Thurber, Texas
Permanent URI for this collectionhttps://hdl.handle.net/10605/1333
This collection, SWCPC 209, is comprised of historic images of the
people, buildings, industry and social life of Thurber, Texas.
Included are images of the coal industry in Thurber and the Thurber
Brick Plant. 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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