Photographs

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

40 photographs

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

StorefrontTwo names are written across the print in ink.

Frost City Meat MarketPrinted on the photograph.

Inside the storeA printed postcard, captioned on the front.

Building the Frost railroad stationPrinted on the photograph.

Cotton yard and the new school housePrinted on the postcard.

The schools

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

The lake, and paper

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

Greetings from Frost, TexasEmbossed postcard.

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.

About these pictures. The historical prints were made by people in these towns and their families. They are published here to be seen, with no claim made over them — if one is yours and you would rather it came down, write to [email protected] and it comes down. The modern photographs are the work of the people credited above; please ask before using one commercially.