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[I'm Fine. How Are You?]

Description: Color postcard with an image of a baby on a bench with a donkey. Below the image is the text, "I'm Fine. How Are You?" and handwritten is the text, "Albert McKesson"? The postcard is addressed to Miss Rosa Louise Dill, Paris, Texas. It is postmarked Oklahoma, Okla. on Apr 12, 1907.
Date: 1907~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes

[Photograph of the Fort Worth sewage department]

Description: Photograph of the original Fort Worth sewage department, where many automobiles and horse-drawn buggies are parked outside the department's building. Handwriting on the back of the photograph reads, "Original Ft. Worth Sewage." As a civil engineer, Byrd Williams Jr. documented construction projects happening around the cities he worked.
Date: [1907..1920]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Carlsbad Well: First Building]

Description: The Carlsbad (also known as the Texas Carlsbad Well), one of the early drinking pavilions in Mineral Wells, was located at 415 NW 1st Avenue, directly across the street and west of the first Crazy Well pavilion. It was openled in 1901 by Lycurgus Smith, one of the people who claimed improvement of his health by drinking the mineral water. . The Carlsbad slogan was: "Makes a man love HIS [sic] wife/ Makes a wife love HER [sic] husband/ Robs the divorce court of its business/ Takes the tem… more
Date: September 19, 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Mineral Wells Electric System Trolley Car]

Description: A Major Beardsley, a Canadian who fought for Maine in the Civil War, (And reported by the Abilene "Daily Reporter" of 1905 to be of Gibstown, Iowa) was granted a franchise to construct a railway street system in 1906. He was also granted a 99-year franchise for the generation and sale of electricity in Mineral Wells. He also bought about 600 acres of land, and established three additions: Lowe Place addition, Lawn Place, Lawn Terrace, and Elmhurst Park, which came to sport a dance pavilion a… more
Date: 1907?/1913?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Annie Belle Emery Bright seated in front of Allen house on Heaton Avenue in Fort Worth]

Description: Snapshot photograph of a woman, Annie Belle Emery Bright, seated on stone steps slightly below and in front of the Allen home on Heaton Avenue in Fort Worth. The two story house has wood siding and a two story corner tower or turret. Handwritten blue ink inscription across verso top reads "Annie B. Emery, Heaton Ave., Fort Worth."
Date: 1907~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Archives

[Postcard of "Summer Joys"]

Description: Postcard with an image of a woman standing near a kayak. Below the image is the text, "Summerjoys" and handwritten is, "Hello My-Little Precious, Auto. 4/29/07." The postcard is addressed to Miss Rosa Louise Dill, 206 E. 5th Street, Oklahoma City, Okla. It is postmarked Monett & Paris on Apr 29, 1907.
Date: April 29, 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes

[T&P Excursion Train, Opening of Slaughter]

Description: Photograph of the opening of the Slaughter townsite in 1907, visited by a T&P excursion train 10 miles east of Midland. Dozens of people, looking at the landscape, are gathered around the train, which has three passenger cars and the train engine in the left background. Power lines run parallel with the railroad, and a carriage led by a horse is stationary at left.
Date: 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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