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[Client Card: Acme Bronze Company] (open access)

[Client Card: Acme Bronze Company]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for the Acme Bronze Company (T. Jackson), including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces include bronze plaques (3 copies, 8" x 8").
Date: November 1950
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Bronze Incorporated] (open access)

[Client Card: Bronze Incorporated]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Bronze Incorporated (Leonard Grosse), including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces include: plaque (2 copies; 56" x 16"), plaque (2 copies; 24" x 12"), "Lily Pads and Frogs," "Aviator" (2 copies), "Dutch Group" (24" x 13", 28" x 18" at the pails; base 35"), fountain, "Boystown Figs" (3 copies), "Bible" (66" x 44"), "Last Supper," "Boystown Figures" (2 copies), bookends (2 copies), modern sculpture (3 copies), "Christ," racing trophy (6.5" x 13.5" x 8.5"), several figures, abstract, William H. Peck plaque, Luther Bust (2 copies; 38" x 33"), "Eagle" (42"), "Bust of Colonel R. R. McCormick" (2 copies; 30"), "Monk and Lady" bookends, "Dead Dog," and "Christ Plaque" (60" x 34").
Date: May 1948
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Charles G. Blake Co.] (open access)

[Client Card: Charles G. Blake Co.]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Charles G. Blake Co., including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: Logan Memorial.
Date: November 1929
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Chicago Art Gallery] (open access)

[Client Card: Chicago Art Gallery]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for the Chicago Art Gallery, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Indian on Horse," P.J. Mene group, and "The Scalp" by Remington.
Date: 1964-03/1971-07
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Henry Appelbaum] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Henry Appelbaum]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Henry Appelbaum, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Portrait Bust of Weiler".
Date: October 1963
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Hillis Arnold] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Hillis Arnold]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Hillis Arnold, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Plaque" (16.5" x 23.5").
Date: May 1954
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. John David Brcin] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. John David Brcin]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. John David Brcin, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Portrait Bust", "Stephen Decatur", "Bust of Mark Twain" (28", base), "Female Portrait Bust" (14.5"; base 6.25" x 6.75"), "Portrait Bust" (20"; base).
Date: 1936-02/1974-08
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Melvin Buch] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Melvin Buch]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Melvin Buch, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Portrait Bust" (24" x 17" at shoulder), "Portrait Head" (15.5"), and "Figure" (2 copies; 1 bronze cast, 1 aluminum cast).
Date: 1950-03/1952-06
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Ronald P. Boardman] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Ronald P. Boardman]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Ronald P. Boardman, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry.
Date: June 1971
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. C. H. Chadwick] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. C. H. Chadwick]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. C. H. Chadwick, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes a bronze cast head.
Date: May 1938
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Dorothy Chamberlin] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Dorothy Chamberlin]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Dorothy Chamberlin, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes a bronze cast "Vine Boxing & Packing."
Date: September 1968
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Horace Clark] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Horace Clark]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Horace Clark, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes a bronze figure measuring 41 inches high.
Date: July 1941
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Leon J. Caine] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Leon J. Caine]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Leon J. Caine, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes numerous bronze casts and plaster models.
Date: 1961-02/1967-01
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. William Burry, Jr.] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. William Burry, Jr.]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. William Burry, Jr., including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes a refinished bronze portrait plaque of a boy.
Date: July 1937
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from David B. Heartzell to Miss Mary Ann Love - August 19, 1866] (open access)

[Letter from David B. Heartzell to Miss Mary Ann Love - August 19, 1866]

Letter from David B. Heartzell to his sister, Mary Ann Love in Fairfield, Texas, dated August 19, 1866, in which he writes about the cholera epidemic in the area and its effect on his return to Texas by steamboat, and about the health of his family members.
Date: September 19, 1866
Creator: Heartzell, David B.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Oliver J. Glessner to Miss Lou Moore] (open access)

[Letter from Oliver J. Glessner to Miss Lou Moore]

Handwritten letter from Oliver J. Glessner to Miss Lou Moore, inquiring about her well-being and whether she had a safe and pleasant trip to Illinois, as well as a desire to meet her again in Indiana. The two would marry later that year. The lined paper is embossed in the far left top corner with a small crown and shield.
Date: June 8, 1860
Creator: Glessner, Oliver J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of McDougall Whaleback Passenger Boat]

Photograph of the McDougall Whaleback Passenger Boat, "Christopher Columbus." On the back of the photo is printed information about the boat, which was built for the World's Fair and held the title of "The Largest Excursion Boat in the World."
Date: [1893..1900]
Creator: Hartley
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[R. O. Evans & Company Envelope] (open access)

[R. O. Evans & Company Envelope]

Empty envelope with typed text in the middle: "R. O. Evans & Company, 1104 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, U. S. A."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letter from David B. Heartzell to Miss Mary Ann Love - August 19, 1866] (open access)

[Transcript of Letter from David B. Heartzell to Miss Mary Ann Love - August 19, 1866]

Transcript of letter from David B. Heartzell to his sister, Mary Ann Love in Fairfield, Texas, dated August 19, 1866, in which he writes about the cholera epidemic in the area and its effect on his return to Texas by steamboat, and about the health of his family members.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History