Chautauqua Circle. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 17, 1889 (open access)

Chautauqua Circle. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 17, 1889

Newspaper from San Marcos, Texas published daily during the San Marcos Chautauqua that includes news of interest to attendees along with advertising.
Date: July 17, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 29, 1885 (open access)

San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 29, 1885

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 29, 1885
Creator: Hull, C. M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 8, 1885 (open access)

San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 8, 1885

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 8, 1885
Creator: Hull, C. M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heller's Galveston Directory, 1880-1881 (open access)

Heller's Galveston Directory, 1880-1881

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 "the address of all white persons, in and out of the city limits, with a classified business directory, post offices and counties in this state, money-order offices, &c."
Date: 1880
Creator: Heller, John H.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Special Committee on Surgery Presented at the Annual Meeting at Dallas, April 27th, 1886. (open access)

Report of the Special Committee on Surgery Presented at the Annual Meeting at Dallas, April 27th, 1886.

Report containing a list of surgical procedures conducted across the state of Texas, organized by the type of procedure. The report includes data regarding each case, including the age, sex, and race of the patient, recovery status, the name of the operator, what anesthesia and antiseptic (if any) was used, and surgeon remarks.
Date: April 27, 1886
Creator: Texas Medical Association. Special Committee on Surgery.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Book of Northern Texas (open access)

Hand-Book of Northern Texas

Overview of the north Texas region encompassing Collin, Denton, Fannin, and Grayson Counties for potential visitors, including information about the landscape and climate, the farming and ranching industries, notable persons and businesses, and other information about the area. A description appeared in The Sunday Gazetteer [Denison, TX, Dec. 19, 1886, p.3] which described it: "This book is a quarto volume handsomely gotten up in pamphlet form, and elaborately illustrated with wood engravings. It gives short biographical sketches of prominent men of North Texas, and also pen and pencil pictures of various stock farms, business houses and private residences of the cities and surrounding country of Denison, Sherman Gainesville, Denton, Honey Grove, McKinney, etc., as well as the more important ones of the Indian Nation." Another article that appeared in the Denton Record-Chronicle on Feb. 19, 1927, section 9, p.1, hints to the provenance of the library's copy. It states that, the C. C. Bell household had a copy because "Bell is one of the land-owners who paid at the rate of about $30 per photo to be represented in the 40-page bulletin." The C. C. Bell homestead was, "east of what is now Bell Avenue...was later destroyed by fire." A …
Date: 1886
Creator: C.S. Burch Publishing Company
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History