Photograph shows a group portrait of the descendants of August and Clara Faltin of Comfort, Texas. Standing, l to r:" Flach; Otto Flach; Richard Faltin; Edgar Holekamp; Otto Holekamp; Dan Holekamp; Clara Holekamp Jersig; Emilie Faltin Morgenstern;...
Faltin, Friedrich August, 1830-; Faltin, Clara Below, 1835-; German Americans.; Men's clothing.; Women - Clothing & dress.; Immigrants, German.; Comfort (Tex.)
Photograph shows studio portrait of Friedrich August Faltin, native Danzig, Prussia, and merchant in Comfort, Texas, with wife Clara Below Faltin, daughter of a Prussian army officer.
Photograph shows the members of the band, with their instruments, seated around table with mugs of beer. Members are (l to r): Carl Pankratz; Richard Doebbler; unknown sheepherder; Bruno Schwethelm; Henry Steves; and Max Lange.
Photograph shows men gathered around table. (L. to r.) standing: Heinrich Boerner; Adolph Rosenthal; Otto Brinkman; and Ludwig Hein; seated: Charles Karger and Ernst Flach.
Photograph shows studio portrait of Hubert Ingenhuett, Sr. (born 1808 in Kirchofen, Germany), owner of mercantile business, hotel, saloon, and livery stable in Comfort, Texas.
Ranzau, Louis; German Americans; Houses - Bergheim (Tex.); Family portraits; Bergheim (Tex.); Kendall County (Tex.)
Photograph shows Louis and Alma Schuchardt Ranzau and family in front of their two-story stone farmhouse. Two of the boys are seated on second floor balcony.
German Americans; Entertaining; Texas Hill County (Tex.)
Photograph shows the women posed outside house. Among the individuals are Mesdames Spaeth; Mueller; Eckhert; Butz; Forrest; Mitchel; Walters; and Meyer.
Fisher & Webb Lumber Office (El Campo, Tex.); Fisher & Webb General Merchandise (El Campo, Tex.); Stores & shops - El Campo (Tex.); El Campo (Tex.); Wharton County (Tex.)
Photograph shows view of the frame buildings from across railroad track. El Campo Eagle newspaper (two-story building far left)" Palace Saloon, and Lone Star Saloon (center)" and Fisher & Webb Lumber Office and General Merchandise (far right).
Photograph shows frame buildings facing railroad track (not visible) on unpaved street. (L. to r.) El Campo Eagle newspaper; opera house with saloon on ground floor; Gus Carville's harness & saddle shop;'' bank;'' Lone Star Saloon; and Webb,...
Stores & shops - El Campo (Tex.); Scales (Weighing instruments); El Campo (Tex.)
Photograph shows wagon loaded with hay on scale, with other wagons waiting. In background are unpainted frame buildings facing the railroad (not visible).
Our Lady of Refuge Catholic CHurch (Refugio, Tex.); Churches Refugio (Tex.); Altars; Irish Americans; Refugio (Tex.)
Photograph shows the interior of the wood and masonry Catholic church that was built around 1868 and demolished in 1900. Statues of the Irish saints, Patrick and Brigid, are above each end of the main altar.