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[Photograph of Young Child]

Photograph of an unidentified child sitting on a chair. Text on the back of the photo reads: Bertie Shell, A. C. Shell, Comstock, Val Verde County, Texas. 8-27-90 & 5-17-90.
Date: [1890-05-17,1890-08-27]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Langtry, Texas Railroad Depot]

Photograph of the Railroad Depot at Langtry, Texas. It's a small building by the train tracks. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph says, "During the time of Judge Roy Bean's Law West of the Pecos."
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Del Rio Record. (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 5, 1890 (open access)

The Del Rio Record. (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 5, 1890

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 5, 1890
Creator: Easterling, W. C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track Walker's Tool. (open access)

Track Walker's Tool.

Patent for a new and improved track-walker's tool. This design "consist[s] of a sectional handle or body having a claw-bar and spiking-maul at one end and a wrench at the opposite end, the said wrench being provided with a stud upon one face, the distance between the outer face of said stud and the outer surface of the maul when the sections are joined together and the maul faces the stud being such as to correspond to the standard distance between rails" (lines 14-23).
Date: December 2, 1890
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch. (open access)

Gate Latch.

Patent for a new and improved gate latch. This design consists in "[a] gate-latch comprising a slotted-sleeve, a pivoted and spring-actuated latch-plate, and a bolt mounted to turn in the latch-plate and extend through the sleeve, and provided with a transverse pin" (lines 98-102).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History