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[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

[Scharbauer Hotel Luncheon]

Description: Photograph of a luncheon in the Capital Ballroom of the Scharbauer Hotel in Midland. The room is arranged with three rows of tables with white tablecloths and wooden chairs. Most seats are filled with dishes and glasses set out, and most people are seated and looking at the photographer. A stage with a grand piano and an American flag is visible at the very back, behind a chandelier.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[First Section House in Germania]

Description: Photograph of the first section house built in Germania, Midland County, for Texas and Pacific railway workers. The section house sits behind the railway, and is a narrow two-story wooden frame building with a gable roof and a picket fence next to the railway. Workers stand on the railway, a handcar on the rails, a child playing with a shovel next to the rails, and several women standing behind, nearer to the picket fence.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Downtown Midland Ruins After Fire]

Description: Photograph of Downtown Midland, viewed from the southeast, after a fire that started on April 8, 1909, in the Llano Hotel. The hotel, mostly destroyed with some brick walls standing, is at center in front of the water tower, having collapsed due to the fire with debris scattered onto the main roads. The fire also destroyed the Midland Drug Store and Grocery, to the north of the Llano Hotel, leaving a dry goods store (with a Coca-Cola sign along the front) intact. Across the street from the hote… more
Date: April 8, 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997450 -102.074356
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland, Main Street, 1884]

Description: Photograph of Main Street, looking towards the north, in Midland. Several buildings are built along the unpaved road, such as two-story houses, small storefronts, and the Llano Hotel, a two-story hotel with a hip roof, a second-story balcony, and possibly a tree in front of it. The two-story wooden building to the extreme left is the Midland County Courthouse.
Date: 1884
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.996337 -102.074333
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Third Midland County Courthouse, South and East Facade]

Description: Photograph of the third Midland County Courthouse, a five-story Art Deco building with stone relief decorations, a lower-ground floor, and a flat roof, built in 1929 and viewed from the southwest. Cars are parked along the curb of the road, and the Petroleum Building and the Neo-Gothic spires along its roof are visible in the background at left.
Date: [1929..1974]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997489 -102.076490
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

["Last Roundup" at the Scharbauer Hotel]

Description: Photograph of a picture board at at the "Last Roundup" in the Scharbauer Hotel in Midland before its demolition. Nancy McKinley (left) points at pictures of people in front of a house among other pictures of the hotel building and other Midland attractions. Two men, Clarence Scharbauer, Jr. (center) and Bill Johnson (right) examine the images.
Date: July 15, 1973
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997234 -102.075351
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Military Parade, Downtown Midland]

Description: Photograph of an U.S. army vehicle in a military parade (part of the Searchlight Battalion, on maneuvers) passing through downtown Midland on April 7, 1941. The parade passes in front of the courthouse, visible at left in front of the Petroleum Building. A crowd of people have lined the streets along the sidewalk to watch the parade.
Date: April 7, 1941
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Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Thanksgiving Portrait, Dr. Wickliff Curtis's Home]

Description: Photograph of a Thanksgiving gathering at the Curtises (Dr. Wickliff Curtis and Mrs. Cress / Mrs. D Curtis) in 1898, arranged in four rows on the front steps of the family home. Names are listed on the back of the photograph. Top row, from left to right: Jim Goff, Oscar Bell, Ertha Cowden, George Lee, Hy Estes, Joe Brown, Bert Rawlins, John Draper. Second row from top: Frank Roses, Mollie Cornwell, Lilly Cowden, Proffessor Robert Ewing Rankin; third row, second from botom: Miss Birdie Shacklefo… more
Date: November 24, 1898
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Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Parade Street Scene, 1900s]

Description: Photograph of a parade scene in Midland, viewed towards the northwest on Main Street. The street is lined with pedestrians and spectators who stand under the awnings of the storefronts while small parade floats and horse-drawn carriages proceed from the north. The large two-story building at center is the First National Bank, and the building to the right of the bank is the Llano Hotel.
Date: 190X
Creator: West Texas Office Supply
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997018 -102.074213
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Tom Roberts' Produce Display at the Llano Hotel]

Description: Photograph of Tom Roberts' display of produce in front of the Llano Hotel in Midland. The produce, sourced from Roberts' farm west of Midland, has been brought in front of the hotel on a wagon pulled by two horses and a cow, and the display bears tall sheaths of grain, watermelons, vegetables, small fruits, and other large produces placed within the wagon and adjacent to its wheels. Tom Roberts, who owned the first herd of registered Jersey cattle in the county, leans against his wagon (marked … more
Date: September 1906
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997551 -102.074488
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Tractor and Plows on Main and Wall, Midland]

Description: Photograph of a gathering of agricultural machinery in front of the Llano Hotel and the Midland National Bank on the intersection of Main and Wall streets (formerly Abilene and Iowa, respectively). A row of plows is placed at center, where Bert Ramsey places his foot and rests his arm on the rightmost plow. At right is a large Rumley Oil Pull tractor with large wheels and an oversized engine, manned at the wheel by Henry Halff, owner of the tractor. E. J. Mumford stands to the left of the tract… more
Date: 1915~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997505 -102.074395
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

[Portrait of Bennie Miller]

Description: Photograph of Bennie Miller, cowboy who worked for Dock Cowden and Fred Cowden at a ranch in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He holds a hat in his right hand and poses next to a mock brick wall in front of a painted backdrop.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
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Partner: Midland Historical Society
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