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[Downtown Midland, Texas Avenue]
Photograph of downtown Midland facing east down West Texas Avenue. The Midland Parking Garage, a moderately-tall beige building is along the left side of the street. The Western United Life building, a tall beige building and the Petroleum Building, which has large Gothic-like spires along its southern face, are visible further down the street. Cars run down the road.
Date:
1957
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Downtown Midland at Night]
Photograph of downtown Midland at night, taken along the center of a street. Cars between the road, with moderately-tall buildings on both sides and power lines and Christmas lights hanging across the streets. The Crawford Hotel is partially visible on the left side of the street, and a building with a sign reading "THE OIL AND GAS BUILDING" is on the right side.
Date:
1959-12~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lamb's Gas Station]
Photograph of Lamb's "Super Service" gas station, serviced by Chevron. The gas pumps are at left, under the station's canopy. A pile of tires is placed at the front of the station, and to the right is both a maintenance shop and a car wash, both with openings for cars facing the front of the station.
Date:
195X
Creator:
Frank Miller Studio
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[City Drug Store, Midland]
Photograph of the interior of a drug store in Midland, with long rows of shelves along the wall, short glass counters with inside displays across from the shelves, wire tablesets, ceiling fans, and a tin ceiling. Shop workers stand along the counters, one on the left and five on the right. Their names are listed on the back: on the (farthest?) right stands George D. McCormick; also listed, without location specified, Ray Hyatt, Grady Crawley, J. G. Garrion[?], M[?] C[?], and J. R. Sttorey[?].
Date:
1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Midland Machine Shop]
Photograph of the interior garage of Midland's first machine shop in 1909, five workers standing within. A large metal implement hands from a wooden scaffold in the center of the workspace. Makeshift shelves, buckets, spare equipment, ladders, and other miscellaneous items sit on the left wall. The workers are identified by names on the back, locations unspecified: Carl Reeves, Kirby Nutt, John G. Peebles, Will Roller, and Frank Hermann.
Date:
1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[City Meat Market, Midland]
Photograph of the interior of a meat market in Midland, Texas, displaying cuts of meat on a marble countertop with innards and other organs hanging from above. Three workers stand behind the counter along chopping boards and weights, with stacks of buckets and a large metal safe along the counter. Two workers are identified: Ben Ethridge (possibly left) and his son, Buster Ethridge; the third worker, obscured by the hanging meat, is unidentified.
Date:
1895
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Draper Livery, Midland]
Photograph of the Draper Livery stable, a large wooden frame building. Two men hold two horses each by their reins in front of the stable along the field of the dirt.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Midland Masonic Lodge, 1908]
Photograph of.the Masonic Lodge in Midland, a two-story brick building with the square and compasses emblem along the front facade of the building. The residence of W. S. Hill is visible to the right of the lodge.
Date:
1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Midland-Seminole Mail Line]
Photograph of a long car loaded with bags of mail and postmen, en route running a mail line between Midland and Seminole created by the Spaulding brothers. The car is parked on a dirt surface in front of a Cadillac building with four men and a woman in the back. The driver may be Trafton Yarborough.
Date:
1911~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Codsen Station, Midland]
Photograph of the Cosden gas station in Midland, serviced by Baker Oil Company, along Front Street (Highway 80). The gas pumps sit out in front, with tires laid out in columns in front of the station building. Signs for Dr. Pepper, Pennzoil, a cigarette brand, and other services are placed out in the front of the building. A Cosden oil truck is pulled in at right, and gas station workers stand in front of the pumps.
Date:
1950~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Drilling the First Water Well in Midland]
Photograph of the first well being drilled in Midland in 1884, with several men surrounding the dig site by standing on the dirt road and in wagons carried by horses. The dig site is at left; numerous wooden frame building, including a grocery store, are lined up at right. k
Date:
1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[C. C. Watson Printing Office]
Photograph of the six staff members of C. C. Watson's Printing Office, located on Marienfeld Street, standing outside a brick and metal building with a wooden shed attached.
