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84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1137, Chapter 8 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1137, Chapter 8

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to improvement projects of the Sabine-Neches Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas; providing authority to issue anticipation notes and time warrants.
Date: May 14, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 146, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 14, 1904 (open access)

The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 146, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 14, 1904

Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 14, 1904
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 176, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1904 (open access)

The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 176, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1904

Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 14, 1904
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Birth Certificate of James Edgar Sutherlin] (open access)

[Birth Certificate of James Edgar Sutherlin]

Birth certificate for James Edgar Sutherlin, born July 14, 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas to Edith Wilson and Edgar Brown Sutherlin.
Date: July 14, 1925
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Chamber of Commerce Meeting]

Photograph of a group of men sitting in a room at a meeting of Port Arthur's Chamber of Commerce after Hurricane Carla. A map hangs on the brick wall in the background.
Date: September 14, 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Driver's License for Edith Wilson Sutherlin] (open access)

[Driver's License for Edith Wilson Sutherlin]

Driver's license for Edith Wilson Sutherlin, from the 1940s.
Date: June 14, 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Expanding Device For Can Bumping Presses (open access)

Expanding Device For Can Bumping Presses

Patent for expanding device for can bumping presses including the illustrations.
Date: December 14, 1915
Creator: Drake, Rollin L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First CavOilCade Dinner]

Photograph of rows of dinners seated and eating with a head table in the background. On the curtain behind reads "We Appreciate Your Faith in Port Arthur". Handwritten on the reverse of the photograph: "1st celebration of CavOilCade" "Oct. 14, 1952 - dinner to salute oil industry. Became CavOilCade in 1953." "Valuable, return picture to: Lyle Vickers, 300 Plaza Circle, Port Arthur, TX."
Date: October 14, 1952
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gates Model Farm]

Photograph of two unidentified men standing on a plot of land at Gates Model Farm on 3100 Procter Street. Behind them, there is a two-story wooden house with a woman and a man standing in front of it. In the background, there are wooden barns and a silo.
Date: September 14, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 14, 1977 (open access)

Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 14, 1977

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with advertising.
Date: September 14, 1977
Creator: Cowles, Roger
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1977 (open access)

Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1977

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 1977
Creator: Cowles, Roger
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1978 (open access)

Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1978

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with advertising.
Date: April 14, 1978
Creator: Cowles, Roger
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 14, 1979 (open access)

Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 14, 1979

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with advertising.
Date: February 14, 1979
Creator: Shockley, Tara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 14, 1979 (open access)

Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 14, 1979

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with advertising.
Date: September 14, 1979
Creator: Hale, Greg
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 14, 1979 (open access)

Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 14, 1979

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with advertising.
Date: November 14, 1979
Creator: Hale, Greg
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, November 14, 1980 (open access)

Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, November 14, 1980

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with advertising.
Date: November 14, 1980
Creator: Marlow, Susan
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 14, 1981 (open access)

Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 14, 1981

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 1981
Creator: Johnson, Renita
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 14, 1982 (open access)

Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 14, 1982

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with advertising.
Date: April 14, 1982
Creator: Tisdale, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Griffing Nurseries, September 14, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Griffing Nurseries, September 14, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Griffing Nurseries requesting a copy of a letter sent by the nursery which included a list of various azaleas.
Date: September 14, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Charles H. Moore, April 14, 1948] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Charles H. Moore, April 14, 1948]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Charles H. Moore explaining that Kempner will most likely miss the upcoming meeting for the Galveston Country Club and Kempner expressing his support of buying stock of the Galveston Country Club.
Date: April 14, 1948
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Rabbi Newton J. Friedman, February 14, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Rabbi Newton J. Friedman, February 14, 1945]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Rabbi Newton J. Friedman discussing the lodge responses he received and pledges in Dallas and Houston.
Date: February 14, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lightning-Protecting System for Oil-Tanks. (open access)

Lightning-Protecting System for Oil-Tanks.

Patent for an improved system that is used for protecting oil tanks from getting struck by lightning and can get put on existing structures to ground them. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date: March 14, 1916
Creator: Gunthorpe, Charles Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Log-Loading Mechanism. (open access)

Log-Loading Mechanism.

Patent for a machine that hauls and loads logs upon cars from either side of the track, or both sides at once. The machine can easily be transported on a car. The machine "consists, essentially, in a platform of about the length of an ordinary log-car and of a height and width to enable it to span the same, mounted upon which are a steam engine and a boiler and a rotating crane, said platform being provided with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with means for locking said legs in a vertical position" (lines 23-30).
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Fletcher, William Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Meeting About Seawall Improvements]

Photograph of the first meeting about making improvements to the seawall after Hurricane Carla in Port Arthur, Texas. D. S. Turpin, Lyle Vickers, and Buddy Martin sit at the table at the front of the room.
Date: September 14, 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History