[The West Ward School] Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title [The West Ward School]

Date

  • Creation: 1909?
  • Digitized: 2006-10-09

Language

  • No Language

Description

  • Content Description: The West Ward School is shown with "Dinky Car" tracks in foreground. The picture was taken around 1909. The first Mineral Wells School with a graduating class, built in 1902, it was located just north of Little Rock School on NW 5th Avenue. Mineral Wells' first High School graduation class, consisted of four students in 1903, as evinced by a photograph in "Time Was...", page 189. It was later named "Houston School" in 1915. The West Ward School was subsequently torn down. Another school, constructed on SW 4th Avenue, was then named "Houston School."

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Architecture
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Education - Schools - Buildings
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: People - Groups

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
  • Time Period: new-sou

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_0930P
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth20246
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