[Envelope from C. Bender and Sons to C. C. Cox, May 31, 1894] (open access)

[Envelope from C. Bender and Sons to C. C. Cox, May 31, 1894]

An envelope from C. Bender & Sons to C. C. Cox, postmarked May 31, 1894, on both sides of which is some arithmetic in Cox's handwriting.
Date: May 31, 1894
Creator: C. Bender & Sons
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from C. Bender & Sons to C. C. Cox, October 25, 1894] (open access)

[Letter from C. Bender & Sons to C. C. Cox, October 25, 1894]

Letter from the C. Bender & Sons company to C. C. Cox asking for an overdue payment.
Date: October 25, 1894
Creator: C. Bender & Sons
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Legal Tender Saloon (open access)

Legal Tender Saloon

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and the names J. J. Westmoreland; W. E. Truesdell.
Date: 1894
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Midland Sandstorm, 1894]

Photograph of a sandstorm approaching Midland on February 20, 1894. The sandstorm, dozens of feet tall, lays behind the small town, which consists only of several houses, water towers, and windmills. Two people walk between openings in a fence along a dirt path at right.
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Symonds, H. G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sandstorm on the Plains, 1894]

Photograph of a sandstorm approaching Midland and the E. D. Harrington home, the first brick house in Midland, in April 1894. Other wooden-framed buildings and windmills are in the path of the sandstorm, which towers over the town.
Date: April 1894
Creator: Bland
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History