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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
1919 Girls' Basketball Team
Photograph of a group of eight young women identified as the 1919 girls' basketball team. They are posing in a car on the corner of Main Street and McKinney Street in Richardson, Texas. Five of the women are sitting in the car, and three are standing on the sides of the car.
Date:
1919~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
1919 Map and guide of Dallas & suburbs.
Map shows early twentieth century Dallas, Texas street names, railroads, interurban streetcar lines, neighborhoods, parks, country clubs, cemeteries, and some buildings, institutions, and businesses. Scale not given.
Date:
1919
Creator:
C. Weichsel Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
1919 Richardson High School Football Team
Photograph of twelve students and one coach identified as the Richardson High School football team. Coach W. H. Galloway is standing in between four boys on the back row, and eight boys are sitting in the front row. One boy in the center is holding a football with "R. H. S." written on it. Text below the image says "1919 Richardson High School Football Team." The boys are identified on the back of the image.
Date:
1919
Creator:
Smith, Morris J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator. illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Wyatt, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Ada Mae Harris Strip]
Photograph strip of Ada Mae Harris. She is wearing a white dress and a large bow in her hair. She is also wearing a black hat in the first photo.
Date:
1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding Machine
Patent for a machine that adds numbers together using "key actuated accumulating wheels" to reach the desired sum, including illustrations.
Date:
September 22, 1913
Creator:
Moody, Jason B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Book-Cover.
Patent for adjustable book covers. More protection with use of thicker paper, with adjustable feature is highly important as is also the slit and tongue.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Walraven, Albert T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Crib or Bed.
Patent for improvements in Adjustable Cribs or Beds for children to sit beside the bed of the mother or guardian of the child. Made to be "easily and quickly attachable to or connected with any make of" (lines 17-19) the adult's bed "so that the mattresses of the bed and crib will be perfectly even or flush, without space...between them" (lines 20-22). Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1919
Creator:
Rece, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles.
Patent for a vertically moving headlight so that the driver can aim light toward the direction in which they are traveling. The headlight is meant to be durable and easy to build.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Gray, Charles B. & Teter, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Lamp-Shade.
Patent for a simplified, detachable, and adjustable lamp shade that is "more practical and efficient without increasing the cost of manufacture" (lines 27-29), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Landers, Charles G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Advertisement for the New American Readers Series]
A set of mailers advertising the New American Readers series, which was adopted by Texas as an option for free supplementary reading in public schools. Envelope is included.
Date:
September 1919
Creator:
DeWitt, E. A.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De-Aerator
Patent for improvements in de-aerators such as "forcing the water into the tank and spraying the same against the cylinder to cause the air and gases to separate from the water, and means for causing a vacuum in the upper end of the tank from which a suction pipe extends to allow ready escape of the separated air and gases" (lines 27-33) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Strite, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Aerial View of Airport Facilities]
Photograph of an aerial view of Love Field airport facilities. Buildings include an aero repair shop, a dope house, a garage, a rest house, a mechanic shop, the YMCA, a canteen, hangars, barracks, and mess halls.
Date:
1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Aerial View of Love Field Airport]
Photograph of "Flyin' Frolic" being held at Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas. There are crowds of people near multiple airplane hangars. There is a field on the right.
Date:
[1918-11-12..1918-11-13]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Aerial View of Love Field Airport]
Photograph of "Flyin' Frolic" being held at Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas. There is a row of airplanes in front of hangars and a crowd.
Date:
[1918-11-12..1918-11-13]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Aerial View of Love Field Airport]
Photograph of "Flyin' Frolic" being held at Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas. There are airplanes lined up in a row on the right side of the photograph. The eastern view of the airport is shown.
Date:
1918-11-1X
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for an aeroplane with a propeller, which is "pivotally mounted and adjustable into different positions relative to the planes in order to produce either a rising movement or thereof or a driving movement in a horizontal or other plane" (lines 26-30).
Date:
September 19, 1911
Creator:
Andrae, Ernest H.; Andrae, E. H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. The invention is designed to vary the curvature of the plane from front to rear and by this means the plane may be so adjusted as to reduce the "head resistance" to a minimum. The invention is also trying to find the suitable means for manipulating the adjustable sections whereby the movable sections. This invention aims to provide a machine that is strong, durable, efficient, and comparatively simple to construct.
Date:
September 7, 1915
Creator:
McCarroll, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump
Patent for an automobile air pump that can be power driven from a car motor. This pump can be driven from the rear wheel of a car.
Date:
July 15, 1915
Creator:
Causey, Thomas S. & Kelley, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
AIR REGULATING ATTACHMENT
Patent for an Air Regulating Attachment. This new invention for an air regulating attachment builds upon previous advancements to create an inexpensive air regulating attachment system, which will in turn be used to regulate engine carburetors (Oscar Kiessing).
Date:
April 21, 1919
Creator:
Kiessig, Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Regulating Attachment.
Patent for a new attachment in a carburetor that regulates air through suction and has a valve to release pressure from an engine, including illustrations.
Date:
May 14, 1918
Creator:
Kimbler, Henry R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Airplanes on a Field]
Photograph of men pushing airplanes into position on a race track. People are visible in the foreground, and stables and other buildings are visible in the background.
Date:
1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History