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[The Baker Hotel Entrance]

Description: Shown here is the main entrance to the Baker Hotel, which went directly into the hotel lobby. The hotel had twelve stories, of which all rooms were outside ones. They were reached by an elevator with the Baker Crest on it. The building was steam-heated, and hollow-tile partitions made each room quiet. There were no exterior fire escapes--just fire-proof stairwells. … more
Date: 1936?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

"Welcome to Crazy Park"

Description: The Gibson Well Company purchased the Sangura-Sprudel property in 1908 for the sum of $30,000. It was to be operated as the Gibson Well property thereafter. An unnamed company shipped twenty-five carloads of water to an equally anonymous firm in Chicago in March of that year. … more
Date: 1938
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

View of Mineral Wells From East Mountain Showing Crazy Hotel & Nazareth Hospital

Description: A view of Mineral Wells from East Mountain, looking West-Northwest is shown here. The Crazy Hotel is visible in the near-left part of the picture, and the Nazareth Hospital in the middle-left, a block Northwest of the Crazy The Norwood Clinic (with its stately white columns), a block northeast of the Nazareth, is located near the center of the picture.
Date: 1930?/1939?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Crazy Water Company Railroad Cars]

Description: Men are shown here loading boxes of Crazy Crystals onto railroad boxcars. Crazy Water Crystals were shipped nationwide in response to demand created by radio advertising. This scene is typical of the activity required to load boxcars to meet the demand for "instant Mineral Water." Printed on back of the photograph is: "Loading Crazy Crystals 1930."
Date: 1930
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Crystal Plant]

Description: A picture of the Crystal Production Line is shown here. On the back of the photograph is typed: CRYSTALS WERE THEN PACKED INTO GREEN AND WHITE BOXES AND RUN DOWN THE CONVEYOR WHERE GIRLS PLACED THE LIDS. AT THE END OF THE BELT A MACHINE WRAPPED THE BOX IN CELLOPHANE. PHOTO 1930
Date: 1930
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Crazy Sign Across The 100 Block of Hubbard Street

Description: This picture shows a post-card of the sign. It also represents the original version of the picture of the Crazy Sign. A colorized version, by A. F. Weaver, may be found under the title [Crazy Sign]. It was constructed in 1933 over East Hubbard Street, (later to become part of the Bankhead Highway--later still, US Highway 180) in the center of Mineral Wells. It was quite a landmark as it was one of only two signs allowed by by the Texas Department of Transportation to span a highway maintained… more
Date: 1933?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Lion's Club Christmas Project]

Description: A note by A.F. Weaver identifies this group as "Left to right: Lions, Cary Lodal, Moon Mullins, Charlie Johnson, "Santa Claus", Jess Pervine, Noble Glenn." The last four are pictured as sitting on the running board of a General Motors truck, which appears to be loaded with wrapped gifts. (No connection is known or implied, but since the "Santa Claus" in the picture is not identified, an interesting bit of local history is offered by way of suppletion: Rancher Charley Belding, a bachelor livin… more
Date: 1938?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[The Crazy Sign]

Description: This picture, looking east with the Baker Hotel in the background, of the Crazy Hotel sign was colorized by Mr. A.F. Weaver. The Crazy Sign was constructed in 1933 in the center of Mineral Wells and spanned Hubbard Street (US 180) at its intersection with Oak Avenue It was quite a landmark, as it was one of only two signs allowed by the Texas Department of Transportation to cross a highway maintained by the State. The sign was torn down on December 24, 1958, because--it was stated--tha… more
Date: 1936?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Sewing Room

Description: The back of the photograph exhibits a note that this picture was copied from the "Burro", which is the Mineral Wells High School yearbook. The "Sewing Room" was a classroom in the Lillian Peek Home Economics building on the grounds of the high school. The Lillian Peek cottage was built by the WPA in 1937, and was the first free- standing house built specifically for Home Economics education in the State of Texas. It was "Current state of the art" when it was completed. The buildi… more
Date: 1937?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

The Sewerage Disposal Plant

Description: Mineral Wells' Sewerage Disposal Plant was built on the site of the former Elmhurst Park on Pollard Creek, approximately 2 miles SSW of the city. The city obtained the park property, and built the sewerage treatment plant during the recovery from the Great Depression of the 1930's. Shown here is a photograph of a clipping from a newspaper.
Date: 1930?/1939?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Methodist Church - Baker Gardens - East Mountain

Description: This photograph appears to be taken from a picture post-card, which includes the old Methodist Church, the Baker Hotel Garden, the Baker Water Storage Building, and the Welcome Sign on East Mountain. It is a rare view. The home of Druggist Dr. C. F. Yeager on NE 2nd Street in the picture was still standing at the time of this picture. During construction of his Hotel, Mr. Baker visited Hot Springs, Arkansas; and he was so impressed with the Arlington Hotel that he stopped buildin… more
Date: 1930?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Santo High School - 1935

Description: Photograph of Santo High School, a single-story brick building with an arched entryway and false front. A row of windows span between the central entrance and two flanking doorways.
Date: 1935
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palo Pinto County Historical Association

[Flyer for the Crazy Radio Gang]

Description: Flyer for the Crazy Radio Gang, featuring the faces of cast members in eleven oval frames. The men are identified from the top left as Hal Collins, Frank Dinkins, Francis Quinn, Frank McMordie, Johnny Jordan, Conrad Brady, Guy Woodward, Maurice Pendery, Dale Woodward, Jack Amlung, and two blackface characters called Sugar Cane and February.
Date: 1930~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palo Pinto County Historical Association

[Worth Ranch Boy Scouts]

Description: Photograph of men and boys of a group of Worth Ranch Boy Scouts. Seven younger boys are kneeling in front of a group of three older boy and three men. A wooded area is visible behind the group.
Date: 1930
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palo Pinto County Historical Association

[Promissory Note from Perry Sayles to First National Bank, of Strawn, August 27, 1936]

Description: Promissory note from Perry Sayles to First National Bank of Strawn, Texas in the amount $200.00 with an interest rate of ten percent until the note is paid. There is a payment of $50.00 dated October 27, 1936 listed and a note in red pencil reading, "Paid by renewal for $150.00" written on the front.
Date: August 27, 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Summary Statement of Oil Run Interest: September 1935]

Description: Series of statements documenting interest earned on barrels of oil from fields owned by Perry Sayles, A. M. Foote, D. K. Scott, and Pearl Anderson, with a breakdown of locations, amounts, and other details. There's a note informing royalty owners of a new federal tax going into effect September 1, 1935 and a promissory note from Perry Sayles to the First National Bank of Strawn in the amount of $250.00 dated October 5, 1935.
Date: October 1935
Creator: Mid-Kansas Oil & Gas Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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