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The Canyon City Echo
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative images, business name, and the names Edgell & McClellan, Publishers.
Date:
1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
County and District Clerk, Comal County
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs and the name Robert Bodemann, Clerk.
Date:
1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A. G. Startz
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustrations of livestock, business name, and text reading: "Office of A. G. Startz, Dealer in General Merchandise and Country Produce"; "Proprietor of the Smithson's Valley Cotton Gin and Grist Mill."
Date:
1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Braunfels 1891 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Braunfels 1891 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Braunfels 1891 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of William and Hulda Classen]
Photograph of William and Hulda Classen. Hulda stands at left in a wedding dress, and William stands at right with a suit and bow tie.
Date:
1893?
Creator:
Schwartz & Burgert
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow.
Patent for an improved, simple, and durable sulky-plow that "may be shifted laterally by the driver during the act of plowing whenever such action is deemed advisable, thereby changing the cut whenever occasion may demand" (lines 10-14). The plow can attach to any type of wheeled plow.
Date:
June 20, 1893
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Exchange System.
Patent for "a simple system and arrangement which is especially adapted for a telephone exchange, which enables the instruments to be connected by a single wire, which dispenses with the use of an operator at the central station, which has automatic means for registering the messages sent by each subscriber, and which is provided with an automatic switching device by means of which one subscriber may connect with any other" (lines 10-19).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Serdinko, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Otto and Auguste Voges]
Photograph of Otto Voges (1870–1947) and Auguste Voges (1865–1926). Auguste stands at left in a white wedding gown, and Otto stands at right in a suit. A note on the back states they are buried in Voges Cemetery in Comal County.
Date:
1894~
Creator:
F. W. Schwarz & Co.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Braunfels 1896 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Braunfels 1896 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Braunfels 1896 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Husker.
Patent for a "simple, inexpensive, and convenient hand-operated machine employing an oscillating knife or cutter for severing the stalk or stem and at at the same time clamping the shucks, so that the ear, when turned, will effect the bursting open of the shucks, thus permitting the ready removal of the ear" (lines 8-15).
Date:
December 22, 1896
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Comal County
Blue line print of survey map of Comal County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, the old San Antonio Road, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made of the published map in red ink to denote the addition of Highway 81 and indicated Old San Antonio Road. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (2000 varas to 3/8 of an inch).
Date:
1897
Creator:
Pressler, Herman & Terrell, O. O.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Gus Forrester and a Woman]
Photograph of Gus Forrester(?) and a woman at his right, possibly his wife. Gus sits in a low chair with a large black coat, and the woman stands and holds his shoulder, wearing a black dress.
Date:
1897
Creator:
Klenke
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Albert F. Elbel and Louise Elbel]
Photograph of Albert F. Elbel (1868–1924) and Louise Elbel (1865–1940). Louise stands at left in a bridal gown with a headdress. She holds Albert's lifted arm; he stands at right in a coat, posing against a chair. Notes in the back indicate the Elbels are from Comal County and were married in 1897.
Date:
1897?
Creator:
Serdinko, J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoe.
Patent for a new and useful hoe, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Willian, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History