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Descriptive Summary
Biographical Sketch
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Related Material
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Description of Series
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Thurber, Texas:
An Inventory of Photographs, 1888-1998 and undated, at the
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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Creator |
Texas Tech University. Southwest
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Title: |
Thurber, Texas,
Photograph Collection,
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Dates: |
1889-1940 and undated |
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Abstract: |
The Thurber, Texas,
Photograph Collection, dated 1888-1998 and undated, highlights the history of a
town once bustling with the coal, brick and railroad industry. |
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Collection # |
SWCPC 209 |
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Quantity: |
274 negatives and 206
prints and postcards |
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Language |
English. |
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Repository: |
Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University |
Thurber, Texas, was a coal mining town owned and operated by the Texas
& Pacific Coal Company to provide fuel for the Texas & Pacific Railway
Company, which had no affiliation to the coal company. Approximately twenty
nationalities were represented among the immigrant laborers whose "old county"
customs contrasted sharply with the native Texas culture.
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This collection, comprised of 274 negatives and 206 copy prints and
postcards, contains historic images of the people, buildings, industry and
social life of Thurber, Texas. It bulks with photographs of the coal mining
industry. It also includes photographs of the Thurber Brick Plant (ca. 1910),
Thurber baseball team (1922), the Snake Saloon (ca. 1910), an employees train
(undated), and the Thurber post office (ca. 1910).
The negatives and prints are housed in separate envelopes.
Images from this collection are currently being digitized and can
viewed at
http://collections.swco.ttu.edu/handle/10605/1333
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Access Restrictions
Open for research
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The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
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Subjects (Organizations) |
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Texas and Pacific Coal
Company. |
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Thurber Brick Company
(Thurber, Tex.) |
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Places |
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Thurber (Tex.) |
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Thurber
(Tex.)--History. |
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Subjects |
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Aeronautics--History. |
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Baseball--Texas. |
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Brickmaking--Texas. |
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Brick
trade--Texas--Thurber--History. |
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Child
labor--Texas--History. |
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Coal
miners--Recreation. |
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Coal
miners--Texas. |
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Coal
miners--Texas--Thurber--History. |
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Coal
trade--Texas--Thurber--History. |
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Child labor--United
States--Texas. |
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Coal mines and
mining--Texas. |
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Coal mines and
mining--Texas--Thurber. |
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Coal mines and
mining--Texas--Thurber Region--History--20th century. |
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Horses--Texas--Photographs. |
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Mineral
industries--Texas. |
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Mules--Texas--Photographs. |
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Railroads--Texas. |
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Railroads--Texas--History. |
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Railroads--United
States--Texas--History. |
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Thurber
(Tex.)--History. |
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Thurber (Tex.)--Social life
and customs. |
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Thurber
(Tex.)--Views. |
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Willie M. Floyd Papers, 1890-1968
Thurber, Texas, Collection, 1897-1986 and undated
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Thurber, Texas, Photograph Collection, 1888-1998 and undated,
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, Texas
Gifts, 1979-1998
T. Kreidler, 1983
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Photograph |
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SWCPC 209 (3 b&w negatives and 2 b&w copy
prints): Includes images of Alliance College (1888) and Lingleville Christian
College (1890),
1888-1890 |
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SWCPC 209-E1 (10 b&w negatives and 10 b&w copy
prints): Includes images of miners; various identified individuals; the town of
Thurber, Texas; the employees' train; and a group of unidentified children,
1906 |
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SWCPC 209-E2 (17 b&w negatives and 10 b&w copy
prints): Includes images of miners; a baseball team (1897 and 1901); baseball
player Elbert "Lefty" Davis (1914); a merchantile building (1914 or 1915); an
Ice Plant (1908); and two unidentified men relaxing at the Thurber water tank
on Graveyard Hill.
1897-1915 |
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SWCPC 209-E3 (4 b&w negatives and 1 b&w mounted
print): Includes an images of a large group of people on the portch the
drugstore in Thurber, Texas, which was owned by the Southern family,
undated |
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SWCPC 209-E4 (24 b&w negatives and 22 b&w copy
prints): Includes images of the miners; the brick plant; Mrs. master Boarding
House; a band (1927); North Highway 80 views; "General Store Boys" group
portrait; views of Thurber (1914); Mr. Cicero Harris sitting on a porch (1914);
a snowy Thurber scene; group portrait of the baseball team (1908); Cicero
Harris and girlfriend (1946); and group portraits of two different bands (1927
and undated),
1914-1946 |
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SWCPC 209-E5 (58 b&w negatives and 50 b & w copy
prints): Includes images of bands; coal mines and miners; the brick yards;
varous group portraits (1927); people working at the Thurber Blacksmith Shop,
the Thurber Machine Shop and Mingus Garage; a parade in Strawn, Texas (1918);
and various bands,
1918-1927 |
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SWCPC 209-E6 (2 b&w negatives and 2 b&w copy
prints): Includes images of people and cars at an unidentified event, and mine
no. 10 in Thurber, Texas,
1920 |
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SWCPC 209-E7 (5 b&w negatives and 5 b&w copy
prints): Includes images of groups of people; and the "brick rustling crew"
(1902),
1898-1902 |
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SWCPC 209-E8 (7 b&w negatives and 2 b&w copy
prints): Includes group portraits of two different Thurber baseball teams,
1922 and undated |
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SWCPC 209-E9 (7 b&w negatives and 5 b&w copy
prints): Includes images of various unidentified Thurber structures and a
downtown scene,
undated |
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SWCPC 209-E10 part I (10 b&w negatives, 4 mounted
prints, and 1 b&w copy print): Includes images of a coal mine; a train; the
first airplane to come to Thurber, Texas, in 1909; and the Thurber Brick Plant,
1909 and undated |
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SWCPC 209-E10 part II (57 color negatives and 47 color
copy prints): Includes images the Dublin Reunion and the Dr. Pepper Bottling
Plant celebration in Erath County,
1998 |
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SWCPC 209-E11 (43 b&w negatives and 20 b&w copy
print): Includes images of a coal miners; the Thurber Post Office; maps; and
various unidentified views and structures of Thurber, Texas, which were
transferred from the Willie M. Floyd Papers collection,
undated |
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SWCPC 209-E12 (6 b&w negatives and 24 b&w prints
and postcards): Includes images of a Thurber snow scene; views of the town of
Thurber, one of which includes a train; coal miners and mines; the brick yards;
a baseball team; children with a woman; and the "Tee Pee Band Thurber Texas,"
1914-1946 |
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SWCPC 209-E13 (1 b&w negative and 1 sepia print):
Includes an image of cars and people by unidentified buildings,
1920 |
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