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Looking South on Mesquite Street

Description: A street scene, identified as Mesquite Street (now NE 1st Avenue)and looking south, taken at the turn of the twentieth century, shows businesses that antedate the coming of the automobile. On the right, in the middle of the picture, the Yeager Building is shown with a stone lion mounted on its roof. Many historians now refer to this building as the Lion Drug Store. However, current Yeager descendants now living in Mineral Wells do not remember the store as ever being named anything but The Ye… more
Date: 1902-05?
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Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Looking South on Mesquite Street]

Description: A photograph that looks south on Mesquite Street (in 2008: NE 1st Avenue)is shown here. It was taken after 1914, as the pavement indicates. Several automobiles and a horse-drawn buggy share the street. Note the water fountain between cars in right-center foreground. This water fountain was later moved to Mineral Wells' West City Park, and is now in the "Towne Common", located in the 100 block of SW 1st Avenue. The picture may be found on page 79 of A.F. Weaver's "TIME WAS . . . " Mini… more
Date: 1915?
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Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Loose Page Covering Mineral Wells, and Buffalo Gap]

Description: Scrapbook page covering Mineral Wells and Buffalo Gap, Texas. The first page includes photos of two groups from Buffalo Gap the "Comanches" and the "Apaches". There is also a photo of the hill that a group climbed in Buffalo Gap. The second page includes 2 photos take from a hill in the back of Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells. The last two photos show the hill behind the hotel and entrance of the hotel itself.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Loose Page Covering Mineral Wells, Galveston, and Weatherford]

Description: Scrapbook page covering Mineral Wells, Galveston, and Weatherford. The first page of photos include the Weatherford courthouse, U. S. 80, Fort Crockett in Galveston, and a waterspout in Galveston. The second page of photos include Buccaneer Hotel, the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter "Saranac", a Galveston Hospital and a photo of two freighter ships in Galveston harbor.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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