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Tha Halff Lands, Now Open to Settlers: Farm and Ranch Properties Improved and Unimproved

Description: Booklet advertising 80,000 acres of land in Midland County for sale by Henry Halff with descriptions of the land and potential usage such as specific crops and livestock, brief information about the county and the town of Midland, and statements by various people in the area about their experiences.
Date: 1915~
Creator: Halff, Henry M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[C Ranch Cowboys]

Description: Photograph of nine C Ranch cowboys in front of a stable, mounted on horses, wearing hats and equipped with lassos. Four names are identified on the back: first from left is John Aker, second from left is "Fatty" Bill Condell[?], fourth from left is Hayden Miles, and third from right is Charlie Frishoe[?].
Date: 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Unknown Portraits / Julia Estes in Buggy]

Description: Collage of three photographs: the first two (front) depict a family seated together in front of the picket fence of a house and a boy with a necktie in front of a house, respectively. The third photograph (back) depicts Julia Estes on a horse-drawn buggy as Donya Estes stands behind between the picket fences of a house.
Date: 1910~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[W. B. Preston and Horse]

Description: Photograph of W. B. Preston standing in a dirt field with a saddled horse next to him. A wagon and a roofed canopy lays behind him, in front of a wooden fence. A note on the back indicates: "This is Daddy, probably during Quien Sabe [ranch] days."
Date: 1910~
Creator: Crocker, C. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Documentation for the Electric Express & Baggage Company]

Description: Pre-printed ledger outlining standardized language for the incorporation of a company, including by-laws, meeting minutes, stockholder ledger, and general ledger, with specific information inserted about the Electric Express & Baggage Company in the designated sections.
Date: 1913/1950
Creator: Electric Express & Baggage Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Interurban Railway Museum

[Unknown Gathering of People in Waco]

Description: Photograph of an unknown gathering of women in Waco, Texas, arranged in four rows. Many wear dresses, hats, necklaces, and ribbons, most holding a bouquet of flowers. Four men are scattered among the group. The group poses in a large room with a high ceiling, with arched white trellises on the left wall. Ivy grows on the pillars under that wall. An ornate illustration is on the back.
Date: 1914
Creator: Gildersleeve
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Fourth Street, Waco]

Description: Postcard of Fourth Street in Waco, Texas, lined with tall buildings on both sides. Cars are parked along the curbs of the road, and a streetcar line runs through the center of the road with wires overhead. A large hotel is visible at left with a large advert reading "HOTEL METROPOLE", and below that is a sign for a tailor. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalks and between the cars.
Date: 1917-10-11~
Creator: Mann, Fred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Ruby Barnes]

Description: Photograph of Ruby Barnes. She is dressed in a uniform with a hat and a dress, seated behind a bush and smiling. According to a note in the inner left flap of the picture's folder, this photo was "Made from a kodak picture taken from group of high school students, May, 1918."
Date: May 1918
Creator: Stauts
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Camp MacArthur, 32nd Division Headquarters]

Description: Postcard of the 32nd Division headquarters at Camp MacArthur, Waco. Structures visible along the dirt road are triangular, tent-like buildings with power poles and signs nearby. A large thermometer, possibly indicating the amount of liberty bonds purchased, is at center left. Cars are parked besides the road at right.
Date: 1917~/1919~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Basketball Court in a Field]

Description: Photograph of a basketball court outside a field of crops near Seguin. Cars are parked along the side of the court, and spectators are lined up around the court's edge. Two baskets are on each side, with court lines crudely drawn in the dirt. Players in uniforms walk around the court.
Date: 1918~/1919~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[Infantry Bivouac, Army Exhibition, Galveston]

Description: Postcard of an army encampment (a bivouac) at an Army exhibition in Galveston, 1914. Tents are pitched across a grass field, with soldiers seated in groups or walking around them. Larger wooden encampments are visible in the left background, possibly built to resemble the Alamo with barred windows and arched walls. Soldiers stand on the structure, looking out from above. Other Army buildings are in the background at right.
Date: 1914
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Rev. H. C. Poehlmann and Others]

Description: Group photograph of Rev. Heinrich Carl Poehlmann (1879–1939) and other women and men seated near him. Poehlmann sits in a wicker chair at center, holding a Bible with a cross centered on the front cover. Besides him are six women, two seated on each side and two standing behind him, as well as three young men standing among the girls behind him. All are placed atop a rug and in front of a painted background, looking forward. Poehlmnann was the pastor of New Wehdem Lutheran Church in Brenham, Te… more
Date: 1915~
Creator: Winkelmann, Friedrich Christian, Sr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[City Drug Store, Midland]

Description: Photograph of the interior of a drug store in Midland, with long rows of shelves along the wall, short glass counters with inside displays across from the shelves, wire tablesets, ceiling fans, and a tin ceiling. Shop workers stand along the counters, one on the left and five on the right. Their names are listed on the back: on the (farthest?) right stands George D. McCormick; also listed, without location specified, Ray Hyatt, Grady Crawley, J. G. Garrion[?], M[?] C[?], and J. R. Sttorey[?].
Date: 1912
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[William Leon Bryant Ranch Headquarters]

Description: Photograph of the headquarters of the William Leon Bryant ranch (10 miles south of Midland), a two-story ranch house with a long front porch and a windmill and water tank to the left. A gutter system runs along the top of the roof into a tank in front of the porch (white pipes). Along the front of the house is a field of plants, where chickens are wandering. A small shed is to the right of the house.
Date: 1914
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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