[Dallas City Council Minutes, Book 1] (open access)

[Dallas City Council Minutes, Book 1]

Recorded minutes for the Dallas City Council with various newspaper clippings and a list of the days the council met and a description of what matters they discussed.
Date: 1867~
Creator: Dallas (Tex.)
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Constitution and By-Laws of Galveston Hook & Ladder Co., No. 1 (open access)

Constitution and By-Laws of Galveston Hook & Ladder Co., No. 1

Constitution and By-Laws of Galveston Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1; this particular version was revised in June, 1869. This pamphlet contains the history of the department, a preamble, and the different articles of the actual document stating the rules and guidelines of the company.
Date: June 1869
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard with a Photograph of the Ft. Wayne Fire Department in 1860]

Postcard with a photograph of the Ft. Wayne Fire Department as it was in 1860. This department had a steamer engine on the back of the horse-drawn wagon along with the other three firemen in the picture.
Date: 1860
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

Yarborough, Wilson & Co.

Photograph of a house in Anderson, Texas. A small herd of cattle is gathered outside the house. The inscription on the back notes "Built in 1868 -- second building on east side of street including this one burned in 1875. This is where [illegible] August Obercamp Drug store now is."
Date: 1868
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Railroad near Llano]

Photograph of a crowd of people and horse-drawn carriages gathered around an A&N Locomotive No. 1 train on a railroad in a forest. A note on back reads "Mr. Will Todman from England, Time Keeper for Quarries at Llano, Texas. Quarrying granite for consturction of the State Capitol at Austin. 50,000 tones narrow gauge R.R. A. & N.W. Near Llano -- before R.R. was finished to an Austin Band was was hired to play -- Group Moore F. [illegible], (Major Ramsdell)." The Austin and Northwestern Railroad was used to transport all the granite that built the state capitol in Austin.
Date: [1864..1881]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History