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Sam'l. Wallick & Co. (open access)

Sam'l. Wallick & Co.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative images and business name with text reading: "Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries and Genr'l Merchandise."
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
J. W. White, Manager of Littlefield & White Pastures (open access)

J. W. White, Manager of Littlefield & White Pastures

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains cattle illustration and stylized business name with text reading: "Comprising 110,000 Acres in Mason, Kimble and Menard counties"; "Dealer in Steer Cattle." Letterhead includes the names G. W. Littlefield, Austin, Texas; J. W. White, Mason, Texas.
Date: 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Deervale Ranch Co., Limited (open access)

The Deervale Ranch Co., Limited

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes livestock illustration and business name, with text reading: "Deervale Ranch, Menard County." Letterhead contains the names Kennedy & Roberts, Managers.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burbank & Babbitt (open access)

Burbank & Babbitt

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative images, livestock illustrations, and business name in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston, Tex.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Trucker] captions transcript

[News Clip: Trucker]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Colorado trucker, Jarrett James Bradford, arrested by Fort Worth detectives for taking out a string of fraudulent loans from truck stop workers.
Date: December 28, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Texas Weather New Top] (open access)

[News Script: Texas Weather New Top]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of turbulent weather which continues along the upper Texas coast while other storms that roamed the Panhandle-Plains during the night are dying down.
Date: August 14, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Transcript: Memoir of Cornelia Garner] (open access)

[Transcript: Memoir of Cornelia Garner]

Transcript of handwritten notes written by Cornelia Garner describing what she remembers of moving to Texas as a child, living on a farm in Navarro County, managing a ranch and making cloth during the Civil War, and various other details that she remembered. There are notes and annotations added to the end for clarification.
Date: 2019
Creator: Treadwell, Cornelia Evelyn Garner
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memoir of Cornelia Garner] (open access)

[Memoir of Cornelia Garner]

Handwritten notes written by Cornelia Garner describing what she remembers of moving to Texas as a child, living on a farm in Navarro County, managing a ranch and making cloth during the Civil War, and various other details that she remembered. There are sketches at the end that appear to be properties, labeled with names.
Date: unknown
Creator: Treadwell, Cornelia Evelyn Garner
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of Owen Womack explaining to a group of ranchers what his ranch conservation program is, and what he has done and the results. TX-44, 239.
Date: October 10, 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Antifriction Hollow-Tube Sucker-Rod for Deep Wells (open access)

Antifriction Hollow-Tube Sucker-Rod for Deep Wells

Patent for a "simple and inexpensive means for coupling the tubular sections of the sucker rod together and guiding said rod with little or no friction into the well casing or tube" (lines13-17). This object is to be used in "pumping water, oil, and other liquids from deep wells"(lines 11-12).
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Black, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling. (open access)

Coupling.

Patent for improvements to couplings for windmills specifically "for use in connecting the pump rod to the reciprocal rod of the windmill, so as to permit reciprocation of the wind mill rod independently of movement of the pump rod, and which also will permit the relatively quick and easy change from windmill power to engine power, such as gasolene engine or the like, for pumping water from wells" (lines 9-17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 29, 1921
Creator: Regenier, John G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Trough-Valve. (open access)

Automatic Trough-Valve.

Patent for improvements in animal watering troughs that has an automatic float control valve in connection with the trough.
Date: July 20, 1920
Creator: Striegler, Fritz
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill-Gearing (open access)

Windmill-Gearing

Patent for improved windmill gearing, intended to reduce stain on the machinery
Date: April 13, 1920
Creator: Roberts, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Thomas Hospital and Office Building]

Postcard of Thomas Hospital and office building in Midland, Texas. The building is multi-story brick building and there are cars parked in front of it in the street. There is an illegible word or name handwritten at the top of the image and correspondence on the back addressed to "Mrs. J. H. [D]unnigan." The note requests another letter from Mrs. Dunnigan and mentions "Mrs. Allen's" health concerns.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Occurrence, Availability, and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Edwards Plateau Region of Texas (open access)

Occurrence, Availability, and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Edwards Plateau Region of Texas

Report on
Date: July 1979
Creator: Walker, Loyd E.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Requirement Sheet Regarding the Purchase of an Oil and Gas Lease From Fritz and L. E. Wilhelm to Floyd C. Dodson] (open access)

[Requirement Sheet Regarding the Purchase of an Oil and Gas Lease From Fritz and L. E. Wilhelm to Floyd C. Dodson]

Document stating that Jack Sayles has examined the abstracts for a property owned by Fritz Wilhelm and L. E. Wilhelm in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas, and listing the documents still required to move ahead with the purchase of an oil and gas lease from Fritz Wilhelm and L. E. Wilhelm to Floyd C. Dodson by the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company.
Date: August 8, 1940
Creator: Sayles, Jack
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Sayles to Mr. Hawk, August 28, 1940] (open access)

[Letter from John Sayles to Mr. Hawk, August 28, 1940]

Letter from John Sayles to Mr. Hawk in the Title Division of the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company discussing an oil and gas lease for land owned by Fritz Wilhelm and his wife in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas. The letter discusses a boundary agreement between Wilhelm and Robert Wilson.
Date: August 28, 1940
Creator: Sayles, John
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Notes Discussing Land in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas] (open access)

[Notes Discussing Land in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas]

Notes which have "I.T.I.O.Co." (Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company) written at the top and dated August 7, 1940. Just below, the names "Floyd C. Dodson" and "Fritz Wilhelm" are written and these notes are likely in relation to an oil and gas lease from Wilhelm to Dodson. The notes discuss a tract of land in Menard and Concho Counties, Texas, listing its ownership history and the documents which pertain to it.
Date: August 7, 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photostat Copy of "Ownership Survey Map: Southwest Concho County"]

Photostat copy of a cadastral map showing the ownership of plats in southwest Concho County, Texas. The map also shows rivers, surveys, and county lines.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Temporary Title Opinion Regarding the Purchase of an Oil and Gas Lease From Floyd C. Dodson to Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company] (open access)

[Temporary Title Opinion Regarding the Purchase of an Oil and Gas Lease From Floyd C. Dodson to Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company]

Document listing the details of documents relating to the property owned by Fritz and L. E. Wilhelm in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas and the details of the oil and gas lease from the Wilhelms to the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company.
Date: August 30, 1940
Creator: Sayles, John
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Affidavit of B. A. Duffy] (open access)

[Affidavit of B. A. Duffy]

Affidavit of B. A. Duffy swearing that he commenced drilling an oil and gas well on land in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas on September 1, 1939 and it began producing oil in commercial quantities only after that date. This document is unsigned.
Date: August 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Temporary Title Opinion Regarding the Sale of an Oil and Gas Lease From Floyd C. Dodson to Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company] (open access)

[Temporary Title Opinion Regarding the Sale of an Oil and Gas Lease From Floyd C. Dodson to Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company]

Document listing the details of documents relating to the property owned by Fritz and L. E. Wilhelm in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas and the details of the oil and gas lease from the Wilhelms to the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company.
Date: August 30, 1940
Creator: Sayles, John
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mynila Billingsley, October 13, 1977 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Mynila Billingsley, October 13, 1977

Interview with Mynila Billingsley regarding her experiences while at Kaneohe naval Air Station with her husband Lieutenant Commander Oliver Billingsley on December 7th, 1941 during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Date: October 13, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Billingsley, Mynila
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Menard] captions transcript

[News Clip: Menard]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 13, 1978, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library