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[The New Look Salon Building]

Description: Photograph of the front and side of a red brick building with stone accents along the roofline in Mesquite, Texas. The sign above the awning along the storefront says "The New Look: Beauty Salon" and there is a banner advertising tanning hanging on the right side of the awning. Historically, this building housed the N. A. Holley & Sons Grocery Store.
Date: 2003~

[Patricia McWhorter]

Description: Photograph of Patricia McWhorter standing in front of the Holley family home in South Bryan Street in Mesquite, Texas.
Date: [1930..1932]

Polk Paschall Home

Description: Photograph of a family home is Mesquite, Texas. The home is a two-story structure with a covered porch spanning the length of the front. A white picket fence follows a boardwalk in front of the home. A family of five people is standing by the fence and on the home's porch. Standing on the porch, from left to right are daughter Ollie Paschall, George Paschall, and wife Ollie Paschall. Standing by the fence, from left to right, are Cecil Paschall and Polk Paschall.
Date: unknown

[Portrait of a Young Man]

Description: Studio portrait of a young man wearing a dark suit and hat. He stands next to a decorative wooden chair.
Date: [1910..1920]

Portrait of Ernest Ellis

Description: Photograph of a man standing in front of a picket fence. He is wearing a three piece suit and necktie. He has short hair parted on the side. He is holding his hands behind his back. The man is identified as Ernest Ellis.
Date: unknown

Portrait of Mrs. Sarah Grubb

Description: Photograph of woman in a studio. The image is of a bust-length pose. The woman is identified as Mrs. Sarah Grubb. She is wearing a dark dress with a shamrock print, secured at the neck by a thin pin. The dress is decorated at the center with many beads and a pleated front. She has dark hair parted down the center.
Date: unknown

[Portrait of Soldiers in Wales]

Description: Photograph of a group of twenty-five people in Wales taken sometime around the end of World War I. The group is a mixture of civilians and United States soldiers. All are well-dressed in suits and ties and dress uniforms. Most are men, but five young women are standing in the middle of the back row. The civilians include coalminers, drivers, and doctors. The young soldier standing in the back left corner is identified as Ernest Ellis.
Date: unknown

Presbyterian Men's Bible Class

Description: Members of the Men's Bible Class of the First Presbyterian Church of Mesquite are standing on the steps of the Church. Pictured on the bottom row, left to right: J. C. Chapman; J. C. Rugel; not identified; J. M. Bennett; I. T. Kirk; John L. Hanby; and J. H. Fender; Second row from bottom: Edgar Range; E. A. Grubb; Charles A. Tosch; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; and Walter Hanby. Third row: fifth man from the left, Stanley Grubb. Fourth row: second man from left, O.C. Hanby, thi… more
Date: unknown

[Raymond and Anson Holley]

Description: Studio portrait of Raymond and Anson Holley wearing striped suits. Raymond is seated in a wooden chair, while Anson stands next to him.
Date: 1910~

[Raymond and Sara Beth Shands]

Description: Photograph of Anson Holley holding a baby Sara Beth Shands on the porch of his home. Holley is wearing a suit and fedora.
Date: unknown

[Reopening Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of Mayor B. J. Smith cutting a chain with a pair of bolt-cutters at the reopening of the McWhorter-Greenhaw store in Mesquite, Texas. Individuals standing behind him include Art Greenhaw, councilman Vernie Erwin, Frank Greenhaw, future mayor Len Gibbons, and Patricia Greenhaw.
Date: 1977

[Reverend Earl Kifer]

Description: Photograph of Reverend Earl Kifer, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Mesquite from 1956 to 1963. He is wearing a dark suit and is posing on a sidewalk outside of a building with a stained glass window.
Date: [1957..1959]

[Reverend Earl Kifer]

Description: Photograph of Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe and Art Greenhaw during Governor Briscoe's visit to Mesquite, Texas. Art is presenting Governor Briscoe with a commemorative hammer representing the McWhorter-Greenhaw Store.
Date: [1957..1959]

[Students in Classroom]

Description: Photograph of students situated in front of a blackboard in their classroom. Most students are standing, while a few are kneeling in the front of the group.
Date: [1900..1910]

[Two Couples]

Description: Photograph of two couples standing arm-in-arm in front of a large bush. Dona Chapman, later wife of E. H. Hanby, stands second from the right.
Date: [1914..1917]

[Virginia Armstrong and Students]

Description: Photograph of Mrs. Virginia Armstrong standing with several of her students at Florence Black Elementary School in Mesquite, Texas. Art Greenhaw is seated in the foreground.
Date: [1960..1961]

[Virginia Armstrong in Classroom]

Description: Photograph of Mrs. Virginia Armstrong sitting in her first grade classroom at Florence Black Elementary School in Mesquite, Texas.
Date: [1960..1961]

[Woman at Texas State Fair]

Description: Photograph of a young woman standing on a curb at the Texas State Fair. Text painted on the curb reads: "State Court of Honor."
Date: [1930..1939]

[Woodson Dean in Store]

Description: Photograph of Woodson Dean standing next to a display of Woodruff seeds inside the McWhorter-Greenhaw Store. He wears glasses and a white dress shirt.
Date: 1973

Young Girls and Bennett School

Description: Photograph of a group of young girls in a field adjacent to a school building in Mesquite, TX. Thirteen girls are pictured in long, white gowns. The school behind them is a large, L-shaped white building with a bell tower.
Date: unknown

Young Ladies in White

Description: Photograph of four young ladies all dress in white gowns. They all have hair pulled back and secured with large, white bows. Three are wearing necklaces. The name "Carrie Henry," is written by the lady on the far right.
Date: unknown
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