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Safety Device for Elevators.

Description: Patent for an improved elevator safety device that engages the brakes should the cable break or engine become inoperable to bring the elevator to a gradual stop, with illustrations.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Davis, John L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[City Drug Store, Midland]

Description: Photograph of the interior of a drug store in Midland, with long rows of shelves along the wall, short glass counters with inside displays across from the shelves, wire tablesets, ceiling fans, and a tin ceiling. Shop workers stand along the counters, one on the left and five on the right. Their names are listed on the back: on the (farthest?) right stands George D. McCormick; also listed, without location specified, Ray Hyatt, Grady Crawley, J. G. Garrion[?], M[?] C[?], and J. R. Sttorey[?].
Date: 1912
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[C Ranch Cowboys]

Description: Photograph of nine C Ranch cowboys in front of a stable, mounted on horses, wearing hats and equipped with lassos. Four names are identified on the back: first from left is John Aker, second from left is "Fatty" Bill Condell[?], fourth from left is Hayden Miles, and third from right is Charlie Frishoe[?].
Date: 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[San Jacinto Day, Midland Downtown]

Description: Photograph of San Jacinto Day celebrations in downtown Midland, on the intersection of Main and Wall Street. Numerous buildings, including the First National Bank, are placed along the streets, below which are sidewalks lined up with crowds of people. Part of the crowd has spilled into the street, forming an arched barrier of people, watching a procession or dance on the right half of the picture. A similar procession occurs at left, with numerous children standing in a grid. Horses with carria… more
Date: April 21, 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Progressive Democracy Wagon]

Description: Photograph of a mule-drawn wagon, decorated with the words "PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY" along a cloth hanging from the side of the mule and with the words "WOODROW" and "WILSON" and the front and back wheels, respectively, bearing two women—Elma and Belulah Graves—in dark-colored dresses surrounded by flowers and a flag. The parade wagon is parked on a dirt road in front of T. S. Sacra's home, a two-story house.
Date: July 4, 1912
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.003913 -102.075982
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[William Leon Bryant Ranch Headquarters]

Description: Photograph of the headquarters of the William Leon Bryant ranch (10 miles south of Midland), a two-story ranch house with a long front porch and a windmill and water tank to the left. A gutter system runs along the top of the roof into a tank in front of the porch (white pipes). Along the front of the house is a field of plants, where chickens are wandering. A small shed is to the right of the house.
Date: 1914
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Residence of E. D. Harrington, 1910]

Description: Photograph of the second residence of E. D. Harrington, a two-story residential building with a front porch, large trees on the front yard, and a picket fence, behind which stands an unidentified person. According to a note written on the back of the photograph, this house comes "fifteen years later"; the first house, built in 1895, was burnt down.
Date: 1910
Creator: Rohlfing, W. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Playing Tennis Behind the Midland School]

Description: Photograph of professors in the Midland school playing tennis behind the two-story brick school building. A woman at center wearing a dress holds a racket in her left hand, and a man in a hat at right bends down to lift a ball and possibly serve it. Spectators, including children, watch from a set of primitive bleachers at left; another child in a light-colored gown stands to the right, next to the building.
Date: 1912~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.999974 -102.077224
Partner: Midland Historical Society

Door-Lock

Description: Patent for a lock which can be attached to either a right-hand or left-hand door and operated from either side. When locked from the inside, a shutter will prevent the door from being unlocked from the outside until released again from the inside.
Date: January 12, 1915
Creator: Wilson, Ira W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Farmhouse]

Description: Photograph of a single story frame farmhouse, viewed from above. The house has a covered porch and is surrounded by a wooden fence. A man is standing outside the fence with his back to the photographer.
Date: April 24, 1914
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Farmhouse]

Description: Photograph of a single story frame farmhouse, viewed from above. The house has a covered porch and is surrounded by a wooden fence.
Date: April 24, 1914
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Tractor and Plows on Main and Wall, Midland]

Description: Photograph of a gathering of agricultural machinery in front of the Llano Hotel and the Midland National Bank on the intersection of Main and Wall streets (formerly Abilene and Iowa, respectively). A row of plows is placed at center, where Bert Ramsey places his foot and rests his arm on the rightmost plow. At right is a large Rumley Oil Pull tractor with large wheels and an oversized engine, manned at the wheel by Henry Halff, owner of the tractor. E. J. Mumford stands to the left of the tract… more
Date: 1915~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997505 -102.074395
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Farm yard and cattle]

Description: Photograph of a farm yard with a outbuilding and silo on the left, a windmill at the center, and a one story frame house on the right. A small herd of cattle is in the foreground, with three men on foot behind the herd.
Date: [1911..1934]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Farmhouse and pasture]

Description: Photograph of a single story frame farm house and an adjacent fence pasture. Four people stand on or near the front porch of the house. A saddled horse stands next to a rail fence separating the house from the pasture. A barbed wire fence runs along the edge of the pasture in the foreground.
Date: [1911..1934]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Library and Typing Rooms, Texas Lutheran College]

Description: Three photographs of the old Main Building's library and typing rooms at the Texas Lutheran College, marked (9), (10), and (11). Pictures (9) and (11) (left, right) depict stacks of books along bookshelves within the building's library; picture (10) (center) depicts typewriters on desks huddled in the corner of a typing classroom.
Date: 1918~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.572757 -97.982030
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[End of World War I Celebration, Seguin]

Description: Photograph of a celebration for the end of World War I in front of the Seguin Opera House in downtown Seguin. Depicted is a sign with a large flag on a wooden stump reading "Kaiser Wilhelm / Born in Germany / Died Nov 11 1918 / By order of the allies". A note on the back of the photograph tells that en effigy of the Kaiser was hung earlier.
Date: November 1918
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.567211 -97.964805
Partner: Texas Lutheran University
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