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Harris and Eliza Kempner
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KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection
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Texas Patents
7
Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection
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Rescuing Texas History, 2007
3
Preston George Collection
2
Technical Report Archive and Image Library
2
Gordon Knox Film Collection
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Journal of Near-Death Studies
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Apparatus for Utilizing Sulfur-Containing Petroleum
Patent for an apparatus for using the sulfur content of petroleum found in the oil fields of Texas. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 29, 1908
Creator:
Eggleston, John E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Appraisal of Water Resources in the Hackensack River Basin, New Jersey
From introduction: The purpose of the study was to assemble data on the occurrence, movement, availability and chemical quality of ground water in the Hackensack River basin in Bergen and Hudson Counties, New Jersey; to evaluate and interpret the data; and to make the results available to the public.
Date:
June 1976
Creator:
Carswell, L. D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) 5303
A photograph print showing Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) 5303, 4-6-2 (class P), "President Madison", Jersey City, NJ.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Blank Order Form, Aeroil Products Company]
A blank order form from the Aeroil Products Company.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Aeroil Products Company Incorporated
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Blank Order Form, Aeroil Products Company]
A blank order form from the Aeroil Products Company.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Aeroil Products Company Incorporated
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter.
Patent for a carbureter that vaporizes liquid fuel, specifically kerosene, for use as an explosive charge in an internal combustion engine.
Date:
July 10, 1912
Creator:
Mack, John Rodney.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement
From Introduction: "In connection with the fuel investigations conducted by the Bureau of Mines much information has been accumulated as to the smoke abatement activities in various cities. The essential features of the information are presented in this report, which, it is believed, will be of public interest and benefit, especially to those communities that are just beginning organized effort to abate unnecessary smoke."
Date:
1912
Creator:
Flagg, Samuel B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Client Card: A. B. Moulds Company]
Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for A. B. Moulds Company, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry.
Date:
July 1956
Creator:
Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "Assembly Line Butchering for Army Presages Postwar Package Shops"]
Clipping from New York World-Telegram discussing innovations in factory beef packaging developed during World War II.
Date:
February 1, 1945
Creator:
Woltman, Frederick
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Core-Holding Mechanism for Cotton-Baling Machines.
Patent for a core-holding mechanism for cotton-baling machines that provides "new and improved means for engaging and disengaging the core, so that it is guided vertically, and the bale is susceptible of being conveniently and rapidly removed from the machine and a core introduced for the formation of another bale" (lines 19-24).
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Smith, Hamilton E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Machine.
Patent for an effective cotton-baling machine that improves on how cotton is compressed and fed into the rotary, that stretches the cotton to its thinnest, that improves on how the core is carried, that raises and lowers the compressor roller, that improves on the rack-and pinion mechanism, that improves on how the ends of the cotton roll are pressed, and that quickly and easily finishes each bale.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Smith, Hamilton E. & Dare, Benjamin A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western (DL&W) 1117
A photograph postcard showing Delaware, Lackawanna & Western (DL&W) 1117, 4-6-2, with streamlining, Hoboken, NJ. )The "gingerbread" has long since been removed.)
Date:
October 19, 1936
Creator:
Osborne, W. R.
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Freight Bill from Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company, February 1948]
Invoice for items sold to Daniel Webster Kempner by Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad Company, including information on three different packages.
Date:
February 3, 1948
Creator:
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Giant Killers
This film shows the material and manpower that go into making Elco PT boats.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
van Nostrand, Wallace & Deventer, Van
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Invoice for Garlic Sets]
Invoice for items sold to Daniel W. Kempner by Peter Henderson, Stumpp and Walter Co., including two pounds of garlic sets for $1.50.
Date:
May 6, 1953
Creator:
Peter Henderson, Stumpp & Walter Company
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Peter Henderson, Stumpp & Walter Co., June 30, 1953]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Peter Henderson, Stumpp & Walter Company discussing garlic sets and a lack of communication.
Date:
June 30, 1953
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. L. Kempner to Mr. John C. Smaltz, January 5, 1945]
Letter from Harris L. Kempner to John C. Smaltz thanking him for a box of cigars and a Christmas greeting.
Date:
January 5, 1945
Creator:
Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Ira Jackson, February 13, 1965]
Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Ira Jackson discussing a few personal and business affairs which include updates on Sandy, appreciation for Shrub and Ruth, Harris' plans for the next year, and the recovery of his parents.
Date:
February 13, 1965
Creator:
Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Peter Henderson, Stumpp & Walter Co. to D. W. Kempner, June 22, 1953]
Letter from T. W. Dolan to discussing a miscommunication during the cancelling of an order of garlic sets.
Date:
June 22, 1953
Creator:
Dolan, T. W.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. B. Smallwood to Mr. I. H. Kempner, February 23, 1951]
Letter from R. B. Smallwood to Mr. I. H. Kempner discussing the opening of the new Galveston plant of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., inviting Kempner to the tape-cutting ceremony and to meet prior to the Chamber of Commerce dinner.
Date:
February 23, 1951
Creator:
Smallwood, R. B.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. B. Smallword to Daniel W. Kempner, February 23, 1951]
Letter from R. B. Smallword to Daniel W. Kempner inviting him to the opening ceremony of the Galveston plant of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc.
Date:
February 23, 1951
Creator:
Smallword, R. B.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Rexall Drug Company to Stockholders, May 6, 1955]
Letter from Rexall Drug Company to stockholders announcing the adoption of the Rexall Drug, Inc. reorganization plan and requesting a transmittal letter and surrender of all Rexall Drug, Inc. stock certificates.
Date:
May 6, 1955
Creator:
Rexall Drug Company
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, December 7, 1948]
Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing procuring a dealer discount for a weed burner and closing a file on a road maintainer.
Date:
December 7, 1948
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Maiden Run of "Pennsylvania Special"]
Heading out of the old Exchange Place Station in Jersey City, a spindly Atlantic type 4-4-2 locomotive and four de luxe coaches begin the maiden run of the "Pennsylvania Special" in June of 1902. Twenty hours and 912 miles later she will enter Chicago having given birth to a new era in passenger travel. On that same day in June the New York Central Railroad's "Twentieth Century Limited" also went into service. By 1929 all of the Pennsy's Atlantics had given way to the famed K4s Pacifics on first-class passenger runs.
Date:
June 1902
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History