Looking South on Mesquite Street Metadata
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Title
- Main Title Looking South on Mesquite Street
Date
- Creation: 1902-05?
- Digitized: 2006
Language
- English
Description
- Content Description: A street scene, identified as Mesquite Street (now NE 1st Avenue)and looking south, taken at the turn of the twentieth century, shows businesses that antedate the coming of the automobile. On the right, in the middle of the picture, the Yeager Building is shown with a stone lion mounted on its roof. Many historians now refer to this building as the Lion Drug Store. However, current Yeager descendants now living in Mineral Wells do not remember the store as ever being named anything but The Yeager Drug Store. The third building on the left (with the spire on top) was the Star Well whose manager, Frank Richards was an active participant in Mineral Wells' early business and social activities. At the end of the street is Mineral Wells depot built in 1902. Absence of the "Dinky Car" tracks in the middle of the street indicates that the picture was taken prior to the building of the Mineral Wells Lakewood Park Scenic Railway in 1905.
Subject
- University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Stores
- Keyword: Street Scenes
- University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Architecture - Civil Works - Streets and Roads
- Keyword: Mesquite Street
Primary Source
- Item is a Primary Source
Coverage
- Place Name: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
- Time Period: new-sou
Collection
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Name: A. F. Weaver CollectionCode: AFWC
Institution
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Name: Boyce Ditto Public LibraryCode: BDPL
Rights
- Rights Access: public
Resource Type
- Photograph
Format
- Image
Identifier
- Accession or Local Control No: AWO_0223N
- Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth16279
Note
- Digital Preservation: creationAppName: Adobe Photoshop creationAppVersion: 7 creationHardware: Epson Perfection 4990 Photo