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[Women in a Decorated Car]
Date: c. 1910
Creator: unknown
Description: Five females ("Aunt Matie, Edith Preston, Lena, and two of Edith's friends", a legend states on the back)) in a decorated car outside the Western Union Telegraph office. Signs on and by the building read "Crazy Well Flats and Modern Rooms", "Cigars", and "Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office."
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16358/
[St. Nicholas Hotel]
Date: c. 1910
Creator: Dan W. Evans
Description: A group of men stand in front of newly-constructed St. Nicholas Hotel. A colophon at the lower right designates this picture as a photographic souvenir from Minerals Wells, taken by Dan W. Evans. This hotel, later known as the Delaware Hotel, was located at at N. Oak and NE 3rd Street. It was eventually consumed by fire. The back of photograph has a T and P Railway logotype and this information about the Jericho Fine Photo Company: "Mountain and Donkey Groups, View Souvenirs and Scenery of Min-Wells, Kodak Supplies and Finishing, Button and Stamp Photos a Specialty. Dan W. Evans Prop. Min Wells, Tex."
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16357/
[Mesquite Street, Looking South]
Date: c. 1912
Creator: unknown
Description: Shown here is a view of Mesquite Street (Now--2008--NE First Avenue) from its upper end at Coke Street (now NE 2nd Street). Horse-drawn vehicles are present. The building at the left middle of the picture with the "DRUGS" sign and the stone lion statue on its roof is the Yeager Building, home of what was popularly called "The Lion Drug Store." The first building on right, 205 NE First Street (with arched windows) was H. M. Coleman's clothing store for men, which even at this early date, appears to be undergoing renovation.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16287/
Oak Street , Looking South
Date: c. 1910
Creator: unknown
Description: We have here a picture of Oak Street, looking South. The Poston Company and the Palace Saloon are easily visible in photograph. The wording "Fishburn Dallas" appears on the photograph. The unpaved street, several horses and wagons in picture date the picture to an era before 1914, when the street was paved.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16282/
Oak Street, Looking North
Date: 1910 - 1914
Creator: unknown
Description: An early view of Oak Street (now Oak Avenue), looking North is shown here. The first intersecting road is Hubbard Street. Part of the Oxford Hotel is visible on the southeast corner of Hubbard and Oak. Please note the utter lack of street lights. Street car tracks and an overhead cable run on Oak. Mineral Wells Electric System (Street Car) ceased operation in 1913. The downtown streets were paved in 1914. A hardware store, possibly Davidson's, is on the southwest corner of Hubbard and Oak.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16271/
Inside Information about the Waters
Date: c. 1919
Creator: unknown
Description: A souvenir booklet, shaped like a bottle from Mineral Wells. It is almost devoid of information, except to note that it was printed by the Harris Service of Ft. Worth, Texas (with its advertising mark of an arrowhead). A copyright was applied for is the last bit of information on the pamphlet's cover.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16330/
[Horse-Drawn firewagon]
Date: July 4, 1914
Creator: unknown
Description: The location this photograph illustrates is unidentified. It may be of the great fire of July 4, 1914, which burned some 34 homes in Mineral Wells between Hubbard and NW 6th Street, between NW 2nd Avenue and NW 4th Avenue. The white horses pulling the fire truck in the middle of the picture were named "Joe" and "Frank". Their regular driver was a man named Cogdell.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16233/
Our City
Date: 1912 - 1925
Creator: unknown
Description: A photograph, taken from Welcome Mountain looking West down NW 4th Street, of unknown date is illustrated here. The small brick building in 4th Street is the Crazy Well. The first Crazy Water Hotel (left middle of picture) was built on same location as present Crazy Water hotel. The present hotel is much larger and extends to the Crazy Well. Note the Crazy Flats (drinking pavilion with apartments) in foreground. Note the first Catholic Church, on West Mountain. The West Ward School and the High School are in upper left quadrant of picture.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16225/
Hotel Damron, Mineral Wells, Texas
Date: c. 1918
Creator: unknown
Description: This picture shows a post-card view of the Damron Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas. It was built in 1906 as The Colonial Hotel by rancher J.T. Holt for his second wife, who would not live in the country. The hotel was traded around 1917 to Agnew and Bessie Damron in exchange for a ranch. The hotel burned in 1978.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16184/
Carlisle House, Mineral Wells, Texas
Date: c. 1913
Creator: unknown
Description: The Carlisle House was owned and managed by Mrs. A. E. Carlisle. It was located in the same block as the later Nazareth Hospital. A big fire on July 4, 1914 destroyed it, as notes with picture declare. (The conflagration of 1914 also destroyed about a six-block area of Northwest Mineral Wells.)
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16179/