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McCulloch County [Texas]: Official County Map

Map shows land tract boundaries with numbers and ownership, towns, roads, railroads, and oil lease boundaries; small bullseye centered on town of Brady; portions of adjacent counties where property lines extend beyond county limits. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1917
Creator: Doty, W. P.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

McCulloch County, Texas : dots show producing wells and wells drilling the Lohn Shallow Field, derricks show deep tests.

Map shows boundaries and holders of oil leases, locations of wells, landowners, towns, railroads, roads, and course of the San Saba and Colorado Rivers and their tributaries. Scale not given. Text on the back of the map discusses oil drilling in McCulloch County, Texas and the geology of the area.
Date: [1910..1930]
Creator: Brady Chamber of Commerce
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Church Exterior]

Photograph of the exterior view of the finished church in 1911 (building no longer standing).
Date: 1911
Creator: Easterwood, Connie
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the Hanson Sisters]

Photograph of six of the Hanson sisters, standing in order of height from left to right with the tallest sister holding the basketball, posed identically with their hands on each other's shoulders.
Date: 1918
Creator: Easterwood, Connie
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the Hanson Sisters]

Photograph of the Hanson School's 1918 basketball team, made up of six of the Hanson sisters, facing forward while lying on the ground in their uniforms and posing identically with the basketball in the center forefront.
Date: 1918
Creator: Easterwood, Connie
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the Blomstrom Family]

Photograph of the Blomstrom Family with the family dog on the front porch of their home in Melvin, Texas, 1910.
Date: 1910
Creator: Blomstrom, Knute A., Jr.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the Hanson Family Home]

Photograph of a large group of men, women, and children (and one hunting dog) standing outside the West Sweden home of Joe and Hilda Hanson.
Date: 1910
Creator: Easterwood, Connie
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Charles Blomstrom and Sons]

Photograph of Charles Blomstrom with sons Gunnar and Knute, both atop donkeys, and son Alfred, astraddle a young calf, in the barnyard of their Melvin home in 1910.
Date: 1910
Creator: Blomstrom, Knute A., Jr.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[August Young's Declaration of Intention, 1918] (open access)

[August Young's Declaration of Intention, 1918]

Photocopy of August Young's sworn Declaration of Intention (filed in the McCulloch County District Court) to become a United States citizen, containing his renunciation of loyalty to any foreign power, in particular the King of Sweden, and recitation of his arrival from Jonkaping, Sweden to the port of New York in the State of New York aboard a White Star Line vessel on 1889-02-16 and his present marriage to Annie Young, who was born in Sweden.
Date: August 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Blomstrom Family]

Photograph of the Blomstroms with five of their children (Gunnar, Philip, Knute, Violet, and Alfred), with the four boys adopting identical poses with their chopping hoes, in front of their Melvin home. The home sports vines on its porch posts and a young tree in its front yard.
Date: 1911
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady Sheet

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 1:125000
Date: 1918
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eden Sheet

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 1:125000
Date: 1918
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady 1916 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Brady in McCulloch County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1916
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady 1916 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Brady in McCulloch County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1916
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady 1916 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Brady in McCulloch County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1916
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady 1916 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Brady in McCulloch County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1916
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[King's Daughters Clinic and Hospital]

Postcard of King's Daughters Hospital in Temple, Texas. The image depicts a three-story, red brick building with a sign reading "King's Daughters Hospital" over the porch and a smaller white house partially obscured by the hospital building. The text, "King's Daughters Hospital, Temple, Texas" is printed in the upper right corner of the image. The correspondence on the back is addressed to "Mrs. Marry Skiller" and signed "Aunt Emma."
Date: March 25, 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Luella Lundgren's Writing Journal] (open access)

[Luella Lundgren's Writing Journal]

Notebook containing the school work of Luella Lundgren with assignments dated from January 24, 1918 and 1926. The notebook includes stories, a letter, and handwriting exercises.
Date: 1918
Creator: Lundgren, Luella
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vulcanizing Device. (open access)

Vulcanizing Device.

Patent for a vulcanizing device for use on tires.
Date: December 26, 1911
Creator: Robbins, James M. & Crew, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for a valve for use as part of a tank filling apparatus, which is easy to attach.
Date: May 31, 1910
Creator: McKnight, Samuel E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect or Worm Destroyer. (open access)

Insect or Worm Destroyer.

Patent for an insect and worm destroyer that is secured to the frame of a gang or cultivator and both cultivates and exterminates insects, worms, and the like as it moves down each row of plants.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Martin, Samuel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheeled Scraper. (open access)

Wheeled Scraper.

Patent for improvements on the scoop-like body of a wheeled scraper. Includes illustrations.
Date: June 24, 1909
Creator: Robbins, John Proctor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine. (open access)

Steam-Engine.

Patent for a two cylinder steam engine.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Putman, Lewis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for "stalk cutter which may be readily attached to any standard from of plow, without requiring any changes or alterations in the construction thereof "(lines 17-20), including instructions and illustration.
Date: November 16, 1915
Creator: Rumbaugh, Charlie Marvin & Jones, Melvin Commodore
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History