Advertising Street Car Sign (open access)

Advertising Street Car Sign

Patent for an advertisement sign located on the top of street cars. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: King, Alphonse
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Goodrich, Luman L., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Pump (open access)

Automobile-Pump

Patent for an automobile pump. This invention is designed for quick mounting and dismounting in order to lift an automobile to remove its tires. Illustrations included.
Date: February 22, 1910
Creator: Goeth, Richard Anton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith. (open access)

Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith.

Patent for "a new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith"(lines 4-6)" to insure cleanliness in around privy-vaults and to prevent accumulations therein, especially in localities where water is not easily available"(lines 9-12), instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Box for Washing Gravel, &c. (open access)

Box for Washing Gravel, &c.

Patent for washing gravel and other material for making concrete.
Date: February 28, 1888
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults. (open access)

Construction of Privy-Vaults.

Patent for an improvement of privy-vaults using a soil-pipe with sleeve adapted to be connected with the trap-door of the vault-floor into an air-chamber where a ventilating-pipe is placed directly above a furnace; the noxious gases along with the products of combustion in the furnace would be drawn from the air-chamber and carried off to the outer air. Illustration is included.
Date: February 3, 1891
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Truck. (open access)

Car Truck.

Patent for a new and improved car-truck. This design "consists in providing the lateral guide-wheels with long axles which are inclined at an angle of about forty-five degrees to the ordinary truck-wheels, and in providing the bolsters of the truck with a central opening, and otherwise constructing the same with a view to attachment of such inclined axles" (lines 17-24).
Date: February 22, 1881
Creator: Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-56 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-56

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of property evaluation contract between Bexar County Commissioners Court and Stoner Appraisal Company.
Date: February 27, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Lock. (open access)

Automobile Lock.

Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in automobile locks", including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Needham, Edmund T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Mowers (open access)

Attachment For Mowers

Patent for an improving to attachments for mowers that can be attached to shoe of the sickle bar. This attachment helps to raise the grain or growth being cut and bring it into the path of the sickle bar. It also works to ensure the cut grain will fall away from the standing grain.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Muller, Hermann W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cake-Rack (open access)

Automatic Cake-Rack

Patent for a display device of desert type foods.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Jones, Seaborn W. & Postlethwaite, Alonzo W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Mobility Plan - Long Range Plan (open access)

Bicycle Mobility Plan - Long Range Plan

Report describing the results of a transportation study in Bexar County, including "overall goals and objectives for bicycle mobility planning" (abstract) as well as an overview of existing conditions at the time of the study, recommendations and outlined steps for improvement, funding sources, and additional areas of consideration.
Date: February 14, 1995
Creator: Metro Systems Engineering
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Government Canyon State Natural Area

Map of Government Canyon State Natural Area showing roads, hiking trails, and campsites.
Date: February 2015
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bexar Metropolitan Criminal Justice Plan, 1980 (open access)

Bexar Metropolitan Criminal Justice Plan, 1980

Annual plan of the Bexar Metropolitan Criminal Justice Council for fiscal year 1980 outlining crime statistics, previous activities, and plans for the upcoming year.
Date: February 19, 1979
Creator: Bexar Metropolitan Criminal Justice Council
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1985 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1985

Monthly reports documenting San Antonio municipal board activities and city permitting for January 1985.
Date: February 4, 1985
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1995 [Part 1] (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1995 [Part 1]

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date: February 1, 1995
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1986 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1986

Monthly reports documenting San Antonio municipal board activities and city permitting for January 1986.
Date: February 3, 1986
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1991 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1991

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date: February 1, 1991
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1993 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1993

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date: February 1, 1993
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1983 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1983

Monthly reports documenting San Antonio municipal board activities and city permitting for January 1983.
Date: February 2, 1983
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1987 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1987

Monthly reports documenting San Antonio municipal board activities and city permitting for January 1987.
Date: February 3, 1987
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1994 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1994

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date: February 1, 1994
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1999 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1999

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date: February 3, 1999
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 2001 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 2001

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date: February 5, 2001
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History