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[Midland Furniture Company]

Description: Photograph of the Midland Furniture Company, formerly the Midland Hardware and Furniture Company. The furniture store is in a two-story building at 108 N Main Street, with a large sign in front of the building above the fabric awnings. The ground floor walls are made of glass planes. Numerous stores occupy neighboring lots next to the furniture store.
Date: unknown
Location: 31.998076 -102.074371
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Bull Riding]

Description: Photograph of a bull-rider on a field with a companion mounted on a horse besides him. The bull bucks and is in mid-air, while the man on the horse rides alongside the bull. Note on front: "Copyright applied for by Rohlfing."
Date: unknown
Creator: Rohlfing
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Officials of Midland County, Sworn In 1931]

Description: Photograph of Midland County officials sworn in on January 1, 1931, standing together in a courtroom posing with their right hands raised. From left to right, the officials are: M. R. Hill, county judge; Charles L. Klapproth, district judge; Mrs. Nettye (Charles) Romer, district clerk; R. D. Lee, constable, precinct 1; Mary L. Quinn, county treasurer; R. T. Bucy, county surveyor; Susie Graves Noble, county clerk; B. C. Girdley, justice of the peace; Lee P. Boone, district court reporter; T. D. … more
Date: January 1, 1931
Location: 31.998047 -102.076228
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland-Seminole Mail Line]

Description: Photograph of a long car loaded with bags of mail and postmen, en route running a mail line between Midland and Seminole created by the Spaulding brothers. The car is parked on a dirt surface in front of a Cadillac building with four men and a woman in the back. The driver may be Trafton Yarborough.
Date: 1911~
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Flood at Main and Wall Street, Midland]

Description: Photograph of a flood on the corner of Main and Wall Street in Midland. Water flows towards the right on Wall Street (bottom-left corner to center-right side), and people stand on the sidewalks of Main Street examining the flood. In front of the First National Bank, the large Neoclassical building on the street corner, more people have gathered, with stores visible to the left of the bank.
Date: May 8, 1917
Location: 31.997600 -102.074269
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland National Bank, 1903]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Midland National Bank, organized in 1903, with three men standing around the front desk of the banks. A caption and notes on the back name the members of the bank: its former president, D. W. Brunson; its vice presidents, E. F. Elkin and Burl Holloway; the bank's cashier, W. B. Elkin; and Charles B. McGonagill, assistant cashier.
Date: 190X
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Downtown Midland, Texas Avenue]

Description: Photograph of downtown Midland facing east down West Texas Avenue. The Midland Parking Garage, a moderately-tall beige building is along the left side of the street. The Western United Life building, a tall beige building and the Petroleum Building, which has large Gothic-like spires along its southern face, are visible further down the street. Cars run down the road.
Date: 1957
Location: 31.998414 -102.078667
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Lamb's Gas Station]

Description: Photograph of Lamb's "Super Service" gas station, serviced by Chevron. The gas pumps are at left, under the station's canopy. A pile of tires is placed at the front of the station, and to the right is both a maintenance shop and a car wash, both with openings for cars facing the front of the station.
Date: 195X
Creator: Frank Miller Studio
Location: 31.997266 -102.080669
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Codsen Station, Midland]

Description: Photograph of the Cosden gas station in Midland, serviced by Baker Oil Company, along Front Street (Highway 80). The gas pumps sit out in front, with tires laid out in columns in front of the station building. Signs for Dr. Pepper, Pennzoil, a cigarette brand, and other services are placed out in the front of the building. A Cosden oil truck is pulled in at right, and gas station workers stand in front of the pumps.
Date: 1950~
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Field of Feterita in Midland County]

Description: Photograph of a field of ripe feterita (sorghum) on H. E. Robert's farm, six miles west of Midland.
Date: unknown
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland City Hall Cornerstone Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of the cornerstone ceremony for the Midland City Hall, arraigned by the Masonic Lodge. The cornerstone is held by chains above the base of the City Hall's wall, nine courses of bricks partially built with a Mason holding a trowel above one of the corners of the wall. A band with sheet music stands is behind the wall, seated and watching the lowering of the corner stone, while the Texan flag is visible at left.
Date: November 1965
Location: 31.999807 -102.075254
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Sandstorm, 1894]

Description: Photograph of a sandstorm approaching Midland on February 20, 1894. The sandstorm, dozens of feet tall, lays behind the small town, which consists only of several houses, water towers, and windmills. Two people walk between openings in a fence along a dirt path at right.
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Symonds, H. G.
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Downtown Midland Parade, Main and Wall]

