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Midland County Fair & Fat Stock Show: Announcement Catalogue

Description: Booklet documenting information about the second annual Midland County Fair & Fat Stock Show held in 1915, including information about the organization membership, rules and regulations of the show, and listings of registered livestock to be auctioned off at the end of the show, along with local business advertising that is indexed on the back cover.
Date: 1915
Creator: Midland County Fair & Fat Stock Show Association
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland School Class, Room 1-A]

Description: Photograph of a school class in Midland, Room 1-A. Children stand in two rows on the steps of the entrance to a brick school building, with a woman in a black shirt standing behind. Each children is numbered with pen, though some are unidentified or unknown
Date: September 1915
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Portrait of Rev. H. C. Poehlmann and Others]

Description: Group photograph of Rev. Heinrich Carl Poehlmann (1879–1939) and other women and men seated near him. Poehlmann sits in a wicker chair at center, holding a Bible with a cross centered on the front cover. Besides him are six women, two seated on each side and two standing behind him, as well as three young men standing among the girls behind him. All are placed atop a rug and in front of a painted background, looking forward. Poehlmnann was the pastor of New Wehdem Lutheran Church in Brenham, Te… more
Date: 1915~
Creator: Winkelmann, Friedrich Christian, Sr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Tha Halff Lands, Now Open to Settlers: Farm and Ranch Properties Improved and Unimproved

Description: Booklet advertising 80,000 acres of land in Midland County for sale by Henry Halff with descriptions of the land and potential usage such as specific crops and livestock, brief information about the county and the town of Midland, and statements by various people in the area about their experiences.
Date: 1915~
Creator: Halff, Henry M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Tractor and Plows on Main and Wall, Midland]

Description: Photograph of a gathering of agricultural machinery in front of the Llano Hotel and the Midland National Bank on the intersection of Main and Wall streets (formerly Abilene and Iowa, respectively). A row of plows is placed at center, where Bert Ramsey places his foot and rests his arm on the rightmost plow. At right is a large Rumley Oil Pull tractor with large wheels and an oversized engine, manned at the wheel by Henry Halff, owner of the tractor. E. J. Mumford stands to the left of the tract… more
Date: 1915~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997505 -102.074395
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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