Photographs

Twenty photographs: six historical images from the town's early archive, and fourteen of Kerens as it is today -- downtown, the Cotton Harvest Festival, the public library, and Kerens ISD's band and athletics.

Historical Kerens

Bank interior, 1918 — Bank interior · 1918Printed on the mount. The wall behind the desks is lettered F M B.

Ten-dollar national currency, First National Bank of Kerens, 1902 — Ten-dollar national currency, First National Bank of Kerens · 1902Series 1902, serial 7529, as printed on the note itself.

A. H. (Jargo) Holloway's City Market, about 1915 — A. H. (Jargo) Holloway's City Market · about 1915Printed on the photograph.

Trade Day in Kerens — Trade Day in KerensTitled from the archive folder's own filename; no date is printed on the print itself.

Wagon yard — Wagon yardTitled from the archive folder's own filename, W. B. Jackson; the sign over the shop is not legible enough in the print to transcribe.

World's Largest Santa — World's Largest SantaPrinted on the postcard: 'Worlds Largest Santa, Kerens, Texas,' credited to Jamison Studio.

Kerens today

City Hall — City HallThe lettered sign over the door reads City of Kerens.

Main Street — Main StreetBig Tex footprint decals from a State Fair of Texas promotion are laid into the brick street; downtown Kerens runs behind them.

Kerens Volunteer Fire Department — Kerens Volunteer Fire DepartmentNavarro County Emergency Services, as lettered on the truck.

A Kerens home — A Kerens homeA small marker by the door names an early construction date; it is not legible enough in this print to transcribe with confidence, and the record does not carry an address.

Finishers at a Kerens road race — Finishers at a Kerens road raceFiled with the town's community material; the event itself is not named in the record.

Cotton Harvest Festival

Festival banner, downtown — Festival banner, downtownThe banner reads Annual Kerens Cotton Harvest Festival, 3rd Saturday in October.

Cotton Harvest Festival — Cotton Harvest FestivalVendor booths along Main Street.

Kerens Public Library

Kerens Public Library

Kerens ISD -- band and athletics

Kerens Bobcats football

Color guard practice

Color guard

Kerens ISD band, in concert

Kerens Bobcats football

From the Kerens, Texas archive material gathered for an earlier Kerens website.