[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr., to B. H. Renner, January 28, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr., to B. H. Renner, January 28, 1944]

Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr., to B. H. Renner discussing if Renner has received the deed for land sold in Walker County, closed the deal, and if so can Renner send back the necessary papers.
Date: January 28, 1944
Creator: Blackshear, A. H., Jr.
Object Type: Letter
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
[Letter from Robert W. Humphreys to I. H. Kempner, January 26, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from Robert W. Humphreys to I. H. Kempner, January 26, 1945]

Letter from Robert W. Humphreys to I. H. Kempner discussing the Battle of the Alamo, the Battle of Goliad, and the Battle of San Jacinto that resulted in the capture of Santa Anna and the days each battle took place on.
Date: January 26, 1945
Creator: Humphreys, Robert W.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
[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 Clip: Pine Beetles] captions transcript

[News Clip: Pine Beetles]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 11, 1984, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
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

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

[Richard Strahan speaking at the first Huntsville campus graduation]

Photograph of Dr. Richard D. Strahan wearing regalia speaking from behind a podium at the first graduation of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) program in Huntsville. Several unidentified men are seated at the left side of the image, behind a low wall and below a sloping ceiling. Back of photo reads, "1st TDC grad / Jan 1970"
Date: January 1970
Creator: Lee College
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Certificate of Release issued by The Texas Prison System - January 7, 1952] (open access)

[Certificate of Release issued by The Texas Prison System - January 7, 1952]

A certificate of release issued by the Texas Prison System, O. B. Ellis, General Manager, Huntsville, Texas. The certificate grants a 90-day emergency reprieve and is dated January 7, 1952 Per J. M. Metts, Chief for J. C. Roberts, Chief.
Date: January 7, 1952
Creator: Metts, J. M.
Object Type: Text
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
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
[Letter from Mrs. Cyrus Ray to Truett Latimer, January 15, 1957] (open access)

[Letter from Mrs. Cyrus Ray to Truett Latimer, January 15, 1957]

Letter from Mrs. Cyrus Ray to Texas State Representative Truett Latimer urging him on behalf of the XXI Club of Abilene, Texas, to support a bill maintaining and enlarging the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in Huntsville, Texas.
Date: January 15, 1957
Creator: Ray, Cyrus
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Letter from B. H. Renner to H. Kempner, January 12, 1944]

Postal card from B. H. Renner to H. Kempner discussing when Renner can expect to receive the closing papers for the Smith land deal.
Date: January 12, 1944
Creator: Renner, B. H.
Object Type: Postcard
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

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

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
[News Clip: Malloy leaves to start prison term] captions transcript

[News Clip: Malloy leaves to start prison term]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany 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: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Sam's house] captions transcript

[News Clip: Sam's house]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany 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: 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 Script: Goree] (open access)

[News Script: Goree]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 27, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library