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[F. C. Olds' Residence, Waco]

Description: Postcard of Frederick Charles Olds' residence on Austin Avenue, Waco. The house here is a two-storied house with a large portico set on stone pillars and balconies on both floors extending in both directions for the house's front facade. A covered driveway juts out from the house's side at left, with a paved pathway leading up to the side of the house.
Date: December 24, 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Mr. Byrd, Heading to New Mexico]

Description: Photographs of a Mr. Byrd, heading west from South Carolina to New Mexico by ox-wagon. He is depicted here resting and eating in the Chickasaw Nation, seated on a stool with a plate in his hands and a cup on a small box in front of him. His covered wagon is behind him, with packages laid to its side. Oxen are seated at left, resting on the grass. Trees and bushes are scattered in the background.
Date: June 1, 1906
Creator: Eichelberger, George W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Providence Sanitarium, Waco]

Description: Photograph of Providence Sanitarium (later Providence Hospital), a large five-storied building with an arched portico with stairs leading to the entrance underneath, porches attached to the sides of the building, and arched parapets rising parallel with the building's hip roof. Cars are parked on the dirt road in front. The photographer's credit, reading "Gildersleeve", has been partially obscured on the bottom right.
Date: [1905..]
Creator: Gildersleeve
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.557404 -97.153702
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[The Lawrence House and Family]

Description: Photograph of the Lawrence/Laurence house and family outside Blue Ridge, Texas. The family stands at center, the father holding a child, the mother to his right in a dress, and a young girl in a white gown in front of them. Behind them is their wooden house, with plants and wooden fences adjoining. Notes are written on the front of the picture.
Date: 1904
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[McLennan County Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of the McLennan County Courthouse, a large ornate, neoclassical building with a large dome, a facade with Greek-styled pillars, a long set of stone stairs, and two wings on both sides of the building. Statues of eagles and Lady Justice decorate the dome and the front of the building. Bicycles are placed along the curb of the road, as well as horse-drawn buggies parked to hitching posts along the sidewalk.
Date: [1901..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.557087 -97.133345
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[David N. Myrick in a Buggy with a Horse]

Description: Photograph of David N. Myrick sitting in a small wooden buggy hitched to a horse. Myrick poses with his right leg placed on his left thigh, and his hat tilted slightly obscured. The buggy is stopped on a dirt road, in front of a building with an arch entrance.
Date: November 28, 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of D. N. Myrick, Mamie Parker, and Friends]

Description: Photograph of D. N. Myrick, Mary Lou Myrick, Mamie Parker, Jessie Parker, and Evelyn Biggs. They pose together in two rows: standing in the back is Evelyn Biggs at center and Mary Lou at right, with an unspecified woman at left. Sitting at front is D. N. Myrick at right, with another unspecified girl at left. The positions of Jessie Parker and Mamie Parker are not indicated. A note on the back states that the Myricks were neighbors in Ladonia, and that Evelyn lived in Dodge City before moving t… more
Date: 1907?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Roberta H. Willis]

Description: Photograph of Roberta H. Willis (1904–1912), a daughter of Sallie Ann Parker and Thomas Middlebrook Willis of Abilene, Texas. Roberta is dressed in a white gown and is seated on a cushion. She smiles and looks forward.
Date: 1904/1912
Creator: New York Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Midland Area Grapes]

Description: 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.
Date: 1908~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Postcard from Julia Estes Rankin to Velma Snelson - June 5, 1908]

Description: 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.
Date: June 5, 1908
Creator: Rankin, Julia Estes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[J. H. Barron's Everybody's Mercantile, Interior]

Description: Photograph of the interior of J. H. Barron's Everybody Mercantile (100 S Main Street, Midland). The general store has a long glass display cabinet with items displayed within and an employee working behind the counter. Shelves of merchandise are along the left wall, atop which are plied suitcases and blankets and near which stands Mollie McCormick (far left, white dress) and several other women. On the right wall are cabinets with rolls of paper above, as well as denser shelves in the back and … more
Date: 1904?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997249 -102.074578
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Cross Tie Cowboys and a Chuck Wagon]

Description: Photograph of the Cross Tie Cowboys, seated together in a clearing in the grasslands with a chuckwagon. Two men are seated next to or behind the chuckwagon, which carries supplies. Several horses stand in the back, behind several bushes. The cross tie brand was registered on April 29, 1902, originally owned by Newnie Ellie.
Date: [1902-04-29..]
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Machine Shop]

Description: 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.
Date: 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.996240 -102.074584
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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