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[Letter from Daniel Webster Kempner to Isaac Herbert Kempner, September, 1898] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel Webster Kempner to Isaac Herbert Kempner, September, 1898]

Letter from Daniel Webster Kempner to Isaac Herbert Kempner discussing his stay in Berlin.
Date: September 1898
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel Webster Kempner to Eliza Seinsheimer, August 16-21, 1898] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel Webster Kempner to Eliza Seinsheimer, August 16-21, 1898]

Letter from Daniel Webster Kempner to his mother Eliza Seinsheimer discussing his stay in Germany. He chronicles what happens each day from August 16-21, in 1898.
Date: 1898-08-16/1898-08-21
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. Kempner to Ike, January 31, 1894] (open access)

[Letter from H. Kempner to Ike, January 31, 1894]

Letter from H. Kempner to Ike discussing when Ike finishes at Lexington H. Kempner desires that Ike will travel to Germany, until he has learned to speak German, then travel to France, to learn French and Spanish.
Date: January 31, 1894
Creator: Kempner, Harris, 1837-1894
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine (open access)

Washing-Machine

Patent for an alteration to cylindrical reciprocating washing machines that first provides "a washing-machine of the type above described in which the drum or body portion of the machine is supported at a single point at its bottom and gives a partial revolving motion thereon; second, to provide said machine wit-h a suspended horizontally-arranged and vertically-reciprocated stirring device or twirl, and, third, to provide mechanism for automatically raising and lowering the stirring device and at the same time imparting a rotary motion thereto, and also to the drum, but in an opposite direction from that of the stirrer" (lines 16-28)
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Hacke, Karl Wilh.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History