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[111th Engineers Returning Home from France after World War I]

Photograph of 111th Engineers marching through downtown Dallas after returning home from France after World War I.
Date: 1917~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Account-Book. (open access)

Account-Book.

Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Exline, Marcus, P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device. (open access)

Amusement Device.

Patent for an invention relating to the amusement device. Advantages and illustrations of the invention and amusement device are included.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Moore, Charles L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Annie Belle Emery Bright's students]

Photograph of Annie Belle Emery Bright's students at Cumberland Hill School in Dallas, Texas. The students are elementary aged and stand in front of open doors on the exterior of the school building. The students all have their arms crossed in front of them. The female students wear dresses that go down to the knee with various patterns and wide collars. The male students wear white button-down shirts with breeches and socks that go above the knee. One male student in the front row does not wear socks or shoes. The photograph cracked in half horizontally, and is mounted to black cardstock which has a tear at the top center. On the back is a list naming all 39 students as well as the note, "year 1917 / names put on / 1919."
Date: 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Projectile. (open access)

Automobile Projectile.

Patent for self-propelled vehicle with means for reducing a barrier such as a wire entanglement.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Elrod, Henry E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Security Lock Device. (open access)

Automobile Security Lock Device.

Patent for a new and useful form of automobile lock adaptable for use in connection with the steering column and steering wheel of the car or automobile to be locked.
Date: December 18, 1917
Creator: Mushaway, Alden
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Steering Apparatus. (open access)

Automobile Steering Apparatus.

Patent for automobile steering apparatus, adding two rear wheels and mounting an enlarged body on the frame which will allow a considerable number of passengers to be carried and many advantages had as a public service vehicle.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Rebman, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureting System for Internal Combustion Engines (open access)

Carbureting System for Internal Combustion Engines

Patent for improved carbureting system for combustion engines.
Date: February 27, 1917
Creator: Hooser, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Book-Stub Holder. (open access)

Check-Book-Stub Holder.

Patent for a check book stub holder. This device holds back used check stubs in a check book.
Date: April 10, 1917
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[City of Grand Prairie Tax Roll: 1917 to 1920] (open access)

[City of Grand Prairie Tax Roll: 1917 to 1920]

Tax rolls for Grand Prairie, Texas documenting real and personal properties during 1917-1920.
Date: 1917/1920
Creator: Grand Prairie (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Treating Concrete Flooring (open access)

Composition of Matter for Treating Concrete Flooring

Patent for improvements to treating concrete flooring. The process described for mixing animal, mineral, and vegetable waxes to produce a treatment which renders already poured concrete floors (or other cement or stone) dustless and waxy to prevent disintegration of the floor's components.
Date: May 12, 1917
Creator: Annan, Alfred H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for an improved cotton cleaner including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Line, George C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner (open access)

Cotton Cleaner

Patent for cotton cleaners which serve as accessories in cotton ginning operations and in the present instance are used with a pneumatic cotton distributing elevator or conveying means cooperating with gin feeders.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Murray, S.D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine. (open access)

Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine.

Patent for cotton harvesting and cleaning machine. The invention allows for seed cotton, hulls, husk, pods or other foreign matter to be gathered and separated from the cotton. The invention also allows bulls of cotton to be picked at the same time as other is being separated.
Date: September 17, 1917
Creator: Meier, John & Wallace, James F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Reginning Machine (open access)

Cotton Reginning Machine

Patent for machine that improves the grade of harvested
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Stephens, Louis K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1769: Housley, Lisbon (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1769: Housley, Lisbon (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Housley, Lisbon (Deceased) and W.E. Mewshaw (Executor or Guardian).
Date: May 26, 1917
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 2574: Sickle, M.J. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 2574: Sickle, M.J. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Sickle, M.J. (Deceased) and S.H.G. Milliken (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1917-07-05/1917-07-05
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Washing Machine. (open access)

Dish-Washing Machine.

Patent for an improved dish-washing machine with removable platforms to hold the dishes to be cleaned and water spraying from both top and bottom of the device, including illustrations.
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Crow, Jesse J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dispensing Liquids (open access)

Dispensing Liquids

Patent for device used to dispense liquids such as gasolene or the like.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Bruce, Thomas S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drum-Lining. (open access)

Drum-Lining.

Patent for a cement pulverizer drum made of cast iron with a tongue and groove connection that is strong, durable, and easy to make.
Date: December 11, 1917
Creator: Johnson, Charles L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Emergency-Tire. (open access)

Emergency-Tire.

Patent for a spare automobile tire with improvements to the design which allow it be easily applied on the road in case of emergency.
Date: December 25, 1917
Creator: Poe, James G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Eula Holley on Fence]

Photograph of Eula Holley sitting on a wooden fence. She wears a gingham dress and a sweater. Several homes are visible in the background.
Date: [1917..1922]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Eula Holley Portrait]

Studio portrait of Eula Holley standing in front of an open window. She wears a robe embellished with a fur collar.
Date: [1917..1921]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Federal Food Administration - Dallas Texas] (open access)

[Federal Food Administration - Dallas Texas]

A blank food administration pledge card.
Date: 1917/1919
Creator: United States Food Administration
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library