urn:taro:ttu.swcpc.00209 Erath County, Texas: An Inventory of Photographs, 1888-1998, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library A. Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, April 29, 2002. Finding aid written inEnglish. Tue Jul 22 14:55:32 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.swcpc.00209 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Erath County, Texas, Photograph Collection, 1888-1998 A. Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, 2002 Descriptive Summary Texas Tech University. Southwest Collection Erath County, Texas, Photograph Collection, 1888-1998 The Erath County, Texas, Photograph Collection, dated 1888-1998, was donated by many individuals. SWCPC 209 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 145 b/w copy prints, 53 photo prints, and 57 negatives English. Biographical Sketch

Located ten miles west of Stephenville, Texas in west central Erath County, Lingleville developed following the establishment of a nearby grocery store by R. P. Campbell in 1884. Alliance College was established by the Farmer's Alliance. Now a ghost town, Thurber, Texas, once boasted a population of maybe 10,000, and was the principal bituminous coal mining town in Texas. The townsite is seventy-five miles west of Fort Worth, Texas, in Erath County. Coal deposits were discovered by William Whipple Johnson, an engineer for the Texas and Pacific Railway in the mid-1880s.

 Scope and Contents

Collection contains images of Lingleville, Texas, including Alliance College and Lingleville Christian College (1888 and 1890), miners and mining activity, mercantile buildings, baseball team, water tank, marching band, boarding house, snow scene, brick yard, school group portraits, locomotives, wagons, schools, automobiles, boxers, shops, parade, saloon, mules, associations, picnic, garage, aerial views, and families from Thurber, Texas (19th and early 20th Century). Also included are photos from the Dublin (Texas) Reunion and the Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant Celebration (1998), such as tractors, antique cars, historic buildings, and advertising art.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collectin/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons) Anda, Delphemia Barlow, Wallace Beverage, Bobby Bott, Bill Bott, Ted Clowers, Clinton Compfield, Rush Crawford, J. P Franks, Johnny Gerherd, Ray Harmon, Willow Kimbro, Clint McKinnon, Joe Parker, T. A. Rigsby, Hillis Roberts, Rex Shaw, Buddy Simmons, Alver Southern, Bernadette Tankersley, Lawrence Taylor, Jimmy Thomas, Bren Thomas, Jack Tremino, Pete Turnbow, R. F. Walters, Henry Willett, Elton Subjects (Organizations) Dr. Pepper Co.--Anniversaries, etc. Places Erath County (Tex.) Lingleville (Tex.) Stephenville (Tex.) Thurber (Tex.) Subjects Airplanes--Photographs Clubs--Texas--Thurber--Photographs Sports teams--Photographs Automobiles--Photographs Baseball--Texas--Photographs Blacksmiths--Texas--Erath County--Photographs Boardinghouses--Photographs Beverage industry--Texas--Photographs Boxing--Photographs Brick trade--Texas--Thurber--Photographs Buildings--Texas--Photographs Carpenters--Photographs Coal--Texas--Erath County--Photographs Universities and colleges--Texas--Photographs Reunions--Texas--Dublin--Photographs Historic buildings--Texas--Photographs Manufacturing industries--Texas--Photographs Coal mines and mining--Texas--Thurber--Photographs Musicians--Photographs Parades--Texas--Thurber--Photographs Picnics--Photographs Bars (Drinking establishments)--Texas--Thurber--Photographs Schools--Texas--Thurber--Photographs Wagons--Photographs Acquisition

Gifts, 1978-1982

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

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A. Ramirez

 Preferred Citation

Erath County, Texas, Photograph Collection, 1888-1998, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas