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Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms.
Patent for an "improved repeating fire-arm... contrived with a sliding breech-block, which is drawn back by crank on the right-hand side of the gun" (lines 6-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1875
Creator:
Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design consists "[i]n a seed planter, [with a] seed-dropping cylinder . . . with a row of recesses around its middle part, and rows of different-sized recesses provided with adjustable gage-screws around its end parts, whereby different-sized seeds can be dropped by the same cylinder" (lines 67-74).
Date:
June 14, 1881
Creator:
Holekamp, Julius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-567
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the sheriff of Kendall County has the exclusive right of furnishing meals to his prisoners and related questions.
Date:
December 14, 1965
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Kerr County, Block 39
Parent map for Kerr County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Gillespie County, Block 22
Parent map for Gillespie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Kerr County, Index
Index map for Kerr County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:114,632.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Gillespie County, Block 23
Parent map for Gillespie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Kerr County, Block 21
Parent map for Kerr County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Gillespie County, Index
Index map for Gillespie County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:104,397.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Bandera County, Block 19
Parent map for Bandera County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Bandera County, Block 12
Parent map for Bandera County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Kerr County, Block 37
Parent map for Kerr County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Gillespie County, Block 24
Parent map for Gillespie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Kerr County, Block 13
Parent map for Kerr County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Bandera County, Index
Index map for Bandera County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:121,797.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Bandera County, Block 11
Parent map for Bandera County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Kerr County, Block 29
Parent map for Kerr County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Implement.
Patent for a cleaning tool for cleaning chicken coops, sidewalk edges, or removing ice, which combines a scraper/digger, broom, and brush and which fits in small spaces.
Date:
July 14, 1908
Creator:
Kuettner, Max
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double Acting Pump
Patent for a double acting pump. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Holekamp, Richard G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ammie Rose Hollar Garrett Salter, February 14, 2001
Interview with Ammie Rose Hollar Garrett Salter, a retiree who has lived in Kerrville, Texas intermittently over the years. Mrs. Salter discusses visiting her grandparents in Kerrville, meeting her first husband, Julian "Joe" Garrett, a Canadian immigrant, her involvement with planes, her substitute teaching career, and her work with the Audubon Society.
Date:
February 14, 2001
Creator:
Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Bethel, Ann & Salter, Ammie Rose Hollar Garrett
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from C. A. Cagesen to A. T. Stockdale, February 14, 1911]
Postcard from C. A. Cagesen to A. T. Stockdale, writing that someone named Milt Hicks taking her for a ride in an automobile. The front of the postcard features an illustration of a herd of dairy cattle standing in the middle of a dirt road. There are two buildings with tin roofs visible in the background, as well as a group of trees.
Date:
February 14, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Boerne Lake and Dam Construction]
Photograph of a large dirt construction site, taken from the top of one of two large mounds of dirt. The other dirt mound is shaped like a concave curve, inside which two diggers are parked. There is a range of tree-covered hills in the background. The date the photo was taken is written on the back of the photograph.
Date:
January 14, 1976
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard to Mrs. Connie Austin, September 14, 1916]
Postcard to Mrs. Connie Austin. The sender writes that he has just arrived, that he thinks he will enjoy living in Boerne, Texas, and that he has seen lots of pretty girls. The front of the postcard features a photograph of the Kendall County Fair parking lot, in Boerne, Texas. There is a long row of cars parked on the left side of a large dirt lot. A crow of people stands on the other side of the lot, next to a large building on their right.
Date:
September 14, 1916
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1944
Weekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 14, 1944
Creator:
Davis, Jack R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History