Photographs

The pictures Frost has kept, and three of the town as it looks now.

A date is given only where the photograph carries one itself, or where the date is already set down and sourced in the town's own record. Where there are words on a print, the caption says so rather than quietly turning them into fact.

The town

The Frost baseball team, 1909 — The Frost baseball team · 1909

Downtown Frost, 1914 — Downtown Frost · 1914

Downtown Frost, 20 July 1922 — Downtown Frost · 20 July 1922Printed on the photograph.

North Front Street, 1931 — North Front Street · 1931

Street scene

Street scene

Street scene — Street sceneMarked FROST on the print.

Storefront — StorefrontTwo names are written across the print in ink.

Frost City Meat Market — Frost City Meat MarketPrinted on the photograph.

Inside the store — Inside the storeA printed postcard, captioned on the front.

Building the Frost railroad station — Building the Frost railroad stationPrinted on the photograph.

Cotton yard and the new school house — Cotton yard and the new school housePrinted on the postcard.

Van Buren Young Theater

Men from Frost, in uniform

The schools

Frost High School — Frost High SchoolPostcard.

Frost High School

Frost High School

Frost High School — Frost High SchoolHand-coloured postcard.

Frost High School — Frost High SchoolCaptioned on the print.

The school, before 1930 — The school · before 1930

Fifth grade class, 1917 — Fifth grade class · 1917

Frost High School, class of 1961, 1961 — Frost High School, class of 1961 · 1961

The tornado, 6 May 1930

After the tornado

After the tornado

After the tornado

After the tornado

After the tornado

After the tornado

After the tornado

After the tornado

After the tornado

After the tornado — After the tornadoMarked FROST TX STORM on the print.

The lake, and paper

The lake at Frost — The lake at FrostA postcard, with a message written across the picture side.

The lake at Frost — The lake at FrostPostcard, front and back.

Greetings from Frost, Texas — Greetings from Frost, TexasEmbossed postcard.

Frost Theatre matchbook — Frost Theatre matchbookHigh Class Motion Pictures.

Centennial mug, 1987 — Centennial mug · 1987FROST, TX. USA 1887-1987.

And the town as it is

The theatre block, 2007 — The theatre block · 2007

The water tower, 2014 — The water tower · 2014

City limit, 2014 — City limit · 2014POP. 648, as the sign read then.

Most of these hung on the walls of Frost City Hall until recently, or are held at the Frost Historical Museum, curated by Velma Ballew. They were photographed there and gathered for an earlier Frost website, and are republished here from those same files.