Galveston Co.

Blue line print of survey map of Galveston County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:228,571] (6000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1899
Creator: Pressler, Chas. W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1890-1891 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1890-1891

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1890-91."
Date: 1890/1891
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1891-1892 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1891-1892

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1891-92."
Date: 1891/1892
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1899-1900 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1899-1900

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1899-1900."
Date: 1899/1900
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1893-1894 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1893-1894

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1893-94."
Date: 1893/1894
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1898 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1898

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1898."
Date: 1898
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1896-1897 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1896-1897

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1896-97."
Date: 1896/1897
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1895-1896 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1895-1896

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1895-96."
Date: 1895/1896
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjusting Device for Compressing-Rolls. (open access)

Adjusting Device for Compressing-Rolls.

Patent for adjusting devices for compressing rolls which “employed for compressing into a continuous thin sheet cotton fiber; and the objects in view are to provide a simple and convenient means for binding the rolls in contact, and when so bound to prevent any undesired yielding.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Goldthwaite, Joseph G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Union Workman. (Galveston and Houston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 19, 1893 (open access)

Texas Union Workman. (Galveston and Houston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 19, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Galveston and Houston, Texas "indorsed [sic] by the organized labor of Texas" that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 19, 1893
Creator: Hartman, A. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Baling Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Baling Cotton.

Patent for improvements to an apparatus that softens and compresses cotton, and prevents clogging and breakage. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 5, 1890
Creator: Goldthwaite, Joseph G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Lint-Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Handling Lint-Cotton.

Patent for an apparatus for handling lint-cotton that allows air to move freely without back pressure while putting the fiber into a bat. It has a "trunk into which a series of gins deliver, of a primary condenser having a high surface speed, so that it will rapidly remove the fiber and prevent the bat from building up of such thickness as to check the escape of air, and a second condenser having a slower surface speed and arranged to receive the lint from the first condenser and form it into a thicker bat" (lines 29-37).
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Galveston Entrance Texas.

Map shows northeast end of Galveston Island, Pelican Island, and Bolivar Point. Streets, railroads, and a few buildings are indicated. Notes on soundings, light houses, light vessels, tides, buoys, and weather signals are provided. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [1:40,000].
Date: 1893
Creator: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Real Estate Bulletin. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 4, 1890 (open access)

Real Estate Bulletin. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 4, 1890

Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 4, 1890
Creator: Caplen, John A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Galveston Harbor, Texas

Map shows Galveston, Texas street grid, Bolivar Point railroad line, existing and proposed jetties, and Galveston Bay entrance. Depths shown by isolines. Includes key to map.
Date: 1893
Creator: Hartrick, E. M.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Galveston, Tex. and its fortifications accompanying report of Major J.P. Johnson, A.A. and I.G., C.S. Army.

Map shows railroads, roads, structures, and military facilities for Galveston Bay, the upper portion of Galveston Island, and Galveston harbor. Includes "Armament of Galveston." Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:40,724].
Date: [1891..1895]
Creator: Johnson, J. P.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Making a great seaport: How the United States engineers propose securing thirty feet of water in Galveston Harbor, Texas.

Map shows street and jetty layout for Galveston and Bolivar City; islands and shoreline for Galveston Bay. Scale not given.
Date: 1890
Creator: Johnson, C. Everett
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 94, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 1891 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 94, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 1891

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 19, 1891
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 301, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 10, 1895 (open access)

Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 301, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 10, 1895

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 10, 1895
Creator: Ousley, Clarence
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 1, 1895 (open access)

Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 1, 1895

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 1, 1895
Creator: Ousley, Clarence
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 287, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 3, 1891 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 287, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 3, 1891

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 3, 1891
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1892 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1892

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 25, 1892
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 55, Ed. 1 Monday, January 18, 1892 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 55, Ed. 1 Monday, January 18, 1892

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 18, 1892
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 238, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1892 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 238, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1892

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 26, 1892
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History