Access
Partner
Lamar University
2,400
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
1,084
Museum of the Gulf Coast
1,028
Port Arthur Public Library
844
Texas Historical Commission
481
UNT Libraries Special Collections
477
The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
406
McFaddin-Ward House Museum
210
UNT Libraries
188
Edison Museum
154
45 More
Collection
Texas Digital Newspaper Program
2,235
Lamar University Student Newspapers
2,005
Museum of the Gulf Coast
1,025
Rescuing Texas History, 2009
677
United States Census Map Collection
474
Texas Cultures Online
473
KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection
460
Sanborn Map Collection
401
THC National Register Collection
384
Texas History Collection
339
80 More
Degree Department
Degree Discipline
Degree Level
Country
States
Counties
Decade
Month
8,163 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
[Letter to Rev. O.A. Fisher, from Bro. Woods]
Letter to Orceneth Asbury Fisher from a Brother Woods discussing payments to Fisher along with a wish for his improved health.
Date:
February 20, 1880
Creator:
Woods, D. V.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jefferson County
Map of Jefferson County, Texas, including the Gulf Coast region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1882
Creator:
Schmidt, V.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Velocipede
A patent for a quadrucycle, or bicycle with four wheels, adaptable for use on railroads.
Date:
June 13, 1882
Creator:
McCombs, Paul
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage for Adjusting Planer Knives.
Patent for a new and improved gauge for planer knives. This design is "for use in planing and other mills where side heads are used to supply the need of a convenient appliance for holding the side heads in best position for filing, sharpening, or setting the bits, to afford a strong machine for holding the side heads firmly and securely in any position that the work[person] may desire while sharpening or adjusting the bits to the desired pattern" (lines 30-38).
Date:
June 17, 1884
Creator:
Thompson, Francis B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1885 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1885 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1885 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1889 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1889 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1889 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1889 Sheet 4
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1889 Sheet 5
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1889 Sheet 6
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1889 Sheet 7
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1889 Sheet 8
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaumont 1889 Sheet 9
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Escape.
Patent for a new and improved fire escape. This design "is to provide a fire-escape consisting, essentially, of a cushion adapted to receive and break the fall of persons jumping from a burning building, the said cushion being so constructed as to enable it to be folded to a convenient and portable size" (lines 8-14).
Date:
January 15, 1889
Creator:
Simon, Jacob Peter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved pipe-wrench. This design consists in "the handle having the integral L-shaped foot at its end forming the rigid jaw of the wrench, said foot or jaw having its inner face curved, so as to receive and provide a bearing for the pipe, and its outer face at right angles to the handle, and said face being serrated, combined with the C-shaped swinging jaw pivoted at one end to the handle by a single bolt, and having its entire inner face serrated from the pivot-point to the outer end, and the teeth along the outer edge of the handle in close proximity to the rigid foot" (lines 12-24).
Date:
December 17, 1889
Creator:
Smith, James R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredging-Machine
Patent for "a dredger which shall in an improved manner co-operate with and utilize the current in removing accumulations from the bed of channels" (lines 13-17).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Fletcher, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nona Mills Company
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustration of business with decorative business name and text reading: "Manufacturers of All Kinds of Rough, Sized and Dressed Long Leaf Yellow Pine and Cypress Lumber, Mouldings, Laths, Pickets, Shingles. R. R. Ties, Bridge Timber, Etc."; "Capacity of Mills 70,000 Feet Per Day. On Sabine and East Texas R. R." in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston.
Date:
1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Pearl Street view]
Postcard of Pearl Street, possibly looking south, with buildings, people, carriages, and a trolley car. Carriages can be seen on the left and right sides of the street with men and women. The trolley car is visible in the center of the picture. Written on the bottom of the postcard is "Beaumont Cigar Co" "Pearl Street, Looking South" and "Beaumont, Texas." In handwriting is also written "Thought maybe you would like this." In addition to the Beaumont Cigar Co., the back of the postcard also credits the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Date:
[1890..1919]
Creator:
The Albertype Co.
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Mill-Carriage-Wheel Guard.
Patent for a new mill-carriage-wheel guard "to prevent obstruction falling on the wheels or on the [railroad] track, this guard also carries scrapers in front and in rear and on each side of the wheel, whereby the obstructions are scraped off the track." (Lines 23-28) This guard can be used with a wood-working machine carriages and/or rail.” Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Zimmerman, Joseph W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History