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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[A portrait of Bob Wedell]
A formal portrait of Bob Wedell in a three-piece suit and tie. On the back of the photograph is written: "Bob Wedell."
Date:
[1895..1903]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Record, Diary, and Ledger
Patent for improvements to books by combining "a general record, a diary, a ledger, and index leaves, including the months and days of the week and alphabetical and numerical indices" (lines 10-12).
Date:
August 30, 1892
Creator:
Meyer, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid.
Patent for a compound for use in commercial manufacturing of the product calcium sodic carbid claiming to reduce time and expense of production process.
Date:
November 10, 1896
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary; Clark, Daniel Johnson & Wambaugh, Mahlon W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Freezing Wine.
Patent for a device that cools wine and liquor. The device "will produce the desired results in much shorter time than is now employed by the common method and apparatus" (lines 11-14).
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Wadhams, Arthur
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
Patent for "a simple and durable plant capable of use in carrying out a dry process of reducing the hulls to a finely-divided condition" (lines 8-13).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Bohn, Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid.
Patent for a "new and useful Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid" (lines 5-7) that will aid in the commercially successful production. Patent includes specifications for the composition of matter.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Blum, Sylvain; Eldridge, Hillary; Clark, Daniel J. & Lazarus, Sam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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
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
"Galveston"
Black and white reproduction print of Galveston taken from Harper's Weekly; limited edition of 100 sets
Date:
1895
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Image
System:
The Portal to Texas History