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[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-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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[Flood at Main and Wall Street, Midland]

Photograph of a flood on the corner of Main and Wall Street in Midland. Water flows towards the right on Wall Street (bottom-left corner to center-right side), and people stand on the sidewalks of Main Street examining the flood. In front of the First National Bank, the large Neoclassical building on the street corner, more people have gathered, with stores visible to the left of the bank.
Date: May 8, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from Calvin E. Trammell to Eddie Handley - November 6, 1911]

Postcard from Calvin E. Trammell to Eddie Handley of Maverick, Runnels County. The front of the postcard depicts a panoramic view of a parade held on July 4, 1911 on the intersections of Wall and Main Street in Midland, looking at the northwest.
Date: November 6, 1911
Creator: Trammell, Calvin E.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[San Jacinto Day, Midland Downtown]

Photograph of San Jacinto Day celebrations in downtown Midland, on the intersection of Main and Wall Street. Numerous buildings, including the First National Bank, are placed along the streets, below which are sidewalks lined up with crowds of people. Part of the crowd has spilled into the street, forming an arched barrier of people, watching a procession or dance on the right half of the picture. A similar procession occurs at left, with numerous children standing in a grid. Horses with carriages are parked in front of the First National Bank.
Date: April 21, 1911
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

[Playing Tennis Behind the Midland School]

Photograph of professors in the Midland school playing tennis behind the two-story brick school building. A woman at center wearing a dress holds a racket in her left hand, and a man in a hat at right bends down to lift a ball and possibly serve it. Spectators, including children, watch from a set of primitive bleachers at left; another child in a light-colored gown stands to the right, next to the building.
Date: 1912~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of J. H. Knowles]

Photograph of J. H. Knowles, a Midland County judge between 1910 and 1915. He sits on a chair in front of his desk, wearing a suit, tie, and hat with his legs crossed, a cigar in one hand, and his other hand resting on the desk.
Date: [1910..1915]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of J. M. DeArmond]

Photograph of J. M. DeArmond, Midland County judge between 1916 and 1922. He is seated at a desk with a lamp, a portrait frame, and an ashtray, writing in a large book and facing the right.
Date: [1916..1922]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[George Patton on a Horse]

Photograph of George Patton, mounted on a horse in front of a wagon. Another man, dismounted from his horse, is in front of Patton.
Date: 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unknown Portraits / Julia Estes in Buggy]

Collage of three photographs: the first two (front) depict a family seated together in front of the picket fence of a house and a boy with a necktie in front of a house, respectively. The third photograph (back) depicts Julia Estes on a horse-drawn buggy as Donya Estes stands behind between the picket fences of a house.
Date: 1910~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Progressive Democracy Wagon]

Photograph of a mule-drawn wagon, decorated with the words "PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY" along a cloth hanging from the side of the mule and with the words "WOODROW" and "WILSON" and the front and back wheels, respectively, bearing two women—Elma and Belulah Graves—in dark-colored dresses surrounded by flowers and a flag. The parade wagon is parked on a dirt road in front of T. S. Sacra's home, a two-story house.
Date: July 4, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
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

[William Leon Bryant Ranch Headquarters]

Photograph of the headquarters of the William Leon Bryant ranch (10 miles south of Midland), a two-story ranch house with a long front porch and a windmill and water tank to the left. A gutter system runs along the top of the roof into a tank in front of the porch (white pipes). Along the front of the house is a field of plants, where chickens are wandering. A small shed is to the right of the house.
Date: 1914
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

[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

[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

[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

[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 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