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Midland County Fair & Fat Stock Show: Announcement Catalogue (open access)

Midland County Fair & Fat Stock Show: Announcement Catalogue

Booklet documenting information about the second annual Midland County Fair & Fat Stock Show held in 1915, including information about the organization membership, rules and regulations of the show, and listings of registered livestock to be auctioned off at the end of the show, along with local business advertising that is indexed on the back cover.
Date: 1915
Creator: Midland County Fair & Fat Stock Show Association
Object Type: Book
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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Plug (open access)

Spark-Plug

Patent for an improved spark plug assembly used in explosive engines allowing for easier cleaning of the electrodes while the motor is running, among other enhancements over contemporary spark plug design.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Inman, John P. & Estes, Robert E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History