[Midland School Class, Room 1-A]

Photograph of a school class in Midland, Room 1-A. Children stand in two rows on the steps of the entrance to a brick school building, with a woman in a black shirt standing behind. Each children is numbered with pen, though some are unidentified or unknown
Date: September 1915
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Rev. H. C. Poehlmann and Others]

Group photograph of Rev. Heinrich Carl Poehlmann (1879–1939) and other women and men seated near him. Poehlmann sits in a wicker chair at center, holding a Bible with a cross centered on the front cover. Besides him are six women, two seated on each side and two standing behind him, as well as three young men standing among the girls behind him. All are placed atop a rug and in front of a painted background, looking forward. Poehlmnann was the pastor of New Wehdem Lutheran Church in Brenham, Texas. This group may be a Confirmation Class at his church.
Date: 1915~
Creator: Winkelmann, Friedrich Christian, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tractor and Plows on Main and Wall, Midland]

Photograph of a gathering of agricultural machinery in front of the Llano Hotel and the Midland National Bank on the intersection of Main and Wall streets (formerly Abilene and Iowa, respectively). A row of plows is placed at center, where Bert Ramsey places his foot and rests his arm on the rightmost plow. At right is a large Rumley Oil Pull tractor with large wheels and an oversized engine, manned at the wheel by Henry Halff, owner of the tractor. E. J. Mumford stands to the left of the tractor; John Tolbert stands second from right, in front of the tractor's engine. Lula Bush Elkin stands in the front row of the crowd behind the line of tractors and in front of the bank facade, wearing a fur coat and standing next to her husband Frank Elkin (to her left).
Date: 1915~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History