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[Bird's Eye View of Midland]

Description: Postcard of a bird's eye view of Midland, looking to the northwest from the corner of Wall Street and Main Street. Prominent at center is the Ever-Ready Auto Service, with garages and gas pumps along the street corner. Behind it is the post office, and across the post office is the county courthouse block (building not visible), where cars are parked along the sidewalks. The First Baptist Church is visible behind the water tower two blocks north of the auto shop, distinguished by a large dome a… more
Date: 193X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 31.997358 -102.075772
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Aerial of Midland Memorial Hospital]

Description: Aerial photograph of the Midland Hospital, the multistory building on Illinois Avenue at center-left. The curving road that spans the image is the Andrews Highway, along which are multiple buildings. A large baseball diamond is at right, down Illinois Avenue. Suburbs spread out across the background.
Date: [1950..1954]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Off the Coast]

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of a coastline showing war ships and destruction. One ship can be seen in the water away from the coastline while several others are docked.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Village Shopping Center, Midway]

Description: Aerial photograph of the Village Shopping Center, a set of strip malls, commercial buildings, and adjoining parking lots at the intersection of Wall Street and Andrews Highway. Houses and suburban developments are to the north of the shopping center, and the El Campo Moderno Courts is to the south, along Wall Street in the lower left. Commercial buildings are built along Andrews Highway, which curves to the northwest.
Date: 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Aerial of Downtown Midland, 1927]

Description: Aerial photograph of Midland, Texas, in 1927, north facing up. The Midland County Courthouse is visible at center left, with the county jail along the east side of Loraine Street. A large water tower is placed on the city block northeast of the courthouse. In the bottom right corner, Front Street and the railroad is visible.
Date: 1927
Creator: Fairchild Aerial Survey, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Aerial of Downtown Midland, 1956]

Description: Aerial photograph of Midland, Texas, in 1956, north facing up. The Midland County Courthouse, a small rectangular building, is visible right of center, with the Petroleum Building to the north, and Main Street to the southeast. East of the courthouse is the Wilco Building, currently under construction and half completed. Midland Senior High School, composed of two buildings along two city blocks, is to the northwest of the Wilco Building. Commercial buildings and parking lots occupy the blocks … more
Date: 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Aerial of Downtown Midland, 1957]

Description: Photograph of downtown Midland, Texas, east facing up. The Midland County Courthouse is visible just above center, a small four-story building surrounded by grass lawns. To the north is the Petroleum Building, which is partially obscured by the Western United Life Building, a tall 12-story concrete building. Main Street and some hotels lie to the east of the courthouse, distinguished by narrow and long storefronts lining the city streets. Front Street and the railroad diagonally cuts across the… more
Date: 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Aerial of Petroleum Building and Western Life Building]

Description: Aerial photograph of the Petroleum Building (center) and the Western Life Building (left) as viewed from the southwest. The Petroleum Building has Gothic-styled spires along the front edges of the building, textured relief features between windows, and a large "SHELL" sign on the roof. The Western Life Building is made of smooth concrete, with a large sign reading "PETROLEUM LIFE" along the southeast corner of the building. Cars are parked along Texas Avenue, adjacent to the buildings.
Date: 1961~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.998627 -102.076742
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Views of Midland from the Llano Hotel / Cowboys at Waddell Ranch]

Description: Two sets of photographs, one taken from the top of the Llano Hotel in Midland, displaying different parts of the snow-covered town (front), and the other depicting different activities at Waddell's Ranch (back). Midland pictures on the front: (815) West view along Wall Street, county courthouse (far right) and Henry Halff real estate office (at left, "LAND" sign); (816) North view along Main Street, First Methodist Church (left of center, tower behind two-story building) and Western Windmill Co… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Aerial of West Midland, 1957]

Description: Aerial photograph of western Midland, looking northwest. The large curving road running through the center of the photograph is the Andrews Highway, which terminates at a junction with Wall Street, the road that spans across the bottom half of the picture. Along the corner of Wall and Andrews (center of image) is the Village Shopping Center, which includes several strip malls and stores. As Andrew Highway curves to the east, it approaches the Midland Hospital, the white multistory building righ… more
Date: 1957~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Aerial of Downtown Midland, Wilco Building Construction]

Description: Aerial photograph of downtown Midland facing the west, taken between 1956 and 1958. The Midland County Courthouse is visible at center right: a compact white building surrounded by a lawn and a parking lot. To the right (north) of the courthouse is the Petroleum Building and the McClintic Building (above the Petroleum Building; west). The large building under construction at left is the Wilco Building, its lower floors complete. Main Street spans along the far bottom of the image with its store… more
Date: [1956..1958]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[First Baptist Church of Rockwall, Aerial Facing East]

Description: Aerial photograph of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall and its surrounding neighborhood. The church grounds are at center, with two connected buildings; the office annex at left and the main church building at right. The small, square grove of trees below the main church is a cemetery, around which is cleared ground for the construction of the new sanctuary. The surrounding neighborhood contains suburb homes, small businesses, and a water tower east of the church (above).
Date: April 19, 1999
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.924938 -96.461499
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Dallas Market Center Aerial View, Looking East Before WTC]

Description: Aerial photograph of the Dallas Market Center, viewed looking east along Interstate 35E (I-35E), which runs along the right half of the image. The Apparel Mart, a white building with thin white pillars along its walls, sits in the foreground and is surrounded by large parking lots. Further down the image is the Market Hall, with arched white eaves, the Trade Mart, set obliquely from I-35E, and the Homefurnishing Mart, a short brown building mostly obscured by the Trade Mart. The World Trade Cen… more
Date: 1960~/1974~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Aerial image of forested mountains in Papua New Guinea]

Description: Aerial photograph of a mountain range with some areas densely forested and other areas with shorter vegetation. Trails or roads and cleared circular areas can be seen on the mountain in the foreground. Small clouds can be seen above the mountain range and clouds in the distance with clear blue sky above.
Date: 1963
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Austin Aerials - CB Francis Rest Home

Description: Aerial shot of CB Francis Rest Home, 6909 Burnet Rd. Burnet Road running left to right in center. Cullen Ave on left and Justin Lane intersecting Burnet Lane and Burnet Road on the right. Two of buildings on left hand side of Justin Lane on the upper right are churches. Daugherty St running left to right (to Justin) on lower left.
Date: July 13, 1965
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.345522 -97.737088
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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