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Inauguration of the Santa Fe Railroad Line
Inauguration of the Santa Fe Railroad Line linking Dallas, Denton, and Chicago. It was raining, and the photo was taken in north Dallas, near Garland. Among the men heading the groundbreaking ceremony were Railroad president Fred Gurley who is at the podium, Jerome Crossman, president of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce is standing to his left, E. W. Morrison, a Denton businessman who strongly supported the line, Dallas Mayor R. L. Thornton, and Denton Mayor J. L. Yarbrough.
Date:
December 11, 1954
Creator:
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from C.I. Scofield to Judge David H. Scott, December 11, 1884]
Letter from Cyrus I. Scofield to Judge David Howell Scott, December 11, 1884. Discusses Congregationalism and a church conference.
Date:
December 11, 1884
Creator:
Scofield, C. I. (Cyrus Ingerson), 1843-1921.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Female Contestant Awarded Fourth Place Ribbon]
Photograph of a female contestant awarded the fourth place ribbon at the Dallas Farmer's Market. In the photograph, she shakes hands with a man who hands her the award.
Date:
June 11, 1979
Creator:
Dallas (Tex.)
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[People Gathering at Dallas Farmer's Market]
Photograph of people gathering at the Dallas Farmer's Market. In the photograph, individuals stand in a group. Many of them wear white. Cars are parked in the space behind them.
Date:
June 11, 1979
Creator:
Dallas (Tex.)
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Operated Boot or Show Blackening Machine
Patent for a shoe or boot blackening machine that operates automatically with the depositing of a coin, and as such drastically decreases labor and time needed for shoe or boot blackening.
Date:
October 11, 1892
Creator:
Knight, Nute B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Saving Coal During Combustion.
Patent for cheap, effective compound to sprinkle on coal to render it more combustible so that it burns more cleanly and soot is not emitted.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Stokey, David Gray
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Separating Decorticated Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a machine dedicated to "increase the capacity of machines for separating decorticated cotton-seed" (lines 9-10) and to "separate the meal from the husks of the decorticated cotton-seed, whereby perfectly clean meal is collected" (lines 12-15)
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a machine that removes cotton from a "wagon or other vehicle" (line 11), and moving it to a storage facility. It also moves the cotton from the storage facility and into the cotton gin. The cotton is elevated during movement via suction.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Alarm for Window Screens.
Patent for a new and improved window alarm. This design consists in "the window-frame, having the contact-springs connected in open circuit with an electrical alarm, with the screen or frame in the window-frame, having the double contact-points, the contact-springs, and the wires, the contact-point bearing against the spring . . . the point, spring, double contact-points, and the contact-springs being connected together in open-circuit, whereby an alarm will be sounded either by raising the screen or frame, by cutting one of the wires, or by pushing one of the wires aside" (lines 76-89).
Date:
August 11, 1885
Creator:
Garrett, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Straining Beam.
Patent for a new and improved straining beam. This design "is especially adapted to be used in that class of structures, especially bridges and columns, in which it is necessary to combine the maximum of strength with the minimum of weight; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a beam" (lines 22-27).
Date:
September 11, 1883
Creator:
Davis, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Generator.
Patent for an apparatus for generating gas from light hydrocarbons. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1896
Creator:
Vestal, William B. & Ray, Samuel W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ruler.
Patent for a new and improved ruler. This design consists in "the combination of the flexible top piece or strip having parallel longitudinal ruling-edges and the separate tapering feet secured to the underside of said strip at suitable distances apart throughout the length of the latter, and with the ruling-edges of the top strip overlapping them" (lines 43-50).
Date:
February 11, 1890
Creator:
Matthews, Oscar S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Crossing.
Patent for a railroad crossing that "consists in certain devices organized in a manner to secure automatic alignment of a series of movable rail-sections with the main rails of a track on which a train is traveling in the direction of the crossing, the approach of the train setting in motion the devices by which the rail-sections are controlled, and thus dispensing with an attendant at the crossing to set the contrivance for the safe passage of the train through the crossing" (lines 12-22).
Date:
October 11, 1892
Creator:
Knight, Mosses G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Doubletree.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable double tree that utilizes the entire force of the strain and divides it equally between the animals.
Date:
December 11, 1894
Creator:
Beaver, Francis Marion
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Conveying and Cleaning Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved conveyer and cleaner of cotton. This design consists, "with the cotton pneumatic tube and the fan for producing an air-current therein, of the branch-tubes connecting the segments of the tube first named, the cotton-arresting screens, the enlarged mouth upon the tube-segment opposite the fan, the rotating cylinder mounted between said branches, the wings thereon completely filling, with the cylinder, the upper portion of the mouth and sweeping over the faces of the screens, the flexible valve, and the spring-actuated gate closing that part of the mouth" (lines 14-25).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Elam, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 11, 1893
Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 11, 1893
Creator:
Park, Milton
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1889
Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 11, 1889
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1889
Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 11, 1889
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 11, 1894
Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 11, 1894
Creator:
Park, Milton
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1895
Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 11, 1895
Creator:
Park, Milton
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 11, 1896
Creator:
Park, Milton
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 11, 1894
Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 11, 1894
Creator:
Park, Milton
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1897
Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 11, 1897
Creator:
Park, Milton
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1897
Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 11, 1897
Creator:
Park, Milton
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History