Texas Carlsbad Water
Date: c. 1895
Creator: unknown
Description: A group of people stand outside Texas Carlsbad Water. The Carlsbad was one of the earlier, and more popular drinking pavilions in Mineral Wells. It was located on NW 1st. Avenue, at NW 4th Street, directly across the street west of the Crazy Well. Its slogan was: Makes a man love HIS wife, Makes a woman love HER husband, Robs the divorce court of its business, Takes the temper out of red-headed people, Puts ginger into ginks and pepper into plodders. Please note the supports for possible electric lines, the unpaved street, and the horses obscurely visible at the far right of the photograph.
Contributing Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25108/
1921. Carlsbad Well, Mineral Wells, Texas
Date: c. 1910
Creator: unknown
Description: The Texas Carlsbad Well, once located at 415 NW 1st Avenue (west of the Crazy Water Well and second Crazy Drinking Pavilion) is shown here. The number on the picture appears to be some sort of set number and not a date. Please note the complete absence of automobiles in the picture, and the unhitched buggy to the right foreground. (The gasoline powered "Dinky Car" tracks, which served this area of NW 1st Avenue from 1905 to 1909, are not visible here, nor does the street appear to be paved. The city streets were paved in 1914.) A more modern brick building was added to this wooden pavilion in 1909; both structures are visible in pictures taken during a Woodmen of the World convention in 1911. (Note: The newer Carlsbad building was taken over by the Crazy Hotel for its Laundry and Dry Cleaning when the second Carlsbad Pavilion shut down operations during World War II.)
Contributing Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25109/
[Photograph of John and Sallie Matthews by a Well]
Date: 1930~
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the elderly John and Sallie Matthews standing together by a stone well. Sallie is wearing spectacles, a low necked blouse, knee length skirt, hose, and shoes. John is wearing a cowboy hat, glasses, patterned white shirt, dark pants, and shoes.
Contributing Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth65572/
[Concrete Well and a Fallen Windpump]
Date: unknown
Creator: Dietel, Norman
Description: Photograph of a windpump that has collapsed to the left of a concrete well. Both are near two trees and a fence.
Contributing Partner: LBJ Museum of San Marcos
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth63855/
[Concrete Well and a Fallen Windpump]
Date: unknown
Creator: Dietel, Norman
Description: Photograph of of a concrete well and a fallen windpump (left). Both are sitting in a large fenced field with bare trees nearby.
Contributing Partner: LBJ Museum of San Marcos
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth63824/
Ruins of an Old Well
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the ruins of an old well near a wooden fence. Trees grow in the distance.
Contributing Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth44966/
Stone Ruins of Fort Davis' Well and Pump House Park
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the stone ruins of the well and pump house at Fort Davis, Texas.
Contributing Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth44915/
Locations and Depths of the Artesian Wells of the Black and Grand Prairies of Texas
Date: 1898
Creator: Hill, Robert Thomas, 1858-1941
Description: This map shows a portion of Texas with markings for different kinds of artesian wells. In the top, left-hand corner, there is an inset showing the entire state and marking the area detailed in the map. The header at the top of the map says, "U. S. Geological Survey, Twenty-First Annual Report, Part VII, PL. LXVIII." Scale [1:316,800] "Contour Interval 100 feet."
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth121735/
Encinal County
Date: 1886~
Creator: unknown
Description: Map of the South Texas Plains region covering Encinal County, Texas. The roads from Laredo to Rio Grande City and from Laredo to Corpus Christi, Texas are marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Contributing Partner: Texas General Land Office
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth88530/
Encinal County
Date: May 1878
Creator: Langermann, A. B.
Description: Map of the South Texas Plains region covering Encinal County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Contributing Partner: Texas General Land Office
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth88526/