Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Libraryhttps://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/partners/BDPL/browse/?fq=dc_type:image_artwork&display=list&fq=untl_decade:1900-19092007-11-29T18:42:44-06:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library[A Mineral Wells Advertisement]2007-11-29T18:42:44-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29836/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29836/"><img alt="[A Mineral Wells Advertisement]" title="[A Mineral Wells Advertisement]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29836/small/"/></a></p><p>A 1906 seasonal advertisement, compliments Central Texas Realty Association, depicts a young lady (An Art Nouveau goddess?) half-kneeling within a frame that suggests stained glass. She is holding a water jug, from which pours a stream of healing elixir that splashes into the lowermost center of the brochure.
Decorative scrolls reminiscent of wrought iron sculpture decorate the advertisement. Stars, both in the advertisement and on the lady's tiara, hint that Mineral Wells is the City of Light.
What appears to be a coffee stain shows at the upper left. Someone has penciled "1905" in the upper right corner.</p>[Newspaper Clipping of A Mineral Wells School, Texas]2007-04-25T19:49:14-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25053/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25053/"><img alt="[Newspaper Clipping of A Mineral Wells School, Texas]" title="[Newspaper Clipping of A Mineral Wells School, Texas]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25053/small/"/></a></p><p>A newspaper clipping with a photograph of a Mineral Wells School. This clipping had been mounted in a scrapbook, and the legible portion of the caption says, "Mineral Wells School, Texas." The whole caption read: Mineral Wells College. [sic]--A School for Both Sexes
The building, which the Weatherford Democrat of September 12, 1895 says would be built in Mineral Wells (It would have been in Romanesque architecture), was to offer "Classical, Scientific, English, Music, Elocution, and Art Courses" . Professor J. McCracken was the head of the school. The building was never built, because the state provided education up to (but not including) college. A need for further education was not felt. .</p>