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Billiard Table Leveler. (open access)

Billiard Table Leveler.

Patent for a new and improved billiard-table leveler. This design consists in "the vertical case having the closed bottom, the open upper end, and provided with the removable plate, the vertical guide-rods extending through openings in the plate, the follower in the upper end of the case and having openings to receive the guide-rods, and provided with an interiorly-threaded opening, the vertical shaft having its lower end stepped in the bottom of the case and journaled in the plate, the said shaft having the miter-pinion and the threaded upper end working in the threaded opening of the follower" (lines 58-70).
Date: May 11, 1886
Creator: Himes, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Brackett News. (Brackett (Fort Clark), Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 11, 1899 (open access)

The Brackett News. (Brackett (Fort Clark), Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 11, 1899

Weekly newspaper from Brackett (Fort Clark), Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 11, 1899
Creator: Kartes, Charles
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Filippone Building, (West oblique)]

Photograph of the Filippone Building (located at James and El Paso Streets) in Brackettville, Texas.
Date: July 11, 1972
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Hale Schaleben to Thos. L. James, July 11, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from Hale Schaleben to Thos. L. James, July 11, 1951]

Letter from Hale Schaleben to Thos. L. James discussing Schaleben's interest in leasing the Kempner's land in Kinney County, Texas, following a gas discovery in nearby Val Verde County.
Date: July 11, 1951
Creator: Schaleben, Hale
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, September 11, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, September 11, 1951]

Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing an enclosed letter from Hale Schaleben in Edinburg, Texas.
Date: September 11, 1951
Creator: James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Alamo] captions transcript

[News Clip: Alamo]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a replica of the Alamo being built for a film near Brackettville.
Date: February 11, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Alamo] (open access)

[News Script: Alamo]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a replica of the Alamo being built for a film near Brackettville.
Date: February 11, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Small Stone House, (West oblique)]

Photograph of the Small Stone House (located at Brown and Thomas Streets) in Brackettville, Texas.
Date: July 11, 1972
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History