[919 S. Magnolia - I&GN Railroad Hospital]

Photograph of the front and north side of the International & Great Northern (I&GN) Railroad Hospital located at 919 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is a three-story, metal-framed, brick-faced hospital along with an outbuilding (the Nurses' Home), visible on the right side of the image. The building has a box-like massing with some Classical Revival detailing, especially around the primary entrance. The wide, cast stone bands divide the exterior into three components and emphasize the horizontal massing of the building.
Date: January 1993
Creator: Moore, David
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Oiler (open access)

Automatic Oiler

Patent for an automatic oiler for railroad cars.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Adams, Richard Field
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Birth Certificate for Vera Mae Cummings] (open access)

[Birth Certificate for Vera Mae Cummings]

Birth certificate for Vera Mae Cummings, born in Palestine, Texas, May 15, 1922 to Gent Cummings and Nellie Bell Price. The back of the page includes instructions for completing information and the text of legislation related to the form. There is also a certificate stapled to the top of the back page certifying that the birth certificate is legitimate.
Date: January 30, 1943
Creator: Texas. Bureau of Vital Statistics.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring Reel. (open access)

Cloth Measuring Reel.

Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring wheel. This design "consists in the peculiar combination and arrangement of the cutting-board with two standards, whereby the said cutting-board is made to act as a sufficient brace for the frame, as well as to perform the offices of a cutting board. The invention also consists in means for producing a variable tension on the cloth as it passes from the roll to the reel, whereby the tendency of different thicknesses of cloth to wind the cloth in greater or lesser lengths than the register indicates is compensated for and corrected" (lines 27-39).
Date: January 3, 1882
Creator: Peters, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Visitor. (Palestine, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 82, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 31, 1899 (open access)

The Daily Visitor. (Palestine, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 82, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 31, 1899

Daily newspaper published in Palestine, Texas, which includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 31, 1899
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draw-Bar for Locomotives. (open access)

Draw-Bar for Locomotives.

Patent for an improved draw-bar for locomotives that consists of a frame, a pilot and draw bar, a counterweight that moves vertically in the pilot, a coupler head with a knuckle and a toe and a guide arm, and a release mechanism for the locking device on the bar.
Date: January 9, 1894
Creator: Heidelberg, Samuel R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car. (open access)

Hand Car.

Patent for a new and improved hand car. This design consists in "[a] hand-car constructed with a frame-work . . . and provided with a propelling mechanism consisting of the bent pipe-lever in combination with the rocking lever, provided with the socket, the connecting-rod, driving wheel, and pinion" (lines 92-98).
Date: January 16, 1883
Creator: Johnson, Roberto H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Highway in Anderson County]

Photo of a country road in Anderson County.
Date: January 1967
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Historic Property, Photograph 019-01]

Photograph of a historic property located at 112-14 W Dallas in Palestine, Texas.
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Historic Property, Photograph 019-07]

Photograph of a historic property located at 110 E Davis in Palestine, Texas.
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Historic Property, Photograph 053-01]

Photograph of the Grant House located at 220 W. Reagan in Palestine, Texas.
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Historic Property, Photograph 053-04]

Photograph of a historic property located at 208 E. Reagan in Palestine, Texas.
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Historic Property, Photograph 053-05]

Photograph of a historic property located at 212 E. Reagan in Palestine, Texas.
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Historic Property, Photograph 053-06]

Photograph of a historic property located at 306 E. Reagan in Palestine, Texas.
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Historic Property, Photograph 053-08]

Photograph of a historic property located at 308 E. Reagan in Palestine, Texas.
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Historian, Volume 11, Number 4, January 1951 (open access)

The Junior Historian, Volume 11, Number 4, January 1951

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: January 1951
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Historian, Volume 14, Number 4, January 1954 (open access)

The Junior Historian, Volume 14, Number 4, January 1954

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: January 1954
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Historian, Volume 16, Number 4, January 1956 (open access)

The Junior Historian, Volume 16, Number 4, January 1956

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: January 1956
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Historian, Volume 17, Number 4, January 1957 (open access)

The Junior Historian, Volume 17, Number 4, January 1957

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: January 1957
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Historian, Volume 23, Number 4, January 1963 (open access)

The Junior Historian, Volume 23, Number 4, January 1963

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: January 1963
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Historian, Volume 26, Number 4, January 1966 (open access)

The Junior Historian, Volume 26, Number 4, January 1966

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: January 1966
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Historian, Volume 30, Number 4, January 1970 (open access)

The Junior Historian, Volume 30, Number 4, January 1970

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Royal National Bank, January 11, 1954] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Royal National Bank, January 11, 1954]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Royal National Bank professionally inquiring about R. M. Sims' net worth to gauge his integrity and reputation.
Date: January 11, 1954
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Royall National Bank to I. H. Kempner, January 14, 1954] (open access)

[Letter from Royall National Bank to I. H. Kempner, January 14, 1954]

Letter from Royall National Bank to I. H. Kempner explaining the results of Kempner's inquiry about R. M. Sims of Crockett. He assures Kempner that the banks he communicated with thought of him with high regard.
Date: January 14, 1954
Creator: Royall National Bank
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History