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[North Oak Avenue Street Scene]

Description: A street scene of North Oak Avenue, looking north from Hubbard Street, taken about 1930, includes businesses as: Palace Drug Company, Owl Book Store, American Cafe, Poston Dry Goods, Max Miller's Shoe Store, Caldwell Hotel, Texas Power and Light, Bath House and Crazy Water Hotel. Please note that the street has been paved, and a traffic light is present.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Postcard of North Side of Square in Goldthwaite, Texas]

Description: Postcard of a view down a street in Goldthwaite full of various businesses with two rows of cars parked to the left and right of the road. The store fronts to the left have signs advertising businesses such as "[Ya]rborough [Dry] Goods", "Clements Drugs", and the "Melba" theatre. Text at the top center of the card reads, "Business Section North Side of Square, Goldthwaite Texas".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 31.450171 -98.570138
Partner: Jennie Trent Dew Library

[Journal photograph of the Alexander Sanitarium]

Description: Copy slide of a photograph of the Alexander Sanitarium and Nurses Training School in Abilene, Texas. Several nurses, a gentleman and a horse wagon are visible in front of the building. The image appears to be part of an advertisement and there is text written on the photograph reading "A Private Institution for the care and treatment of Medical, Surgical, Obstetrical, and Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Cases. Colonial Building. Steam, Heat and Electric Lighted. A complete Electrical and X-Ray Equip… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: McMurry University Library

Young Motor Co.

Description: A text on the photograph identifies it as "May 1952-Grand Opening after fire of 1951,/ 316 E. Hubbard Street, /Photo by A. F. Weaver." This business was the local General Motors dealership and garage. It became Barnett-Young in late 1960's, and in 1984 after Cecil Young's death it was Barnett Motor Co. The building is adjacent to the Baker Hotel parking garage, and, in 2007, it houses the H & H Tire Company.
Date: May 1952
Creator: Weaver, A. F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Grande Courts Tourist Apartments

Description: A tourist court, built about 1930 by Charlie E. Turner, Harold Dennis, and Clarence Hunt is depicted here. It was located in the 1000 block of West Hubbard Street. Grande [pronounced "Grand-dee"--at least in Mineral Wells] Courts was a national chain of franchise motels. This picture appears in A.F. Weaver's book, "TIME WAS in Mineral Wells", second edition, page 99. The sign reads "Grande Courts Tourist Apts."
Date: 1930?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

The Right Ticket

Description: This picture shows an old advertisement for Mineral Wells, touting the "Pleasures" to be had in the city. The lady's crown displays the legend "Health & Pleasure." The "Pleasures" obtainable in the city need not be discussed, as they are plainly described in the picture, which may be found on page 91 of the second edition of A. F. Weaver's book, "Time Was..."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[News Script: Energy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about negative effects of the fuel shortage, such as a recession and layoffs.
Date: November 29, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Parker and 4th Street in Goldthwaite]

Description: Photocopy of a row of business fronts near a street corner with several signs adverting stores and merchandise. A utility pole is visible at the corner in the left foreground in front of a doctor's office and drug store. A horse is standing in the street, center of the photo, and a handful of people are walking on the sidewalk under store awnings in the right background or crossing the street towards the foreground.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.450216 -98.570252
Partner: Jennie Trent Dew Library

[Clipping: Committed!]

Description: Clipping from the New York Times discussing the major problem of thousands of old people being railroaded to mental institutions because of the lack of eldercare.
Date: December 28, 1949
Creator: The New York Times
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[A Crazy Hotel Brochure]

Description: This photograph illustrates a fold-out brochure of the Crazy Hotel with various scenic views of things to see and do around the city, along with different modes of transportation to and from Mineral Wells.
Date: 1930?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Taken From North Oak]

Description: This information is printed on the back of photograph: "Taken from the North Oak and N. E. 3rd. Street looking North May 28, 1975 by A.F. Weaver." Businesses that are visible in the photograph are, in order: The Crazy Water Hotel, Community Aerial Cable Company, Bennett's Office Supply and The Grand Theater.
Date: May 28, 1975
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Mercantile in Mineral

Description: Photograph of the Mercantile Store in Mineral, Texas. The first Anglo settlers to the Mineral area date back to 1845 when President Anson Jones granted a large track of land to the heirs of Henry Coley. After the Civil War, Refugio resident Thomas Howard and son-in-law, Lyman Blackman, begin a freight route from Saint Marys hauling lumbar and other supplies into the Mineral area. They then returned with hides and other products for export. While digging water wells a vein of hot mineral wat… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

[Farm and Home locations]

Description: Photograph of and advertisement for Farm and Home Savings Association. The advertisement includes text that reads "In Dallas 1900 Main at St. Paul" and on the other side of a vertical line it reads "In Fort Worth 915 Houston".
Date: January 19, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.751269 -97.329700
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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