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[A Period Car]

Three men are shown sitting in a restored "Vintage" car. Razz Ford sits in the back seat. Tom Creighton, in the driver's seat, still wears the beard he grew for Palo Pinto County's 1957 Centennial celebration. Russell Whatley occupies the passenger's seat. The car is making an exit from the driveway of the Baker Hotel onto Hubbard Street. The picture was taken in 1958. The building behind the Oldsmobile/Cadillac sign is the Beetham Funeral Home.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

The Period Hotel

A postcard of the Period Hotel, a two-story building with Neo-classical architecture which was located at the corner of NW 4th Avenue and 6th Street, in Mineral Wells, Texas is shown here. There is a horse-drawn carriage parked in front of the hotel and various people standing on the sidewalks around the building. A printed note at the top of the picture reads: "7698. The Period Hotel, Mineral Wells, Texas."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[The Period Hotel and Annex]

The Period Hotel, located at N.W. 4th Avenue and 6th Street, was owned and managed by Miss Lizzie More. The hotel was destroyed by fire, but its annex is still [2007] standing, and is in use as an apartment house. A similar, but earlier, photograph is found on page 103 of A.F. Weaver's pictorial history "TIME WAS In Mineral Wells," Second Edition, 1988.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Period Hotel and Annex

The Period Hotel and Annex was located at NW 4th Avenue and 6th Street. It was managed by Miss Lizzie More. The hotel was destroyed by fire. The Annex survived, and was later known as the Town House Apartments. The Annex is still extant in 2007.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Petroleum Products, The Texas Company

This is a picture of truck number D-677, bearing the identification of Texaco Petroleum Products, The Texas Company. A woman sits in the cab of the truck. The truck itself seems to date to about 1912.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Photocopy of the Mineral Wells "Index"]

Shown here is a photocopy of a page from the Mineral Wells "Index." No date is shown. The only legibly complete articles concern the Buck Head Bath House and Pavilion, and the Wagley Bath House and Annex.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Photograph of a Public Mineral Water Well]

This photograph was used on the dust cover of A. F. Weaver's book, "TIME WAS In Mineral Wells", Second Edition, 1988 It is identified as "Visitors to Mineral Wells at 'Public Mineral Water Well' around 1910. The picture was furnished by Mrs. Raymond York. On left is Ellie Landry of Dallas. Second from right is Mrs. William Whitehead Gardner of Lawrence, Texas, grandmother of Raymond York of Mineral Wells.

Date: 1910?

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of Inspiration Point]

Photograph of a scenic overlook on a mountain. Two notes on back of the picture read "So. of city on 281", and "Lake M W." This picture appears to be taken just east of Inspiration point, instead, and looking southwest, where the highway starts down the mountain.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of Lake Mineral Wells]

Photograph of the Civic League Island at Lake Mineral Wells, four miles east of Mineral Wells, Texas, with a rustic bridge connecting the two small islands, picnic tables, and grilles. In the foreground, there are two small boats with canopies, carrying passengers on the water of the lake. A forested shoreline is visible in the background of the image.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of Lake Pinto, Mineral Wells, Texas]

Photograph of a "Dinky Car" by the side of the original Lake Pinto. Two people are in a canoe on the lake.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of Lover's Retreat]

Photograph of small group of people sitting on a large rock on the north bank of Eagle Creek, reflected in the water of the swimming hole at Lover's Retreat.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of Men on a Trail]

Photograph taken approaching the top "Welcome" Mountain (East Mountain) in Mineral Wells, with the structure of an observation tower visible through the trees.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of Mineral Wells from East Mountain]

Photograph of a view of Mineral Wells, taken from East Mountain, looking southwest. Poston Dry Goods is shown in the left foreground); the First Baptist Church (upper right); the Dr. A.W. Thompson residence in middle foreground, with Mineral Wells Sanatorium to its right (west).

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of the First Mineral Wells Golf Country Club]

A photograph of the first clubhouse of The Mineral Wells Golf and Country Club is shown here. This picture comes from Knights of Pythias Album, 1925. The swimming area and lifeguard station can be seen at the far left of the picture.

Date: 1925

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of the New Suspension Bridge at Lover's Retreat]

This is a photograph of a suspension bridge for pedestrian traffic across Eagle Creek at Lover's Retreat. Formerly a public park, and now on private property, it was located four miles west of Palo Pinto on the old Bankhead Highway (now U.S. Highway 180).

Date: 1920?

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of The Piedmont Hotel]

Photograph of the Piedmont Hotel, located on NE 2nd Avenue and East Hubbard Street, was demolished to make room for the Baker Hotel Garage. Before its destruction, it was used as an office for the Army Engineers during the construction of Possum Kingdom Dam.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Photograph of the Street Car to Elmhurst Park]

Photograph of a streetcar about to enter Elmhurst Park by way of North Oak Street.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Photograph of the Suspension Bridge Over the Brazos River (1)]

Here is a photograph of a suspension bridge being built over the Brazos River near the town of Brazos, in Palo Pinto County. Printed in the corner of the mount is "A Photographic Souvenir from Mineral Wells, the Great Health and Pleasure Resort of Texas."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Photograph of the Suspension Bridge Over the Brazos River (2)]

this is a photograph of suspension bridge being built over the Brazos river near the town of Brazos, in Palo Pinto county. The view is looking west. An inscription on the mounting of the photograph reads: "A Photographic Souvenir from Mineral Wells, the Great Health and Pleasure Resort of Texas."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Photograph of the Suspension Bridge Over the Brazos River (3)]

This is a photograph of a suspension bridge being built over the Brazos river near the town of Brazos, in Palo Pinto county. Three adults and a child in early twentieth-century clothes are obscurely visible in the lower left-center. The view is looking east.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of View from West Mountain]

Photograph taken after the Chautauqua was demolished (that is, about 1912). The foundation can be seen in the upper right quadrant. The Post Office, completed in 1913, is visible to the right of the Chautauqua ruins. The old viewing tower on the top of the hill, destroyed by a tornado in 1930, is just barely visible in the trees on top of the hill. The first Crazy Hotel and Crazy Flats drinking pavilion, which burned in 1925, are seen one block northwest of the Post Office. The Murphy home is o… more

Date: 1914?

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of Woman Sitting on West Mountain]

Here is a photograph of a lady sitting on the south end of West Mountain, with the buildings of a town in the background. She wears pince-nez spectacles, and she does not appear to be wearing a corset. "Mother" is written on bottom of photograph. Note the graffiti on the stone: "8-10-00" (which would be 1900), and some initials. The road at bottom of "mountain" is now U.S. Highway 180.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Photographic Miscellany of Mineral Wells]

Shown here is a possible composite picture of the attractions about Mineral Wells. It features a panorama of Camp Wolters, dated 1941; A scenic drive, Mineral Wells; the hospital & headquarters Areas; Regimental Areas 4 & 5, Camp Wolters. Several small towns(e.g. Salesville, Graford, and Santo) are shown as existing--but nothing more.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Map

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

The Piedmont Hotel [The First Piedmont Hotel]

We have here a picture (perhaps an early photograph) of the first Piedmont Hotel,where the Baker Hotel Garage sits presently [2015]. It was built by a colonel R.W. Duke of Weatherford, Texas. He purchased the block and built this frame hotel. Later on, a large brick building was put in its place. This photograph (which was apparently taken from "Cutter's Guide to Mineral Wells") appears on page 104 of A.F. Weaver's book "TIME WAS In Mineral Wells," Second Edition, 1988.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library