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[Mayor Mary Kyle Hartson standing next to furniture]

A woman standing by an old piece of furniture.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mayor Mary Kyle Hartson and man standing at Fire Station]

A man and woman shaking hands outside of a building.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mayor Mary Kyle Hartson in driver's seat of fire truck]

A woman sitting in the driver's seat of a fire truck.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mayor Mary Kyle Hartson leaning against fire truck]

A woman leaning up against a fire truck.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A sign in Kyle]

Sign: "Please don't stake cows here." Kyle Fire Dept.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unknown man at Fire Station]

A man standing in front of a building.
Date: March 30, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Buda Methodist Church]

Photograph of Church sign with small child sitting in front of it. Sign reads: "Methodist Church. H. Lee Griffin, Pastor."
Date: March 4, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Buda Methodist Church]

Photograph of group of people in front of church.
Date: March 4, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Clothes Washer and Churn. (open access)

Combined Clothes Washer and Churn.

Patent for a new and improved combined clothes washer and churn. This design "is to facilitate the operations of washing clothes and churning, and also to avoid the necessity of having a separate mechanism for each use. The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-21).
Date: March 6, 1883
Creator: Bridges, Mary Jane
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon (open access)

Wagon

Patent for "relates to the construction of wagon beds or bodies; and it has for'its object to provide a simple means for bracing such beds-or bodies to prevent the sides thereof from spreading under a load, and whereby the heavy standards usually employed may be dispensed with" (lines 23-30).
Date: March 18, 1890
Creator: Haupt, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener. (open access)

Tire-Tightener.

Patent for improvements in tire tighteners by using wedges with longitudinal ridges, longitudinal tapering ridges or webs, together “with a wheel-rim, clamps arranged in pairs upon each side of the felly-joint, the clamps consisting of plates have a fluted or corrugated inner surface …., the extension of the registering plates being connected by transverse bolts.” (lines 37-45) Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Reeves, Alexander Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Tongs. (open access)

Fire Tongs.

Patent for new and improved fire tongs. This design "is designed to produce an article . . . which will be practical in every respect, and which will prevent the slipping or sliding of the legs or arms thereof while handling the logs, enabling the latter to be grasped with a firm hold, thereby avoiding the numerous accidents that often occur from the use of the present form of tongs" (lines 9-17).
Date: March 9, 1886
Creator: Bishop, John Andrews
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling. (open access)

Hose-Coupling.

Patent for a hose-coupling that is "simple and economic in construction and which shall be capable of rapid and ready action without use of any tool for manipulating the same" (lines 14-17).
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Goodspeed, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 2, 1878 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 2, 1878

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 2, 1878
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 9, 1878 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 9, 1878

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 9, 1878
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 16, 1878 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 16, 1878

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 16, 1878
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 23, 1878 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 23, 1878

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 23, 1878
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 30, 1878 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 30, 1878

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 30, 1878
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1883 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1883

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 1, 1883
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1883 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1883

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 8, 1883
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1883 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1883

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 15, 1883
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 22, 1883 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 22, 1883

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 22, 1883
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1883 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1883

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 29, 1883
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1882 (open access)

San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1882

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 9, 1882
Creator: Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History