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Oral History Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, January 16, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, January 16, 2001

Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, teacher and pianist from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Wilson talks about coming to Kerrville to teach at the "Kerrville Colored School," life for African-Americans in the area, the African-American community, and her personal life.
Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Bacon, Dan; Bethel, Ann & Wilson, Itasco Sampson
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Feeding Apparatus (open access)

Stock Feeding Apparatus

Patent for clock controlled aparatus for feeding domestic livestock.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Bass, Fredie E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Single-Trees. (open access)

Improvement in Single-Trees.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Wooden Single-Trees" (lines 3-4), "for plows and other similar drafts" (lines 15-16), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 18, 1877
Creator: Bass, Thomas Gibson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Center Point School]

Photograph of the Center Point School (located at West 2.2 miles from 2057) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Farm House]

Photograph of the Farm House (located at Route 1, East of Pittsburg) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: June 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gibson House]

Photograph of the Gibson House (located at FM 1519) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: June 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gibson House]

Photograph of the Gibson House (located at FM 1519) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: June 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gibson House]

Photograph of the Gibson House (located at FM 1519) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: June 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gibson House]

Photograph of the Gibson House (located at FM 1519) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: June 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Home (Rural)]

Photograph of the Home (Rural) (located at Highway 993) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: June 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Log Crib]

Photograph of the Log Crib (located at 993, West 1 mile from FM 1975) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: June 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Log House]

Photograph of the Log House (located at Route 1 Box 154) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: March 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Log House]

Photograph of the Log House (located at Route 1 Box 154) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: March 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["W.H. Kizer" House]

Photograph of the "W.H. Kizer" House (located at 9 miles from Pittsburg on 993) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: June 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["W.H. Kizer" House]

Photograph of the "W.H. Kizer" House (located at 9 miles from Pittsburg on 993) in Camp County, Texas.
Date: June 1980
Creator: Bean, Billy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tripod. (open access)

Tripod.

Patent for a tripod, which when folded up can be used as a walking stick.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Boyd, John D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from L. D. Bradley to Minnie Bradley - November 23, 1862] (open access)

[Letter from L. D. Bradley to Minnie Bradley - November 23, 1862]

Letter from L. D. Bradley to Minnie Graysen Bradley, dated November 23, 1962 and sent from a camp at Rocky Ford, in which he writes to about the movements of his regiment and scolds her for falling and hurting herself.
Date: November 23, 1862
Creator: Bradley, L. D.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marine Propeller (open access)

Marine Propeller

Patent for a marine propeller which allows for "a reversal of the action of the wheel for propulsion in opposite directions or for turning the boat without changing the direction of rotation of the power-shaft."
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Cannon, Burrell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel. (open access)

Wind-Wheel.

Patent for "new and useful Invention in Wind-Wheels" (lines 5-6), including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Cannon, Burrell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Clock Speed Regulator And Recorder (open access)

Combined Clock Speed Regulator And Recorder

Patent for a combined clock-speed regulator and recorder. This object is used for recording and measuring speed in a vehicle.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Cook, Charles T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint (open access)

Rail-Joint

Patent for an improved rail joint with the ends of the joints fitting together in a more snug, efficient fashion.
Date: April 15, 1916
Creator: Ellis, Orvel L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow-point, of the curved guides or fenders recessed at their rear ends and provided with cutting lower edges, said fenders being detachably connected to the plow-standard" (lines 63-67).
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Felder, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Continuous Recording-Seal and Door-Fastener. (open access)

Continuous Recording-Seal and Door-Fastener.

Patent for a continuous recording-seal and door-fastener. The purpose behind this patent is the continuous recording-seal and door-fastener itself which is intended to "provide a simple means of fastening, sealing, and cleating or closing the crack of a car or other sliding hinge door" (lines 9-12).
Date: March 29, 1887
Creator: Ferguson, George J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inventory of county records, Camp County Courthouse, Pittsburg, Texas (open access)

Inventory of county records, Camp County Courthouse, Pittsburg, Texas

Inventory of records of Camp County housed in the Camp County Courthouse in Pittsburg, Texas. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the CommissionersÂ’ Court, County Judge, County Clerk, County Court, County Attorney, District Clerk, Justice of the Peace, Tax Assessor-Collector, Sheriff, Treasurer, Auditor, and School Superintendent. Also provides a list of Camp County records and an index.
Date: 1977
Creator: Ferrier, Douglas M.; Patterson, Thaxson; Fortin, Maurice; Riney, James E.; Neher, Paul & Thomson, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History