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[Men in a Cotton Field]
Postcard of a cotton field near Galveston, Texas. There are four African-American men harvesting cotton. There is a horse and buggy with male driver in background, and trees in distance.
Date:
April 1, 1907
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Studio portrait of two young men in dark suits]
Photograph enclosed behind Funeral Notice of R. J. Calder. In this studio portrait, two young men are present. The one on the left is sitting in a chair with fabric draped over it. His left leg is crossed over his left with his left hand resting on his thigh and his right arm resting on the top of the chair. He is wearing a dark three piece suit, large dark print tie and a white collared shirt. His dark hair is parted on the left side. The next gentleman is standing to the right of the seated man. His right arm is touching the back of the seated man while his left hand is placed behind his back. He is wearing a dark three piece suit with the first button of the long coat buttoned. A watch fob can be seen on his vest. He is also wearing a white collared shirt and a dark tie. His hair is parted on the left side. At bottom of matte, photographer's mark: "Rose GALVESTON" Attached to a cardboard substrate.
Date:
January 1, 1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hangar at Hitchcock Naval Air Station with five K-type blimps]
Hangar at Hitchcock Naval Air Station with five K-type blimps.
Date:
May 1, 1944
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, [No. 2A], Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 1, 1856
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 1, 1856
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 1, 1854
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 1, 1854
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 8, Ed. 1, Tuesday, May 1, 1855
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 1, 1855
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 43, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 1, 1856
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 1, 1856
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 30, Ed. 1, Tuesday, November 1, 1859
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 1, 1859
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1, Saturday, June 1, 1844
Semiweekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 1, 1844
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 1, 1849
Semiweekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 1, 1849
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston County
Map of the Gulf Coast region covering Galveston County, Texas. The map shows the location of Camel's House on Samuel C. Bundick's Survey, near Swan Lake. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
March 1, 1864
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Picker and Cleaner.
Patent for an invention that "relates to certain novel improvements on machinery which is designed for rapidly and thoroughly cleaning and picking the interior grades of cotton, and the badly picked and ginned cottons, and for effecting this result without cutting or in any manner damaging the cotton fiber"(lines 19-25). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
September 1, 1868
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for the improvement of apparatuses for distilling turpentine.
Date:
August 1, 1871
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock.
Patent for improvement upon a combination-lock.
Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Bergman, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vacuum Electric-Arc Furnace.
Patent for "an improved electric furnace having means to positively insure the thorough fusion or reduction of the substances placed therein without loss due to combustion or the oxidation of such substances, while at the same time providing an effective distribution of the heat and the prevention of the loss of carbon by combustion" (lines 17-25). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary; Wright, George Hudson & Clark, Daniel J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Imposition-Furniture for Printers' Use.
Patent for improvements in imposition-furniture for printers’ use; in this “improved furniture, the page can be removed with the cord tied around it and set aside for future use and the improved pieces of furniture used around another and different page of type and so on indefinitely. It is made to serve the purpose of an almost endless set of furniture-pieces of that style of furniture border-piece where the groove is formed on the outside of furniture border-pieces and the tying-cord is fitted in said groove and made to serve for tying up both the furniture border-pieces and the page.” (Lines 22-34) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Clarke, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crab and Fish Trap.
Patent for a new and improved seafood trap. This design consists in "a net or trap for crabs or fish, which comprises flat frame-sections hinged together, netting attached to said sections, and a rod or bar extending across said sections and engaging with suitable devices thereon for holding said sections partly extended until the hinged sides strike bottom and thereby release the rod or bar" (lines 83-90).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 39, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 1, 1861
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 1, 1861
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 44, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 1, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 1, 1859
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 48, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 1, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 1, 1859
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 39, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 1, 1857
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 1, 1857
Creator:
Stuart, Hamilton & Brown, John Henry
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 1, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 1, 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston City Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Ed. 1 Saturday, July 1, 1843
Bi-weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 1, 1843
Creator:
Stuart, H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 1, 1844
Bi-weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 1, 1844
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History