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[Astros Mascot at League Park]

Photograph of Orbit, the Houston Astros mascot, walking amongst hundreds of area residents at the Red Ribbon Rally in League City Park. The mascot costume is multi-colored. Antennae protrude from the mascot's blue helmet. The event was part of a city-wide Drug Awareness Week put on by League City.
Date: October 24, 1990
Creator: Kiecke, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First State Bank Holiday Card]

Copy-print of a holiday card produced by First State Bank in Rio Vista, Texas. The outside of the card includes two photographs of the employees, lined up outside the bank (with the text, "Greetings from the folks at Texas' largest Country Bank") and organized more informally at a company cookout, standing around or seated on bales of hay, in front of a small herd of cows with men on horseback (with the text, "Western View from our coffee bar window"). The inside of the card includes signatures from all of the employees and text for Thanksgiving and the holiday season with small illustrations of a turkey and holly leaves.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

City of Dallas, Texas Water Consumption 1907-1946

Line graph showing the amount of water consumed in billion gallons per year from 1907-1946; the trend of the graph is positive, meaning the city is consuming more and more water per year.
Date: 1946~
Creator: Keuffel & Esser Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

William Christian Dietert Mill - Circa 1860

Art print of a painting of William Christian Dietert's mill in Boerne, Texas. The painting depicts a small, two-story, brown, wooden building with six windows, sitting on a brick foundation on the left bank of a body of water. The brick foundation has stone steps leading down to the water, and a small red and white boat rests on the grassy bank next to the building. Dark green trees surround the scene. A piece of paper is attached to the back of the print with information about the mill and the painting printed on it.
Date: 1983
Creator: Barrick, Bill
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Doll Pieces]

Collection of paper doll figures, accessories, and accompanying pieces that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images include a young girl, women, and furniture.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Dolls]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images include young girls and children as well as adult women in fashionable dresses and men in dressing gowns.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Doll Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images are all young ladies and adult women in fashionable dresses; one of the dolls is missing her head.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Doll Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images are all adult women in fashionable dresses.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Doll Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images are all adult women in fashionable dresses.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Doll Girls and Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images include young girls, young women, and adult women in fashionable dresses; two (identical) girls have only upper bodies).
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cowpuncher or Cook Artwork]

Photograph of an artwork titled "Cowpuncher or Cook," standing out-of-doors on a grassy plain. The piece is a tall cabinet made of reclaimed wood, displaying three historic magazine covers from McCalls and True Story.
Date: 2009~
Creator: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum
System: The Portal to Texas History

[War Years Artwork]

Photograph of an artwork titled "War Years," standing out-of-doors on a grassy plain. The piece is a tall wooden cabinet that is wider at the bottom than the top and has various kinds of decorative wood paneling in different colors. Four windows near the top display large images and a series of seven smaller images are displayed underneath, down the center of cabinet.
Date: 2009~
Creator: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum
System: The Portal to Texas History

[It's All in the Deal Artwork]

Photograph of an artwork titled "It's All in the Deal," standing out-of-doors on a grassy plain. The piece is a large cabinet with dark paneling and deorative woodwork in a pattern at the top. Six historic photographs of buildings and street scenes are displayed in the center part of the cabinet.
Date: 2009~
Creator: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Prairie Sentinels Artwork]

Photograph of an artwork titled "Prairie Sentinels," standing out-of-doors on a grassy plain. The piece is a series of four tall, skinny connected cabinets with white wood paneling. Each cabinet displays a historic photo.
Date: 2009~
Creator: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Front Porch Conversations Artwork]

Photograph of an artwork titled "Front Porch Conversations," standing out-of-doors on a grassy plain. The piece is a made of reclaimed wood and has two hinged cabinets, a tall one above a metal piece on the right and a smaller cabinet braced by a turned-wood post. A series of red tobacco cans are lined up above the cabinet on the right.
Date: 2009~
Creator: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Under a Wide Sky Artwork]

Photograph of an artwork titled "Under a Wide Sky," standing out-of-doors on a grassy plain. The piece is a large piece of a cottonwood tree with a decorative wooden cabinet containing materials reclaimed from a farmhouse.
Date: 2009~
Creator: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The Cattleman Artwork]

Photograph of an artwork titled "The Cattleman," standing out-of-doors on a grassy plain. The piece is a square, wooden cabinet on four legs; the main part of the cabinet has two doors. Each side displays a legal document in a small window and larger images above; on the left, there is a cover of a magazine titled The Cattleman and on the right, part of a blueprint.
Date: 2009~
Creator: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Up from the Cellar Artwork]

Photograph of an artwork titled "Up from the Cellar," standing out-of-doors on a grassy plain. The piece is a large, flat cabinet made from wood reclaimed from a farmhouse cellar. Five historic photos are displayed in a line down the center.
Date: 2009~
Creator: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Up from the Ruins Artwork]

Photograph of an artwork titled "Up from the Ruins," standing out-of-doors on a grassy plain. The piece is a tall wooden cabinet with a point at the top; it has light-colored wood around the outside with lighter wood inset to create the cabinet portion. There are five linoleum and wallpaper designs reclaimed from a farmhouse displayed in the cabinet windows.
Date: 2009~
Creator: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cross Sections on the Lines A-A. B-B. Etc. PL. LXVI, Showing Geological Structure of the Black and Grand Prairies.

Profiles to illustrate section lines on Plate 66, Geologic Map of the Black and Grand Prairies of Texas.
Date: 1899~
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
System: The Portal to Texas History