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Swinging Gate. (open access)

Swinging Gate.

Patent for a swinging gate that consists of a supporting post, a gate, a hinge that connects the gate to the post, a rear bar, a hinge lever that connects the rear gate bar to the supporting post, an operating lever, cords or chains that connect the lever and the hinge lever, and a latching mechanism.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Valve (open access)

Automatic Valve

Patent for an automatic valve, "designed to automatically control the water-supply to a suitable reservoir through the operation of a float (lines 9-11), with illustrations.
Date: April 25, 1905
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Val Verde County Herald and Del Rio Record-News (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1905 (open access)

Val Verde County Herald and Del Rio Record-News (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1905

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 25, 1905
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Val Verde County Herald and Del Rio Record-News (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1906 (open access)

Val Verde County Herald and Del Rio Record-News (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1906

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 25, 1906
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Val Verde County Herald and Del Rio Record-News (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 1907 (open access)

Val Verde County Herald and Del Rio Record-News (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 1907

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 25, 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Car Fatal] (open access)

[News Script: Car Fatal]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a freak accident between car and a tractor- trailer near Del Rio which killed two Dallas area residents.
Date: May 25, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Freak accident] (open access)

[News Script: Freak accident]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an incident which described as a freak accident, claimed the lives of two Dallas area residents near Del Rio.
Date: May 25, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Texas weather] (open access)

[News Script: Texas weather]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about skies which are clear to partly cloudy over Texas.
Date: July 25, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Chris Escobar, July 25, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Chris Escobar, July 25, 2016

Chris Escobar is an artist activist who does outreach at La Casa de la Cultura in Del Rio. In the interview, he speaks about migrant work, his father as a vaquero, going on the migrant trail, etc. He also speaks about college and the difficulties of being poor and its attendant effects on his studies at St Edwards & UTEP. He talks a little bit about Austin & learning from Raúl Valdez.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Sinta, Vinicio; Arionus, Steve & Escobar, Chris
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lupe Sotelo, July 25, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Lupe Sotelo, July 25, 2016

Lupe Sotelo is a Del Rio native and a former student of the San Felipe ISD. He also taught at San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District schools after consolidation, and went on to work as principal and superintendent in other communities in Texas. Mr. Sotelo talked about the encouragement of teachers at San Felipe and how he could have been considered an "at risk" student in his youth. The second half of the interview features Sotelo's interpretation of the events surrounding the consolidation of the school districts with the hindsight of having worked as an administrator later in his career.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Sinta, Vinicio; Arionus, Steve & Sotelo, Lupe
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History