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[Rafting on a playa lake]

Description: Photograph of a man on horseback, towing a group of people on a raft at the edge of a playa lake. Three women in white dresses and three men wearing dark clothing and hats are seated on the raft. A dog stands in the shallow water at the edge of the lake.
Date: August 14, 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Group of people on a windmill tower]

Description: Photograph of a group of men, women, and children posed on a wooden windmill tower. Four young women and two young men are seated on a wooden structure at the base of the tower. A young girl stands on a crossbeam of the tower above them, and another is seated on the ladder of the tower. A young man and a boy are on another cross beam, higher on the tower. A stock tank filled with water is in the foreground.
Date: August 14, 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Group of people wading in a playa lake]

Description: Photograph of a group of people standing in the water near the edge of a playa lake. Several women and children are grouped together, standing in knee-deep water. A man is in the foreground, with his back to the camera. A man on horseback is riding toward the group.
Date: August 14, 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Bottle Collection of George and Galen McCallum

Description: Report by Galen McCallum about her collection of glass bottles.It gives a brief history of glass bottles, from individually blown glass bottles to manufactured bottles, descriptions of various bottles and some uses of glass bottles. Pages are included with descriptions of photos that were part of this report.
Date: January 14, 1974
Creator: McCallum, Galen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Paper
Partner: Marfa Public Library

It's a Corker

Description: History Thesis by Carleen Pirtle about glass bottles, written in januyary 1971. The paper gives a brief history of different types of glass bottles: whiskeys, bitters, medicines, house-holds, and drink bottles - beer, wine, soda water. It discusses why these bottles are so interesting and how some of them were made. It also has six pages of hand-drawn examples of bottles. Note cards are included at the end that may have been used to describe specific bottles.
Date: January 14, 1974
Creator: Pirtle, Carleen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Letter from John Sayles to David W. Stephens, June 14, 1930]

Description: Letter from John Sayles to David W. Stephens discussing the Gulf Pipe Line Co. vs. Fulton and Fulton vs Gulf Pipe Co. et all. The case had moved to the 104th District Court with no trail date set. Mr. Sayles was reaching out to Mr. Stephens to let him know that unless these cases are tried pretty soon it will be inconvenient for Mr. Sayles to participate.
Date: June 14, 1930
Creator: Sayles, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from John Sayles to David W. Stephens, June 14, 1932]

Description: Letter from John Sayles to David W. Stephens stating that resetting the Underwood case to the next week may not be possible due to another breach of the promise of marriage case that will be tried all week. However, it may be possible to reset it to the week of July 11. Sayles asks what Stephens wishes to do about the matter.
Date: June 14, 1932
Creator: Sayles, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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