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The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 9, 1858 (open access)

The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 9, 1858

Weekly newspaper from Columbus, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 9, 1858
Creator: J.D. Baker & Bros.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 32, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 9, 1859 (open access)

The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 32, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 9, 1859

Weekly newspaper from Columbus, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 9, 1859
Creator: J.D. Baker & Bros.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 9, 1859 (open access)

The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 9, 1859

Weekly newspaper from Columbus, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 9, 1859
Creator: J.D. Baker & Bros.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 9, 1860 (open access)

The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 9, 1860

Weekly newspaper from Columbus, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 9, 1860
Creator: J.D. Baker & Bros.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Street Car. (open access)

Street Car.

Patent for a new and improved street car. This design "has reference to the construction of steam and other street-cars, whereby the same can be readily turned around corners, having for its object the simplifying of the construction and lessening the cost of construction" of previous street cars (lines 22-27).
Date: August 9, 1881
Creator: Towell, Isaac
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines. (open access)

Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines.

Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, and efficient quilting-frame and makes quilting much faster. "The frame is provided with a longitudinal bar having a groove to form a track, in which travels a gage-wheel, which is adjustable and held by a spring-arm, which serves, also, as a means of changing the position of the wheel" (lines 22-26).
Date: August 9, 1892
Creator: Delany, Charles William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Ticket, &c. (open access)

Railway-Ticket, &c.

Patent "to furnish for railway-companies a form of excursion-ticket whose return portion or stop-over portion, as the case may be, is not capable of successful use by scalpers" (lines 11-15).
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Smith, Lowndes G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Paul Parker: Half Irish, half Choctaw

Photograph of an elderly man sitting in a horse-drawn buggy. The man is identified as Paul Parker, of half-Irish, half-Choctaw Indian descent. He is wearing dress clothes including suit pants, a white shirt and tie, and a vest. He is holding the reins of 2 dark-colored horses. The buggy is on a dirt road with trees and brush alongside and the location is said to be Eagle Lake, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garden Implement (open access)

Garden Implement

This a letter from John S. Ward to the United States Patent Office. John S. Ward described and proposed his invention on Garden Implement and he provided a detail of diagrams of how the device could improve the Garden or field hand implements. It enables the hoe and weeder adapted to turn over the soil and to cut the root of the grass.
Date: November 9, 1912
Creator: Ward, John Swayze
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to Walter F. Woodul, August 9, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from Thomas L. James to Walter F. Woodul, August 9, 1955]

Letter from Thomas L. James to Walter F. Woodul discussing oil leases.
Date: August 9, 1955
Creator: James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Belmont and triple crown] (open access)

[News Script: Belmont and triple crown]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about secretariat who wrote into racing history books by winning the Belmont stakes by a staggering 31 lengths and with it the triple crown winner since citation performed the feat in 1948.
Date: June 9, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Belmont Secretariat] (open access)

[News Script: Belmont Secretariat]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about secretariats who joined the immortals of the horse world by becoming the ninth winner of the triple crown by a runaway in the Belmont stakes.
Date: June 9, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Barn for Lakeside Sugar Refinery, (Northwest oblique)]

Photograph of the Barn for Lakeside Sugar Refinery (located at Approximately 1 mile South of Eagle Lake on FM 102) in Colorado County, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[H. Lee Johnson House, (Southwest facade)]

Photograph of the H. Lee Johnson House (located at 410 East Prairie) in Eagle Lake, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hayden-Farris House, Highland Park Model House, (South facade)]

Photograph of the Hayden-Farris House, Highland Park Model House (located at 801 Warwick) in Eagle Lake, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hotel Dallas 1912 - The Farris 1912, (South oblique)]

Photograph of the Hotel Dallas 1912 - The Farris 1912 in Eagle Lake, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hughs Block, (South oblique)]

Photograph of the Hughs Block (located at 100 Block West McCarty Street) in Columbus, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[M.C. Truitt House, (Northeast facade)]

Photograph of the M.C. Truitt House (located at 709 East State Street) in Columbus, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[McCarty House, (Southwest facade)]

Photograph of the McCarty House (located at 110 East Stockbridge) in Eagle Lake, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[McClanahan-Stiles House, (South oblique)]

Photograph of the McClanahan-Stiles House (located at 400 East Prairie) in Eagle Lake, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Nathan House, (Southeast facade)]

Photograph of the Nathan House (located at 521 North McCarty) in Eagle Lake, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Norris-Beckman Building, (Northeast facade)]

Photograph of the Norris-Beckman Building (located at 111-115 East Main) in Columbus, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Old City Hall, (Southwest facade)]

Photograph of the Old City Hall (located at 200 East Post Office) in Columbus, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Old Haynie Matthews House, (Southeast facade)]

Photograph of the Old Haynie Matthews House (located at 401 North Walnut) in Columbus, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1979
Creator: London, Kathy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History