Degree Department

Toxolasma texasense, Specimen #1193

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; moderately thick shell; single looped beak sculpturing; white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Nueces basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be long dead when collected.
Date: August 25, 1979
Creator: Britton, Joseph; Britton, Michael; Britton, David & La Grove, M.
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lampsilis teres, Specimen #391

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Nueces basin. The specimen measures between 100 - 120 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 25, 1979
Creator: Britton, Joseph & Britton, David
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lampsilis teres, Specimen #392

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Nueces basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 25, 1979
Creator: Britton, Joseph & Britton, David
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lampsilis teres, Specimen #393

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Nueces basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 25, 1979
Creator: Britton, Joseph & Britton, David
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lampsilis teres, Specimen #394

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; yellow external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Nueces basin. The specimen measures between 60 - 100 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 25, 1979
Creator: Britton, Joseph & Britton, David
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lampsilis teres, Specimen #395

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Nueces basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 25, 1979
Creator: Britton, Joseph & Britton, David
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lampsilis teres, Specimen #396

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; reddish-brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Nueces basin. The specimen measures between 60 - 100 mm in length and was assessed to be long dead when collected.
Date: August 25, 1979
Creator: Britton, Joseph & Britton, David
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pyganodon grandis, Specimen #831

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Guadalupe basin. The specimen measures between 100 - 120 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 23, 1979
Creator: Britton, Joseph; Britton, Michael; Britton, David & La Grove, M.
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pyganodon grandis, Specimen #832

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; bluish-white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Guadalupe basin. The specimen measures over 120 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 23, 1979
Creator: Britton, Joseph; Britton, Michael; Britton, David & La Grove, M.
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pyganodon grandis, Specimen #833

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; bluish-white internal coloring; reddish-brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Guadalupe basin. The specimen measures between 100 - 120 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 23, 1979
Creator: Britton, Joseph; Britton, Michael; Britton, David & La Grove, M.
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Texas: Woodward Quadrangle Grid Zone "D"

Topographic quadrangle map of Woodward, Texas, showing towns, roads and highways, ranches and farms, water bodies, borders between counties, water tanks, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Loving, James J.; Anderson, Clay; Drouet, Adolph & Barr, J. L.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

La Salle County

Blueline format of survey of La Salle County, Texas, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, land grants, and roads. Handwritten notes have been made on the back of the map. No scale information given.
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

La Salle County

Survey map of La Salle County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes rivers, creeks, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: September 1923
Creator: Giles, J. Bascom & Atlee, Tom
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Artesia Wells Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Artesia Wells, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing boundaries, water bodies, pipe lines, telephone lines, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1959
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Fowlerton Quadrangle: Grid Zone "D"

Topographic quadrangle map of Fowlerton, Texas, showing roads and highways, ranches and farms, towns, water bodies, boundaries, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Lukesh, G. R.; Rehberg, A. & Barr, J. L.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Piedra Creek Quadrangle Grid Zone "D"

Topographic quadrangle map of Piedra Creek in Texas, and the surrounding area, showing roads and highways, towns, water bodies, ranches and farms, oil fields, borders between counties, water tanks, water wells, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Encinal Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Encinal, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, water bodies, borders, ranches, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1957
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Dilley Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Dilley, Texas and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, and borders. It is a polyconic projection map with relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1957
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Hindes Quadrangle: Grid Zone "D"

Topographic quadrangle map of Hindes, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, water bodies, ranches, borders between counties, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Kenda, Paul; Anderson, Clay & Loving, James J.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas (La Salle County): Cotulla Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Cotulla, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, ranches, borders, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Caiman Creek Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Caiman Creek in Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, water bodies, ranches, roads and highways, water tanks, water wells, borders between counties, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1957
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Artesia Wells Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Artesia Wells, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing boundaries, water bodies, marshes, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. The back of the map features a short introduction to the series of standardized maps to be published by the United States Geological Survey, of which this map is a part. Under the introduction is a collection of standard symbols that will be used in future maps, including culture, relief, and water symbols. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1925
Creator: Goodlove, C. W.; Reineck, R. H. & Hill, E. B.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hatchet and Wire-Tightener. (open access)

Combined Hatchet and Wire-Tightener.

Patent for a device that operates as a hatchet and as a wire-twisting device, so that "slack may be taken up in fence-wires as fast as it occurs" (lines 11-12). The wire-tightener is two triangles stick out from the side of the hatchet, where the operator can pinch the wire.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Keck, Edgar A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1891, Chapter 467 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1891, Chapter 467

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the La Salle Water Control and Improvement District No. 1; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date: June 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History