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Screw.
Patent for a new and improved screw. This design consists in "[a] screw, the body and shank of which are of corresponding diameter throughout their length, the shank terminating in a rounded end, and the shank and body being provided with a longitudinal straight channel extending throughout their lengths, one of the terminal shoulders of the channel being removed" (lines 4-10).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Ericson, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pan Lifter and Turner.
Patent for a pan lifter and turner using a bent handle, a curved plate is secured at the end of the bent handle; extending upward from the curved plate with a series of teeth to engages the crimped rim of a pan for lifting. At both ends of the curved plate provided with curved notches or recesses to receive and engage the rim of a pan for turning. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 10, 1891
Creator:
Ericson, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 285, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 1899
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 10, 1899
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 311, Ed. 1 Monday, April 10, 1899
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 10, 1899
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 155, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 10, 1899
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 10, 1899
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1900
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 10, 1900
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Daily Enterprise Newspaper Page]
Photograph of a page from the Daily Enterprise newspaper, highlighting an article entitled "A Geyser of Oil," which announces the spouting of oil from Spindletop oil well. Other ads are also visible on the page.
Date:
January 10, 1901
Creator:
Fisher, Larry Jene
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Newspaper Article, "A Geyser of Oil"]
Photograph of a page from the Daily Enterprise newspaper, highlighting an article entitled "A Geyser of Oil," which announces the spouting of oil from Spindletop oil well.
Date:
January 10, 1901
Creator:
Fisher, Larry Jene
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of The Beaumont Journal Page]
Photograph of a page from The Beaumont Journal with an article about Spindletop entitled "An Oil Geyser."
Date:
January 10, 1901
Creator:
Fisher, Larry Jene
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Men On a Dock, August 10, 1901]
Photograph of the a group of men titled the Ninety-sixth expedition. The expedition members and some guests are posing for a photograph on the docks of ship number 3. Sitting on the anchor post to the left is E. A. Laughlin, with N. N. Beels on the next post. Standing from the left: Billy Farrell; L. Schuh; A. N. Scott; Peter Stock; A. J. M. Vuylsteke; F. J. Trost; Frank Cummins; M. R. Bos; Col. Jim Furlong; and Peter Lamp. Sitting from the left: John Walter Carr, hans Falsenburg, A. Spence, and D. L. Stump. Several boats can be seen to the left, with a larger vessel behind the group. The reverse side of the photo has a handwritten description, and also denotes Carr as "great grandpa."
Date:
August 10, 1901
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Men on a Dock, August 10, 1901]
Photograph of a group called the Ninety-sixth expedition and their guests posing for a photograph on the docks of ship number 3. Sitting on the anchor post to the left is E. A. Laughlin, with N. N. Beels on the next post. Standing from the left: Billy Farrell; L. Schuh; A. N. Scott; Peter Stock; A. J. M. Vuylsteke; F. J. Trost; Frank Cummins; M. R. Bos; Col. Jim Furlong; and Peter Lamp. Sitting from the left: John Walter Carr, hans Falsenburg, A. Spence, and D. L. Stump. Several boats can be seen to the left, with a larger vessel behind the group.
Date:
August 10, 1901
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 288, Ed. 1 Friday, January 10, 1902
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 10, 1902
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 142, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 10, 1904
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 10, 1904
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 172, Ed. 1 Monday, October 10, 1904
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 10, 1904
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Polishing-Machine
Patent for a metal polisher. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 10, 1907
Creator:
Nichols, Charlie M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Apparatus for Concentrating Acid
Patent for an apparatus for concentrating acid. This apparatus relates to concentrating weak acid taken from petroleum sludge.
Date:
October 10, 1911
Creator:
Gray, Elisha Burritt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard of Y. M. C. A. Building in Beaumont, Texas]
Postcard of a four story brick building with white accents, described as "Y. M. C. A. Building, Beaumont, Texas." A picture of a watch is pasted on the back of the postcard, with the message "Me find Jack H. H. 11-10-11." The postcard is addressed to "Miss Mamie McFaddin Washington D. C. 1906 Florida Ave."
Date:
November 10, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring-Bit.
Patent for a boring drill. The invention creates a new means "for connecting the constituent members of the head so as to provide novel means for assembling the head with a driving element" (lines 19-22).
Date:
June 10, 1913
Creator:
Larnce, John B.; Townsend, S. L. & Keith, Aubrey R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
File-Cabinet.
Patent for combination safe or revolving file cabinet to provide a safe operable means for compartments of batches of papers. Illustration is provided.
Date:
August 10, 1915
Creator:
Whitlow, Alamander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ignition-Tube Heater
Patent for "fire prevention, or explosions, by gas or oil surrounding the heater of the ignition-tube of a gas engine." (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1915
Creator:
Kincade, Elmer C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Jefferson County sheet
Map displays soil types along with bayous, canals, creeks, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, dams, swamps, towns, roads, ferries, railroads, oil reservoirs, refineries, pumping stations, and ranches. Includes legend, symbols, and soil profiles.
Date:
November 10, 1915
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Jefferson County, Texas
Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of Jefferson County, Texas.
Date:
November 10, 1915
Creator:
Carter, William T. (William Thomas); Schoenmann, L. R. (Lee Roy Adolph); Bushnell, T. M. (Thomas Mark) & Maxon, E. T.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Boat in a Parade]
Photograph of a boat shaped float in a W. O. W. Parade. It is driving through the middle of a street, and children on the right side of the photograph are watching it pass in front of them. Other bystanders can be seen in the background.
Date:
August 10, 1916
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Operating Mechanism
Patent for Valve Operating Mechanism that includes "new and useful improvements" (lines 5-6), and "has for its primary object to provide a simple and efficient means for operating a valve at a distance" (lines 10-12).
Date:
September 10, 1918
Creator:
Baurens, Jean Marie, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History