Description: Photograph of a parade in downtown Midland at the corner of Wall and Main streets. A long line of men on horses, extending deep into the background, passes the First National Bank on its left and the Llano Hotel on its right, turn left onto southbound Main Street in front of the bank's front facade. Rows of people stand in front of the cars parked along the curb of the road, watching the procession of horseback riders. A sign prominently at center points the direction down Main Street to the Ha… more
Date: unknown
Location: 31.997562 -102.074152
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Portrait of Charlie Watson]

Description: Photograph of Charlie Watson, an early Midland newspaper publisher, working at his desk with a pen in his hand and a newspaper in front of him. He wears a hat and a coat, and is turning to the photographer from his chair. A note on the back of the photograph's mat indicates the photo was taken spontaneously, and was given to Lydia Watson, Charlie's sister, after his death.
Date: unknown
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Five Wells Ranch, Catching Horses]

Description: Photograph of the Five Wells Ranch remuda—"catching horses." The horses are gathered in a large herd on a vast grass plain, with several cowboys standing among the horses. A note on the back states that "enough farming is now done on Five Wells to produce needed grain sorghums for food, but no cotton is permitted."
Date: 1890
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Quien Sabe Cowboys]

Description: Photograph of cowboys from the Quien Sabe Ranch, mounted on horses outside the Powell and Gamel Undertaking and Embalming building. The seven cowboys each wear white, long-sleeved shirts, bandanas around their neck, and cowboy hats, parked together on dirt patches. Two identical notes, one partially torn on the front and another complete on the back, lists the names of the cowboys from left to right: Ben Driver, Fred Truelove, Rabe (or Raby) Preston, Gill Haynes, James (or Jason) Curry, Bob Pre… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Senior Class of 1922, Midland High School]

Description: Photograph of the 1922 senior class of Midland High School, posing on the front steps of the school building together in three rows. A paper accompanying the photograph identifies the students present on the photograph, describing the merits of the graduating class. Two students were not present for the class photograph: Frank Boyd and Curtis Nance.
Date: 1922
Location: 31.999839 -102.077518
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Five Wells Cowboys]

Description: Photograph of "5 [Wells] [Cow]boys," pictured together in two rows in the grass and facing forward. Several people are identified by name: 1, Andrew Allen, standing first from left; 2, Timberline, seated first from left; 3, Wild Bill seated second from left; 4, Doc Sears, standing second from left; 5, Jim Darling, seated third from left; 6, Jim Smith, standing third from left; 7, Tom Hudspeth, seated fourth from left; 8, Henry Williams, standing fourth from left; 9, Elmer Greenled, seated four… more
Date: 1895
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Beatrice and Addison Wadley]

Description: Photograph of Beatrice and Addison Wadley on November 15, 1906, shortly after their marriage. Addison stands behind a large tree log, while Beatrice stands in front in a dark-colored dress, both standing next to a wooden house.
Date: November 15, 1906
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[First Section House in Germania]

Description: Photograph of the first section house built in Germania, Midland County, for Texas and Pacific railway workers. The section house sits behind the railway, and is a narrow two-story wooden frame building with a gable roof and a picket fence next to the railway. Workers stand on the railway, a handcar on the rails, a child playing with a shovel next to the rails, and several women standing behind, nearer to the picket fence.
Date: 1895
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Views of Midland from the Llano Hotel / Cowboys at Waddell Ranch]

Description: Two sets of photographs, one taken from the top of the Llano Hotel in Midland, displaying different parts of the snow-covered town (front), and the other depicting different activities at Waddell's Ranch (back). Midland pictures on the front: (815) West view along Wall Street, county courthouse (far right) and Henry Halff real estate office (at left, "LAND" sign); (816) North view along Main Street, First Methodist Church (left of center, tower behind two-story building) and Western Windmill Co… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Portrait of M. J. Riggs]

Description: Photograph of M. J. Riggs, the "cattle queen" of the early 1900s, wearing a light-colored dress with floral designs and a puffy hat. Riggs was a famous rancher in Texas and New Mexico.
Date: unknown
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Home in South Midland]

Description: Photograph of homes on the southern side of Midland in 1892. The home at right, one-story and gable-roofed with a windmill, sits on the corner of Kentucky Avenue and Baird Street, and was the early home of J. H. Mims. The house at left, mostly identical to Mims', was the early home of Fred Cowden. Bare grassland surrounds the homes.
Date: 1892
Location: 31.994398 -102.073058
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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