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Yoakum County

Blue line print of survey map of Yoakum County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, and blocks of land. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1902
Creator: Jelinek, L. K.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Yoakum County.

Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1902
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroying Machine (open access)

Insect Destroying Machine

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Insect-Destroying Machines,"(lines 6-7) including description and illustrations.
Date: September 9, 1904
Creator: Doak, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills. (open access)

Attachment for Windmills.

Patent for improvement in attachments for windmills to “convert rotary motion of the wheel shaft into reciprocating motion for actuating the pitman of the sucker rod.” (Lines 12-14) Illustration is included.
Date: July 1, 1913
Creator: Burleson, Lemual R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Selection of Ready-to-Wear Dresses by Women in Denver City, Texas (open access)

Selection of Ready-to-Wear Dresses by Women in Denver City, Texas

"The purpose of the present study is to observe how the consumers select ready-to-wear dresses in a small oil town, which had a population of 3,336 in June, 1940...A brief summary of the entire study follows. (1) Of the 215 customers, 60 percent were sales customers and 60 percent stated the price they wished to pay. (2) The 135 dresses purchased were about equally distributed among $7.95, $10.95,$16.95 and $29.95 values. (3) The color desired was specified by 83 percent of the customers. Navy and tan were the two leading colors. (4) While 97 percent of the women designated the size they needed, only 83 percent purchased the size requested. Size 16 was bought by more women than any other size. (5) Customers had little knowledge regarding trade names and materials. Of the dresses sold, 64 percent were rayon. (6) About 90 percent of the women designated in some manner the type of dress they desired. Almost 50 percent of the purchasers selected tailored garments. (7) Slightly less than half of the customers check on the quality of workmanship or the material in the dress. Only 15 percent of the women asked for a guarantee of any type. (8) Ten …
Date: August 1940
Creator: Smith, Texie Addington
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3103 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3103

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What are the maximum fees allowable to the County Treasurer of Yoakum County, and can such officer be paid by salary or ex officio salary since there will be excess fees?
Date: January 23, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - December 22, 1942 - January 22, 1943] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - December 22, 1942 - January 22, 1943]

An itinerary for Thomas N. Carswell, Clerical Supervisor for work in District 18 A from December 22, 1942 through January 22, 1943.
Date: 1942-12-22/1943-01-22
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - December, 1942 - January, 1943] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - December, 1942 - January, 1943]

An itinerary for Thomas N. Carswell for work in District 19 B between December 28, 1942 and January 15, 1943.
Date: January 1943
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to C. D. Peckenpaugh, June 14, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to C. D. Peckenpaugh, June 14, 1945]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to C. D. Peckenpaugh discussing Peckenpaugh providing the Kempners with railway passes from his company and discussing Kempner's Burlington passes from previous years.
Date: June 14, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6734 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6734

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Placing county officials of Yoakum County on salary basis instead of fee basis.
Date: August 3, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from William A. Smith to I. H. Kempner, March 9, 1948] (open access)

[Letter from William A. Smith to I. H. Kempner, March 9, 1948]

Letter from William A. Smith to I. H. Kempner discussing a dinner being held in honor of Mr. R. Wright Armstrong after being elected as Vice President of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company.
Date: March 9, 1948
Creator: Houston Chamber of Commerce
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownfield

Topographic quadrangle map of Brownfield, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, landmarks, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. Location and sectionalized township diagrams are included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hobbs

Topographic quadrangle map of Hobbs, New Mexico, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. Location and sectionalized township diagrams are included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hobbs

Topographic quadrangle map of Hobbs, New Mexico, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. Location and sectionalized township diagrams are included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownfield

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 1:250000
Date: 1958
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hobbs

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 1:250000
Date: 1958
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from E. J. Compton to Truett Latimer, February 16, 1959] (open access)

[Letter from E. J. Compton to Truett Latimer, February 16, 1959]

Letter from E. J. Compton to Truett Latimer informing him that there isn't any university land in the following counties: Yoakum, Terry, Lynn, Hockley, Cochran, and Bailey.
Date: February 16, 1959
Creator: Compton, E. J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, Volume 32, 1961 (open access)

Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, Volume 32, 1961

Annual journal of the Texas Archeological Society documenting research and findings of members as well as activities of the organization.
Date: 1961
Creator: Texas Archeological Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownfield

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 1:250000
Date: 1962
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hobbs

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 1:250000
Date: 1963
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Yoakum County Courthouse in Plains, TX]

Photograph of Yoakum County Courthouse in Plains, TX. A paved, faded road divided by a double yellow line runs across the bottom edge of the image, its far side bordering the lawn of the courthouse. At the edge of the lawn, near the road, is a tree towards the left side of the photo as well as a fire hydrant and a streetlight towards the right side. Farther into the lawn, to the right of the streetlight, are two short blocks made of different materials and having small plaques set into them. Closer to the courthouse are sprinklers throwing water into the air, while green bushes and trees sit along the base of the building. A flagpole also sits in the middle of the lawn, flying the American flag. The courthouse faces the right side of the photo and is made up by multiple cubic sections which includes two shorter, medium-sized sections sitting on either side of a central section and two very short sections that are located on top of the medium sections. In the middle of the central section are doors with a short set of stairs leading up to them from the ground. Two rows of windows …
Date: July 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Plains 1 Northeast Quadrangle

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 1:24000
Date: 1966
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Seagraves Northwest Quadrangle

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 1:24,000
Date: 1970
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Seagraves Quadrangle

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 1:24,000
Date: 1970
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History