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[Photograph of Texas Rangers in Valentine, Texas]

Photograph of a group of Texas Rangers in Valentine, Texas. Three of the men are sitting in a wagon pulled by horses, and the other three are riding horses. The first horse rider from the left is O. C. Dowe, Millie Wilson's husband.

Date: 1914

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Photograph of a Parade]

Photograph of a main street in Marfa, Texas with crowds of people standing to the sides and on the roofs of buildings, and wagons in the middle of the street. The wagon nearest to camera has a banner that says, "The Darkest Light Company in America."

Date: unknown

Creator: Duncan, Frank

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Photograph of a Stagecoach]

Photograph of a stagecoach pulled by four horses with two men driving, three men on horses on the road behind, and Fort Davis in the background.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Postcard of Butterfield's Overland Stagecoach]

Postcard of a stagecoach pulled by four horses on a dirt road in the desert. A printed note on the back of the postcard describes the photo, "West Texas - Butterfield's Overland Stage from San Antonio to El Paso is shown here in Wild Rose Pass in the heart of Apache Country between Ft. Stockton and Fort Davis, historic garrisons west of the Pecos."

Date: unknown

Creator: McMenemy, Margo

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Marfa Public Library

Belle of the Ball

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about a fictitious story explaining scenes, people, and events a young woman in the early 1900s might have experienced.

Date: January 21, 1971

Creator: Newton, Larue

Item Type: Text

Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Photograph of George Dawson, Sr. with a Cart]

Photograph of George Dawson, Sr. in overalls and a hat standing next to his horse-drawn cart.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Photograph of Chon Dominguez]

Photograph of Chon Dominguez sitting on one of his mules in the team of mules and horses pulling a large oil tank in a wagon.

Date: 1908~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Wagon Fill]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 311) is of a dirt road with tire tracks. The second image (numbered 312) is of men spraying water on loose dirt, with horses and wagons in the distance. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Looking North over Wagon Fill from Sta. 25" taken on 05-17-27, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Looking north from Sta. 29 over Wagon Fill" taken on 06-06-27.

Date: 1927

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Spillway Excavation]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 27) is of workers with a wagon removing large rocks from a shallow pit. The second image (numbered 53) is of a pit with large rocks. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Removing Rock from Spillway Exc." taken on 10-17-24, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Erie Shovel in S.E. Corner of Spillway Exc." taken on 11-10-24.

Date: 1924

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Unloading Dragline and Garza Dam North]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 24) is of various machinery being unloaded from railroad cars; a horse-drawn wagon is near the railroad tracks. The second image (numbered 20) is of horses hitched to a mechanism in a field. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Unloading Bucyrus Class 24 Dragline" and (bottom) "Garza Dam North from South Bank" both taken 10-17-24.

Date: 1924

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Outlet Conduits]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 70) is of a small crane excavating a shallow trench. The second image (numbered 75) is of a row of horse-drawn wagons with two small cranes in a shallow trench. Handwritten text on the images identify them both as "Garza Dam Excavating for Outlet Conduits," taken 11-17-24.

Date: 1924

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Excavations]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 281) is of a crane with horse-drawn wagons on the dirt slope in the background. The second image (numbered 288) is of a large crane excavating a trench in a dirt slope. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam P. & H. Shovel and Elevating Grader (in distance) Excavating Earth for Blanket on Upstr. Slope Stas. 15 to 30 NW from Sta. 11" taken on 08-12-26, and (bottom)… more

Date: 1926

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Gravel Stripping]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 143) is of a pit with piles of dirt and several horse-drawn wagons being loaded with gravel. The second image (numbered 144) is of piles of dirt with wagons and men in the distance. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Stripping Earth from Stockard Gravel Pit" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Stripping and Loading Gravel for Concrete," both taken on 04-15-25.

Date: 1925

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Clay Puddling and Wagon Fill]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 315) is of men fixing large cracks in a dirt surface. The second image is of a man with three horses and a wagon. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Puddling Clay into Cracks after Slide" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Placing Wagon Fill at Elev. 530 Sta. 18 North," both taken on 06-28-27.

Date: 1927

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Riprap and Gravel]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 209) is of several wagons at the top of a slope covered in rocks, next to a lake. The second image (numbered 218) is of wagons at the top of a dirt slope above a lake. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Placing Riprap on Upstream Slope, Water Elev. 491.2" taken on 09-16-25, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Sloping and Placing Gravel Blanket for Riprap" taken on 11-24-2… more

Date: 1925

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Pile Driver]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 62) is of a tall steel structure on the edge of a trench with men standing next to it. The second image (numbered 63) is of a steel structure with a horse-drawn wagon and lumber on the ground nearby. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Beginning to Drive Steel Sheet Piling Cut-Off" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Pile Driver for Steel Sheet Piling N. Bank of River," bo… more

Date: 1924

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Spillway Excavation]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 25) is of two horse-drawn wagons and a crane excavating a pit. The second image (numbered 26) is of a shallow pit with men working amongst piles of dirt. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Excavating for North End of Spillway" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Looking North along Spillway Excavation," both taken on 10-17-24.

Date: 1924

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Spillway Excavation]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 111) is of a line of horse-drawn wagons next to a pile of large rocks. The second image (numbered 124) is of several cranes and wagons excavating rocky ground. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Spillway Excavation Looking North" taken on 02-06-25, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Erie Shovels on Spillway Excavation" taken on 02-26-25.

Date: 1925

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

Building Exterior

Copy negative of The Alexander Sanitarium in Abilene, Texas. The image shows a horse-drawn ambulance and nurses posing outside of the institution. The advertisement reads "A private institution devoted to the care of medical and surgical, obstetrical and eye, ear nose and throat cases. Modern operating room. Graduate nurses and full electrical and x-ray equipment. - Nurses supplied to the profession on application - Ambulance service day or night."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Horse and Buggy

Copy negative of an article in the Taylor County Yearbook promoting great farming conditions in the area and the opportunity of sharecropping. There is a picture in the middle of the page of a road with fields on each side and a man standing with a horse and buggy on the right.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Two Girls in Buggy

1 copy negative of two women on a horse-drawn vehicle.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Man in Surrey

1 copy negative of W. A. Curry inside of a horse-drawn carriage.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Threshing Machine Crew

Copy negative of the C. W. Forbus threshing machine crew in Taylor County, Texas. A crew of at least twenty people stand around a harvest in a field. The man circled in the photograph is C. W. Forbus and he stands on the threshing machine. There are wheeled wagons and men holding farming tools.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

People by Train

Photograph on postcard of many people, some carrying luggage, walking near a train stopped next to a pond at an unknown location. There are several horse and mule drawn carts scattered around as well.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame