Harvey Harrison Thrailkill was born in Belcherville, Texas on June 22, 1892. He died in Pollok, Texas on October 8, 1975. He married Edna Rose Monroe between 1916 and 1920. They had four children, Harvey, Clyde, Mary Ellen, and Verdie Joe. Harvey Harrison, his father, and his brothers were stone and brick masons.
Harvey assembled this photo album in the early 1960's, and it contains photographs taken from 1910 through 1962. The album includes images of some of the public and private, commercial and residential buildings he constructed in Oklahoma and Texas. The album also includes photos of work completed in the Oklahoma coal and lead smelting boomtown of Kusa and railroad boomtowns of Henryetta and Wagoner. Other towns in Oklahoma photographed include Goodwill, Tulsa, Yonkers, Bartlesville, Pauls Valley, and Perry. There also photographs of work in several Texas towns, including Wells, Zavalla, Lufkin, Fred, Tyler, Greggton (Pine Tree), and Nacogdoches.