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[Mary E. Sayles vs. The County of Jones, Texas: Petition to Appeal]

Description: Unsigned petition to appeal in the case of Mary E. Sayles vs. The County of Jones, Texas, that states a timeline of incidents beginning with Mary E. Sayles being notified of construction of a public road through part of her land, her request for compensation, the courts' denial due to the high importance of the road, and Mary E. Sayles and her attorneys' decision to appeal the judgement.
Date: May 15, 1905
Creator: Sayles, Mary E.; Sayles, Henry, Jr. & Harris, George C.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of a landscape with a road]

Description: Photograph of a rocky mountainous landscape, with a roadway that cuts through and curves along a body of water. The portrait is believed to be apart of Byrd Williams Jr.'s college work from their youth.
Date: [1900..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Wagon on a bridge]

Description: Panoramic photograph of a wagon driving across a bridge. The cart is moving away from the camera and there is a man running along the sidewalk in the opposite direction, on the left side of the image.
Date: [1900..1920]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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?
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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