[Photograph of Lake Mineral Wells] Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title [Photograph of Lake Mineral Wells]

Creator

  • Clarence Winfield Simonds
    Creator Type: Personal

Date

  • Creation: 1941?
  • Digitized: 2006-11-27

Language

  • No Language

Description

  • Content Description: Photograph of a view from a spot near the dam looking across the lake to Ed Dismuke's Famous Water Company, where mineral water was piped to his drinking pavilion on NW 3rd Street.

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Landscape and Nature - Water - Lakes
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Landscape and Nature - State and National Parks
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Sports and Recreation - Fishing

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Parker County
  • Time Period: mod-tim
  • Coverage Date: 1941

Collection

  • Name: A. F. Weaver Collection
    Code: AFWC

Institution

  • Name: Boyce Ditto Public Library
    Code: BDPL

Rights

  • Rights Access: public

Resource Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: AWO_0407N
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth20380

Note

  • Display Note: Lake Pinto supplied water to the City of Mineral Wells from the time of its creation in 1902, until Rock Creek was dammed to form Lake Mineral Wells in Parker County in 1918, and completed in September of 1920. This photograph is taken from one of 17 (4X4) negatives in an envelope from Charles W. Simonds, addressed to A.F. Weaver Photography, and postmarked "Aug. 4, 1975."
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