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[First Christian Church Choir Quartet]
Photograph of the First Christian Church Choir Quartet. Left to right are: Bill Reeder, Kathryn Anglemyer, Pat Hilton, and Robert Gartman.
Date:
December 1946
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[First Christian Church Youth Choir]
Photograph of the First Christian Church Youth Choir. Back row - left to right: Dexter McCoy, Wayne Phillips, Mark Youngblood, Elizabeth Donan, Shirley Douglas, Rosealie Pentecost, Pat Hilton, Alyce Jane Speck, Homer Claude Holmes, Murphy Vaught, Billy Reeder, Robert Gartman, Isaac Bertrand. Front row - left to right: Austine Mills (pianist), Betty West, Willie Mae West, Donya Lu Eidom, Cathryne Anglemyer, Ann Montgomery, Betty Garrett, Kathryn Quinn, Nancy Prafka, Geraldine Bertrand, Catherine Ann Vaught, Marian Dooley. Standing in front - left to right: A.E. Catanach, Director, Mrs. C.H. McIntosh (nee Peggy Catanach) soprano soloist.
Date:
December 1946
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[First Christian Church Youth Choir 1954]
Photograph of the First Christian Church Youth Choir. Janis Joplin, a Rock Star in the 1960's, is on the second row, second from the left. She is 14 in the photo and her birthday is January 19, 1940, so she was almost 15. First row - left to right: Marilyn Harbert, Martha Oliver, Delmer Fussell, Dennis Trahan, Terry Trahan, Roy Murphy III, Tommy Stansbury. Second row - left to right: Sandra Logan, Janis Joplin, Elva Buroker, Harriett Axtell, Mary Jane Budwine, Janet Addcox, Linda Douglas, Cynthia "Cookie" Swearingen, Sylvia Swearingen, Carol Quinn, Betty Ann Murphy, Shirley Logan. Third row - left to right: Alline Dawson, Ila Mae Prafka, Jane Catanach, George Fussell, Paul B. Bertrand, Phillip Foote, Robert Kettrick, Arthur Catanach, Darrell Evans, Doris Cannon, Peggy McIntosh, Gladys Rigsby, Charlotte Pittman, not known. Austine Mills was the pianist and A.E. Catanach was the Director but they are not in the photograph.
Date:
December 26, 1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[First Christian Church 1956]
Photograph of the First Christian Church and educational building shortly after construction was completed..
Date:
December 1, 1956
Creator:
J.C. Watkins Photography
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Gulf Oil Refinery Office Building]
Photograph of an exterior view of a brick building identified as an old Gulf Oil Refinery office building, on west Seventh Street at Gulf Docks. The building is several stories high, and a sign near the building says "Chevron Port Arthur Refinery." In front of the building, there is a truck and a fence.
Date:
December 8, 1993
Creator:
Everett, James
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Port Arthur Municipal Rose Garden]
Photograph of Port Arthur Municipal Rose Garden. There are several sections of rose bushes. A hat is sitting on the ground of an aisle. In the background, there are houses. Text on the photograph says "Port Arthur Municipal Rose Garden 12-26-30."
Date:
December 26, 1930
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Auditorium Construction]
Photograph of an aerial view of the construction of an auditorium for Stephen F. Austin High School. In the lower-left of the photograph, there is a metal frame for the building and other construction equipment.
Date:
December 12, 1969
Creator:
Watkins Studio
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jefferson County
Map of Jefferson County, Texas, including the Gulf Coast region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
December 1873
Creator:
Wyschetzki, A. & Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shingle-Bolting Machines.
Patent for a shingle-bolting machine.
Date:
December 1, 1874
Creator:
Fletcher, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trunk-Strap Fastener.
Patent for a device "whereby a trunk-strap after having been tightly drawn around a trunk or other article of baggage can be fastened without the use of the usual buckle," (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1891
Creator:
Webb, William James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Log-Carrier.
Patent for a log-carrier with an improved construction from a previous patent (No. 539,380). Improvements include a change in "the angle of strain of the draft-chain as the lever approaches the horizontal position...when the load is elevated" (lines 34-37). It also maintains "a uniform leverage without the use of guide-rollers or other means" (lines 54-56), and balances the sliding tongue so that "the team is relieved of the weight thereof" (line 62).
Date:
December 8, 1896
Creator:
Carroll, Joseph Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved pipe-wrench. This design consists in "the handle having the integral L-shaped foot at its end forming the rigid jaw of the wrench, said foot or jaw having its inner face curved, so as to receive and provide a bearing for the pipe, and its outer face at right angles to the handle, and said face being serrated, combined with the C-shaped swinging jaw pivoted at one end to the handle by a single bolt, and having its entire inner face serrated from the pivot-point to the outer end, and the teeth along the outer edge of the handle in close proximity to the rigid foot" (lines 12-24).
Date:
December 17, 1889
Creator:
Smith, James R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredging-Machine
Patent for "a dredger which shall in an improved manner co-operate with and utilize the current in removing accumulations from the bed of channels" (lines 13-17).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Fletcher, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Chuck Foster's Orchestra at the Pleasure Pier]
Photograph of Chuck Foster and his orchestra performing at the Port Arthur, Texas, Pleasure Pier. Five men with saxophones are standing at podiums in the foreground, with a man and woman in evening wear sitting on the right. Behind the front row to the left are two men sitting at a piano, and other musicians to the right are obscured by the standing men. A banner printed with "Chuck Foster" and "Merry Christmas" are hung above an image of Santa Claus' head, all of which hangs over the band. Plants and wreaths are festooned across the wall in the background. On the lower portion of the photo, Chuck Foster has autographed the picture with "To Jean with love."
Date:
December 18, 1947
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Port Arthur High School Band Drum Corps]
Photograph of Port Arthur High School "Red Hussars" drum corps in parade. The girls are wearing skirted uniforms with parade boots. Crowd lines both sides of the street with some people viewing out the window from the upper story of a building. Some spectators are viewing the parade from the back of a pickup truck on the side street with parked cars.
Date:
December 1947
Creator:
Everett, James
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Flood in Port Arthur]
Photograph of the tops of trees in high water during a flood in Port Arthur, Texas.
Date:
December 4, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[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
[Photograph of Franklin Elementary School]
Photograph of Franklin Elementary School in Port Arthur, Texas. Standing by a street and sidewalk and surrounded by a chain link and barbed wire fence, the school is two stories tall. A sign bearing the school's name and information can be seen near the main entrance.
Date:
December 1996
Creator:
Everett, James
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Beaumont Banner (Beaumont, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 11, 1860
Weekly newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
December 11, 1860
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[LULAC meeting guidelines for Port Arthur Council Number 217 - December 7, 1952]
LULAC meeting guidelines of Port Arthur Council Number 218, dated December 7, 1952. Includes wording for songs, prayers, LULAC Code, and Pledge of Allegiance.
Date:
December 7, 1952
Creator:
League of United Latin American Citizens
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 206, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1898
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 8, 1898
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 225, Ed. 1 Friday, December 30, 1898
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 30, 1898
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 226, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 31, 1898
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 31, 1898
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 192, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 4, 1900
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 4, 1900
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History