Newly planted citrus trees in field with underground irrigation system.

Excursion party posing in front of Shary house.

A woman, who appears to be Helen Edmunds Moore, stands with her arms around two other young women near a large beam. In the background is a tower structure and a long, one-story commercial building. On the back of the photograph is written: "Taken when first pile was driven for the Texas Sugar Refinery - March 13, '23." In the lower right hand corner of the photograph is written the number "17.".

Excursion party posing next to the Charles Volz home.

Excursion party posing in front of Shary house.

Excursion party posing in front of Shary house.

Excursion party posing in front of the Charles Volz's home.

Excursion party posing to the left of Charles Volz's brick home

Photograph of the, "Cedar Creek main sewer line entering the Trinity River," as notes a handwritten note on reverse.

Photograph of workers inside a factory making containers for petroleum products with various tools and machinery. All of the workers are female, besides one man near the center of the image. The photograph is dated on the bottom right corner with the date 3-2-26. An accompanying card (with the Texaco logo on the bottom) labels the photograph "Manufacturing containers for petroleum products."

A handwritten note on the back of the photograph identifies the picture as "Crazy Hotel southside [sic] after fire of March 15, 1925." Shown is the skeleton of the first Crazy Hotel, after a fire destroyed the entire Crazy "complex." The original hotel complex consisted of the two adjoined hotel sections with a common lobby, the Crazy Flats (a drinking pavilion with rooms for rent), a Bath House, and a drugstore (in which the fire started). The second Crazy Hotel opened two years later, in 1927. It covers the entire city block formerly occupied by the complex which it replaced. The famous second Crazy Hotel of the booming 1930's and 1940's is now [2008] a retirement hotel that was forcibly closed down in 2010.

The "Crazy Flats" drinking pavilion, with rooms for rent, replaced a two-story Crazy Water drinking pavilion in 1909. The first Crazy Hotel was built in 1912, and an annex was added to it in 1914. A fire in the Drug Store of the "Crazy Flats" (SE corner of the Crazy Flats building) on March 15, 1925, destroyed the entire Crazy block. The burned-out site of the Crazy Hotel was bought in 1926 by Carr Collins. A "New", completely rebuilt, Crazy Hotel was promoted as fireproof, since it was built with solid cement walls and ceilings. The former "New Crazy Hotel" had a roof garden (with glassed-in ceiling) for dancing, and colorful past that included a daily radio show originating in its Lobby and broadcast nationally over KTQN (the Texas Quality Network). It had survived the Great Depression of the 'thirties, World War I, the Korean "Police Action", and the Viet Nam War. Those interested in a more detailed story are referred To Guy Fowler's book, "Crazy Water."

Firemen and their fire trucks, March 19, 1927. Sanger Fire Department members from left to right: Otis Jones, Chief Bud Gentle (standing), A. G. Nance, Joe Hughes, Alton Gentle, S. C. Moore, L. B. Daniels, D. C. Gheens, G. W. Sullivan, Troy Stinson, Elmer Hulse, Jack McReynolds, Jno Richardson. Members not in the picture Butler Boydstun, Chester Ausband, Jeff Cornett and Jim Kline. Taken on the square in Sanger, looking north.

Firemen and their trucks, March 19, 1927. Listed on second photograph , from left to right, George A. Sullivan, Chas Milligan, W. D. Lewis, Glen Rieger, A. H. Haynie, A. L. Gentle, W. B. Chambers, Jno McClendon, R.E. Gentle, H. W. Ezell, Jno Hughes, Otis Jones and Chief Bud Gentle. Members not in the picture: Butler Boydstun, Chester Ausband, Jeff Cornett, and Jim Kline. The top of the Sanger School is seen in the background.

Photograph of Lucile Goebel. She wears a shirt with a Peter Pan collar, and her hair is bobbed.

Photograph, from left to right, of Nora Wells, Floyd H. Jones, and an unidentified woman standing in front of a campus building at Simmons University. The women hold onto the arms of the man, who stands between them.

Photograph of a classroom in the Wellington High School building. Flat-topped wooden desks and matching chairs are arranged in the room, with a larger desk at the front, below a chalkboard. A second classroom is visible through windows in a partition separating the rooms. The architect for the building was Guy A. Carlander.

Photograph of Mineral Wells as seen from an observation tower on East Mountain. The panoramic view of the town reveals a plume of smoke covering much of the town's center.

Photograph of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 8-20, 1920.

Photograph of Winfred Gustafson and his winning kite (for largest box kite) at the first kite flying contest.

Photograph of three men, two sitting in a chair, and one standing.

Photograph of John William McKarny sitting on a stool. The eight month old infant is wearing a white dress, pants, and shoes.

Photograph of Mabel Strickland on a horse at the Fort Worth Stock Show.

Photograph of the student body of Daniel Baker College posing outside of the school's Administration building.