RESEARCHING THE UNKNOWN

This past week, we had a photograph mystery on our hands. I was looking through the museum’s wonderful photography collection and came across a late-1800s photograph of a hotel in Canadian. I had never seen this building before and had no idea what it could be, but I knew it wasn’t the Sutherland or Moody Hotels.

I picked up my go-to history book, Hemphill County History, 188…