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[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0256]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mayor elect George Roy Clough (standing) thinks it will be a good idea to make Galveston, Tex. a wide open town in order to attract tourist's."
Date:
May 14, 1955
Creator:
Johnson, Bill
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Script: Splash day parade]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a giant parade that took place along the Seawall boulevard in Galveston. There are bands, drill teams, and floats.
Date:
May 1, 1960
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Galveston]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the commencement of Galveston's vacation season which was celebrated with festivities in a grand event called, Splash Day.
Date:
May 1, 1960
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Gun or Rifle.
Patent for a gun or rifle with a magazine, which quickly and automatically ejects spent cartridges and reloads.
Date:
May 7, 1912
Creator:
Douglas, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle
Patent for a bicycle propelled by the front wheel. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: North Texas girls in splash day contest]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about women from North Texas leaving aboard a flight to Galveston to compete in the annual Splash Day beauty contest.
Date:
May 4, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Splash day]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Splash Day celebration at Galveston beach.
Date:
May 7, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Composition For Roofing And Paving.
Patent for a process "to produce a compound which is strong, tenacious, and pliable, which will not be affected by climatic changes, and which will resist the corrosive action of acids and alkalies; and to this end my invention consists in a compound composed of asphaltum, pine-tar, and oxide of iron, as will more fully hereinafter appear.” (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions.
Date:
May 9, 1882
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Circular Railroad or Round About.
Patent for novel improvements on circular railroads, and also to means for propelling a turn-table on which the carriages are secured.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Sturm, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle.
Patent for a bottle that has a mechanism near its opening, and when the cork is pulled out, it becomes impossible to refill the bottle and use it again. The point of this bottle is so that after it has been sealed, it cannot be opened and emptied without apparent evidence that it has been opened.
Date:
May 4, 1897
Creator:
Phillips, George C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Freezing Wine.
Patent for a device that cools wine and liquor. The device "will produce the desired results in much shorter time than is now employed by the common method and apparatus" (lines 11-14).
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Wadhams, Arthur
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blind Slat Adjuster.
Patent for a new and improved blind adjuster. This design consists in "[a] shutter-stop consisting of a slotted bar linked to the end of the slat-actuating rod of a shutter, in combination with a plate having a spur on one side and a screw-threaded stud on the other, a washer, and a thumb-nut" (lines 93-97).
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
Lewis, Paulinus Aloysius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock.
Patent for improvement upon a combination-lock.
Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Bergman, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Fender.
Patent for a simple car-fender that improves on the types of "fenders which are attached to the front end of street and other car trucks for the purpose of saving human life by preventing a body from being thrown under the car wheels" (lines 10-14). The invention does not let a body under the car wheels.
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Rau, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 5, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 3, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 3, 1859
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 10, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 10, 1859
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 4, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 4, 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 16, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 11, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 11, 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 18, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 18, 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mailing-Box.
Patent for a mailing box with curves and grooves to fit the cover and securing string with illustrations and assembly instructions.
Date:
May 11, 1880
Creator:
Sabin, Chauncey Brewer
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 5, 1857
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 5, 1857
Creator:
Stuart, Hamilton & Brown, John Henry
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 12, 1857
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 12, 1857
Creator:
Stuart, Hamilton & Brown, John Henry
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 19, 1857
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 19, 1857
Creator:
Stuart, Hamilton & Brown, John Henry
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 26, 1857
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 26, 1857
Creator:
Stuart, Hamilton & Brown, John Henry
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History