Airship (open access)

Airship

Patent for a dirigible airship for aerial navigation, "to provide the balloon or gas bag with aeroplanes which serve to steady the balloon during the flight of the ship, and to increase the lifting power of the balloon when the ship is under motion, the arrangement being such as to enable said aeroplanes to be converted into a parachute, should the balloon or gas bag become deflated" (lines 20-28).
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Keller, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Concordia College Board of Control to William Hagen, September 17, 1929] (open access)

[Letter from Concordia College Board of Control to William Hagen, September 17, 1929]

Letter from Concordia College Board of Control to William Hagen regarding appropriations for Lutheran Concordia College of Texas.
Date: September 17, 1929
Creator: Concordia College Board of Control
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Concordia College to William Hagen, December 17, 1926] (open access)

[Letter from Concordia College to William Hagen, December 17, 1926]

Letter from Concordia College to William Hagen regarding the construction funding of a new college.
Date: December 17, 1926
Creator: Concordia College
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Burroughs Clearing House to Isaac Herbert Kempner, April 17, 1954] (open access)

[Letter from Burroughs Clearing House to Isaac Herbert Kempner, April 17, 1954]

Letter from Burroughs Clearing House to Isaac Herbert Kempner discussing booklets in the magazine advertising for the Imperial Sugar Company.
Date: April 17, 1954
Creator: Burroughs Clearing House
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to R. Osthoff, February 17, 1930] (open access)

[Letter to R. Osthoff, February 17, 1930]

Letter to R. Osthoff, speaking of the construction and plans for a professor's house in Austin, Texas.
Date: February 17, 1930
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, March 30, 1928] (open access)

[Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, March 30, 1928]

Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, written in German. Hagen says he is passing on Osthoff's question regarding travel expenses to Mr. Seuel.
Date: April 17, 1928
Creator: Hagen, William
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, April 17, 1928] (open access)

[Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, April 17, 1928]

Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, noting the extension of the deadline to apply for summer repairs, and asking for Osthoff's.
Date: April 17, 1928
Creator: Hagen, William
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, February 17, 1930] (open access)

[Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, February 17, 1930]

Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, discussing the plans for professors' houses, and declaring that fine things need not be supplied by the college.
Date: February 17, 1930
Creator: Hagen, William
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, April 17, 1928] (open access)

[Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, April 17, 1928]

Letter from William Hagen to the Reverend R. Osthoff, informing him that the Synod has agreed that they will not pay the travel expenses of professors unless they themselves requested the professors to make the trip.
Date: April 17, 1928
Creator: Hagen, William
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to William M. Nathan, December 17, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to William M. Nathan, December 17, 1945]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to William M. Nathan discussing the recent issue of B'nai B'rith magazine which includes discussion of a new Hillel unit and Building. He states that he would like to know how much was raised for the Hillel building at the University of Virginia and the establishment of the Hillel unit at Wayne University.
Date: December 17, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History