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[Portrait of Leona Bryant, 1918]
Full-body photograph of Leona Bryant in a pleated recital dress at Baylor College in 1918, addressed "For Father". A caption on the front reads "Your Own Luna".
Date:
1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Julia and Porter Rankin]
Photograph of Julie and Porter Rankin seated in a horse-drawn buggy along a dirt road. They look back towards the photographer, stationary in front of a sparse settlement of houses.
Date:
September 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Foy Proctor]
Photograph of Foy Proctor, facing forward wearing a cowboy hat and a suit and tie.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hahl Proctor and a Horse]
Reprint photograph of Hahl Proctor petting a saddled horse and holding its reins in front of a wooden gate and several trees. Another person doing yardwork is partially visible in the background at right. Handwritten on back: "Hahl (Mrs Foy) Proctor.}
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Five Cowboys]
Photograph of five cowboys, gathered together in two rows in front of a painted backdrop. Along the top row, seated on a bench: Pat Talmadge, Charlie Brown (holding a lasso), and Bob Preston. Along the bottom row, seated on the floor: Joe Stokes and Bud Milligan.
Date:
1906
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[W. B. Preston and Children]
Photograph of W. B. Preston with his children during Easter. They stand on the front steps of their house, which are covered with snow and ice. Preston looks forward while his children, Martha Jane and Bob, Jr. look at the snow.
Date:
1928~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[W. B. Preston and Horse]
Photograph of W. B. Preston standing in a dirt field with a saddled horse next to him. A wagon and a roofed canopy lays behind him, in front of a wooden fence. A note on the back indicates: "This is Daddy, probably during Quien Sabe [ranch] days."
Date:
1910~
Creator:
Crocker, C. M.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Residence of E. D. Harrington, 1910]
Photograph of the second residence of E. D. Harrington, a two-story residential building with a front porch, large trees on the front yard, and a picket fence, behind which stands an unidentified person. According to a note written on the back of the photograph, this house comes "fifteen years later"; the first house, built in 1895, was burnt down.
Date:
1910
Creator:
Rohlfing, W. H.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Residence of E. D. Harrington, 1895]
Photograph of the recently-completed residence of E. D. Harrington, a one-story house with a pyramid roof, a wide awning along the front door, and a picket fence around the yard. Several boxes and a horse are in the left half of the yard, and the family stands under the awning on the front porch. A windmill is visible in the background. The house's roof was burned down later, and the Harringtons moved to a different house on Loraine Street.
Date:
1895
Creator:
Hoyt, E. E.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Residence of Lem Baker]
Photograph of the residence of Lem Baker, a small one-story residential home with a porch, large trees planted in the front pawn, and a picket fence around the property. A wagon pulled by two horses is parked near the front gate, where a man and a woman stand. A windmill is visible in the background.
Date:
May 1900
Creator:
unknown
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
[1896 Midland 3rd and 4th Grade]
Photograph of the 1896 classes of the third and fourth grade in the Midland school. They are arranged in eight rows along the front steps of the school building, and a young girl holds up a small chalkboard reading "Grade 3rd-4th".
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard to E. D. Merrill - August 6, 1911]
Postcard to E. D. Merrill in Big Spring discussing visiting an unspecified female friend. The front of the postcard portraits a lively scene with two men dancing with each other, a band of musicians with two fiddlers and a guitarist (identified as Paul), another crowd of men watching from behind the musicians, and a woman holding a baby (Nellie holding Henley).
Date:
August 6, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[1902 School Group]
Photograph of a school group in 1902 or possibly earlier. The teacher, unidentified, is seated at center with two young girls resting their heads on her shoulder. Children are seated in the middle row, two additional girls resting their heads on the teacher's lab. The boys are seated on the floor in the front row. A list of students, with positions unspecified, is written on the back of the photograph.
Date:
[..1902]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[J. H. Mims Family]
Photograph of six members of the J. H. Mims family, pictured together in front of a painted backdrop. A list of five individuals are identified on the back of the portrait (positions unspecified) Basil Manley Mims, Joseph Hessley Mims, Louis Christian Mims, and Percy James Mims.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of George D. McCormick, 1946]
Photograph of Captain George D. McCormick at the Midland Bombadier School. He wears an officer's hat decorated with an eagle and a military coat with epaulettes and one medal ribbon above his left chest pocket.
Date:
1946-11-21?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of George D. McCormick, World War I]
Photograph of George D. McCormick in military uniform and cropped hair, looking forward and to the right. McCormick served in World War I.
Date:
[1914..1918]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Clay McGonagill]
Photograph of Clay McGonagill (1879–1921), a significant and talented steer roper during the early days of the rodeo circuit, and one of the first to make a career out of rodeo. He is pictured here with combed hair, wearing a dark-colored coat and looking to the left.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Brack
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Henry Halff's Residence in Midland]
Photograph of Henry Halff's residence in Midland, Texas, a two-story Victorian-style home with a raised porch accessible by stairs along the side and front of the house, a deck hanging above the porch, embellished decorations along the end of the gable roofs, two chimneys, and several plants, trees, and shurbs around the property. A man stands in the bottom left corner, unidentified, and another house is visible behind a large oak tree in the background.
Date:
190X
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Henry M. Halff Roundup, at a Ranch House]
Photograph of a roundup operated by Henry M. Halff, possibly near the Quien Sabe Ranch. According to a note written on the back of the photograph, the roundup occurred when the Jules Drivers took up their homestead. Halff (position unspecified) is mounted on a horse among other cowboys also mounted on horses and a wagon loaded with cargo, all in front of a two-story wooden ranch house. A man at left stands dismounted from his horse, pointing to the left.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Quien Sabe Ranch Headquarters]
Photograph of the headquarters of the Quien Sabe Ranch, a two-story ranch house with a large gable roof, a porch along the length of the house, a wooden picket fence and a dirt path in front, and several narrow, column-like trees planted in the front. Several unidentified men stand around the ranch house's fence
Date:
[1908..1910]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Henry M. Halff Roundup, on a Field]
Photograph of a roundup operated by Henry M. Halff, possibly near the Quien Sabe Ranch. According to a note written on the back of the photograph, the roundup occurred when the Jules Drivers took up their homestead. Halff (position unspecified) stands around a loaded chuckwagon with horses grazing the background and other cowboys and women resting in the grass.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Herman Garrett Family]
Photograph of the Herman Garrett family from their family house at 611 N Big Spring Street, arranged in three rows on the house's porch. In the back row, from left to right: Lillian Garrett Reiger, Dora Garrett Rankin, Al H. Garrett, Elizabeth Garrett, Neta Garrett Wilson, and H. M. Garrett (came to Midland in 1882). Middle row (both seated on chairs, from left): Neta Wilson's mother-in-law and Mrs. Herman (Lucy Ann) Garrett. Front row (both seated on porch): Luther Wilson, Bess Garrett Holmes, and Mike Garrett.
Date:
1903
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Grape Arbor]
Photograph of a grape arbor in Midland, Texas. Grape vines, producing fruit, hang over a wooden pergola and its roof-shaped crossbeams, densely leafed. Under the pergola is a small wooden shelf on which are placed three melons. The pergola opens up to other portions of the arbor, where more plants grow with enough density to provide shade inside the pergola.
Date:
1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History