[Historic Marker Application: Wood-Jackson House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Wood-Jackson House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Wood-Jackson House, in Rockport, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: January 9, 2013
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0905 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0905

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Aransas County Navigation District to develop, maintain, and finance Rockport Beach Park. (RQ-0986-GA)
Date: January 12, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1999 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1999

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: 1999-01~
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 1998 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 1998

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: 1998-01~
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO96-006 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO96-006

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether and if so ,under what procedures,the Aransas County Navigation District No1 may be dissolved(ID# 33955).
Date: January 19, 1996
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Simon Michael, January 10, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Simon Michael, January 10, 1972

Interview with Simon Michael, an artist, who shares his experiences as an artist and art teacher in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas from 1948 to 1972. He also discusses his early art training, Fulton School of Fine Arts, his move from Fulton to Rockport, Texas, the Simon Michael School of Fine Arts, art exhibitions, art and local architectural styles, art students, techniques for teaching art, the philosophy of art, and the contribution of art to the community of Rockport.
Date: January 10, 1972
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Michael, Simon, 1905-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Simon Michael, January 10, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Simon Michael, January 10, 1972

Interview with Simon Michael, an artist from Rockport, Texas. Michael discusses his initial interest in fine art and painting, travels, service in World War Two, work as a portrait artist in Austin, his establishment of the Fulton School of Arts, the school's reception, its growth, local artists, local architecture, the subjects he teaches, and his students.
Date: January 10, 1972
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Michael, Simon
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James R. Heldenfels, January 5, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James R. Heldenfels, January 5, 1972

Interview with James R. Heldenfels, a businessman from Beeville, Texas. Heldenfels discusses the origins of the Heldenfels Brothers dredging company, his education, the company's operations and organization, conservationists, federal regulation of shell dredging, his customers, barges, shell dredging practice, the local economy, finances, and property developments.
Date: January 5, 1972
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Heldenfels, James R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Miller, January 5, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John Miller, January 5, 1972

Interview with Judge John Miller of the 36th Judicial District from Beeville, Texas. Miller discusses his family origins and education, the kinds of criminals he encounters, district organization, fellow justices, grand jury selection, his thoughts on past Texas governors, state elections, and prominent members of the Aransas area.
Date: January 5, 1972
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Miller, John
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with H. F. Elliot, January 4, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with H. F. Elliot, January 4, 1972

Interview with H. F. Elliot, a doctor in Aransas County from Ames, Iowa. Elliot discusses his education, the most common illnesses he treats, common diseases in the county, the patients he sees, the capabilities of different hospitals he refers them to, quarantine, hurricanes, the school system, local sports, and his involvement in the Boy Scouts.
Date: January 4, 1972
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Elliot, H. F.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Truett Latimer to Seth H. Steele, January 17, 1957] (open access)

[Letter from Truett Latimer to Seth H. Steele, January 17, 1957]

Letter from Truett Latimer to Seth H. Steele declining Steele's invitation to a fish fry.
Date: January 1957
Creator: Latimer, Truett
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Irrigation Apparatus. (open access)

Irrigation Apparatus.

Patent for an irrigation apparatus that can be used in various size fields and mimics the falling of rain.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Roddy, Isham L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock-Watering Pool (open access)

Stock-Watering Pool

Patent for stock-watering pool.
Date: January 20, 1903
Creator: Hudson, Benjamin F. & Cook, Thomas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Movement (open access)

Mechanical Movement

Patent for "improvements in devices for converting reciprocal into rotary motion, and is more particularly adapted and intended for use with windmills in applying the reciprocal motion of the pump-rod to the operation of rotating machines" (lines 11-16).
Date: January 8, 1889
Creator: Fulton, James C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History