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[Copy Slide of a Photograph of the Schultz Bakery]
Copy slide of a photograph of the Schultz Bakery with several young boys and men standing on the front porch.
Date:
1800~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letter from Israel McGrady to James F. Perry, November 25, 1850]
Copy of transcript for a letter from Israel McGrady to James F. Perry, in which McGrady asks, on behalf of Dr. W. C. Ashburn, if Perry will sell one-hundred and fifty acres of his land at one dollar an acre.
Date:
November 25, 1850
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Asylum Lands
Survey map of land grants for "blind and lunatic asylums" in Shackelford, Jones, Taylor, and Calhoun Counties, showing blocks of land and plat numbers. The map also includes rivers, creeks, and areas of elevation. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:70,000] (2000 varas to the inch).
Date:
1857
Creator:
Creuzbaur, Robert
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Taylor County
Cadastral map of Taylor County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Some boundaries are marked in color. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
November 1858
Creator:
Hector, James P.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Taylor County
Cadastral map of Taylor County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Some boundaries and notes are marked in color. This copy appears to have red ink spilled across the right half of the map. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
August 30, 1859
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Taylor County
Cadastral map of Taylor County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Bodies of water are marked in color. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
January 18, 1879
Creator:
Wise, Louis C.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Taylor County
Cadastral "tracing" map of Taylor County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Bodies of water are marked in color. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
February 4, 1879
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music Band
Copy negative of the Abilene Town Band of the 1880s. The men are sitting and standing, holding their instruments. From left to right they are T. A. Lipps, Pete Kauffman, Adolph Heyck, Dave Kauffman, J. T. Tarpley, Will Woodward, Turner Lesslie, and Wilson. Printed below is a paragraph about the band.
Date:
1880~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music Band
Copy negative of the Abilene Town Band of the 1880s. The men are sitting and standing, holding their instruments. From left to right they are T. A. Lipps, Pete Kauffman, Adolph Heyck, Dave Kauffman, J. T. Tarpley, Will Woodward, Turner Lesslie, and Wilson. Printed below is a paragraph about the band.
Date:
1880~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
People on Front Porch
Copy negative of R. H. Parker and family standing on the porch of a large two story house at S. 2nd St. and Butternut in Abilene in the late 1880's. There is a fence in front and other buildings in the background.
Date:
1880~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Pine Street]
Photograph of Pine Street soon after the finding of Abilene, Texas. Several businesses are visible in the photograph and the street is busy with vehicles, wagons and people walking by.
Date:
1880
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Taylor County Land Survey]
Land survey map for Taylor County, Texas, conducted by the General Land Office in Austin, Texas and signed by W.C. Walsh.
Date:
April 13, 1880
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Will of Joseph H. Beck]
Handwritten will of Joseph H. Beck, giving detailed instructions regarding treatment of his estate following his death.
Date:
October 25, 1880
Creator:
Beck, Joseph H.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Land Transfer Confirmation]
Notarized document confirming the finalization of a transfer of land from E. B. Gillespie, Mrs. M. E. Sayles, and John Sayles to Eleander Strawn.
Date:
1881~
Creator:
King, Bingham
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Pine Street, Abilene, in 1881]
Copy slide of a photograph of Pine Street in Abilene in 1881. A buggy and wagon are seen on the street.
Date:
1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Police Chief Hill]
Photograph of Abilene Police Chief John Thomas Hill, visible from the chest up. He has a mustache and goatee, medium-length dark hair parted in the middle, and is wearing a dark jacket with a star-shaped badge pinned on his chest.
Date:
[1881..1886]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Deed Transfer from W. E. Beck to J. W. Lotspeich]
Legal document transferring a deed from W. E. Beck to J. W. Lotspeich, as the result of a court case, J. A. Baker vs. W. E. Beck.
Date:
March 3, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Legal Agreement Between P.E. Peareson, W. Von Rosenberg, C. Von Carlowitz]
Legal agreement between W. Von Rosenberg, C. Von Carlowitz, and P.E. Peareson, concerning the return of land to Mrs. Elizabeth Morton.
Date:
September 15, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Legal Document Between E. Glasscock and Van Fugh & Sons]
Legal document concerning a land dispute between Elizabeth Glasscock and Van Fugh & Sons.
Date:
April 30, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Killing Rodents
Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Palmer, Austin D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger.
Patent for an earth-auger that allows a hole to "be bored in ordinary soil in much less time than with the ordinary auger. It readily bores in ground in which the ordinary auger will not bore - viz., dry, hard, and packed soil, gravel, and concrete beds."
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Porter, Thomas & Gillilland, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Ordinances: 1883-1902]
Ledger containing ordinances/resolutions passed by the city of Abilene, Texas from 1883 to 1902.
Date:
1883/1902
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Birds eye view of Abilene Taylor County, Texas.
Map shows late nineteenth century Abilene, Texas street names, buildings, Texas and Pacific Railroad, and businesses. Includes short index to local points of interest. Scale not given.
Date:
1883
Creator:
Koch, Augustus, b. 1840
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Loan Notes and Envelope]
Two loan notes, the first recognizing a loan made to John Bell and Alex Martin by Spoonts & Legett, and the second a loan made to Dixon English by Legett & Hardwicke. Also included is an envelope with printed and handwritten text.
Date:
[1883,1893]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History