White Rock Creek Miners's Houses on Train

White Rock Creek Miners's Houses on Train

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Description

Photograph of a train on the Mineral Wells Route moving White Rock Creek miners' houses. The train engine in front pulls several small houses on flatcars. Two men stand beside the engine. A flat expanse of land fills the front. Text on the bottom of the image reads, "A novel train load on the Mineral Wells Route--Moving White Rock Creek miners' houses." Handwritten text on the image says, "TPQ July 1909 Vol XII No. 3 Page 41" and "On Film Neg." "#3?" is handwritten on the image backing.

[White Rock Creek Miners's Houses on Train], photograph, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth822501/: accessed March 5, 2020), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Grace Museum.