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[Photograph of the flyer for the Vets-4-Vets Taskforce for Coronavirus Assistance]

Photograph taken by Alba Melgar-C'De Baca at the Veteran center in Buda, Texas on March 19th, 2020, showing the photographer's spouse holding a flier. The flier promotes awareness of an organization created by Baca and her spouse to help home-bound citizens during COVID-19 with grocery deliveries. The nonprofits F7 Group and Central Texas VSO Alliance funded the organization for over 90 days to help citizens get past the initial challenges and adjustments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: March 19, 2020
Creator: Alba Melgar-C'De
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supporting Bracket for Freezing Device (open access)

Supporting Bracket for Freezing Device

Patent for brackets used to hold edible fluids to be frozen.
Date: March 29, 1912
Creator: Beckworth, Effie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Tongs. (open access)

Fire Tongs.

Patent for new and improved fire tongs. This design "is designed to produce an article . . . which will be practical in every respect, and which will prevent the slipping or sliding of the legs or arms thereof while handling the logs, enabling the latter to be grasped with a firm hold, thereby avoiding the numerous accidents that often occur from the use of the present form of tongs" (lines 9-17).
Date: March 9, 1886
Creator: Bishop, John Andrews
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Clothes Washer and Churn. (open access)

Combined Clothes Washer and Churn.

Patent for a new and improved combined clothes washer and churn. This design "is to facilitate the operations of washing clothes and churning, and also to avoid the necessity of having a separate mechanism for each use. The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-21).
Date: March 6, 1883
Creator: Bridges, Mary Jane
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
CAPCOG Connections, March, 2013 (open access)

CAPCOG Connections, March, 2013

Monthly newsletter of the Capital Area Council of Governments discussing news , upcoming events, and other information of relevance for regional planningi n the Austin, Texas area.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Capital Area Council of Governments (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of First Baptist Church in Waco, Texas]

Postcard of First Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, with people walking on the sidewalks around it. A handwritten note on the back of the postcard is addressed to Hjalmar Haddorf in North Platte, Nebraska and says, "This is not colored, but I am sending it because you sent a view of the 1st Bapt. Ch. of Omaha, which is very pretty. Edena May Carroll. San Marcos, Texas."
Date: March 1916
Creator: Carroll, Edena May
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. M. Cavness to T. N. Carswell - March 7, 1942] (open access)

[Letter from R. M. Cavness to T. N. Carswell - March 7, 1942]

A letter addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from R. M. Cavness, President, San Marcos Academy, San Marcos, Texas, dated March 7, 1942. Cavness advises of having no course to teach the effects of alcohol due to their institution is at high school level but chapel programs are devoted to the evil effects of alcohol.
Date: March 7, 1942
Creator: Cavness, R. M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Buda Methodist Church]

Photograph of Church sign with small child sitting in front of it. Sign reads: "Methodist Church. H. Lee Griffin, Pastor."
Date: March 4, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Buda Methodist Church]

Photograph of group of people in front of church.
Date: March 4, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mayor Mary Kyle Hartson and man standing at Fire Station]

A man and woman shaking hands outside of a building.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mayor Mary Kyle Hartson in driver's seat of fire truck]

A woman sitting in the driver's seat of a fire truck.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mayor Mary Kyle Hartson leaning against fire truck]

A woman leaning up against a fire truck.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mayor Mary Kyle Hartson standing next to furniture]

A woman standing by an old piece of furniture.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A sign in Kyle]

Sign: "Please don't stake cows here." Kyle Fire Dept.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unknown man at Fire Station]

A man standing in front of a building.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
News Drop, March 2023 (open access)

News Drop, March 2023

Quarterly newsletter of the Edwards Aquifer Authority discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to programs, projects, and topics related to water management and conservation.
Date: March 2023
Creator: Edwards Aquifer Authority (Tex.). Communications and Development Department
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Planter. (open access)

Combined Plow and Planter.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined plow and planter which "can be readily adapted for planting different kinds of seed, such as corn, cotton, cane, and the like" (line 21 - 23).
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Franklin, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Locking, Nut. (open access)

Self-Locking, Nut.

Patent for a "simple and efficient device" for "securely holding a nut upon a bolt" (lines 76-77).
Date: March 6, 1906
Creator: Galliher, Lawrence M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling. (open access)

Hose-Coupling.

Patent for a hose-coupling that is "simple and economic in construction and which shall be capable of rapid and ready action without use of any tool for manipulating the same" (lines 14-17).
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Goodspeed, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from Raymond Harper to Birdie Walters, March 3, 1908]

Postcard from Raymond Harper to Birdie Walters with a tinted image of the Hotel Heublein in Hartford, Connecticut which appears red in the picture. The note on the reverse side of the card tells about Harper's receiving of two cards from Walters and that the weather is slowly beginning to warm up in Connecticut.
Date: March 3, 1908
Creator: Harper, Raymond L
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kyle News (Kyle, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 29, 1918 (open access)

The Kyle News (Kyle, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 29, 1918

Weekly newspaper from Kyle, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 29, 1918
Creator: Harwell, T. F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon (open access)

Wagon

Patent for "relates to the construction of wagon beds or bodies; and it has for'its object to provide a simple means for bracing such beds-or bodies to prevent the sides thereof from spreading under a load, and whereby the heavy standards usually employed may be dispensed with" (lines 23-30).
Date: March 18, 1890
Creator: Haupt, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for O.A. Fisher, from the Masonic Lodge] (open access)

[Receipt for O.A. Fisher, from the Masonic Lodge]

Receipt for $3 paid by O.A. Fisher to the Masonic Lodge for his annual dues.
Date: March 11, 1879
Creator: Heaton, Albert
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 6, 1886 (open access)

San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 6, 1886

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 6, 1886
Creator: Hull, C. M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History