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[Certificate of baptism from Saint Mary's Cathedral in Galveston, TX]
certificate of baptism from Saint Mary's Cathedral Galveston, TX. Shows that John Malcolm Keenan Rogers was baptized September 7, 1892.
Date:
September 7, 1892
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas City Explosion and Fire
Aerial view of the fire.
Date:
April 7, 1947
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 35, Ed. 1, Tuesday, November 7, 1854
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 7, 1854
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 26, Ed. 1, Tuesday, October 7, 1851
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 7, 1851
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 35, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 7, 1858
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 7, 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 29, Ed. 1, Tuesday, October 7, 1856
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 7, 1856
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 22, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 7, 1855
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 7, 1855
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 7, 1848
Semiweekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 7, 1848
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Times. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 50, Ed. 1, Wednesday, December 7, 1842
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 7, 1842
Creator:
Pinknard, F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car Uncoupler.
Patent for a new and improved car uncoupler. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a coupling adapted to hold two cars together, of an uncoupler comprising a lever pivotally connected to the car, a weight supported on the car and connected to said lever, and a connection between the weight-operated lever and the coupling for operating it, to separate the cars upon the dropping of the weight" (lines 4-11).
Date:
June 7, 1887
Creator:
Flett, John Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design has for its object "to provide a coupler which may be used in connection with an ordinary pin-and-link coupler, or with a novel form of draw-pin formed especially for use in connection with the coupler . . . the object of the invention being to so arrange the parts that cars may be automatically coupled and uncoupled without entering the spaces between the ends of the approaching cars" (lines 8-17).
Date:
June 7, 1887
Creator:
Flett, John Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid.
Patent for a "new and useful Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid" (lines 5-7) that will aid in the commercially successful production. Patent includes specifications for the composition of matter.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Blum, Sylvain; Eldridge, Hillary; Clark, Daniel J. & Lazarus, Sam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape.
Patent for improvements in fire-escapes “in which a rope forming part of the device, has its upper end attached within a window or other opening of a building and is connected with apparatus to raise and lower an ascending fireman or other person escaping from the building.” (Lines 16-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 7, 1891
Creator:
Rutledge, William O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Cot or Bedstead.
Patent for "cots and bedsteads wherein the side and end rail parts are permanently connected mediately of their length in a manner to permit of the folding thereof to form a compact bundle for handling when not in use and a strong and firmly-braced structure when set up to support the sacking bottom for the bed." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Rimmelin, Edward Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mergenthaler Linotype-Machine.
Patent for an improvement "to the elevator-arm of the Mergenthaler linotype-machine, and its object is to prevent the rubbing of the matrices against the inner walls of the channel-plates when being raised therefrom." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Sundstrom, Herman Theodor
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 19, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 7, 1860
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 7, 1860
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 7, 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 7, 1844
Bi-weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 7, 1844
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 7, 1857
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 7, 1857
Creator:
Stuart, Hamilton & Brown, John Henry
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 7, 1843
Bi-weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 7, 1843
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 7, 1844
Bi-weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 7, 1844
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 10, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 7, 1860
Tri-weekly German newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 7, 1860
Creator:
Flake, F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 91, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1861
Tri-weekly German newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 7, 1861
Creator:
Flake, F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 103, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1861
Tri-weekly German newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 7, 1861
Creator:
Flake, F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History