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[A Group of men at Inspiration Point]

Description: A group of businessmen and ranchers are shown at Inspiration Point in the 1920's. From left, they are (unknown); Mr. Henry Penix; Mr. Bowman; Mssrs. Henry and Charlie Fowler. Note the spurs on the boots of the Fowlers, and the cigars in the hands of Mssrs. Penix and Bowman. Inspiration Point, overlooking the Brazos in Southeast Palo Pinto County about ten miles south of Mineral Wells, commands a vast panoramic view of the rugged river valley stretching for miles below the viewer. It … more
Date: 1930?/1939?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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[News Clip: Mineral wells]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 25, 1979, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Woman Sitting on West Mountain]

Description: Here is a photograph of a lady sitting on the south end of West Mountain, with the buildings of a town in the background. She wears pince-nez spectacles, and she does not appear to be wearing a corset. "Mother" is written on bottom of photograph. Note the graffiti on the stone: "8-10-00" (which would be 1900), and some initials. The road at bottom of "mountain" is now U.S. Highway 180.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

"The Play Place of The South" Bird's Eye View of Mineral Wells

Description: An avioculum (bird's eye-view) of Mineral Wells, Texas, taken from East mountain and looking west-southwest. In the middle foreground are: The Crazy Flats and the third Crazy Water Drinking Pavilion. The "Crazy" Businesses burned in 1925, and the present hotel that replaced them covers the entire city block. It has since been converted [2007] to a Retirement Home. Visible also are the First Presbyterian Church, which was erected in 1909; and the Old High School, erected in 1915.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A View of Mineral Wells from East Mountain]

Description: A view of Mineral Wells and South Mountain, taken from atop East Mountain is shown here. Notable buildings are the West Ward School next to the "Little Rock" school house in upper right and Poston Dry Goods in left-center. The photograph was taken before the second high school was built in 1914.
Date: 1910~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Inspiration Point]

Description: The label on the photograph reads both "Possum Kingdom Dam" and "Inspiration Point". A. F. and Patsy Weaver are shown enjoying the view from Inspiration Point. A.F. Weaver himself took the photograph, using a tripod and camera timer,in the same vicinity where he had proposed to Patsy Weaver years before this photograph was taken. In the early part of the twentieth century,the internationally known evangelist, Billy Sunday, visited Mineral Wells. He was told about an outstanding view from a… more
Date: 1950~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Cabin on the East Mountain Stairs]

Description: Shown here is a photographer's cabin about halfway up East Mountain. A staircase of (reportedly) 1,000 stairs ascend the "Mountain" from Oak Avenue. A cabin was built about halfway up these stairs (visible in the lower right corner of the picture) to provide tourists with photographic souvenir opportunities. This photograph comes from the Knights of Pythias 1925 album.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.818026 -98.103238
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of Inspiration Point]

Description: Photograph of a scenic overlook on a mountain. Two notes on back of the picture read "So. of city on 281", and "Lake M W." This picture appears to be taken just east of Inspiration point, instead, and looking southwest, where the highway starts down the mountain.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Allen family riding donkeys in Mineral Wells]

Description: Photograph of five people mounted on donkeys in a rocky outcrop with a rocky mountain wall behind them. They are all dressed up, the women wearing long dresses or skirts and the man wearing a three-piece suit, and the boy at center wearing a nice jacket. All wear hats except the man, whose hat has fallen on the ground, and the boy who holds his hat. The photograph is mounted on black cardstock which has an imprint in gold on the lower left corner that reads, "Photo Car / H. Clark / Mineral Well… more
Date: August 1901
Creator: Clark, H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Archives

[Allen family on mules in Mineral Wells]

Description: Photograph of five members of the Allen family mounted on mules in a rocky outcrop, with trees and a rocky mountain wall behind them, in Mineral Wells, Texas. They are all dressed up, the women wearing long dresses or skirts and the man wearing a three-piece suit, and the boy at center wearing a nice jacket. All wear hats. The photograph is mounted to gray cardstock with a stamp at the lower left corner reading "Judson McClure, / Mineral Wells Texas,." On the back is a handwritten inscription, … more
Date: August 1901
Creator: McClure, Judson
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Archives

[Portrait of Ida Caldwell McFaddin on Donkey]

Description: Portrait of Ida Caldwell McFaddin (Mrs. W.P.H. McFaddin) sitting on a donkey outside of a log cabin, with rocky terrain in the background. A typed note below the photo says "Climbing the mountain, Mineral Wells," and a handwritten note says "Mother on Mineral Wells Texas, Mrs. W.P.H. McFaddin."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum

[News Script: New Top Texas Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of clear and cold weather which is dominating Texas with temperature sinking to eight degree at Marfa in the mountains of western part of the state.
Date: December 27, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: New Top Texas Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a thick cloud cover and scattered rains and thunderstorms which are dominating in most of Texas.
Date: January 25, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[On East Mountain]

Description: Photograph of a small group of both male and female tourists on a mountain. Some of the group are pictured riding on donkeys while two others are sitting on large rocks. In the background large trees and the rocky landscape of the mountain are visible.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Unknown Group on Mountain]

Description: Photograph of an unknown group of men and women on a mountain. The group is pictured all riding donkeys and wearing light colored clothing except for one man wearing dark colored clothing. In the foreground the rocky landscape of the mountain is visible.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[A Hot Time - Anticipated]

Description: Photograph of an unknown group of early tourists in Mineral Wells, Texas. The group of both men and women are pictured riding on donkeys. In the foreground the rocky landscape of the mountain is visible.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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