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[Farmer's Market at the Dancing Pavilion at Elmhurst Park]

Description: This photograph, printed in A.F. Weaver's "TIME WAS IN Mineral Wells..." on page 88, illustrates a display of fruit jars at the Mineral Wells Fair, held at the Dancing Pavilion at Elmhurst Park. Canned fruits and vegetables were customarily entered in Palo Pinto County's annual fall harvest fair. Elmhurst Park hosted the fair, among other popular events during its heyday. The popularity of personal automobile transportation made transit by street car unprofitable by 1913, and the p… more
Date: 1910?
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Gin at Tivoli [in] Refugio County, Texas

Description: Photograph of a gin at Tivoli in Refugio County, Texas. There is one large building and several smaller buildings. About a dozen wagons, filled with cotton or grain, can be seen. Also sacks of grain or cotton are stacked in a fenced area. A water tower stands in the background.
Date: August 13, 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
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Partner: Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library

Victoria Sugar Mill under construction

Description: Photograph of Victoria Sugar Mill during construction in 1910. The mill was located above the shipyards south of the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks at the south end of Main Street in Victoria, Texas.
Date: August 11, 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
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Partner: Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library

Farmers at Tivoli [in] Refugio County

Description: Photograph of a group of men standing in front of wagons and materials stacked on the ground beyond the wagons. One man is standing on top of one of the wagons. The stacked materials look to be sticks of wood. Tall stakes in the ground help to hold these materials in place. The men are unidentified as farmers in Tivoli Texas.
Date: August 13, 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
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Partner: Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library

Gin at Tivoli, Refugio County, Texas

Description: Photograph of a gin at Tivoli in Refugio County, Texas. There is one large building and several smaller buildings. About a dozen wagons, seemingly filled with cotton or grain, can be seen. Also sacks of grain or cotton are stacked in a fenced area. A water tower stands in the background.
Date: August 13, 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
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Partner: Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library

Sugar house, Victoria [Texas] - first stage

Description: Photograph of the buildings and equipment for the sugar mill built in Victoria in 1910. The mill was located above the shipyards south of the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks at the south end of Main Street in Victoria, Texas.
Date: January 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
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Partner: Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library

Cotton-Press

Description: Patent for a cotton press that operates slowly and requires minimum power. Illustrations included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Breihan, Frederick F.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for an improved bailing press "especially designed for forming hay, straw, cotton, &c., &c.... into compressed, compact bales" (lines 10-13) that requires less effort and power for stronger compression results.
Date: March 12, 1910
Creator: North, Clarence L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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