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Texas Digital Newspaper Program
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6,442
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745
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737
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[News Script: Bank robbery]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
June 16, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nut-Lock.
Patent for new qualities of nut-lock security, efficiency, and convenience, including illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Payne, Lewis.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues
Patent for a regulated valve to automatically maintain air pressure in a pneumatic conveyor flue. Excessive air pressure causes a secondary valve to open and vent the pressure while at the same time impeding air flow downstream.
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Caffey, Charles B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boat-Propeller.
Patent for a boat propeller, which is inexpensive and adaptable to small boats. The propeller can go forwards or backwards and use multiple oars.
Date:
February 5, 1901
Creator:
Caffey, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with rotating blades.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Prokschl, Mathias
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Mt. Olive Baptist Church]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, in Bastrop, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, illustrations, and photographs.
Date:
November 25, 2008
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bastrop County
Blue line print of survey map of Bastrop County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, the Old San Antonio Road, and railroads. Hand drawn lines have been added to the published map in pencil and red ink. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date:
1917
Creator:
McDonald, H. F. & Wicker, George T.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Caldwell and Surrounding Counties: Texas]
Road map of portions of Blanco, Hays, Travis, Comal, Bexar, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Bastrop, Fayette, Washington, Colorado, Lavaca, and Gonzales Counties, showing towns, roads, railroads, mountains, post offices, rivers, creek, and springs. No scale information given.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Luer, A.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Highway Map Bastrop County, Texas
Highway map of Bastrop County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, cemeteries, oil fields, utility lines, petroleum pipelines, mines or quarries, railroads, ranches, state parks, military bases, a federal prison, and airports. Map includes five inset maps in the upper-right corner (Cedar Creek, Red Rock, McDade, Rosanky, and Page), a key to counties diagram, and a legend in the lower-left corner. A handwritten note has been made on the front of the map in pencil about the Old San Antonio Road survey lines. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (appropriately 2 miles to the inch).
Date:
1967
Creator:
Texas. Highway Department. Planning Survey Division.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard for Bastrop, Texas]
Postcard showing nine scenes of Bastrop, Texas. Photographs include (from left to right): (1) Piney Creek, (2) Main Street, (3) Diagonal Street, (4) Bastrop from bird's-eye view, (5) the court house and jail, (6) bridge across the Colorado River, (7) the high school building, (8) a side view of the bridge across the Colorado River, and (9) a train depot. A partially-legible note is written on the back, that says "Suppose you will be surprised to receive this postal but did think of the [...] for a postal. Hope you are all well [...] Hattie."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Grissom
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Infant Mrs. Lydia Wernli Haverland]
Portrait of infant Mrs. Lydia Wernli Haverland dressed in white and sitting on a wicker chair. The text on the back states her name.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
N. P. Smith
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: District 7]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
April 5, 1985, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Car-Coupling
Patent for an improvement in car couplings "whereby the pin-support is operated not by the links but by the impact of the cars themselves and of a yielding link" (lines 55-58).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Young, James D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination of the draw-heads provided with projections, a coupling-link, an operating-rod loosely connected to each of its ends, and a suitable support or guide through which these rods move . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a car-coupling in which the two cars are coupled together by means of a link which is provided with an operating rod at each end, both of the rods and the link being attached to one of the cars only" (lines 14-26).
Date:
April 29, 1890
Creator:
Campbell, Neil Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara, February 22, 1864]
Transcript of a letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara regarding the order from Captain Weir stating that the men are to report to their captains in their respective counties. He writes of his plans to return home. He also gives an update on his health.
Date:
February 22, 1864
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bicycle.
Patent for a bicycle that has a drive wheel, a ratchet wheel attached to the drive wheel, a chain that goes around the ratchet wheel, an apparatus for reciprocating the chain, a guideway from the chain to the ratchet wheel, a knob on the chain that engages the guideway, a pair of levers connected to the chain, and a chord that connects the levers to the chain.
Date:
February 19, 1895
Creator:
Williams, Elbert D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Bastrop County, Texas
Text describing climate, agriculture, and soils of Bastrop County, Texas.
Date:
August 12, 1908
Creator:
Winston, R. A. (Robert Alonzo); Meeker, F. N.; Eckman, O. L.; Lyman, W. S.; Schroeder, Frank C.; Rice, Thomas D. (Thomas Donnelly) et al.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1981, Chapter 195
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the terms of office for directors of the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District.
Date:
May 23, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop County Times (Smithville, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1975
Weekly newspaper from Smithville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 2, 1975
Creator:
Shapley, Tom
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop County Times (Smithville, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1975
Weekly newspaper from Smithville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 2, 1975
Creator:
Catherman, Nancy Todd
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop County Times (Smithville, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 9, 1975
Weekly newspaper from Smithville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 9, 1975
Creator:
Catherman, Nancy Todd
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop County Times (Smithville, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1975
Weekly newspaper from Smithville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 17, 1975
Creator:
Catherman, Nancy Todd
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop County Times (Smithville, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 24, 1975
Weekly newspaper from Smithville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 24, 1975
Creator:
Catherman, Nancy Todd
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop County Times (Smithville, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 1975
Weekly newspaper from Smithville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 1, 1975
Creator:
Catherman, Nancy Todd
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History