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Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for improvements to the cutting mechanism in cotton compresses to "provide positive and reliable means for severing the full-grown or completed bale from the remaining column of compressed material and yieldingly supporting the said remaining column of compressed material under pressure to permit the baling operation to continue" (lines 21-27).
Date: March 26, 1900
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Gear. (open access)

Bicycle-Gear.

Patent for a Bicycle-Gear meant to rotate the sprocket or other gear wheel on a bicycle, Including Illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Brady, Alford
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Changeable Gearing. (open access)

Changeable Gearing.

Patent for changeable gearing by using an axle, bevel-gears, stub-shafts and a crank-axle to construct the changeable gear, so that the “sprocket is locked to rotate with the crank-axle in one direction, while it may rotate freely of the axle in opposite direction, and, furthermore, that the sprocket may be locked to rotate with the axle or may be caused to rotate at a higher-speed than the axle.” (Lines 8-14.) Illustration is included.
Date: January 8, 1901
Creator: Brady, Alford
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cash-Box (open access)

Cash-Box

Patent for "a device adapted for persons making a great number of small collections, such as railway conductors" (lines 8-10).
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Peetz, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for a cotton compress. Illustration included.
Date: August 30, 1904
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.; Riedel, Harmon; McCarthy, Edward; Weeks, Nicholas; Snow, Chester A. & Siggers, Edward G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Hay-Press (open access)

Automatic Hay-Press

Patent for a motor powered automatic hay press.
Date: October 26, 1909
Creator: Laughlin, Aries C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway Switch (open access)

Automatic Railway Switch

Patent for an automatic railway switch. Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Ditmars, Frederick R. S. & Hendrix, A. S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canopy (open access)

Canopy

Patent for a portable canopy to be used over beds, cribs, or chairs. Illustrations included.
Date: August 8, 1905
Creator: Eichenberg, Carl
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piston Rod Packing (open access)

Piston Rod Packing

Patent for piston rod packing. Illustration included.
Date: September 21, 1909
Creator: Rhodes, Hampton P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Hame Fastner (open access)

Adjustable Hame Fastner

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Hame-Fastner" (lines 6-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 14, 1901
Creator: Boyle, F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comb Cleaner. (open access)

Comb Cleaner.

Patent for a new and useful comb-cleaner. "This invention is an improved construction of comb-cleaner, the object being to provide an exceedingly cheap, simple, and efficient device by means of which a comb can be quickly and effectively cleaned" (line 10).
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Hess, Hugo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Galveston Island Hurricane]

Photograph of the Galveston Island hurricane. The Ursuline Convent and Ursuline School, built by Nicholas Clayton in Galveston, can be seen with wreckage in the foreground. It stood on the block bounded by 25th Street and 27th Streets, between Avenue's N and O.
Date: 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of R. O. Dixon House]

Photograph of the R. O. Dixon house in Galveston, Texas. Two people sit on the porch, behind a fence. The building is two stories, and the left half of the house is covered in ivy or a similar plant.
Date: November 27, 1904
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1908-1909 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1908-1909

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1908-09."
Date: 1908/1909
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1905 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1905

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1905."
Date: 1905
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1903-1904 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1903-1904

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1903-1904."
Date: 1903/1904
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1906-1907 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1906-1907

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1906-07."
Date: 1906/1907
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1909-1910 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1909-1910

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1909-10."
Date: 1909/1910
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1901-1902 (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1901-1902

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1901-1902."
Date: 1901/1902
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 234, Ed. 1 Monday, August 26, 1907 (open access)

Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 234, Ed. 1 Monday, August 26, 1907

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 26, 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 314, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1908 (open access)

Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 314, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1908

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 26, 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 215, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 2, 1905 (open access)

Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 215, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 2, 1905

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 2, 1905
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The Davison family in the early 1900's]

A group photograph of the Davison family in front of the Davison home. On the back of the photograph is written: "L-R Christine D. (Jones), Margaret D. (Grainger), Florence Davison, Florence D. (Hart), Don Davison, Frank B. Davison, Perry A. Davison, George O. Davison, Gere D. (Kilgore). and "(approx. 1906)."
Date: 1906
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two-room school in Texas City in the early 1900's]

Over 100 children, from early elementary through high school, pose in front of a school. The school is a one-story school, built of wood, built in 1901 on Fifth Street in Texas City.
Date: [1901..1910]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History