, and hand-pushed cars on the left line up to take bricks to the kiln.
Copy negative of Anita Burchfield, standing, and Durel Burchfield, sitting, on a dirt road. Both children are looking down at the tire tracks on the road. A house is in the left background, and a car is in the right background.
Copy negative of three women, all candidates for queen of the National Tomato Festival, outside the Tomato Leaf Disease Laboratory in Jacksonville. Frances Stevens is on the right; Kathryn Turner, queen in 1940, stands in the middle; and Fannie Byrd Bolton stands to the right.
Copy negative of the coronation of Jerry Peacock being crowned queen of the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival by Lieutenant Governor Walter Woodul. Women and men in fancy dress watch as Woodul places the crown on Peacock's head. Woodul looks at the camera, while Peacock looks straight ahead. The child second from the right is Betty Jane Acker, and the girl to her right is Frances Carolyn Wood. None of the other attendees have been identified.
Copy negative of a diploma from Rusk Junior College awarded to John T. Jenkins, and signed by: M. W. Robinson, President of College; Hattie Seale Joplin, Dean; M. C. Parish, President of the Board of Trustees; G. S. Houston, Secretary of the Board of Trustees. It is dated June 1921.
Copy negative of a group of early settlers of Reklaw standing in front of Weatherby's General Store. Samuel Patrick Richey, son of George Richey Sr., stands on the far left in a black coat, II. I. Elliott is entering the door, and Leon W. White stands behind a post holding a telephone sign.
Copy negative of a train with logs stacked on the cars behind the engine. Men sit on the engine, and one stands next to it. None of them have been identified.
Copy negative of the National Tomato Festival parade in Jacksonville. The First National Bank building has been decorated. In the far left background, the East Side Elementary School can be seen. A parade float moves down the street.
Copy negative of the Gallatin School graduating class of 1927. From left to row, they are Lester Williamson, Letcher Clifton, Monnie Garner, Cecil Welborn, Chester Garner, Alma Ferrell, James Jarrett, Eugene Smith, and Opal Hilton.
Copy negative of the Gallatin School class of 1915-16. The school house in the background was the first brick house built in the community. Only a few pupils have been identified. In the center of the front row dressed in full suits are Lonnie Jenkins and Stokes Conway. Fifth from the right end of the front row is Letcher Clifton.
Copy negative of the Gallatin School 7th grade class of 1923-24. In the front row, from left to right, are Chester Garner, Mrs. Gretna Jones (teacher), Morris "Spot" Fling, Cecil Welborn, Lee Roy Dudley, and Letcher Clifton. In the middle row are Janie Gullion, James Jarrett, Vera Baggett, Haskel Jenkins, Jewel Cotton, Buck Fling, Loids Jenkins, Reba Turney, and Lester Williamson. In the last row, standing, are Cora Dell Jenkins, Margie Tucker, Irene Gullion, Evie Underwood, Monnie Garner, Ruby Clifton, Alma Tidwell, Alma Ferrell, Stella Faye Ridge, and Hoye Jenkins.
Copy negative of a class of Gallatin School. In the front row, sitting left to right, are Curtis Grimes, Cecil Welborn, Gene Smith, an unidentified boy, Ernest Ferrell, H. V. Smith, Letcher Clifton, an unidentified boy, Irvin Henry, Chester Garner, and Colin Fling. In the middle row: Goldie Chandler, Lillie Bowling, Laura Cole, Ara Barnett, Nellie Smith, an unidentified girl, Lillian Lane, Myrtle Dudley, Beatrice Welborn, and Hoye Jenkins. In the back row: Miss Jimmie Fulton (teacher), Bruce Thompson, Willie Jenkins, Earl Jenkins, Zola Scurlock, Fannie Lou Fling, Elsie Rae Morrow, Kate Day, Clarence Bridges, Ethel Davis, Lee Gullion, and Faye Hataway.
Copy negative of C. P. Gardiner's family. The four members standing are Lester Gardiner, Charles Perry Gardiner, Dora Gardiner, and Charlie Gardiner. Seated in front of them are Albert Fredrick Gardiner, Bennie Franklin Gardiner, Lena Gardiner, Harry Edison Gardiner, and Robert Erastus Gardiner.
Copy negative of the Gardiner family in front of their home. In the back row are Ada and Eunice Gardiner. In the middle row, Thelma Gardiner, Bob Gardiner, baby Evelyn Gardiner, Robbie Gardiner, and Mildred Gardiner. In the front row are Jessie Mae Gardiner and Elaine Gardiner.
Copy negative of a wedding photo of Robert Gardiner and Ve Adah Collins Gardiner, standing arm in arm. They are in the home of John Thomas and Virginia Collins in Bulah.
Copy negative of James E. Glenn's family. Laura Gardiner Glenn and James E. "Jim" Glenn stand in between two unknown girls. Sam Glenn is seated, second from the left. The rest are unidentified.
Copy negative of workers grading tomatoes at a packing shed in Jacksonville. The man in the far right background is Sam Boles. None of the other workers have been identified.
Copy negative of the Hendrix-Collins family, lined up in three rows in the woods in Bulah. In the back row are an unnamed woman of the Hendrix family, Virginia Hendrix Collins, and Phronie Hendrix. In the middle row, Ve Adah Collins, Sallie Gardiner Butler who holds baby Gusta, Lu Anne Collins, and a Hendrix grandmother. In the front row are Bertha Collins, Etta Collins, and Frank Collins.
Copy negative of the home of John Irwin in Reklaw, Texas. The fence is in the foreground, and people stand on the porch, although none of them have been identified.
Copy negative of an invitation to the Oddfellows' 60th anniversary. It reads: "You are respectfully invited to attend an entertainment given at the Rusk Hall in the town of Rusk, on the 28th day of April, 1879, by the members of Washington Lodge, No. 17. Committee of Invitation: L. R. Rains, D. Dreeben, J. A. Stallings, L. Kronenberg. Committee of Arrangements: R. I. Ricketts, W. W. Blassingame, Wm. Summers, G. L. Atkins. Committee of Order: G. W. Taylor, C. M. Johnson."
Copy negative of the Isgate family. From left to right: Elizabeth Glenn Isgate, Louis Isgate, holding their grandchild, Mary Ethel Netters, and the sister of Elizabeth Glenn Isgate. The family is standing in front of an automobile.
Copy negative of the Jacksonville High School Band of 1937-38 performing in the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival parade. None of the band members have been identified.
Copy negative of John Floyd Murdoch, son of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph LaFayette Murdoch. Murdoch stands with his left arm behind his back, and his right hand on a chair. Under the photo, text reads: "Rail Road Photo Car."
Copy negative of the Killough Massacre Monument, a tall pyramid surrounded by trees. It was built as a Civilian Works Administration project to mark the site of the 1838 Killough Massacre. This photo was taken before the site had been cleared of debris.
Copy negative of the Liberty Hotel decorated for the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival in the late 1930s. Cars are parked on either side of the street, and a group of unidentified people ascend the stairs to the entrance.
Copy negative of a logging team in front of a building with the name "A. B. Mandelstamm" on the side. A team of four mules pulls a cart of logs. An unidentified man sits on the mule in the back and to the left, and another man sits on top of the logs in the cart.
Copy negative of employees and customers at Mallard Grocery in Rusk. Thomas Bonner Mallard, the owner of the grocery store, leans on the counter. Cans are stacked high on the shelves on the back wall.
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