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[Mineral Wells High School]
This view of Mineral Wells High School, taken from the east in 1940, shows the 1884 "Little Rock School House" (Mineral Wells' first public school) on the north side of the high school. The larger school was built at 101 NW 5th Avenue in 1915. The second high school in Mineral Wells, it still [2008] stands. Three other high schools have been built since the last class graduated from this one in 1955.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Mineral Analysis of the Water of Lake Wichita
This thesis resulted from analysis of the water in Lake Wichita so that sources of water content could be determined.
Date:
August 1940
Creator:
Lisle, F. M.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Victoria County, Texas: Records of wells, driller's logs, water analyses, and map showing location of wells
Data complied regarding wells and other water resources, including water quality analysis, measurements, and other relevant information.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Texas Board of Water Engineers
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Baker Hotel at Night]
This picture shows the Baker--in its great days--at night. According to William O. Gross, Jr. ("Mineral wells, Texas: A Sampler, 1997) the hotel is properly named "Hotel Mineral Wells", the name "Baker" refers to the Baker Hotel Corporation of San Antonio, Texas, which operated nine hotels at the time. Legend has it that a female guest jumped to her death. Her ghost is supposed to be resident in the building, but substantial evidence for the existence of the ghost remains to this date [2014] lacking. A legend on the front of the photograph states that it was colorized by A. F. Weaver in 1940.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reconnaissance of Gold-Mining Districts in the Black Hills, South Dakota
From Introduction: "The principal purpose of the survey is to make public information not generally known concerning the gold deposits in the Black Hills. Operating mines, particularly the Homestake, are discussed only briefly."
Date:
1940
Creator:
Allsman, Paul T.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[The Crazy Gang Bus]
A radio show, broadcast at noon and advertising Crazy Water Crystals over the Texas Quality Network, became so popular that the radio gang found themselves in great demand for personal appearances. To accommodate their audiences, the band traveled in their own bus, shown here. On the back of the photograph is stamped "A. F. Weaver Photography 412 North Oak Avenue Mineral Wells, Texas 76067." Dated: 1940. Please note: ZIP codes were not in existence in 1940. Its appearance here with the date of 1940 cannot be easily explained.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Crazy Radio Gang]
Composite image that includes smaller portraits of the men that make up the "Crazy Radio Gang". Underneath each portrait is the man's real name and his job title or radio name. There are two men in blackface identified as "Sugar Cane and February" in front of a WBAP radio microphone. At the bottom of the card is written souvenir from Mineral Wells, Texas, Sept. 1940.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crazy Hotel
The east side of the second Crazy Hotel in the 400 block of N. Oak Avenue is illustrated here. Across NE 3rd. street, to the left, is Renfro's Drugs (at 319 north Oak Street). The low building on the right is the Hotel's drinking pavilion, and has a sign on it proclaiming a public auction of homes, business sites and farm land to take place January 20-21-22. This is a rare view (from the North-East) of the north back side of the hotel. Cars, of the late 1930's, are double-parked and visible in the middle of the street along the east side of the Crazy. (Head-in angle parking in Mineral Wells was changed to parallel parking in 1938, shortly before America was drawn into World War II.)
Date:
1940?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mineral Industries Survey of the United States, California: Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties, Mother Lode District (South). Mines of the Southern Mother Lode Region, Part 2 -- Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties
Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over mining operations in the southern Mother Lode Region of California. A review of this area is presented, and discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Julihn, C. E. & Horton, F. W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Man on Log Truck]
Photograph of a man sitting on the front right wheel well of a pickup truck laden with logs.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Crazy Crystal Bottling Plant]
A picture of the interior of the Crazy Bottling Plant, ladies are shown bottling Crazy Fiz, a copyrighted beverage created by infusing cooled mineral water with carbon dioxide. The men shown here appear to be checking the process in preparation for the bottling of the Crazy Fiz, while the ladies bottle and crate the finished product for shipment. Note the plant's scrupulous cleanliness, and the fact that all employees are dressed in white.
