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[Alpine School Building]

Rendering of the Alpine School Building. It has a central entrance with an intricate design above it, and a building wing on both sides.
Date: 1929~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Object Type: Artwork
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating or Concentrating Ores (open access)

Apparatus for Separating or Concentrating Ores

Patent for improvements in apparatus for separating or concentrating ores through a flotation method.
Date: August 31, 1920
Creator: Cole, David
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Artillery Salute for General Pershing]

Photograph of soldiers firing wheeled artillery on an earthen field. Plumes of smoke rise behind the guns and partially obscure distant mountains. A caption on the reverse side of the photo indicates that the firing was a salute to visiting General John J. Pershing.
Date: February 2, 1920
Creator: Rhineheimer, Oscar
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Austin Junior High School]

Photograph of the front of Austin Junior High School. The building has three stories of windows, an entrance with a long set of stairs that lead up to it from the street, a slanted lawn, and cars parked on the street. The side of the street near the camera has unfinished dirt and rock on both sides of the sidewalk.
Date: 1922~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Density-Indicator for Slime-Pulp Separators. (open access)

Automatic Density-Indicator for Slime-Pulp Separators.

Patent for devices that thickens slimes for ore milling operations in which it will indicate the density and regulate it so it will not go below a predetermined value.
Date: June 22, 1920
Creator: Allen, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Separator and Evaporator. (open access)

Automatic Separator and Evaporator.

Patent for an improved automatic separator and evaporator which controls the intake with an included air-lift or jet-ejector, including illustrations.
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Allen, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Radiator. (open access)

Automobile-Radiator.

Patent for improvements in automobile radiators to provide the ability to remove the top and the bottom of the tanks so they can be easily reached for replacement and repair.
Date: June 15, 1920
Creator: Costelloe, Clinton & Stoll, Sherm G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Top. (open access)

Automobile-Top.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in Automobile-Tops." (lines 5-6) and is related to "tops of automobiles having two or more seats." (lines 9-10) includes illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Stewart, Henry W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed. (open access)

Bed.

Patent for a bed, specifically the joints of a bedframe. The side rails for a bedframe are joined by tapered connectors.
Date: August 17, 1920
Creator: Hellweg, Rudolph F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Big Spring School Building]

Rendering of the Big Spring School Building. It has three entrances on the front, with the two outer entrances having an archway shape. The middle entrance has a roof area that extends higher than the rest of the building. Many windows span the length of the three story building.
Date: 1928/1929
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Object Type: Artwork
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Construction (open access)

Building Construction

Patent for building construction that is new and a useful improvement to sleeping porch construction.
Date: March 14, 1922
Creator: Trost, Henry Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cadwallader School]

Photograph of the Cadwallader School front side. There are windows along its length, an archway overhang around the entrance door, a wall extension that sticks above the roof for decoration, and a flag pole in front of the building on the lawn.
Date: 1923~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carnegie Library Christmas Tree Room]

Photograph of a room in the El Paso Carnegie Library decorated for Christmas. The room's walls have wooden support beams and archways that have a dark smooth finish, and the back of the room contains book shelves and a table.
Date: 1926-12~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carnegie Library Lobby]

Photo of the front lobby of the El Paso Carnegie Library decorated for Christmas. A dark lacquered desk is on the right side of the photo, with an open door to the left. There are three archways with dark lacquered trim. There is a table with books in front of the archways, with Christmas decorations around it like a wreath and trees. People are sitting in the room beyond the archways reading newspapers.
Date: 1926-12~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carnegie Library Lobby Looking Right]

Photo of the front lobby of the El Paso Carnegie Library decorated for Christmas. A dark lacquered desk is on the left side of the photo, and three archways are just beyond the desk. Books are displayed on a table to the right of the desk, and Christmas decorations are around it.
Date: 1926-12~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cars Parked in Front of Vocational School]

Photograph of cars parked in front of a vocational school in El Paso, Texas. The building is sitting on a slant, with the street moving down towards the bottom left. The building itself has archway shaped windows at the top level, and detailed reliefs in the middle. The top of a bell tower is sticking out over the roof.
Date: 1925~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cerro Alto Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1929
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cigarette Package. (open access)

Cigarette Package.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Cigarette Packages" (lines 5-6) including "the method of dispensing or extracting cigarettes from the package and as well to the method of making a cigarette package" (lines 9-12), including one illustration.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Sohn, Elmer L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Device (open access)

Cleaning Device

Patent for a cleaning tool that attaches to the windshields of automobile windows to clean snow, rain, and dust. It is operated from the interior of the car and can be easily attached and removed. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 29, 1921
Creator: Rivers, Charles A. & Stuart, Francis B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Clint Public School - 1925]

Photograph of the front side of Clint Public School. Children are gathered in front of the entrances, and the bottom half of the photo has a patch of grass over dirt ground. The building itself has a lightning rod, and many windows on the front and side.
Date: 1925
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Coahoma School Building]

Rendering of the Coahoma School Building in El Paso, Texas. It has a large entrance with steps and an archway shape for the door. The left and right side of the building are slightly staggered in height with windows across the whole front.
Date: 1925~/1929~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Object Type: Artwork
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coating Apparatus and Mathod. (open access)

Coating Apparatus and Mathod.

Patent for a new apparatus into which long objects such as pipes can be placed, dipped into coating material, and spun so that objects are coated evenly.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Watrous, Edward L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee in the Gourd (open access)

Coffee in the Gourd

Collection of miscellaneous folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folk songs, information about Indian pictographs, legends, superstitions, and weather lore. The index begins on page 105.
Date: 1923
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coin-Wrapping Device. (open access)

Coin-Wrapping Device.

Patent for a coin wrapper (primarily used in banks) that uses a strip of carbon paper to create an imprint of the coins contained inside, which will remain after the coins are removed. The purpose of this is to create a record of the original number of coins to facilitate their counting and verification.
Date: November 15, 1921
Creator: Mohr, Arthur D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History