Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate commending former Mayor G. Thane Akins of Midland for his many contributions to his community.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Present maximum salary of the County Treasurer of Midland County.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Capt. John H. McManus, city, U. S. army air force"

Plan of men's & ladies toilets for an office building and parking garage commissioned by Jack B. Wilkinson in Midland, Texas. It features wall edge lines, labels, and measurements. Notes are included below.

Floor plan for an office building and parking garage commissioned by Jack B. Wilkinson in Midland, Texas. It features wall edge lines, column placement, and labels.

Floor plan for an office building and parking garage commissioned by Jack B. Wilkinson in Midland, Texas. It features wall edge lines, column placement, and labels.

Second and third floor plans for an office building and parking garage commissioned by Jack B. Wilkinson in Midland, Texas. They feature wall edge lines, measurements, labels, and room names. Other sections include frame details for sliding doors in plaster partitions, door sites & frames, and general notes.

Details of fins for an office building commissioned by Superior Oil Company in Midland, Texas. Sections include a plan of typical intermediate fins below window sill, section at base of column, plan of fin at end walls below window sill, and plan of typical intermediate fins above window sill.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story saying that hazardous driving conditions which prevails over much of south west Texas as snow continued falling from Big Spring west to El Paso.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of motorists who are being warned of hazardous driving conditions in Texas where some of the heaviest snows in a quarter of a century have fallen.

Patent for "a machine for resurfacing roads or preparing new roads" (lines 9-10). Machine includes an adjustable scraper to aid in leveling of the roadway and compresses the edges of the roads using drags or shoes. The machine is adaptable to aid in road construction "depending upon the nature and condition of the road's surface" (lines 16-17).

Photograph of the Wilco Building in Midland, its office lights illuminated in the shape of a double cross for Christmas, 1964. The tower's radio mast glows brightly above, as does the streetlamps and lights along the buildings below.

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 Shackleford (principal), Lizzie Garrett, Ada Estes, Hallie Cowden, Frankie Divers, Vannie Driver. Bottom row: Ella Waddell, Mary Lou Reed, Mollie Draper, Carlie Mooney, Effie Edwards, Minnie McGonagill.