Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, January 1873 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, January 1873

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: January 1873
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Walker County

Cadastral map of Walker County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Notes are made in different colors. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: January 1872
Creator: Klappenbach, Louis & Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bailing-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Bailing-Presses.

Patent for an improved bailing press consisting of "a novel arrangement of levers, connecting-bars, and cords, in combination with the follower and windlass, whereby the follower is worked in the downward direction for pressing, and in the opposite direction for elevating it to recharge the press, by the said windlass" (lines 5-11).
Date: January 2, 1872
Creator: Randolph, Jeremiah
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Sprinkling Cotton-Plants. (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Sprinkling Cotton-Plants.

Patent for a wheeled, horse-drawn machine, "whereby plants are firs dampened with water and then overspread with poisonous powder, the latter being caused by the former to adhere to the plant" (para. 9).
Date: January 6, 1874
Creator: Robinson, William T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Index. (open access)

Roller-Index.

Patent for "improvements in combined spring-rollers and cabinet for ledger-index sheets," (lines 10-12) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 6, 1891
Creator: Nance, John D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow. (open access)

Disk Plow.

Patent for a revolving disk plow that pulverizes the soil. The plow is especially designed to prepare the soil for cotton and cultivating between rows of crops. It has a tongue, a cross-bar with a sloping edge, spindles set at an angle to the cross-bar, disks mounted on the spindles, a double scraper for the disks, a gage-wheel, and a pivoting and locking lever on the tongue.
Date: January 28, 1896
Creator: Campbell, Singleton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Madison County, Block 14

Parent map for Madison 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: January 7, 2011
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): Madison County, Index

Index map for Madison 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 1:86,998.
Date: January 7, 2011
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): Madison County, Block 9

Parent map for Madison 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: January 7, 2011
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): Madison County, Block 10

Parent map for Madison 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: January 7, 2011
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 1, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 1, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 1, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 22, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 22, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 22, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 15, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 15, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 15, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 8, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 29, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Post-Item (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 4, 1907 (open access)

The Huntsville Post-Item (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 4, 1907

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 4, 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houstonian (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 1940 (open access)

The Houstonian (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 1940

Weekly student newspaper from Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville, Texas that includes news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houstonian (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 1940 (open access)

The Houstonian (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 1940

Weekly student newspaper from Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville, Texas that includes news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Sam's house] (open access)

[News Script: Sam's house]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the home of General Sam Houston deteriorating due to thousands of people visiting the home annually and little money from the state being appropriated for its upkeep.
Date: January 15, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Malloy leaves to start prison term] (open access)

[News Script: Malloy leaves to start prison term]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the transfer of convicted murderer Carl George Malloy from Tarrant County Jail to Huntsville State Prison. Malloy was found guilty of murdering his infant son and sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Date: January 19, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: All purpose ('74 Prison Riot)] captions transcript

[News Clip: All purpose ('74 Prison Riot)]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering b-roll security camera footage of the 1974 prison riots in Huntsville, Texas. This story aired at 6:00 P.M.
Date: January 11, 1978
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Carroll] (open access)

[News Script: Carroll]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 25, 1966
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Execution Postponed] (open access)

[News Script: Execution Postponed]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 2, 1969
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Prisons] captions transcript

[News Clip: Prisons]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 24, 1985, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library