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[Tate's Store Home Furniture Company]

Description: Photographic postcard of Tate's Store Home Furniture Company in Longview, Texas. There are three men sitting and standing in a horse-drawn delivery cart. From left to right, the men pictured are: Tom Dawson, Jim Stewart and Alma Woods, as noted on the back of the postcard.
Date: 1900~
Partner: Longview Public Library

[Hodges Dry Goods Company]

Description: The Hodges Dry Goods Company was established in 1885 and the building on Oak Street was built in 1892 by A.B. and D.M. Hodges. The building was 50 by 100 feet. At the corner of Oak and N. Magonlia and it was the first business establishment on Oak Street.
Date: 1900~
Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Early 1900s Goldthwaite Businesses]

Description: Photocopy of a row of businesses in Goldthwaite, Texas that begin on a street corner in the right foreground and lead back into the left background. The foremost building is two stories, made of stone, and has signage for a bank and a law office. Two power line poles are on the edge of the street by the bank building, and people are visible throughout the street walking and driving horse-drawn carts. "Goldthwaite, Tx." is written in the bottom right corner, and a label that reads, "Early 1900's… more
Date: [1900..1915]
Partner: Jennie Trent Dew Library

[Baker and Hirsch Store]

Description: Photo mounted on cardboard. Baker and Hirsch Store. Two men behind store counter to left of photo. Four other men in store. Bunch of bananas suspended from a rope in center of photo. Cardboard mount is broken away in several places.
Date: 1900
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Lower End of Mesquite Street

Description: A view of Mesquite Street (in 2008: NE 1st Avenue), taken in 1910, and looking south-east. The scene shows horse-drawn wagons loaded with cotton bales. Electrical lines are visible. The building at the northeast corner of East Hubbard Street and South Mesquite Street is the D.M. Howard Block. D. M Howard was the first of five Howard brothers to come to Mineral Wells and establish businesses. There was a Dry Goods store on the left end of the building, a millinery shop above it, an… more
Date: 1900-05?
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Cafe Royal

Description: Only a caption on the photograph identifies it as the Cafe Royal. This building that houses it, on the N.W. corner of NW 1st Avenue and 3rd Streets, was known as the W.E. Mayes Building. Upstairs rooms were rented under the name of the "Carlsbad Hotel" in recognition of the nearby Carlsbad Drinking Pavilion at the opposite (or NE) corner of the block: 700 NW 2nd Avenue. (The first edition of "Time Was in Mineral Wells", page 105, identifies it as the Wells Hotel.)
Date: 1900?
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Mineral Wells (1900)

Description: This article and photograph from the Weaver Collection appeared in the Mineral Wells Index in the late 1960's--or possibly the early 1970's. The newspaper attributes the photograph to the "Courtesy of Tom Green," and the research to "Bill Cameron." The article states: "This is the way Mineral Wells looked at the turn of the [twentieth] Century. The Scott Livery Stable, foreground, is occupies the area the Whatley Motor Company does today. Across the street at left was the two-story Ho… more
Date: 1900?
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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