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[Acknowledgment of receipt of briefs by John J. Herrera - 1969-03-27] (open access)

[Acknowledgment of receipt of briefs by John J. Herrera - 1969-03-27]

Self-addressed card for Scofields' Quality Printers, Inc. for John J. Herrera to use to verify his receipt of two copies of briefs for a case printed and delivered by that company.
Date: March 27, 1969
Creator: Scofields' Quality Printers, Inc.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Advertisement for Magic Fogging Solution] (open access)

[Advertisement for Magic Fogging Solution]

Advertisement for Dixie Chemical Co.'s Magic Fogging Solution, "a balanced insecticide for use in mechanical fogging machines".
Date: 1953
Creator: Dixie Chemical Company
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Approaches to New Orleans.

Map shows union and confederate fortifications in the New Orleans area; swamps, roads, canals, and railroads; layout of the city of New Orleans; residents and landowners along some roads. Includes list of authorities. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:75,100].
Date: [1891..1895]
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Article "Negro Democratic Leaders to Place Before Incoming Administration Negro's Views" (open access)

Article "Negro Democratic Leaders to Place Before Incoming Administration Negro's Views"

Newspaper Clipping regarding Black Democratic leaders presenting the issues faced by Black people in the United States to incoming President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Date: February 9, 1933
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Barbara Jordan - Margaret Brent Award Acceptance - American Bar Association - Commission on Women in the Profession (open access)

Barbara Jordan - Margaret Brent Award Acceptance - American Bar Association - Commission on Women in the Profession

Text of acceptance speech given by Barbara C. Jordan for the Margaret Brent Award, given by the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, about the advancement of women in the field of law.
Date: August 7, 1994
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barriers to Wholeness (open access)

Barriers to Wholeness

Speech given by Barbara C. Jordan at the United Church of Christ in New Orleans, Louisiana, about how the church may assist in eliminating barriers to wholeness in America.
Date: March 14, 1987
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bill of Sale of a Slave Named Adam (or Tircis), December 15, 1859] (open access)

[Bill of Sale of a Slave Named Adam (or Tircis), December 15, 1859]

Bill of sale witnessed by notary Selim Wagner, containing details of the sale of a slave named Adam or Tircis. Adam was sold for $1,225 by auctioneer for the estate of the deceased Pierre Riviere of New Orleans as directed by his executor, Nicolas Tourne. The buyer was Lucretia Van Woert of Sabine Pass, Texas, though her husband, Theodore Gripon, accepted on her behalf.
Date: December 15, 1859
Creator: New Orleans (La.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bills of Sale of a Slave Named Nancy, June 18, 1838] (open access)

[Bills of Sale of a Slave Named Nancy, June 18, 1838]

Bills of sale of a slave named Nancy. The initial bill was written by notary William Christy in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jacob Sevy is selling Nancy, approximately 15, to John Covington Thomas of Gainsville, Alabama, for $1,200. Handwritten bills are added explaining that John C. Thomas sells Nancy to James Chessher in August 1838 for $3,000, who in turn sells her to Stephen Jackson of Jefferson County, Texas, in 1840 for $1,000. A separate paper is included with a description of this document.
Date: June 18, 1838
Creator: New Orleans (La.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Blank Postal Card from the Navy Department, 1947]

Blank postal card with form from the Navy Department to indicate when to make a 14 day training cruise.
Date: 1947?
Creator: United States. Department of the Navy
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bourbon Street]

Photograph of Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Three men can be seen standing under a street sign that reads "Bourbon Street." Behind them, is a poster of man playing a trumpet with the phrase "Now Appearing."
Date: 197X
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bourbon Street, 2]

Photograph of Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Three men can be seen standing under a street sign that reads "Bourbon Street." Behind them, is a poster of man playing a trumpet with the phrase "Now Appearing."
Date: 197X
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Burbon Street at night]

Photograph of Burbon Street at night. Large crowds can be seen on both sides of the street. Several signs for bars are visible as well.
Date: 197X
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Burbon Street at night, 2]

Photograph of Burbon Street at night. Large crowds can be seen on both sides of the street. Several signs for bars are visible as well.
Date: 197X
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Business Card for Jack B. Manning of Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.] (open access)

[Business Card for Jack B. Manning of Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.]

Business card for Jack B. Manning from Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co. in multiple cities.
Date: 1949~
Creator: Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Business Card for Jack B. Manning of the Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.] (open access)

[Business Card for Jack B. Manning of the Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.]

Business card for Jack B. Manning of the Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.. It lists the cities the company is present in and has a logo featuring the word "Viking" on the top left corner of the card.
Date: 1950
Creator: Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Business Card for Morris Wolf of Wolf & Co.] (open access)

[Business Card for Morris Wolf of Wolf & Co.]

Business card for Morris Wolf of Wolf & Co. Behind the card is a note which is written by W. L. Albritton mailing a pail of Shelled Pecans to Morris Wolf, and asks him to let him know if they don't reach him promptly and in good condition.
Date: 1963
Creator: Wolf & Co.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Business Card for Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.] (open access)

[Business Card for Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.]

Business card from Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co, which does business in multiple cities.
Date: 1952~
Creator: Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an invention for train cars which "relates to car couplings, and especially to that class of the same which effect an automatic coupling by means of a gravity-hook," (lines 12-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1884
Creator: Washburn, Andrew Lynch & Journeay, Abram L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter. (open access)

Carbureter.

Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Pollard, James M. & Barton, Wallace R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Certificate of Award: Best Exhibition of Grape Vines, 1885] (open access)

[Certificate of Award: Best Exhibition of Grape Vines, 1885]

Certificate awarding a "first degree of merit" to T. V. Munson for "Best Exhibit of Grape Vines" at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition. The text is surrounded by a decorative border and by illustrations of Native Americans with a shield and a bald eagle (center, top) and of a group of Greek women (center, bottom).
Date: May 30, 1885
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Charlyne Creger on Sidewalk]

Photograph of Charlyne Cerger wearing a blue checkered blouse and white shorts standing on the sidewalk in front of Tujague's Restaurant at the corner of Madison and Decatur streets in New Orleans. On the right side there is a row of parked cars in the street and behind her several neon signs and two unidentified men walking down the sidewalk are visible in the background.
Date: June 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Charlyne Creger, Woman, and Strawberry Man]

Photograph of Charlyne Creger wearing a blue checkered blouse and white shorts (center) with an unidentified woman wearing a short-sleeved blouse and shorts (left), and a man in a hat and white shirt selling strawberries from a box that reads "Louisiana Strawberries" (right). On the left the silhouettes of several people and a carriage in an alley are visible in the background and on the right part of a sign that reads "chateau" can be seen.
Date: June 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement (open access)

City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement

From Introduction: "In connection with the fuel investigations conducted by the Bureau of Mines much information has been accumulated as to the smoke abatement activities in various cities. The essential features of the information are presented in this report, which, it is believed, will be of public interest and benefit, especially to those communities that are just beginning organized effort to abate unnecessary smoke."
Date: 1912
Creator: Flagg, Samuel B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Client Card: Acme Marble and Granite Company] (open access)

[Client Card: Acme Marble and Granite Company]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Acme Marble and Granite Company, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces include: "Youth or Childhood," "Maturity or Middle Age," and "Death" plaques (20 x 20"); "Fate" statue; two bronze urns; "Seidel" in bronze letters (4" tall).
Date: 1935-10/1936-01
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History