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Map of Trinity County

Cadastral map of Trinity County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Some borders and features are marked in color, including the center of the county. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 1862
Creator: Reichel, Robert
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grinding-Machine (open access)

Grinding-Machine

Patent for "a machine chiefly adapted for making or grinding molding bits or knives with either a straight or irregular cutting-edge; but my invention is also adapted for making and grinding other edged tools and implements" (lines 13-18).
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Ross, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for "simple and easily-operated mechanism for opening and closing a gate and for controlling the latch thereof by the same mechanism which opens and closes the gate" (lines 12-16).
Date: June 11, 1901
Creator: Seckler, Levi W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Machine Attatchment (open access)

Sewing-Machine Attatchment

Patent for an attachment for sewing machines. Illustrations included.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Griffin, Patrick
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from G. H. Ramey to M. O. Laisure, June 28, 1917] (open access)

[Letter from G. H. Ramey to M. O. Laisure, June 28, 1917]

Letter from G. H. Ramey to M. O. Laisure discussing the need for notification to hold an application of the proposed consolidation of the eleventh and twelfth seniority districts, as it was rejected by a unanimous vote.
Date: June 28, 1917
Creator: Ramey, G. H.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Southeast Texas, June 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Southeast Texas, June 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Southeast Texas area.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gloria Toran, June 20, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Gloria Toran, June 20, 2016

Ms. Toran was raised in Nigton, a small community in East Texas, by her highly-educated father and step-mother, who were also educators. Ms. Toran attended segregated schools in Lufkin and then went on to become a school-teacher and counselor in Lufkin schools. She was the first black school counselor in Lufkin schools. In the interview, she discussed growing up in Nigton, the accomplishments of her father, schools in Lufkin, changes over time in the black community. Ms. Toran described the responses to integration, including demonstrations by the KKK in the 1970s.
Date: June 20, 2016
Creator: Howard, Jasmin & Toran, Gloria
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History