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[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells]
A panoramic view of Mineral Wells looking southwest from East Mountain, Poston's Dry Goods store may be seen in the middle left of the picture, and the Old High School, Rock Schoolhouse, and West Ward School are visible next to West Mountain skyline in the upper right corner of the picture.
Date:
1920?
Creator:
Weaver, A. F.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A View of Mineral Wells From South Mountain]
A view of Mineral Wells, looking north from South Mountain, taken after 1929, is pictured here. The front of the old Mineral Wells High School is visible in the lower left corner. The Crazy Hotel is just to the right of center. This picture comes from one of 17 (4X4) negatives that were found in an envelope from Charles W. Simonds (Route 5, Box 43, Norman, Oklahoma, 73069), addressed to A.F. Weaver Photography and postmarked Aug. 4, 1975. Also on the envelope were some telephone numbers and the remark "Father - C.W. Simonds (Clarence Winfield)."
Date:
1920?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
We lost our job at Mineral Wells, Texas
This is a picture that was found in Mr. Weaver's collection, and captioned "We lost our job at Mineral Wells, Texas." This type of advertising was used by most of the drinking pavilions in this popular health resort to tout the beneficial effects of Mineral Wells' waters. There were numerous testimonials attesting the truth of such claims. When the Food and Drug Administration began to enforce the nation's drug laws vigorously in the mid-1930's, however, there were no rigorous scientific test data to document such claims, or to warn of possible side effects that taking the mineral water might cause. Consequently, this sort of advertising was banned after the 1930's.
Date:
1920?/1930?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[R.L. Polk & Co.'s Mineral Wells City Directory, 1920]
The city directory for Mineral Wells, 1920, embraces a complete alphabetical list of business firms and private citizens; a directory of city and county officials, churches, public and private schools, banks, asylums, hospitals, commercial bodies, secret societies, street and avenue guide, etc.
Date:
1920
Creator:
R.L. Polk & Co.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Burro, Yearbook of Mineral Wells High School, 1920
Yearbook for Mineral Wells High School in Mineral Wells, Texas includes photos of and information about the school, student body, teachers, and organizations.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Mineral Wells High School (Mineral Wells, Tex.)
Object Type:
Yearbook
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Davis Wells; The Davis Baths
Pictured here is a semi-ornate brick building (with a socle presumably of stone), advertising the Davis Wells and the Davis Baths. This enterprise is not listed in A.F. Weaver's "TIME WAS in Mineral Wells...." The picture appears to have been excerpted from a larger photograph, as the legend "Davis Baths" (not visible in the picture) appears on the negative. Polk's Directory for 1920 lists "Davis Mineral Baths" (proprietor, Dr. Eldred A.--the "A" stands for "Albany"--Davis) at "210 1/2 N. Oak Avenue." The business cannot be found in the 1909 or 1914 Polk's Directories. However, the 1914 Polk's Directory shows a Dr. Davis as living at 514 East Throckmorton [presently, in 2014, NE 1st Street] with his wife, Helen. The name of the bath house was changed to the "Buck Head" (or "Buckhead", as some sources have it) at some as yet unknown date.
Date:
1920?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Underreamer for Reaming Out Producing-sands.
Patent for "underreaming tools or bits which can be adjusted from the top of the well and which can be set at the required angle..."
Date:
September 21, 1920
Creator:
Lambeth, Acey L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two Men at Inspiration Point
Two men are here seen sitting on a bench at Inspiration Point. The photograph is believed to have been taken about the year 1920. The bluffs above the Brazos River are visible in the background. The man at the far left has been identified as Bealer Beard--at one time an owner of a construction company in Mineral wells.
Date:
1920?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Crazy Well Water Company
This picture shows a photograph of two pages from a water-bottle-shaped brochure about Mineral Wells. The "Appendix" referred to on the verso folio refers to a series of burlesques printed on previous--unseen--pages. Recto describes the four types of the water and the various ailments that they are expected to cure. The brochure notes that number four water is purgative, and should be used in moderation, but at frequent intervals.
Date:
1920?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry
From Introduction: "This glossary is published by the Bureau of Mines as a contribution to the mining literature in the belief that it will fill a long-felt need. It contains about 20,000 terms; these include both technical and purely local terms related to metal mining, coal mining, quarrying, petroleum, and natural gas, and metallurgical works; names of useful, important, and common minerals and rocks; and geological terms. It presents in one comprehensive volume the available standard, technical terms relating to the mining and mineral industry, as well as provincialisms that have been or are now in use in English-speaking countries."
