Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Libraryhttps://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/partners/BDPL/browse/?sort=creator&fq=dc_type:image_artwork&fq=untl_decade:1910-19192007-11-29T18:43:06-06:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Partner: Boyce Ditto Public LibraryThe Health Resort Quarterly, 1 of 4, Cover2007-11-29T18:43:06-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29832/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29832/"><img alt="The Health Resort Quarterly, 1 of 4, Cover" title="The Health Resort Quarterly, 1 of 4, Cover" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29832/small/"/></a></p><p>The cover of The (October 1915) Health Resort Quarterly, published by the Commercial Club of Mineral Wells, Texas is illustrated here. The wreath on the cover frames a lady's arm and hand holding a glass of (mineral) water with captions "ANALYSIS HAS PROVED IT TO HAVE NO EQUAL" above and "FAMED THE WORLD OVER" below, referring to the mineral water from the local wells. A colophon at bottom reads: "Index Print [symbol] Mineral Wells."</p>[A Love Story of Mineral Wells]2006-11-28T08:39:42-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20213/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20213/"><img alt="[A Love Story of Mineral Wells]" title="[A Love Story of Mineral Wells]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20213/small/"/></a></p><p>This photograph appears to be a fragment of the cover of an advertising booklet that includes the fiction "A Love Story of Mineral Wells", by Mamie Wynn Cox. Her fiction was first published in 1911. Four libraries worldwide claim possession of a copy of it. The complete booklet is available by flipping through the page by selecting "next" above the photographs.
The cover shows a lady holding a handful of dominoes, which was probably meant to establish a connection to Mineral Wells, Dominoes once being a popular pastime in the city.
The game of 42 (named after the number of points that could be scored in a game) was invented in Garner, seven miles east of Mineral Wells.
For readers interested in obtaining a copy of the fiction, the Dewey Number of it is 833; the Library of Congress Call Number is PS 3505.O97</p>