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[First Baptist Church Children's Choir]

Description: Photograph of a group of children and an older man standing in a choir loft in a church in Cleveland, Texas. 1st Row L-R: Edwin Johnson (Pianist), Lynn McClelland, Ronald Satterlee, Donald Bounds, Gayle Everitt, Dana Kay Dishongh, Sharon Miller, Kathy Smith, Kenneth Satterlee, Waymon Woodrum, Lavinia Gunter, Bro. Bill Davis (Choir Director) 2nd Row L-R: (Unknown), Bobby Howell, Charles Sigler, Virgil Stutts, Homer Stephens, Glenn Gassiott, Randy Pilgreen, Edward Guinn, Sidney O'Neill 3rd Row L-… more
Date: 1959/1960
Creator: Young, Moon

[Cleveland Dairy Day]

Description: Copy-print photograph of four children with calves at Cleveland Dairy Day in Cleveland, Texas. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Ward, and from left to right are Peggy, Freddie, Dottie, and John Lewis Ward. An accompanying note states that the cow tied to the fence in the background stepped on the young girl's toe and she didn't hold its reins for the photograph.
Date: 1958

Little Shamrock Restaurant

Description: Photograph of Mr. McEwing in suspenders and Mrs. McEwing in a dark dress with their staff in the newly remodeled Little Shamrock Restaurant posing in a line behind a long, banquet-style table with various food laid out on it. A pie case is behind them, and a small keyboard is visible in the far corner. This seating area was called the Malarkey Room.
Date: June 27, 1957
Creator: Young, Moon

Fostoria Sign

Description: Photograph of a highway sign located on Hwy 105 west of Cleveland, Texas. The sign is pointing south of 105 to the location of Fostoria, a community formed from the establishment of Foster Lumber Company.
Date: 1957
Creator: Young, Moon

Perk's Steak House

Description: Photograph of the empty dining room of Perk's Steakhouse which was located on Highway 59, north of Cleveland. There are booths around the outside of the room, several rows of square tables with chairs, and a long counter with stools on the left side of the image. In the background, parked cars are visible through the front door and windows.
Date: 1957
Creator: Young, Moon

"Pete's" Service Station

Description: Photograph of "Pete," one of many gas station workers and owners, putting gas in the tank of a partially-visible vehicle. Pete is wearing a uniform including light-colored slacks and shirt, as well as a hat with a brim; the hat and shirt have patches that say "Mobilgas Mobiloil" with an image of a pegasus. The gas station building is visible in the background. The station offered full service, i.e., filling the tank, cleaning the windshield, changing oil, and tire service.
Date: 1957
Creator: Young, Moon

United States Post Office

Description: Photograph of the Grand Opening of the United States Post Office on the corner of College and Crockett in Cleveland, Texas. The man at the podium was the area's congressman at the time, U.S. Representative Jack Brooks
Date: November 1955
Creator: Young, Moon

[United States Post Office]

Description: Photograph of the mail sorting area of the new Cleveland Post office in 1955. There are packages wrapped in paper on a shelf. There are clothes on a table to the left of the shelf, and a man stands in front of several other shelves full of books on the far side of the room.
Date: November 1955
Creator: Young, Moon

[United States Post Office]

Description: Photograph of the Grand Opening of Cleveland Post Office Building. An unidentified man, Frank Roark, Jr. Postmaster, Cleveland Mayor N. A. Walker, Farmer's State Bank President O. A. Witherspoon and an unidentified man stand by the double front doors Mayor N. A. Walker holds a ribbon that has been strung across the door, and another man is visible through the glass of the door inside the building.
Date: November 1955
Creator: Young, Moon

Hank's Motel

Description: Photograph of a guest room at Hank's Motel located on highway US 59 north of Cleveland, Texas. The room includes a single bed, a bedside end table containing a glass ashtray to the right with a lamp above, a small built-in desk and stool (left), and a bathroom partially visible through an open door on the left side of the image. A framed image is hung on the wall above the bed.
Date: September 10, 1955
Creator: Young, Moon
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