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Blind Stop. (open access)

Blind Stop.

Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design is "to provide a cheap and simple device designed to be secured to a window-casing and be interposed between any two adjacent pivoted slats, and thus support the same and the series in an open position and against accidental closing by their own weight or by the wind" (lines 9-16). It consists in the "holder for slats of blinds, consisting of a spring-metal strip bent at its center to form an eye and opposite terminals, the latter being adapted to be interposed between two adjacent slats, and the ends of the terminals oppositely bent" (lines 72-77).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Deats, Wallen S. & Brown, Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Document Concerning the Sentencing of Gabriel and Anestacio Castro] (open access)

[Document Concerning the Sentencing of Gabriel and Anestacio Castro]

Document from the justice of the peace, Santos Benavides, concerning the sentencing of Gabriel and Anestacio Castro.
Date: July 19, 1856
Creator: Laredo (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Battery. (open access)

Electric Battery.

Patent for a new and improved electric battery. This design consists "[i]n an electric generator, a receptacle for steam, and means for admitting steam thereto, in combination with electrodes consisting of two parallel disks suspended within said steam-receptacle, electrodes of opposite polarity to the aforesaid electrodes arranged between the disks of the first-named electrodes, a shaft extending through the said receptacle upon which the latter electrodes are mounted, and means for rotating the said shaft" (lines 41-50).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Emley, James Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Arnulfo Zamora to John J. Herrera - 1947-04-19] (open access)

[Letter from Arnulfo Zamora to John J. Herrera - 1947-04-19]

Letter from Arnulfo Zamora in Laredo, Texas, to John J. Herrera in Houston, Texas. Zamora acknowledged receipt of Herrera's letter from March 13, 1947 regarding the application of Felix H. Morales for a radio station permit.
Date: April 19, 1947
Creator: Zamora, Arnulfo
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from David Kinsey to Tom Milson, with attached photographs: May 19, 2019] (open access)

[Letter from David Kinsey to Tom Milson, with attached photographs: May 19, 2019]

Letter from David Kinsey to Tom Milson containing photographs from the Laredo George Washington Bridge Ceremony and the Texas State Convention, dated May 19, 2019.
Date: May 19, 2019
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Major L. M. Fellbaum to T. N. Carswell and Ernest A. Vernon - October 19, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Major L. M. Fellbaum to T. N. Carswell and Ernest A. Vernon - October 19, 1943]

A letter addressed to Thomas N. Carswell and Ernest A. Vernon, Webb County Local Board No. 2, Mirando City, Texas, from L. M. Fellbaum, Major, Q. M. C. Policy Supervisor, State Headquarters for Selective Service, Austin 17, Texas, dated October 19, 1943. Fellbaum instructs Carswell and Vernon to address a letter from the clerk of Hidalgo County Local Board 2 regarding the instructions given regarding 4-F registrants.
Date: October 19, 1943
Creator: Fellbaum, L. M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Minutes from the LULAC Supreme Council Meeting - 1951-08-19] (open access)

[Minutes from the LULAC Supreme Council Meeting - 1951-08-19]

Minutes of the Supreme Council Meeting of the League of United Latin American Citizens held at the Hamilton Hotel in Laredo, Texas, on August 18-19, 1951.
Date: August 19, 1951
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Airmen protest] (open access)

[News Script: Airmen protest]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about 60 airmen, mostly Black, protesting for a shorter tour of duty at the Laredo Air Force Base.
Date: September 19, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Arlington] (open access)

[News Script: Arlington]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Texas law enforcement officers who have been told at Arlington that the mafia has taken over control of the vast intricate network which makes and distributers most pornographic materials.
Date: July 19, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Border surveillance] (open access)

[News Script: Border surveillance]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Charles Feary who is acting as chief of the U.S border patrol says a controversial electronic surveillance device now being debated in Congress which has been used in the Laredo area for the past two years.
Date: July 19, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dallas Man's Marijuana] (open access)

[News Script: Dallas Man's Marijuana]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 19, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Laredo] (open access)

[News Script: Laredo]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 19, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Laredo air base] (open access)

[News Script: Laredo air base]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about 30 African American airmen at the Laredo Air Force Base protesting mistreatment on and off the air training cammand facility.
Date: September 19, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Leary] (open access)

[News Script: Leary]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 19, 1970, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Leary marijuana trial] (open access)

[News Script: Leary marijuana trial]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 19, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Leary marijuana trial] (open access)

[News Script: Leary marijuana trial]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 19, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Report of LULAC National Treasurer for June 24, 1951 - June 19,1952] (open access)

[Report of LULAC National Treasurer for June 24, 1951 - June 19,1952]

Report of the National Treasurer, League of United Latin American Citizens, Laredo, Texas, for Cash Receipts and Disbursements, June 24, 1951-June 19, 1952. This report was submitted by Felix Garcia, Jr., LULAC National Treasurer on June 19,1952.
Date: June 19, 1951
Creator: Garcia, Felix, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Warrant for Francisco Valdes] (open access)

[Warrant for Francisco Valdes]

Warrant for Francisco Valdes, accused of theft.
Date: August 19, 1858
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History