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[Group of Children]

Description: Photograph of a group of children. Five boys wearing flat caps sit on the ground in front of a picnic table covered in the remnants of a meal. The rest of the children stand around the table. This photograph was purchased at the Abel estate sale in Waco.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Campground Eating Area]

Description: This photograph shows a group of people or all ages under a large tree. In the center of the photograph, there is a long table with people sitting around it and there are other people standing to either side in front of them. The men are wearing suits with ties and the women are wearing dresses; almost all of them are wearing hats. In the background, there are more trees, and, to the left some buggies or old-style automobiles. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Eating … more
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Group of People Around a Table]

Description: This photograph shows a group of people under a roof that appears to be brush on a wooden frame. The people in the front of the picture are sitting on wooden benches, facing away, toward what is most likely a table. To the far right, there is an older man sitting in a wooden chair. The men are wearing suits and the women are wearing dresses and large hats. In the distance, to the left, there are some trees. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph says, "Eating shed, 1900."
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Photograph of Outdoor Stone Oven]

Description: Photograph of a large, stone outdoor oven with a large opening in the middle. The oven sits on a grassy lawn, beyond which a small wood building among a small group trees. A path on the left side of the oven leads to a metal and wood bench. Further in the background on the left is a small, wood shack raised up on stilts.
Date: [1900..1929]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

Fish Fry on Matagorda Bay

Description: Postcard of a group of men tending to a meal being prepared on the ground. Three of the men are actively engaged with various cooking utensils, while the two in the back look on. They appear to be standing in a barren landscape. There are no distinguishing landscape elements. Two names are listed on the back of the postcard, but it cannot be stated with certainty to whom they apply.
Date: 1900/1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

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

Description: This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Linnet Moore and is addressed to he parents, Mary Ann And Charles B. Moore. In this letter, Linnet informs the Moore's of the goings-on in her community. She discusses her daily chores, details that they have eaten all but half a sack of the sausages and have eaten one shoulder and working on the other that was sent by the Moore's to her, and notes what she prepared for dinner during Ethel Berry's visit. She updates Mary An… more
Date: January 1900
Creator: Moore, Linnet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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 Charles B. Moore to Mary Ann Moore, January 15, 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 Ann of the goings-on in Advalorem, TX while she is in Gallatin, TN visiting kin. The news includes: updates on daily chores and agricultural chores, community news, updates about renting Linnet's land and the south field, and gossip from Linnet and friends. In his next letter dated, January 16, 1900, Moore details abut his morning rou… more
Date: January 15, 1900
Creator: Moore, Charles B.
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

Simmons Cooks

Description: Copy negative of two men cooking at Simmons College. They are wearing striped aprons, with one mixing something in a pan and one holding a small pan. There are materials on the table and a shelf of supplies in the corner of the room.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

The Gas World

Description: An excerpt from a text on the benefits of cooking with gas, describing how to avoid wasting gas and the costs of its use.
Date: [1900..1925]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

Milk-Cooler.

Description: Patent for improvements in milk coolers. The invention "has for one of its objects the provision of a simple and inexpensive knockdown construction which will permit packing into compact form when desirable. Another object is to provide a milk-cooler having adjustable shelves of improved construction, whereby milk pans or pails of different sizes can be easily accommodated. A further object .... is to provide a milk-cooler of the water-evaporation capillary-feed type which will be strong, compa… more
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Dean, William Volney
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam-Heater

Description: Patent for steam heater to keep cooked food warm, suitable for smaller hotels, restaurants, and other venues, who could not afford larger, more elaborate steam heaters, including illustrations.
Date: August 28, 1900
Creator: Wiley, Dora
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bake-Oven

Description: Patent for "an oven through which a current of cool or heated air may be passed to maintain the same at a desired temperature for either purposes of baking, evaporating, drying or roasting substances therein, as may be found desirable" (lines 10-15).
Date: June 12, 1900
Creator: Turner, Robert W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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