Significance: The Boz Gin Scales House is the only extant structure of the old Boz Gin Complex. It is on a small parcel in the William M. Turner Survey and dates to about 1910. The Scales House weighed freshly More
Historical report was missing page number 3 when it was submitted to HABS. Significance: The farmstead dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agricultural-based economy, and it represen More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the old Boz Gin Complex. The complex was a good example of one of the area farms that produced some of the highest yields of cotton in the nation. Unproc More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: Barn No. 2 is a component of the Roberts-Dolezal Farmstead, symbolic of the assimilation of Eastern Europeans, mainly Bohemian, into early twentieth century American culture i More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the farmstead and significant for its association with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field note mate More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Garage is a component of the farmstead that was associated with George H. Cunningham, who owned vast amounts of land in Ellis and nearby counties. Cunningham was more inte More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Barn is a component of the farmstead that was associated with George H. Cunningham, who owned vast amounts of land in Ellis and nearby counties. Cunningham was more intere More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead that dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agriculture-based economy, and it represents the ki More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Tenant House is a component of the farmstead that was associated with George H. Cunningham, who owned vast amounts of land in Ellis and nearby counties. Cunningham was mor More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the farmstead and significant for its association with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field note mate More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: Barn No. 1 is a component of the Roberts-Dolezal Farmstead, symbolic of the assimilation of Eastern Europeans, mainly Bohemian, into early twentieth century American culture i More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead that dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agriculture-based economy, and it represents the ki More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead that dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agriculture-based economy, and it represents the ki More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the farmstead and significant for its association with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field note mate More
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl More
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Originally assigned to LOT 1776. Title and other information print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More inf More
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the farmstead and significant for its association with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field note mate More
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The city has so many that it has identified a "gingerbread trail" of such homes. The Chaska House became a bed-and-breakfast inn in 1 More
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect J. Riely Gordon, the elaborate, Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse is considered by many to be among the most More
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph More
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph More
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph More
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More
Significance: The farmstead is a rural complex that has remained within the same family for over 20 years. The property, which includes a house, barn, cistern, and a well, illustrates the legacy of one of the m More
Significance: The farmstead is a rural complex that has remained within the same family for over 20 years. The property, which includes a house, barn, cistern, and a well, illustrates the legacy of one of the m More
Significance: The farmstead is symbolic of the assimilation of Eastern Europeans into early twentieth century American culture. Although the front of the house resembles a 1920s craftsman bungalow, the original More
Significance: The farmstead is symbolic of the assimilation of Eastern Europeans into early twentieth century American culture. Although the front of the house resembles a 1920s craftsman bungalow, the original More
Significance: The farmstead is symbolic of the assimilation of Eastern Europeans into early twentieth century American culture. Although the front of the house resembles a 1920s craftsman bungalow, the original More
Significance: The farmstead is symbolic of the assimilation of Eastern Europeans into early twentieth century American culture. Although the front of the house resembles a 1920s craftsman bungalow, the original More