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Galveston Weekly News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 9, 1845
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 9, 1845
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 22, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 9, 1851
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 9, 1851
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 1, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 9, 1861
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 9, 1861
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 18, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 9, 1859
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 9, 1859
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 17, Ed. 1, Tuesday, July 9, 1861
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 9, 1861
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 120, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 9, 1861
Tri-weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 9, 1861
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 10, Ed. 1, Friday, June 9, 1848
Semiweekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 9, 1848
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for a bale tie that "form[s] a double lock-tie for securing the ends of baling-hoops, which cannot become detached or tear and whose outer surface face is flush, thereby rendering it impossible to catch against other packages, and thus be broken or torn off" (para. 2).
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Drake, Simeon N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition For Roofing And Paving.
Patent for a process "to produce a compound which is strong, tenacious, and pliable, which will not be affected by climatic changes, and which will resist the corrosive action of acids and alkalies; and to this end my invention consists in a compound composed of asphaltum, pine-tar, and oxide of iron, as will more fully hereinafter appear.” (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions.
Date:
May 9, 1882
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater, &c.
Patent for an improved way of constructing piers, jetties, breakwaters, and similar structures. "It can be constructed from boats, barges, or from a trestle, or can be built continuously from a starting-point on shore to the objective point in the lake, bay, gulf, or other body of water" (lines 17-21). This invention is especially useful for places that don't have banks or ledges.
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Shannon, Alexander M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Freezing Wine.
Patent for a device that cools wine and liquor. The device "will produce the desired results in much shorter time than is now employed by the common method and apparatus" (lines 11-14).
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Wadhams, Arthur
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood-Preservative.
Patent for a compound with preservative qualities for protecting submersed wood from the destructive forces of water, whether sea or fresh, and from shipworms.
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Gallinowsky, Hugo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Splicing Device.
Patent for a new and improved wire splicer. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the casing, of the wires entering the casing at the opposite sides of the respective ends and bent in opposite directions, so as to interlock within the casing, said casing being bent down . . . at each end" (lines 62-67).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Basel, John Conrad
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for improved tire-tighteners "capable of ready adjustment to contract and expand a tire, to permit the tire to be tightened when a wheel becomes loose in dry weather, and to expand in wet weather to prevent the same from becoming dished." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shutter Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved shutter fastener. This design consists "[i]n a blind-fastening, the case, constructed . . . and provided with [a] projection in combination with the bolt having recess, the spring, the swinging catch, and the keeper secured in the window sill" (lines 45-49).
Date:
March 9, 1886
Creator:
Cutter, Martin A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sign.
Patent for signs that are to be mounted to the roof of a car, and can be illuminated and read from any angle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1891
Creator:
Garner, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rope Clamp.
Patent for a new and improved rope clamp. This design "is intended to be used in place of selvagee-straps in any and all places where such straps can be used, and also for use on purchases in setting up rigging in place of cats'-paws; also in joining two ends of a rope together in place of splicing, or in any situation where it is desired to clamp or hold ropes" (lines 7-14).
Date:
June 9, 1885
Creator:
Magee, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Molding Sash-Weights.
Patent for a new mold design for sash-weights which describes "a mold of simple and improved construction whereby a number of weights can be cast at the same time" (lines 14-17), including illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Mann, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 9, 1860
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 9, 1860
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 9, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 9, 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 9, 1861
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 9, 1861
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 9, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 9, 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 9, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 9, 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 9, 1857
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 9, 1857
Creator:
Stuart, Hamilton & Brown, John Henry
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History