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["Delegate Democratic State Convention" ribbon]

Ribbon. " DELEGATE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION GALVESTON, TEXAS AUGUST 2 1898" Old Object Term: Commemorative pin
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Democratic State Convention Galveston" ribbon]

Ribbon. Top is unreadable. "DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION GALVESTON, TEXAS AUGUST 2 1898" Old Object Term: Commemorative pin
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A view of the docks and pipelines under construction in Texas City in 1934]

Long lengths of pipeline lie on the ground near a dock. On the dock, men can be seen. A hoisting crane and a truck are near the docks. Other men gather near the hoisting crane.
Date: February 2, 1934
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1, Tuesday, May 2, 1854 (open access)

Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1, Tuesday, May 2, 1854

Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 2, 1854
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 21, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 2, 1851 (open access)

Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 21, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 2, 1851

Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 2, 1851
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 52, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 2, 1861 (open access)

Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 52, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 2, 1861

Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 2, 1861
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 14, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 2, 1856 (open access)

The Galveston News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 14, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 2, 1856

Tri-weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 2, 1856
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 151, Ed. 1, Saturday, July 2, 1859 (open access)

The Galveston News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 151, Ed. 1, Saturday, July 2, 1859

Tri-weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 2, 1859
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 10, Ed. 1, Friday, June 2, 1848 (open access)

The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 10, Ed. 1, Friday, June 2, 1848

Semiweekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 2, 1848
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 2, 1851 (open access)

The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 2, 1851

Semiweekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 2, 1851
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Times. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1, Wednesday, November 2, 1842 (open access)

The Texas Times. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1, Wednesday, November 2, 1842

Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 2, 1842
Creator: Pinknard, F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills. (open access)

Improvement in Windmills.

Patent for a "self-regulating windmill, so arranged that it will automatically exclude the wind from the wheel during storms and irregular or sudden squalls of wind, while it will equally enlarge the opening through which the wind is admitted to the wheel, whenever the power of the wind is reduced." (Lines 14-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1873
Creator: Davie, John P. & Morgan, Asa
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Tie fastenings. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Tie fastenings.

Patent for the improvement of bale-tie fastenings, including illustrations.
Date: June 2, 1874
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties

Patent for an improved kind of bale tie "designed to hold in compact form a mass of hay, cotton, moss, and other analogous substances" (para. 3).
Date: February 2, 1875
Creator: Reese, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blacking Brush. (open access)

Blacking Brush.

Patent for a new and improved blacking brush. This design "relates to an improvement in boot-blacking brushes so disposed that fluid blacking may be used; and to this end [the design] provide[s] a reservoir at one end with a forwardly-projecting tube or nozzle therefrom, the said reservoir having a disk at one side, so that when pressed the liquid will be forced through the nozzle upon the boot" (lines 13-20).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: England, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound for the manufacture of artificial stone. (open access)

Compound for the manufacture of artificial stone.

Patent for "Compounds for the Manufacture of Artificial Stone...and it consists in composition formed by mixing certain materials in solution and treating them in further solutions" (lines 5-15).
Date: January 2, 1883
Creator: Greer, Joseph A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Two-Wheeled Delivery-Vehicle. (open access)

Two-Wheeled Delivery-Vehicle.

Patent for "a light and convenient vehicle for the use of mail-collectors in cities, and for the transportation and delivery of parcels, milk, or other articles," (lines 8-12) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 12, 1891
Creator: Boone, Manly Breaker
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Keel. (open access)

Keel.

Patent for an improved type of keel construction, "of which the distance between the keel and covering-boards is equalized throughout the length of the vessel and a vessel of exceptional strength and advantageous construction is afforded." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1891
Creator: Grothgar, John & Garfield, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hydraulic Packings (open access)

Improvement in Hydraulic Packings

Patent for an improvement in hydraulic packing for use in hydraulic rams. Includes illustration and description.
Date: September 2, 1879
Creator: Riesel, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Push Bar for Locomotives (open access)

Push Bar for Locomotives

Patent for invention of new and useful improvements of Push-Bars for Locomotives for coupling to car
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Toohey, Matthew, D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Power Printing-Presses (open access)

Feeder for Power Printing-Presses

Patent for improvements in the construction feeders for power printing presses.
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Orser, Levi
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Treadle Printing-Presses (open access)

Feeder for Treadle Printing-Presses

Patent for improvements in treadle-press feeders "in which the feeder has to lay the paper on the platen and remove it after being printed" (lines 10-12).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Orser, Levi
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 2, 1860 (open access)

The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 2, 1860

Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 2, 1860
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 52, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 2, 1861 (open access)

The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 52, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 2, 1861

Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 2, 1861
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History