Wichita County

Cadastral map of Wichita County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Some notes and borders are marked in color. Scale [ca. 1:66,667] (2000 varas per inch).
Date: 1889
Creator: Schutze, E.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wichita Falls 1889 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wichita Falls 1889 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Ollie Skaggs]

Photograph of a man sitting on an automobile with the logo "Alliance Milling Co. Denton, Texas. Manufacturing." Handwritten text on back: "Ollie Skaggs - Wichita Falls Motor G."
Date: [1888..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wichita Falls 1885]

Photograph of Wichita Falls, Texas circa 1885. The photograph shows the original courthouse for Wichita Falls before it burned down.
Date: 1885
Creator: Lester Jones
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wichita Falls 1885 Photograph]

Framed photograph of Wichita Falls, Texas in 1885. The photograph shows the original courthouse for Wichita Falls before it burned down.
Date: 1885
Creator: Lester Jones
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wichita Falls 1885 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car. (open access)

Stock Car.

Patent for a new and improved animal stalls in stock cars. This design "has for its object to provide these stalls in such a manner that they can be readily and cheaply applied to and removed from the cars; and it also has for its further object to provide for rendering the stall-partitions laterally yielding or elastic, and yet under such a degree of tension as to withstand or resist the movements of the animals" (lines 11-18).
Date: April 17, 1883
Creator: Lewis, Henry A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Joseph Alexander Kemp]

Photograph of Joseph Alexander Kemp (July 31, 1861-November 16, 1930). Kemp was a prominent member of early Wichita Falls society. The photograph may be a photo from the Board of Commerce & Industry.
Date: 1883
Creator: Lester Jones
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Texas store fronts]

Mounted photograph of a men standing in front of three stores - the W.O. Wright General Merchandise store, J.M. Spoonts Drug Store, and Pioneer Grocery Store in Wichita Falls, Texas. Handwritten note on the back reads: "Wichita Falls, TX. James Monroe Spoonts. Wilburn Wright."
Date: [1880..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library