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Aerial Photograph of Train Wreck at San Marcos
Aerial photograph of train wreck. Cars are off track and smoking.
Date:
October 21, 1950
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for a new improvement to washing machines.
Date:
July 21, 1874
Creator:
Mitchell, Daniel Chasteen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Wagon.
Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design "consists in a suitable frame-work supported on wheels and covered on top by canvas or other suitable material to protect the pickers from the rays of the sun or from the rain, and on one or both sides of the frame, preferably both, is a trough for receiving the picked cotton" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Collins, Charles P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake.
Patent for improvement to train brakes by using a car brake apparatus.
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Sledge, Clarence Linden
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "the wheeled frame, the two laterally and vertically movable drag-bars jointed thereto, and each provided with shovels, the horizontal rotary-shaft lying between the drag-bars and provided with a blade arranged to revolve between the shovels of the respective beams, the transverse shaft mounted on the frame and connected by driving devices with the ground-wheel, and the intermediate shaft connected to the [other] shafts . . . by universal joints" (lines 17-27).
Date:
June 21, 1887
Creator:
Hutchins, Charles Nelson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Willie Higgs, September 21, 2001
Interview with Willie Higgs, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He joined the Marines in 1944 and trained at Camp Pendleton before being assigned to the 4th Marine Division. Higgs discusses arriving at Iwo Jima, making a grenade attack on a cave there, and subsequently breaking his leg. He then spent time aboard the hospital ship, USS Solace (AH-5). Upon returning home, Higgs finished his degree at Southwest Texas State in San Marcos, where he majored in music.
Date:
September 21, 2001
Creator:
Pickard, Kevin & Higgs, Willie
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 21, 1878
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 21, 1878
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1883
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 21, 1883
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1882
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 21, 1882
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1882
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 21, 1882
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 21, 1878
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 21, 1878
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 21, 1879
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 21, 1879
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1886
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 21, 1886
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1884
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 21, 1884
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1884
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 21, 1884
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 21, 1880
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 21, 1880
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 21, 1880
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 21, 1880
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1881
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 21, 1881
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 1881
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 21, 1881
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 16TH YEAR, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1889
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 21, 1889
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 16TH YEAR, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1889
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 21, 1889
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 16TH YEAR, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1889
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 21, 1889
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 15TH YEAR, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1888
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 21, 1888
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1887
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 21, 1887
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History