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[Portrait of Edgar Ragland]

Description: Photograph of Mr. Edgar Ragland, wearing a military uniform with a saber, a pair of epaulettes, and two medals sewn into the front of the vest. He holds out a pyramidal white cap with dark-colored feathers hanging from the top. A symbol, possibly Masonic, seems to be sewn onto the cap. Edgar faces forward with combed hair and a curled mustache.
Date: March 1891
Creator: Deane
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Anna Montgomery]

Description: Photograph of Anna Montgomery Hodges (1871–1932), aged 19. She wears a corseted light-colored dress with a silk scarf and a hat decorated with feathers and flowers. She stands next to a bouquet of flowers and stares upwards to the left. Anna Montgomery would later marry Samuel Allen Hodges.
Date: 1890/1891
Creator: Millholin, J. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Ernest Gardner and Ollie Gardner]

Description: Photograph of Ernest Gardner and Ollie Gardner, shown as children. Ernest sits in a wicker chair at right in a puffy light-colored dress shirt. Ollie stands at left with her hand on the armrest, wearing a light-colored dress and a bowtie in her hair. A note written on the back identifies the children by name; the writer of the note specifies Ernest and Ollie as their "father and aunt", respectively.
Date: 1897~
Creator: Weatherington Bros.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Scene on Public Square, Waco]

Description: Drawing of a scene at the public square at Waco, with the old city hall at right. Along a road to the left of the city hall is a large crowd of horse-drawn vehicles, horseback riders, animals tied to hitching posts, and other pedestrians. The city hall at center is depicted with a fence and with its large, prominent steeple nestled in the background. A man on horseback, drawn on the bottom right, watches the crowd.
Date: 1890
Creator: Spitter, W. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[McDaniel Home, Abilene]

Description: Photograph of the first home of Lavinia Parker McDaniel and George W. McDaniel in Abilene, Texas. This Victorian-era home, located at 774 Butternut, was built with lumber from the lumberyard of Robert Henry Parker, Lavinia Parker's father. The house has two stories, though the front is obscured by tall bushes and trees. A dormer emerges from the central hip roof which forms two gable ends in the front and one on each side of the house (one visible, at left). The house has two chimneys, and is b… more
Date: 1898
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.441206 -99.738430
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Bonham Wholesale Grocery, Interior]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Bonham Wholesale Grocery, located along the railroad in south Bonham. In the room depicted here, workers stand to the left of a large gas stove in the middle of the area. Chairs and desks are located to the left in the room. Identified in the picture, from left to right, are: Alonzo Allen. Harry Roberts, June Kennedy, Claude Allen, Floy Campbell, and George Hancock.
Date: [1895..1919]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.573495 -96.178731
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[Bonham Wholesale Grocery, Workers on Dock]

Description: Photograph of workers along the dock of the Bonham Wholesale Grocery. The brick building of the grocery store behind them, the workers pose along the wooden dock, facing forward. Three workers are identified: the first from left, Floy Campbell; fourth from left, the first seated, Willie Milstead, and first from right, Hub [?].
Date: [1895..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.573396 -96.178773
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

[City Meat Market, Midland]

Description: Photograph of the interior of a meat market in Midland, Texas, displaying cuts of meat on a marble countertop with innards and other organs hanging from above. Three workers stand behind the counter along chopping boards and weights, with stacks of buckets and a large metal safe along the counter. Two workers are identified: Ben Ethridge (possibly left) and his son, Buster Ethridge; the third worker, obscured by the hanging meat, is unidentified.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Post Office, Front Desk, 1895]

Description: Photograph of the front desk of the Midland Post Office in 1895. Three women stand along the front: from left to right, Minnie Sholte, Mrs. Ray, and Ethel Richardson. The front windows are shut with bars, and above them are signs warning of $10.00 fines. At right, a chandelier hangs from above, with a wall of opaque glass panes adjacent to a wooden door at right.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.996496 -102.073942
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Vest Family, 1890]

Description: Photograph of the Vest Family, standing together next to a building outside on the grass as a horse stands behind them. Their names are listed on the back: from left to right, Bill Vest, Molly Vest McCormick, Ab Vest, John Vest, Mrs. Nancy Katherine Vest, Doc Vest, and Tom Vest.
Date: 1890
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[1896 Midland 3rd and 4th Grade]

Description: Photograph of the 1896 classes of the third and fourth grade in the Midland school. They are arranged in eight rows along the front steps of the school building, and a young girl holds up a small chalkboard reading "Grade 3rd-4th".
Date: 1896
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[D. Harrington Outfit]

Description: Photograph of the "D. Harrington Outfit", gathered together south of Midland. They are mostly seated on the grass, some mounted on their horses, some standing next to their horses, and a few seated in the carriages. Several people are identified by number: 1, Jas Harrington (mounted on the horse, facing the photographer); 2, Andrew Allen (standing up with a hat, looking down); 3, E. Divi Harrington; 4, Irene Harrington; 5,Dot Twinning (cousin); 6, Pearl Harrington (all seated).
Date: 1896
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Sandstorm, 1894]

Description: Photograph of a sandstorm approaching Midland on February 20, 1894. The sandstorm, dozens of feet tall, lays behind the small town, which consists only of several houses, water towers, and windmills. Two people walk between openings in a fence along a dirt path at right.
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Symonds, H. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Post Office, 1895]

Description: Photograph of the Midland post office, around 1895, possibly located at 108 East Missouri Avenue. Mae Dyer (standing) sorts through boxes of mail placed in small cubicles along the wall, and Minnie Sholte is seated to her right next to a large desk. In front of the desk is a young girl wearing a cowboy hat, seated on a chair. A gas lamp hangs from the roof of the ceiling, and baskets are placed along the walls.
Date: 1895~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.996496 -102.073942
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Zachary Taylor Brown Residence]

Description: Photograph of Zachary Taylor Brown's house in Midland, a two-story Victorian house with embellished eaves along the gable roofs, windows with shutters, an elevated porch connected with stairs, and a short picket fence. Zachary Taylor Brown stands in front of the fence, with a couple and another woman standing in the porch.
Date: [1899..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Sandstorm on the Plains, 1894]

Description: Photograph of a sandstorm approaching Midland and the E. D. Harrington home, the first brick house in Midland, in April 1894. Other wooden-framed buildings and windmills are in the path of the sandstorm, which towers over the town.
Date: April 1894
Creator: Bland
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Residence of E. D. Harrington, 1895]

Description: Photograph of the recently-completed residence of E. D. Harrington, a one-story house with a pyramid roof, a wide awning along the front door, and a picket fence around the yard. Several boxes and a horse are in the left half of the yard, and the family stands under the awning on the front porch. A windmill is visible in the background. The house's roof was burned down later, and the Harringtons moved to a different house on Loraine Street.
Date: 1895
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Five Wells Ranch, Catching Horses]

Description: Photograph of the Five Wells Ranch remuda—"catching horses." The horses are gathered in a large herd on a vast grass plain, with several cowboys standing among the horses. A note on the back states that "enough farming is now done on Five Wells to produce needed grain sorghums for food, but no cotton is permitted."
Date: 1890
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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