Date:
1920
Creator:
Fay, Albert H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
In The Good Old Days
This picture is accompanied by a newspaper article that chronicles the activities of a group of men repairing the public highway between Mineral Wells and Palo Pinto in the year 1920--before the Texas Highway Department was created. Pictured are the following people: Harold Guinn on left with spade. J. L. Miller on truck fender. Standing, left to right: Red Taylor, George Oliver, Johnnie Liveley; Irl Preston and W. T. Tygrett shaking hands, with Joe Dillon standing between them. Also standing in the background are Clarence Wewerkka, W. C. Caldwell, W. I. Smith, and Lawrence Davis. The photograph is listed as courtesy of W. T. Tygrett.
Date:
1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paint.
Patent for paints for roofs and for barns to prevent leaks and efficient in preserving the material of buildings at a relatively small costs.
Date:
July 20, 1920
Creator:
Watson, Grover C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Milling's Sanitarium and Water Well ]
The gazebo-like structure shown in the picture protects a water pump in front of the Milling Sanitarium. The sanitarium was built about 1929 on what was then the 2500 block of Southeast 6th Avenue. It later became the Irvine Sanitarium. The Veterans of Foreign Wars (Post 2399) occupies the building as of 2010. The fate of the structure shown here is unknown.
Date:
1920?/1929?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the New Suspension Bridge at Lover's Retreat]
This is a photograph of a suspension bridge for pedestrian traffic across Eagle Creek at Lover's Retreat. Formerly a public park, and now on private property, it was located four miles west of Palo Pinto on the old Bankhead Highway (now U.S. Highway 180).
Date:
1920?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The First Crazy Hotel and Crazy Flats]
A view of the Crazy Flats and first Crazy Hotel, as seen from East Mountain, is shown here. The Crazy Flats, at the right middle of the picture, was the second Crazy Drinking Pavilion--also with Rooms for Rent--was built in 1909. One feature of the Flats was "Peacock Alley", where the men gathered on Sundays to watch the ladies parade and show off the latest fashions in female gear. The first Crazy Hotel is to the left rear of the Flats; the first section of the Hotel, on the right, was built in 1912, and the second section, on the left, to its left, was built in 1914 and connected to the first with a common lobby. The Crazy Bath house adjoined Crazy Flats on the left, and a drugstore was located in the left corner of the Bath house building. A fire, starting in the drugstore on March 15, 1925, burned the entire block, sparing only the small building housing the first Crazy Pavilion (the right rear of the Flats.) The current (second) Crazy Hotel opened in 1927, and replaced all of the former businesses in this block.
Date:
1920?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid in the United States
Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the production of sulfuric acid. As stated in the introduction, "the present bulletin was prepared to cover the main facts in regard to the industry in this country, including a discussion of the supplies of sulfur-bearing raw materials, the situation of the acid plants, the principal points in regard to manufacturing processes, and the uses of the acid" (p. 2). This report includes tables, illustrations, photographs, and a map.
Date:
July 1920
Creator:
Wells, Arthur Edward & Fogg, Donald E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Marshall Morning News (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 88, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 19, 1920
Daily newspaper from Marshall, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 19, 1920
Creator:
Price, Homer M. & Wells, E. L., Jr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Marshall Morning News (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 63, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 1920
Daily newspaper from Marshall, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 19, 1920
Creator:
Price, Homer M. & Wells, E. L., Jr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Oklahoma Miner (Krebs, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 32, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 23, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Krebs, Oklahoma. Coverage includes local, state, and national news, along with advertising.
Date:
September 23, 1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Marshall Morning News (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 84, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 15, 1920
Daily newspaper from Marshall, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 15, 1920
Creator:
Price, Homer M. & Wells, E. L., Jr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Marshall Morning News (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 92, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1920
Daily newspaper from Marshall, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 24, 1920
Creator:
Price, Homer M. & Wells, E. L., Jr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Marshall Morning News (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 78, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 8, 1920
Daily newspaper from Marshall, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 8, 1920
Creator:
Price, Homer M. & Wells, E. L., Jr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Oklahoma Miner (Krebs, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 13, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 13, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Krebs, Oklahoma. Coverage includes local, state, and national news, along with advertising.
Date:
May 13, 1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Miner (Krebs, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 20, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Krebs, Oklahoma. Coverage includes local, state, and national news, along with advertising.
Date:
May 20, 1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History