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Ball-Caster. (open access)

Ball-Caster.

Patent for a new and useful ball caster, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1899
Creator: Carraway, Esther P. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Trunk And Dressing-Case. (open access)

Combined Trunk And Dressing-Case.

Patent for a new and useful combined trunk and dressing case. This design is to "provide a simple and efficient device of the character specified having a large amount of space for receiving different articles of wearing-apparel and for inclosing various kinds of toilet appliances" (line 9 - 14).
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Carraway, Esther P. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Dan to Mr I. H. Kempner, June 1898] (open access)

[Telegram from Dan to Mr I. H. Kempner, June 1898]

Telegram sent from Dan to Mr. I.H. Kempner with the text: "Made my degree must thank you & Mamma for indulgencies [sic] granted me during college career."
Date: June 12, 1898
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Mrs H. Kempner to I. H. Kempner, April 6, 1894] (open access)

[Telegram from Mrs H. Kempner to I. H. Kempner, April 6, 1894]

Telegram from Mrs. H. Kempner to I. H. Kempner telling him that Papa is sick and instructing him to come home at once
Date: April 6, 1894
Creator: Kempner, Eliza Seinsheimer
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865, Plate LXV.

Map shows troop locations, roads, railroads, canals, bridges, cities, towns, settlements, military posts and fortifications, vegetation, and swamps. Includes notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale varies.
Date: [1891..1895]
Creator: United States Topographical Bureau
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Scrivner Family photo album

Brown velvet-cushioned photo album with pale yellow letters and designs containing studio portraits of members of the Scrivner, Vise and Gross families. Page 1: Will and Ella Gross with their two sons and daughter Page 2: First of Will Gross' sons. Page 3: Second of Will Gross' sons Page 4: Children of Henry Scrivner Page 5: Woman wearing a dress and holding a gun and a riding crop. Only identified as Belle. Page 6: Unidentified baby Page 7: Lewis Gross as a child Page 8: Neely Scrivne Page 9: Ella Gross Page 10: Theo Scrivner, Jr. Page 11: Theo Scrivner, Sr. Page 12: Bess Scrivner as a child Page 13: Russell Scrivner as a child Page 14: Neely Scrivner Page 15: Sammie VIse Page 16: Elizabeth Scrivner Page 17: Mary E. Scrivner Page 18: Woman identified as Ida of Winchester, VA Page 19: Mary Adelia Ann Scrivner Vise Page 20: Bess Scrivner Lewis Page 21: Crocket Scrivner Page 22: Philip Scrivner Page 23: Bess Scrivner Page 24: Will Gross Page 25: Ed Scrivner Page 26: Helen Hudson Page 27: Nannie George Scrivner Page 28: Top left - Unidentified woman Top right - Unidentified child Bottom left - Woman identified as …
Date: 1890~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History