Rescuing Texas History, 2017 - 22 Matching Results

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[Desdemona, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a street scene in Desdemona, Texas. The image shows a line of long horn cattle walking down a muddy street with houses and wooden derricks visible in the background. The caption on the image reads "Desdemona 8/22/19 - Texas."
Date: August 22, 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Fire at Night]

Description: Postcard of a large fire at night. The caption on the image reads, "Night View: C. L. Perkins No 5 on Fire 9-13-1919 Flowin 4000 BBLS Oil & 10,000,000 Ft Gas Ranger, TEX."
Date: September 13, 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Main Street, 1919]

Description: Postcard of a muddy street where several early model automobiles are on the street which is lined is with store fronts and telegraph lines and poles line one side of the street in Ranger, Eastland County, Texas. The caption on the image reads " Main Street 1919, Ranger Texas."
Date: 1919~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 32.470214 -98.680016
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Smithville District Seniority List: Brakemen, January 1919

Description: List of brakemen employed in the District of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company South Texas Division as of January 1919. It includes the name of each person and employment date, with the most senior person listed first.
Date: January 18, 1919
Creator: Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. South Texas Division.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

[Parade for Veterans]

Description: Photograph of a parade to welcome veterans home in Odessa, Texas. The photograph shows vehicles loaded with men in military uniforms, holding American flags. Most are looking towards behind the vehicles and a woman stands in the left foreground with her back to the camera. In the background, wooden buildings are visible and additional vehicles and early model automobiles are visible in the right background.
Date: 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Pile Up in Ranger, Texas]

Description: Postcard of a street in Ranger, Texas. The storefront lined street is overly crowded with early model automobiles and people. The caption on the image reads "Main St. Ranger Tex 1919."
Date: 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Prizing it out of the mud]

Description: Postcard of four men that appear to be trying to get an early model automobile that is stuck in the mud in the roadway out by wedging a long metal looking object under the back left tire with buildings lining both sides of the street. Caption on image reads "Prizing 'it' out of the mud. 'New Town' Oct. 26-19." Inscription on back reads: "Hello Rose. I wish you could come to stay all night with us. We trade at the store that says Newtown Grocery. Bye Bye & write to us. Jove."
Date: October 26, 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Ranger Mud Hole]

Description: Postcard of a boiler, a ditching machine, and a vehicle stuck in a muddy street. In the background, are two large, two-story buildings along the main road and other buildings visible to the left; a sign on the far left says, "Phoenix Hotel" and the sign on the building at right, on the main road, says "E.B. Reid Furnitur[e]." A handwritten caption at the bottom of the image reads "A Ranger Mud Hole."
Date: 1919~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 32.471546 -98.683041
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Street in Desdemona, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a muddy street lined with stores and other buildings, the street is crowded with early model automobiles and people. Wooden derricks are visible in the background and the caption on the image reads "Desdemona, Texas 9/23/1919. Norris."
Date: September 23, 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.270843 -98.550608
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Stuck in the Mud]

Description: Postcard of a muddy street with several wagons and early model automobiles that appear to be stuck in the mud with people walking around and some trying to get their wheels unstuck in Ranger, Eastland County, Texas. Caption on image reads "1919 Stuck In The Mud Ranger Texas."
Date: 1919~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 32.471546 -98.683041
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Table Setting]

Description: Photograph of table set for the Shuey and Palm family wedding, featuring a light-colored table cloth, glasses, plates, and a vase of flowers, and wooden chairs around the table. Behind it is a window with lace curtains, a telephone, two calendars on either side of the window (the one on the right features an image of Texas), and a shelf with a clock resting on it. Another window with a flower box and lace curtains is partially visible on the left side.
Date: April 27, 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Traveling Men in Ranger, Texas]

Description: Postcard of a muddy street scene in Ranger, Texas. The street is lined with storefronts that appear muddy and a man controls the reigns of two horses pulling a platform on which three men ride. The caption on the image reads "Traveling Men Ferry Boating in Ranger, Tx. 1919."
Date: 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 32.469852 -98.678948
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Wedding Portrait]

Description: Photograph of a large group of unidentified people posing standing and sitting in three rows outside at the Shuey and Palm family wedding; the men are wearing dark suits and ties or bow ties and the women are wearing dresses or blouses and skirts. There are two children: a young girl wearing a light-colored dress standing on the far left and a baby wearing a light-colored gown sitting on a man's knee in the front row.
Date: April 27, 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
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