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.

Postcard from Midland addressed to Miss Eddie Handy[?] in Maverick, Texas. The front of the postcard depicts a Fourth of July parade in downtown Midland, going down Main Street with the Llano Hotel at left and several pedestrians and parked carriages watching horse-drawn parade floats and decorated cars.

Photograph of Downtown Midland, viewed from the southeast, after a fire that started on April 8, 1909, in the Llano Hotel. The hotel, mostly destroyed with some brick walls standing, is at center in front of the water tower, having collapsed due to the fire with debris scattered onto the main roads. The fire also destroyed the Midland Drug Store and Grocery, to the north of the Llano Hotel, leaving a dry goods store (with a Coca-Cola sign along the front) intact. Across the street from the hotel is the First National Bank, also severely damaged, its canopy partially destroyed at left. People walk among the ruins, inspecting the damage and conversing together.

Patent for a automatic cutoff for cisterns which prevents the first muddy water coming down a rain spout from going into the cistern by sending it into a separate waste pipe.

Photograph of the First National Bank on the corner of Main and Wall Street in Midland, Texas. The bank is a two-storied building with a Neoclassical facade, Doric pillars, a wide and narrow pediment, and a rectangular entablature, on the front reading "FIRST NATIONAL BANK". Cars are parked in front of the building, and people stand on the corner of the sidewalk.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Midland in Midland County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Midland in Midland County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Midland in Midland County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

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.

Headshot photograph of Samuel Isaacks, 70th Judicial District Judge for Midland County between 1909 and 1917. Isaack faces forward with combed hair, wearing a suit and tie with a lapel pin.

Photograph of the Midland baseball team, seated together on the front steps of the old Midland County Courthouse. The players sit in three rows, with three men from the team's front office seated on stone apertures within the courthouse's facade. Three more men in hats and neckties are seated in the top row, and a child is held by a player in the bottom row. Three baseballs are arranged together in front of the players.

Photograph of Charles Anderson, pitcher for the Midland baseball team. He poses as if to pitch a ball towards the photographer, standing in a field of trees.

Postcard from Julia Estes Rankin in Midland to Velma Snelson in Stone Mountain, Georgia, discussing a parade held in May 1908 where she was crowned "queen" of the May parade. The front of the postcard shows a parade in procession, with cars and small parade floats riding down a dirt road lined with storefronts, with pedestrians, horseback riders, and parked horse-drawn wagons along the sides of the road.

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.

Postcard of Eliza Rankin (wife of Finis Ewing Rankin) holding a rifle, aiming it straight at a rattlesnake outside a pen.

Postcard of Finis Ewing Rankin, kneeling next to a rattlesnake with a small knife in his hand outside a pen.

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.

Photograph of a vine of grapes and peaches from the Midland area. The produce, swarmed with leaves, is placed next to a measuring tape, and the bundles of grapes measure in total around 14 inches.

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.

Photograph of a Tom Thumb wedding under the First Methodist Church in Midland, held on the steps of the Midland County Courthouse. A boy in a tuxedo and a girl in a bridal gown stand on the courtyard steps, flocked by "bridesmaids" holding bouquets of flowers. Tom Thumb weddings were held as fundraisers for churches, imitating the famed dwarf performer General Tom Thumb's wedding and party in the 19th century.

Postcard from Charles in Midland to George J. McClintic in Covington, Virginia, writing about going to a show that night with friends and some money concerns. The front of the postcard depicts the Midland library.

Patent for a well tube. "This invention relates to well pumps and particularly to a suction attachment for use in conjunction with the strainers of pumps of that character wherein a piston is operatively arranged within an outflow pipe" (line 8-12). Illustration included.

Photograph of the opening of the Slaughter townsite in 1907, visited by a T&P excursion train 10 miles east of Midland. Dozens of people, looking at the landscape, are gathered around the train, which has three passenger cars and the train engine in the left background. Power lines run parallel with the railroad, and a carriage led by a horse is stationary at left.

Photograph of Beatrice and Addison Wadley on November 15, 1906, shortly after their marriage. Addison stands behind a large tree log, while Beatrice stands in front in a dark-colored dress, both standing next to a wooden house.