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Red Brick Abandoned Building in Thurber, Texas

Description: Photograph of a red brick building covered in vines and surrounded by trees and shrubs. The building, which is in the background of the image, is facing toward the left and has a flat top roof that is not visible. There is an open tunnel entrance made with red slatted wood on the righthand side of the building. Above this entrance there is a multipanel round top window. There is another smaller round top window beside the entrance close to the ground. Next to this window there is a white round … more
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Partner: UNT Libraries

[The Thurber Tipple and Thurber Monument]

Description: Photograph of buildings in Thurber, Texas, taken from a parking lot. A gasoline station is on the left; it has a second story serving as an overhang as well as a taller platform with a railing and the words "Thurber Tipple" written near the roof. A car is parked at the gasoline station and a couple is looking inside the engine. The Thurber smokestack is visible near the center of the photograph and several unidentified buildings are on the left. Three other cars are parked on the left side … more
Date: August 4, 1974
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Thurber research]

Description: Research for an article about Thurber, Texas that was published in the June 2005 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2005-06~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Panoramic View of Thurber, Texas]

Description: Copy photo of a panoramic view of Thurber, Texas, including a long train of cars carrying coal. The caption of the photo says "Panoramic View of Thurber, Texas - 40 cars coal ready to ship and the vitrified brick plant. - population about 6000 - the largest coal producing town in the Southwest - capacity 100 cars per day." Below the image are written "July 1911" and "Texas & Pacific Quarterly pg 72."
Date: July 1911
Partner: The Grace Museum
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[News Clip: Thurber]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 25, 1979, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Brick Road East of Mineral Wells]

Description: The brick highway (emphatically not yellow brick!) east of Mineral Wells (the Bankhead Highway) was the nation's first transcontinental highway, beginning at milepost 0 on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. and ending at San Diego, California. Bricks for it in this area were made in Thurber, Texas (on the Palo Pinto/Erath county line). All bricks were laid by two (some say one) black masons. Bricks made in Thurber were also used to build the seawall at Galvest… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Red-brick smokestack of the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company sign

Description: THIS IS THE SITE OF THE FIRST COMMERCIAL COAL PRODUCED IN TEXAS BY TEXAS & PACIFIC COAL COMPANY. MINED IN 1888. THIS COMPANY WAS THE FORERUNNER OF TEXAS PACIFIC COAL AND OIL COMPANY, NOW ONE OF THE NATION'S SUBSTANTIAL INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS OF OIL AND GAS. THE TRANSITION FROM COAL MINING TO PETROLEUM PRODUCTION WAS ACCELERATED BY THE COMPANY'S DISCOVERY IN 1917 OF OIL AND GAS IN THE GREAT RANGER FIELD, 16 MILES TO THE WEST. IT WAS A NATURAL EVOLUTION OF AN AMERICAN ENTERPRISE DEDICATED TO DEVE… more
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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