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[Postcard from Julia Estes Rankin to Velma Snelson - June 5, 1908]

Description: Postcard from Julia Estes Rankin in Midland to Velma Snelson in Stone Mountain, Georgia, discussing a parade held in May 1908 where she was crowned "queen" of the May parade. The front of the postcard shows a parade in procession, with cars and small parade floats riding down a dirt road lined with storefronts, with pedestrians, horseback riders, and parked horse-drawn wagons along the sides of the road.
Date: June 5, 1908
Creator: Rankin, Julia Estes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland Area Grapes]

Description: Photograph of a vine of grapes and peaches from the Midland area. The produce, swarmed with leaves, is placed next to a measuring tape, and the bundles of grapes measure in total around 14 inches.
Date: 1908~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Grape Arbor]

Description: Photograph of a grape arbor in Midland, Texas. Grape vines, producing fruit, hang over a wooden pergola and its roof-shaped crossbeams, densely leafed. Under the pergola is a small wooden shelf on which are placed three melons. The pergola opens up to other portions of the arbor, where more plants grow with enough density to provide shade inside the pergola.
Date: 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Quien Sabe Ranch Headquarters]

Description: Photograph of the headquarters of the Quien Sabe Ranch, a two-story ranch house with a large gable roof, a porch along the length of the house, a wooden picket fence and a dirt path in front, and several narrow, column-like trees planted in the front. Several unidentified men stand around the ranch house's fence
Date: [1908..1910]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[F. C. Olds' Residence, Waco]

Description: Postcard of Frederick Charles Olds' residence on Austin Avenue, Waco. The house here is a two-storied house with a large portico set on stone pillars and balconies on both floors extending in both directions for the house's front facade. A covered driveway juts out from the house's side at left, with a paved pathway leading up to the side of the house.
Date: December 24, 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Midland Baseball Team]

Description: Photograph of the Midland baseball team, seated together on the front steps of the old Midland County Courthouse. The players sit in three rows, with three men from the team's front office seated on stone apertures within the courthouse's facade. Three more men in hats and neckties are seated in the top row, and a child is held by a player in the bottom row. Three baseballs are arranged together in front of the players.
Date: July 16, 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Tom Thumb Wedding, First Methodist Midland]

Description: Photograph of a Tom Thumb wedding under the First Methodist Church in Midland, held on the steps of the Midland County Courthouse. A boy in a tuxedo and a girl in a bridal gown stand on the courtyard steps, flocked by "bridesmaids" holding bouquets of flowers. Tom Thumb weddings were held as fundraisers for churches, imitating the famed dwarf performer General Tom Thumb's wedding and party in the 19th century.
Date: 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997988 -102.076256
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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