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[Clara and Frank Maresh]
Clara and Frank Maresh dressed in WWI Red Cross and Army uniforms for the funeral of their uncle Frank Maresh's funeral in Sealy, TX Clara is wearing a white dress with white nurse habit on her head. She is holding a white flag with cross on it. Frank is wearing a army uniform and is holding an American flag. Scanned image is of the copy.
Date:
1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[School children dressed in WWI Red Cross and Army uniforms]
Studio portrait of school children dressed in WWI Red Cross and Army uniforms for the funeral of Frank Maresh in 1918. Maresh died in France shortly after WWI ended. His body was returned to Sealy and buried in the local cemetery. Children in front row are Clara and Frank Maresh, niece and nephew of Frank. Boy and girl in front row are each holding a flag (girl cross; boy American flag). Scanned image is of the copy.
Date:
1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Full length portrait of Louise Mary Zapalac]
Studio (full length) portrait of Louise Mary Zapalac, probably about the time of her marriage in 1910. Zapalac is wearing a white shirtwaist and a dark skirt. Louise has her dark hair parted in the center and pulled back into a bun. She has her left arm by her side (watch on wrist and ring on finger), and her right arm behind her. Scanned image is of the copy.
Date:
1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, July 1918 - April, 1919
The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 367.
Date:
1919
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fayettsville Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:62500
Date:
1919
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Paul and Mahala Hackbarth House #7]
Photograph of the Paul and Mahala Hackbarth House in Sealy, Texas.
Date:
1915~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Austin Co.
Blue line print of survey map of Austin County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date:
1915
Creator:
Von Rosenberg, E. & Bramlette, H. M.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stationery Filing-Case
Patent for a stationery filing case. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 29, 1910
Creator:
Bane, Hamilton Sayers
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mailing-Galley.
Patent for a mailing galley for cleaning type, which allows the cleaning fluid to drain but keeps the type in the galley.
Date:
April 19, 1910
Creator:
Zeiske, Richard E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Triple Valve.
Patent for a triple valve for brake systems on trains, which reduces pressure in the air pipes of the train and automatically brakes if there is a broken air hose.
Date:
July 26, 1910
Creator:
Torbron, Orin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hammock
Patent for a hammock for jails and ships. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Palm, Jay Dee & Palm, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Forming Apparatus.
Patent for an apparatus to form bats, made of fibrous material, to be placed in the coverings or tickings to make mattresses. The apparatus works so that "the bat-forming fibrous material may be evenly distributed, and by which the mattress-forming operation may be expeditiously carried on" (lines 16-19). The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel & Haynes, Richard H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Tester
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Seed-Testers" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Weaver, Willis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Button
Patent for a button that holds articles of clothing securely with a combination of rings
Date:
January 11, 1916
Creator:
Karger, Rose
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate
Patent fora collapsible crate used specifically for "shipping poultry or other live animals" (lines 11-12).
Date:
March 23, 1915
Creator:
Master, Chester A. & Wolnitzek, Oscar T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers.
Patent for a device that reduces the crackling sound of records playing on a phonograph.
Date:
March 20, 1917
Creator:
Gollmer, Edmund
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator.
Patent for a ventilating cowl for buildings for fire prevention by causing smoke and sparks to pass outside of a building or deflate to the surface below. The cowl is cone shaped with a deflecting surface and has several rings through which smoke and sparks can pass through to the outside.
Date:
November 30, 1915
Creator:
Ashorn, Inshrish
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Food
Patent for a food stock product for cows, sheep, goats and other herbivore farm animals.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Walker, Thomas Bailey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway
Patent for an elevated railway track system including motorized elevators in each tower/station/terminal to access the railcar platform.
Date:
August 10, 1915
Creator:
Hinsen, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Corn Hanger.
Patent for Seed-Corn Hangers "for holding ears of seed-corn during the period of drying".
Date:
July 6, 1915
Creator:
Weaver, Willis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Moldboard and Landside Plow and Gage-Wheel
Patent for modifications to a plow which allow the user to adjust the depth, which lists the components of such modifications.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Haferkamp, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Ulm Daily Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 7, 1913
Daily newspaper from New Ulm, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Ulm Daily Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 19, Ed. 1 Monday, October 6, 1913
Daily newspaper from New Ulm, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 6, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Ulm Daily Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 4, 1913
Daily newspaper from New Ulm, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 4, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History