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[Keepsake and letter]

Description: Scan of a keepsake next to a letter, the letter reads "I made this little keepsake from a counter---- which was woven by my grandmother from home --- thread and given to my mother on her wedding day May 15, 1834. Mother, December 25, 1915. Two negro women with a child were given her also - wouldn't they make queer bridal presents for this century? Who can say Christianity is not making ----!"
Date: 1843/1915
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Ambrotype of an unknown woman and child]

Description: Photograph of an ambrotype photograph of an unknown woman and a child in an case. It was in the belongings of Byrd Moore Williams upon moving to Texas from Tennessee, and only has the word "Johnson" on it.
Date: 1850/1870
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[One-Thousand dollar note]

Description: A one-thousand dollar note made out from the Confederate States of American, willing to pay to bearer one-thousand dollars with interest of ten cents per day --- 28th, 1961.
Date: 1861
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Wagon purported to be Sam Houston's stagecoach]

Description: Photograph of a stagecoach purported to belong to the late General Sam Houston, photographed by Byrd Williams to make post cards for his store in Gainesville.
Date: 1880~
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man driving a car]

Description: School book cover belonging to Byrd Williams, Jr., on which he sketched a man driving a car.
Date: [1890..1930]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Port Isabel lighthouse]

Description: Photograph of the Port Isabel lighthouse near Padre Island in Texas. Byrd Senior photographed the lighthouse to make postcards for his store in Gainesville, Texas.
Date: 1890~
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Sr.
Location: 26.077964 -97.207110
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Eagle Cafe at night]

Description: Photograph of the Eagle Cafe on 15th Street, at night.
Date: [1910..1930]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Three men on a Hire's root beer wagon]

Description: Photograph of three men sitting in a Hire's root beer delivery wagon in front of a saloon.
Date: 1915~
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A boat in Los Angeles harbor]

Description: Photograph of a boat in Los Angeles harbor.
Date: 1918
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Byrd III's handwriting]

Description: Photograph of Byrd Williams III's handwriting, that reads, "Pictures of people and things. I have known and seen since I was Sixteen."
Date: [1930..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[T&P conductor at the station at night]

Description: Photograph of a train conductor in a steam locomotive at the Texas & Pacific station.
Date: [1930..1950]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Diptych of four women performing back-stand]

Description: Diptych of four women sitting crossed-legged in a half-circle in one photograph, in the second photograph the women are rolled onto their backs with their legs pointing upward in the air.
Date: [1950..1965]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hand tinted portrait of woman]

Description: Painting by an unidentified woman, presumed to be painted by Doris Stiles Williams, Byrd III's wife. The woman in the painting is posing in a sheer dress, wearing a diamond necklace around her neck and her hair is neatly pinned atop her head.
Date: [1950..]
Creator: Williams, Doris Stiles
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Family photo album]

Description: Photograph of the cover of a family photo album belonging to Byrd Moore Williams, on a wooden tabletop. The front cover is decorated with an image of a bird along the left edge, leaves and vines, and other decorative elements.
Date: unknown
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Handwritten notes on structure]

Description: Handwritten notes that read, "a little home study will reveal this to any slugish imagination. note too there have yet been no assumptions, no special cases - only a simplification of process, which is commendable. One figure is turned one way and the other another way, it is one and the same."
Date: 19XX
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Note in a notebook kept by Byrd Williams III]

Description: Photograph of a note written in cursive on a yellow notebook page from a book kept by Byrd Williams III as a diary. It reads "I hope, as I have said before, to devote the rest of my working life to photography and writing."
Date: 193X
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a woman and her son]

Description: Photograph of a woman, presumed to be Bessie Stiles, and her son. The woman has her face scratched out from the picture, and her son is standing to her side, wearing a large bolder hat.
Date: 19XX
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a young woman]

Description: Photograph of a young woman, presumed to be Bessie Stiles, her hair half up in a messy tie, and her ringlets falling onto her shoulders. She is standing in the background, while an unidentified man in front of her holds onto a small child.
Date: 19XX
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Portraits of Byrd III with graflex]

Description: Photographs of Byrd Williams III. In the first photograph, Byrd III is smoking on a cigarette looking at the camera as his portrait is taken, in the second and third photograph Byrd puts his cigarette away from his mouth and goes to pick up his camera. In the last photograph, Byrd III is photographing his photographer with his Graflex.
Date: 197X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Ripped notebook kept by Byrd Williams III]

Description: Photograph of the cover of a notebook diary from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, that has a brown paper material as its covers and has a wire spiral holding the papers together. There is a rip between the top half and the bottom half of the notebook that goes fully through the entire book and the wire in this section is twisted and disconnected.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Triptych of Bessie Stiles]

Description: Triptych of Bessie Stiles. In the first photograph, Bessie is a young woman standing to have her portrait taken. In the second photograph, Bessie is seated and posing with two boys, presumed to be her sons. In the center of the triptych is the certificate of death from the Oklahoma State Board of Health, which states that Bessie Stiles died in the hospital for the insane.
Date: 201X
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Triptych of Byrd III's passing]

Description: Triptych of Byrd Williams III's passing. In the first photograph, Byrd III is seen sitting outside with a cigarette in his hand and smiling when his portrait of taken. In the second photograph, Bryd III is seen lying in a hospital bed. The center image is a scan of Byrd Williams III brain activity after suffering from a stroke.
Date: 201X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Tripych of Tim Williams]

Description: Tripych using a class photo with Timmy Williams, Byrd Williams IV's half brother, a photo of Timmy smoking on a chair, and Timmy's death certificate from the state of Connecticut.
Date: 201X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III & Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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