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Rescuing Texas History, 2009
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Texas Digital Newspaper Program
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Early Texas Newspapers
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Harris and Eliza Kempner
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Texas Patents
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Abilene Library Consortium
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Texas Borderlands Newspaper Collection
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Joseph Britton Freshwater Mussel Collection
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[Letter from George Andre to E. L. Maberry, November 16, 1954]
Letter from George Andre to E. L. Maberry discussing repairs to the air conditioning unit of Isaac Herbert Kempner's Chrysler car.
Date:
November 16, 1954
Creator:
Andre, George L.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Intermittent-Operating Mechanism
Patent for intermittent-operating mechanism. This is to improve upon the automatic regulating means for windmills in regards to supplying water to a tank.
Date:
October 16, 1917
Creator:
Bittner, Emil R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Sympathy Card From Ivaldo DelPapa]
Sympathy card from Ivaldo DelPapa of Victoria, Texas sent after the death of Daniel W. Kempner.
Date:
October 16, 1956
Creator:
DelPapa, Ivaldo
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Megalonaias nervosa, Specimen #1653
One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits a rhomboidal shape; thick shell; double looped beak sculpturing; white internal coloring; dark brown external coloring; external sculpturing in the form of ridges. Collected in the Guadalupe basin. The specimen measures between 100 - 120 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date:
May 16, 2011
Creator:
Hammontree, Sarah; Pulliam, Lauren; Perry, Heather & Mabe, Jeffery
Object Type:
Specimen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Victoria Advocate. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Victoria, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising. The paper is "A Democratic Journal."
Date:
November 16, 1876
Creator:
Linn, E. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Victoria Advocate. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 16, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Victoria, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising. The paper is "A Democratic Journal."
Date:
December 16, 1876
Creator:
Linn, E. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Presbyterian. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 16, 1847
Weekly newspaper from the Victoria, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 16, 1847
Creator:
McGown, Andrew J.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank of Guadalupe River, cleared by snag boat numbers one and two
Photograph of a section of the Guadalupe River after it was cleared of limbs and debris by snag boats to make the river navigable.
Date:
January 16, 1910
Creator:
Mitchell, J. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank of Guadalupe River, cleared by snag boats
Photograph of a section of the Guadalupe River after it was cleared of limbs and debris by snag boats to make the river navigable.
Date:
January 16, 1910
Creator:
Mitchell, J. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank of the Guadalupe River ahead of snag boats
Photograph of tree limbs on the bank of the Guadalupe River prior to being cleared by snag boats. A snag boat can be seen in the background.
Date:
January 16, 1910
Creator:
Mitchell, J. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank of the Guadalupe River ahead of snag boats
Photograph of the banks of the Guadalupe River before snag boats cleared them of limbs and other debris.
Date:
January 16, 1910
Creator:
Mitchell, J. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Banks of the Guadalupe River cleared by snag boats
Photograph of the banks of the Guadalupe River after being cleared of limbs and other debris by snag boats.
Date:
January 16, 1910
Creator:
Mitchell, J. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uncleared bank of the Guadalupe River and Snag Boat Number Two
Photograph of tree limbs on the bank of the Guadalupe River six miles below Victoria, Texas. In the background is United States Snag Boat Number 2. Snag boats are used to clear limbs and other debris from rivers.
Date:
January 16, 1910
Creator:
Mitchell, J. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
United States Snag Boat Number Two on Guadalupe River near Victoria, Texas
Photograph of United States Snag Boat Number 2 on the Guadalupe River six miles below Victoria, Texas. The boat is tied up for Sunday. People are standing on the boat; a rowboat is in the water nearby.
Date:
January 16, 1910
Creator:
Mitchell, J. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Morris, Leopold
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Hill-O'Connor-Howard House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Hill-O'Connor-Howard House, in Victoria, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
February 16, 1982
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Local Eleanor Brown awarded DAR "Women in American History Award"]
Newspaper clipping of an article about Eleanor "Mickey" Brown receiving the "Women in American History Award" from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). The article includes a photo of Brown holding the award with DAR Regent Sandra Skach. There is an article about passing on heritage to the next generation on the back of the clipping.
Date:
March 16, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Fact. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 1904
Weekly newspaper from Victoria, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 16, 1904
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texian Advocate. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1850
Newspaper from Victoria, Texas published weekly by John D. Logan and Thomas Sterne that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 16, 1850
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History