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[Sandstorm on the Plains, 1894]

Photograph of a sandstorm approaching Midland and the E. D. Harrington home, the first brick house in Midland, in April 1894. Other wooden-framed buildings and windmills are in the path of the sandstorm, which towers over the town.

Date: April 1894

Creator: Bland

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Sandstorm, 1894]

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.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Midland Historical Society

Legal Tender Saloon

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and the names J. J. Westmoreland; W. E. Truesdell.

Date: 1894

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Texas General Land Office

[Envelope from C. Bender and Sons to C. C. Cox, May 31, 1894]

An envelope from C. Bender & Sons to C. C. Cox, postmarked May 31, 1894, on both sides of which is some arithmetic in Cox's handwriting.

Date: May 31, 1894

Creator: C. Bender & Sons

Item Type: Text

Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

[Letter from C. Bender & Sons to C. C. Cox, October 25, 1894]

Letter from the C. Bender & Sons company to C. C. Cox asking for an overdue payment.

Date: October 25, 1894