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Mourning Ensemble - Bodice and Skirt

Description: Black silk mourning ensemble consisting of bodice and skirt. The bodice of black silk is fitted and boned, with a high, standing black silk band collar with appliqued black lace medallions. It has full-length, modified bishop sleeves that gather into the armseye. Below the gathered cap, in the portion corresponding to the upper arm, the fullness of the sleeve is controlled with top-stitched vertical tucks. From the elbow to the cuff the fullness is again released in a bishop sleeve silhouette. … more
Date: 1900/1903
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[A Souvenir Photograph of a Donkey Ride up East Mountain]

Description: Entertainment for the many visitors to Mineral Wells around the turn of the twentieth century was provided, in part, by donkey rides up a trail to the top of East Mountain. The donkey trail crossed a 1,000-step staircase, built in 1905, to the top of the mountain about half-way up. Photographers, first J.C. McClure and then J.L. Young, took souvenir photographs of the visitors at this crossing. This photograph of the Belcher family was a taken by J. D. McClure. Mr. John M. Belcher … more
Date: 1900?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Dress

Description: Day dress ensemble: A) Bodice of ivory crinkled cotton gauze with a tiny floral print in vertical stripes and waves. High standing band collar with lace yoke and matching cotton ruffle around shoulders; trimmed with two rows of thin dark brown ribbon. Long sleeves are gathered in armhole and are completely covered in pin tucks which open and flare out at wrists; wrists trimmed in two narrow rows of dark brown velvet ribbon. Button closure at left side shoulder and under armseye; string tie of… more
Date: 1900
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Photograph of Women Wearing Bonnets]

Description: Photograph of six women sitting on a small mound of dirt and scrub brush, wearing long dark skirts and long-sleeve blouses. Except for the woman on the far left of the group, the women are all wearing bonnets, and two women are holding umbrellas at their feet. Larger bushes are visible behind them.
Date: [1900..1929]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

Capelet

Description: Capelet of dark brown to black plush, possibly silk and cotton, resembling seal fur. Rounded roll collar trimmed in brown soutache braid stitched with a line of purple thread and black glass or jet beads. Center front opening with hook & eye at neck. Trimmed in light brown with purple soutache braid and hexagonal prism, black glass beads. Collar and center front opening bound by black braid (appears to have been added after the original garment was made). Fully lined in a printed polished cot… more
Date: 1900
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Child's Dress

Description: Child's "apron" dress of woven red and blue striped flannel with collar and one box pleat in front. Center front opening with snap at neckline. No belt - possibly missing.
Date: 1900/1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Day Coat

Description: Daytime coat of black wool for mourning wear. The princess-line shell of the coat falls to mid-calf with a scalloped hem, and has a high standing band collar lined with a gathered black silk ruffle. The ruffle is edged with two narrow bands of ruching and is embellished with cut-work backed in black silk, the cut-work edged with black grosgrain ribbon decorated with black beads and jet. From the center front of the collar, trailing black silk ribbon accents fall to knee-length, and four knee-le… more
Date: 1900/1905
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Etta Jones

Description: Portrait of Etta Jones wearing a cape with a fur collar and black hat. She appears to be in a snow storm. The writing on the back reads, "Miss Etta Jones to Hallie." Hallie Thurman was friend who lived in Denton and both women worked and were unmarried. We believe this photo to have been taken around 1900 based upon her clothing, but not after 1909, as she was married in October and became Mrs. Etta Scott. She taught first grade and later high school. Originally, Sarah Etta Jones, she was born … more
Date: 1900~
Creator: Deane Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

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?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Woman standing with a bicycle with balloon tires]

Description: Photograph of a woman dressed in a white blouse and hat as well as a dark skirt standing on a lawn in front of bushes with a bicycle with balloon tires. She has her right hand on the seat and her left hand on the handlebar. The bicycle is a turn-of-the-century safety model with a single gear and bicycle chain.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Letter from Walter C. Jones to John Patterson Osterhout, September 21, 1900]

Description: Letter from Walter C. Jones to John Patterson Osterhout thanking him for sending a shipment of clothes for victims of a flood. He told John that his request to have the sacks the clothing were delivered in to be returned was being taken care of. Included is an envelope addressed to "Mr. J. P. Osterhout."
Date: September 21, 1900
Creator: Jones, Walter C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Austin College

[Letter from Charles B. Moore to Mary Ann Moore, January 13, 1900]

Description: This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Charles B. Moore and is addressed to Mary Ann Moore. In this letter, Charles informs Mary of the goings-on in Advalorem, Texas. The news includes: detailed accounts of daily chores around the house, updates on agricultural chores around the land such as clearing wood, stacking corn, and general maintenance of the farm, a confirmation about receiving Mary's letter, a discussion about the news from Gallatin,TN, a dialogue abo… more
Date: January 13, 1900
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Birdie McGee to the Moore family, February 4, 1900]

Description: This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Birdie McGee and is addressed to Charles B. Moore, Linnet Moore, and Aunt Mollie. In this letter, McGee informs the Moore family and Aunt Mollie of the goings-on in Gallatin, Tennessee. The News includes: a confirmation about receiving the most current letter written by the Moore's, a weather update, details about the smallpox outbreak and how everyone is getting their vaccinations, a discussion about going to town to get a… more
Date: February 4, 1900
Creator: McGee, Birdie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Lula Dalton to Linnet Moore, February 19, 1900]

Description: This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Lula Dalton to Linnet Moore. In this letter, Lula informs Linnet of the goings-on in her community. The news includes: a discussion about how ill she is at present, a confirmation on the receipt of Linnet's most recent letter, details about receiving a letter from Mollie Fields, a discussion about her sewing project, news about friends who have married, a dialogue about how Dalton spent Washington's birthday, and details a… more
Date: February 19, 1900
Creator: Dalton, Lula
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Kotz Wedding]

Description: Wedding photograph of Joesph Zotz (born October 20, 1874) of Landow, Germany, and Mary Kocks Zotz (born April 29, 1881) of St. Charles, Missouri. They are the parents of Pauline Zotz Hoff. Joesph is wearing a suit and Mary is wearing a dark wedding dress and a large tiara with a long veil.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midwestern State University

Tuxedo shirt

Description: Tuxedo shirt, front buttoning, white cotton, collarless. Bib, cuffs and shirt cut from the same cloth. One plastic pearlized button.
Date: 1900/1910
Creator: Yamatoya Shirt Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Pullover shirt

Description: Pull over shirt of wool in blue and white stripes, accented with grosgrain pin stripes. Long sleeves. Double front patch pockets with right being a watch pocket. Center front placket closure of three buttons. Original buttons have been replaced.
Date: 1900/1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Driving Coat

Description: Driving Coat or "Duster" of light tan linen (blend?). Full-length, wide skirted, with high neckline and black collar having wide points at front. Single breasted opening set to left of center, with two hidden small white buttons (1 at throat, one at left collar bone), and five large circular buttons with black outer rims and center of the tan linen. Full-length sleeves with wide turned-back cuffs faced with black and with two non-functioning buttons matching but smaller than opening buttons.… more
Date: 1900/1914
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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