Date:
1940?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Crazy Laundry]
In the 1930's, the Carlsbad Building (once a spa for taking the mineral waters. See "The Texas Carlsbad" for details)was taken over by the Crazy Hotel for use as a laundry. Note the painted windows that still proclaim the waters, and the original Texas Carlsbad building. The Panel truck in front was driven by L. C. Ely and the other truck was driven by his father R. C. Ely. This picture was taken sometime in 1940.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Crazy Bottling Plant]
The Crazy Water Bottling Plant and Crazy Water Tower are shown here. The plant was built in 1919 at a cost of $85,000, and is located at 300 NW 7th Street. The location was once the original site of the Sangcura-Sprudel Wells Pavilion. The Sangcura-Sprudel Pavilion was moved and converted into a rooming house, which burned in 1973. Notice the home in the background. The date on back of photograph is given as 1940.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Crazy Water Crystal Factory]
Shown here is an interior view of the Crazy Crystals Plant. "Crazy Water" was evaporated, and the dissolved solids precipitated as crystals which were then packaged and shipped all over the United States, Canada, England and Australia. By dissolving the Crazy Water crystals in water, the purchaser was able to reconstitute "mineral water" and secure the benefits of one of the earliest "instant" beverages without the added cost of the supplying company's shipping water.
Date:
1940?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Building of Camp Wolters]
An automobile--presumably of the late 1930's--is parked by a building in the process of being built. Workmen may be seen at the site. A legend under the original reads: "Buildings seem to literally spring from the earth when the construction of the then Camp Wolters began in November, 1940. The camp was completed in less than four months and became the nation's largest infantry Replacement Training Center. Construction cost was approximately $14,200,000."
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Crazy Hotel Pavilion]
A handwritten note on the back of the picture identifies this as "Crazy Hotel Pavilion 1940 Cigar Stand and Shine Stand." Please notice Leon Cross, the "Shoe-shine boy", who operated the stand for years, in the white shirt to the left of the Shine Stand. This pavilion is off the hotel lobby, behind and west of the elevators of the second Crazy Hotel. A fire started March 15, 1925, in the drugstore next to the bath house of the first Crazy Hotel which adjoined the Crazy Flats (second Crazy Pavilion). The fire destroyed all the businesses in this city block. The second Crazy Hotel opened in 1927, and incorporated all of the previous enterprises into one building covering the entire city block. The drinking bar, from which Boyce Ditto served mineral water for many years, is at the opposite end of the pavilion, left of the shoe-shine and Cigar Stand, with its striped awning. In its heyday during the health-spa era of the "City built on Water," the bar served four different strengths of mineral water. The bar is still in existence today although inactive. The mezzanine around the drinking pavilion was lined with offices, primarily those of doctors.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Small Irrigation Pumping Plants
"Throughout the United States are many farms, parts or all of which could be irrigated by pumping from either ponds or streams or farm wells. This bulletin is intended to furnish owners or operators of such farms with information that will give them some indication of initial and operating costs and enable them to determine whether soil and water suitable for irrigation are available and what kind of irrigation plant and equipment will be most satisfactory for their purpose. Having examined these factors, a farmer can decide whether irrigation is likely to be profitable on his farm." -- p. i
Date:
1940
Creator:
Rohwer, Carl & Lewis, M. R. (Mortimer Reed), 1886-
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Geology of Area Between Green and Colorado Rivers, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah
From Abstract: "The area described in this report comprises about 900 square miles of arid land lying between the Green and Colorado Rivers south of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad and southwest of the Salt Valley anticline. The rocks that crop out or that have been encountered in wells drilled in the are all sedimentary and range in age from Pennsylvania ti Upper Cretaceous. Mesizoic strata are especially well represented."
Date:
1940
Creator:
McKnight, Edwin Thor
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1940
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 3, 1940
Creator:
Dunbar, Mary Whatley
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1940
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 22, 1940
Creator:
Dunbar, Mary Whatley
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1940
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 22, 1940
Creator:
Dunbar, Mary Whatley
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1940
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 1, 1940
Creator:
Dunbar, Mary Whatley
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, November 29, 1940
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 29, 1940
Creator:
Dunbar, Mary Whatley
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1940
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 8, 1940
Creator:
Dunbar, Mary Whatley
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History