Date:
[1904..1905]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Yeakel-Haley Hotel]
Photograph of the Yeakel (Haley) Hotel, a two-story brick building with an overhanging canopy and a sign. The building is lined with a short brick wall, shrubs, and rocks. A water tower and a windmill is partially visible at right. The hotel was demolished in order to expand North Front Street.
Date:
[..1913]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Men's Sunday School at the Midland County Courthouse]
Photograph of a Sunday School class in front of the Art Deco facade of the Midland County Courthouse. Most wear hats, and a handful of women stand in the right corner along a man in a wheelchair. A man holding a baby, in the second row, fifth from right, is Troy Eiland, holding Bethel Eiland. The class's teacher was Paul T. Vickers, and its president Harry L. Haight, and they met in the Scharbauer Hotel Ballroom on the southeast corner of Loraine and Wall Street.
Date:
July 1934
Creator:
Lackey, Clint
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cowboys at the Llano Hotel]
Photograph of cowboys standing along the front of the Llano Hotel, a two-storied hotel building on the corner of Main and Wall Street. Several cowboys are mounted on their horses with hats, while many stand under the second-floor balcony, looking forward. Cowboys stand also on the balcony, looking out and facing the photographer. A windmill is visible behind the hotel, and shops and buildings along Main Street are adjacent to the hotel's structure.
Date:
1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[First Christian Church in Midland]
Photograph of the first Christian church in Midland, with a large group of women with hats decorated with flowers standing in front of the church, which is a large brick building with a circle-shaped stained-glass window above the main entrances. Some boys, children, and men stand with the group or next to the group at left on fences in front of houses, windmills, and power poles in the distance.
Date:
1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[First Methodist Episcopal Church, Midland]
Photograph of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, a wooden church with a tall spire and arched windows.
Date:
1900
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mrs. McCormick's Sunday School Class, Easter Egg Hunt]
Photograph of Mrs. McCormick's Sunday school class during an Easter egg hunt in the First Methodist Church in Midland. The class, a group of boys and girls, stand behind a nest of little eggs placed in front of them. Mrs. McCormick stands in the back.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Tom Craddick Swapping Gavels with Billy Clayton]
Photograph of Texas House Speaker Billy Clayton exchanging gavels with State Representative Tom Craddick in an office with books and phones.
Date:
1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[C Ranch Cowboys]
Photograph of nine C Ranch cowboys in front of a stable, mounted on horses, wearing hats and equipped with lassos. Four names are identified on the back: first from left is John Aker, second from left is "Fatty" Bill Condell[?], fourth from left is Hayden Miles, and third from right is Charlie Frishoe[?].
Date:
1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cattle Drive on Main Street, Midland]
Photograph of a cattle drive or display of Hereford cattle on an intersection of Main Street in Midland. The cattle are lined up with men along the sidewalk and the intersection, with a car on Main Street facing facing south at left.
Date:
1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Field of Feterita in Midland County]
Photograph of a field of ripe feterita (sorghum) on H. E. Robert's farm, six miles west of Midland.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Midland County Fair, 1914]
Photograph of a booth of vegetables and gourds in the Midland County Fair run by S. H. Gwyn with an American flag and a sign reading "Hands Off." The gourds are arranged in rows behind large bushes of plants and leaves, bundled together on a large table and on the dirt floor.
Date:
1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Midland City Hall Cornerstone Ceremony]
Photograph of the cornerstone ceremony for the Midland City Hall, arraigned by the Masonic Lodge. The cornerstone is held by chains above the base of the City Hall's wall, nine courses of bricks partially built with a Mason holding a trowel above one of the corners of the wall. A band with sheet music stands is behind the wall, seated and watching the lowering of the corner stone, while the Texan flag is visible at left.
Date:
November 1965
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History