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[Photograph of Annie Alverta Galloway Drake]

Photograph of Annie Alverta Galloway Drake wearing a dark dress and standing outside near a garden and a tree, with a house and car in the background.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of Beatrice Drake and Her Children]

Photograph of Beatrice Drake standing outside of a house with her son and daughter, Dawson and Lilly Mae "Diddie" Drake, standing next to her. A man is standing behind them, but the photo is cropped at his shoulders and he is not identified.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Information about Photograph of Abel and Cinderella Dominguez]

Information about a picture of Abel Dominguez and his mother, Cinderella Dominguez, used in a research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the Dominguez family.

Date: 1966

Creator: Melendez, Mary

Item Type: Text

[Photograph of Greiner and M. & S. Superior Dolls]

Photograph of two dolls from Teda W. Neill's collection in a shadowbox. The larger doll is a Greiner doll and wears a black dress, and the other is an M. & S. Superior doll.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Portrait of Lalo Dominguez]

Portrait of Lalo Dominguez wearing a suit with a blue bow tie.

Date: 1919

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of the Dominguez Family]

Photograph of Vic Dominguez, Cirildo Dominguez, Lila Dominguez, and a little girl standing in front of an old-fashioned car.

Date: 1939

Item Type: Photograph

[Treasures of the Past - February 1966]

Monthly publication containing an article about the hobby of collecting dolls used in a research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about doll collections. The article, "Treasures of the Past" (18-19 p.), discusses the utilization of different materials in doll-making, briefly touches on historical aspects of doll-making, and features pictures of dolls from many different collectors.

Date: February 1966

Creator: Culley, Ann

Item Type: Text

Bears, Beeves, and Bibles: A Depression Story

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the Great Depression and, specifically, how if affected the town of Marfa, Texas. This paper reconstructs the Depression using individual accounts: working several odd jobs to earn money, pawning and trading items to pay for food, baking chocolate cakes in exchange for fence posts to repair a broken fence line, etc.

Date: November 7, 1975

Creator: Earney, Ann

Item Type: Text

The Biography of George Dawson

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the rancher George Dawson from Shafter, Texas, who during his lifetime managed two large ranges, "El Rancho Del Pajorito" and "La Mora." In 1918, Dawson was called to the Army for World War I and was stationed in France for a year. Dawson spent the remainder of his life maintaining the two ranches with his wife, Juana Dawson, who was the main contributor of the information in this paper.

Date: November 21, 1966

Creator: Bustillos, Albert, Jr.

Item Type: Text

[Photograph of Pinto Canyon]

Photograph of Pinto Canyon as seen from the top of a mountain.

Date: 1911

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of Texas Rangers in Valentine, Texas]

Photograph of a group of Texas Rangers in Valentine, Texas. Three of the men are sitting in a wagon pulled by horses, and the other three are riding horses. The first horse rider from the left is O. C. Dowe, Millie Wilson's husband.

Date: 1914

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of James Edward Wilson's House]

Photograph of the home of James Edward Wilson and his family, a square, stone house with trees around it.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Teacher's Daily Lesson Plan Sheet about a Doll Collection]

A teacher's daily lesson plan sheet used to formulate questions for a student to answer in order to clarify a research paper on a doll collection for a history class at Marfa High School, titled "Mrs. Pruett's Dollarama" by Rebecca Ann Espinosa. The page numbers to the left of the page corresponds to the page(s) of the "Dollarama" paper; under each page number are the subsequent corrections or concerns the teacher has with a specific point in Rebecca Espinosa's paper.

Date: 1974

Item Type: Text

[Frank Duncan Photograph Envelope]

Manila photograph envelope with purple stamped writing in the middle: "Frank Duncan, Photographer, 'I make faces for a living.' P. O. Box 234." On the back of the envelope, in pencil, are columns of numbers.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

[Photograph of O. C. Dowe]

Photograph of O. C. Dowe in Mexico sitting on a horse with a wagon in the background.

Date: 1935~

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of Greiner and M. & S. Superior Dolls]

Photograph of two dolls from Teda W. Neill's collection in a shadowbox with an ornate frame. On the left side is a Greiner doll in a long black dress, and on the right a smaller M. & S. Superior doll.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Portrait of Francis Dewitt Wilson]

Portrait of Francis Dewitt Wilson with a thick, dark beard and wearing a suit and bow tie.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Information about Photograph of Abel Dominguez]

Information about a baby portrait of Abel Dominguez used in a research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the Dominguez family.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

[Photograph of Dawson Drake and Military Band]

Photograph of Dawson Drake, and the military band he was a part of while stationed in England, marching in a field. A handwritten note which seems to be written to his wife, "Darling," explains that he is the man in the front walking backwards. He also added an arrow pointing to himself and wrote "me."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Postcard of George Dawson]

Postcard of a portrait of George Dawson in his army uniform, sent from Camp Sheridan in Alabama. On the back of the postcard is a handwritten note in Spanish from George Dawson to Jose Ramirez.

Date: June 3, 1918

Item Type: Postcard

[Postcard of Sirlido Dominguez and His Family]

Postcard of Sirlido Dominguez sitting in a chair, with his wife and daughter standing on either side of him. There is nothing written on the back of the postcard.

Date: 1920~

Item Type: Postcard

Grandmother's Doll Collection

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about a doll collection comprised of three hundred dolls representing every era from 1400 C.E. to the 1970s. The collection includes dolls of all sizes and shapes, styles and colors, and from different countries. This paper includes a small section on the process of making dolls, pieces of furniture the author's grandmother uses to display her dolls at her home, and the likeness of a number of dolls from the author's collection.

Date: 1970

Creator: Brandon, Lindy

Item Type: Text

[Photograph of J. D. Kestner Doll]

Photograph of a J. D. Kestner life-size baby doll from Teda W. Neill's doll collection. The doll is wearing a white gown and sitting in a wooden baby carriage which, according to the handwritten note on the back of the photo, is an antique from the 1860's.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Baby Portrait of Abel Dominguez]

Portrait of Abel Dominguez at six months old, sitting in a wicker baby carriage.

Date: 1926

Item Type: Photograph

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[Portrait of Lalo Dominguez]

[Photograph of the Dominguez Family]

[Treasures of the Past - February 1966]

Bears, Beeves, and Bibles: A Depression Story

The Biography of George Dawson

[Photograph of Pinto Canyon]

[Photograph of Texas Rangers in Valentine, Texas]

[Photograph of James Edward Wilson's House]

[Teacher's Daily Lesson Plan Sheet about a Doll Collection]

[Frank Duncan Photograph Envelope]

[Photograph of O. C. Dowe]

[Photograph of Greiner and M. & S. Superior Dolls]

[Portrait of Francis Dewitt Wilson]

[Information about Photograph of Abel Dominguez]

[Photograph of Dawson Drake and Military Band]

[Postcard of George Dawson]

[Postcard of Sirlido Dominguez and His Family]

Grandmother's Doll Collection

[Photograph of J. D. Kestner Doll]

[Baby Portrait of Abel Dominguez]