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[TXSSAR Committee Reports: April 6 - 8, October 12 - 14, 2018] (open access)

[TXSSAR Committee Reports: April 6 - 8, October 12 - 14, 2018]

Committee Reports for the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, compiled between the April 6 - 8, 2018 State Convention and the October 12 - 14, 2018 Board of Managers meeting.
Date: 2018-04-06/2018-10-12
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Hill Country Trail Region: Exploring the Mystique of Central Texas (open access)

Texas Hill Country Trail Region: Exploring the Mystique of Central Texas

Travel guide for the various cultural and historical sites along the Texas Hill Country Trail in Central Texas.
Date: April 2010
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Mission Valley School] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Mission Valley School]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Mission Valley School, in New Braunfels, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: April 3, 2009
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei-Santos Family Videos, No. 1 - A Trip to San Antonio and New Braunfels] captions transcript

[Saniei-Santos Family Videos, No. 1 - A Trip to San Antonio and New Braunfels]

This home movie excerpt documents the Saniei family's trip to San Antonio and New Braunfels, Texas. Family members include Patricia, Saeed (Michael), Abbus (Sonny), Rosa and Ahmad and Gayle (sp.). In San Antonio, the family visits The Alamo, the River Walk, and the Natural Bridge Caverns. In New Braunfels, the group goes shopping and wine tasting and observes the Guadalupe river.
Date: 1992-04-04/1992-04-05
Creator: Saniei & Santos
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Heinrich Scholl House]

Photograph of the Heinrich Scholl House (located at 550 Comal Avenue) in New Braunfels, Texas.
Date: April 7, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Heinrich Scholl House]

Photograph of the Heinrich Scholl House (located at 550 Comal Avenue) in New Braunfels, Texas.
Date: April 7, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Historic Property, Photograph THC_11-1521]

Photograph of a historic property in Texas.
Date: April 7, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Historic Property, Photograph THC_11-1522]

Photograph of a historic property in Texas.
Date: April 7, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: New Braunfels birthday] (open access)

[News Script: New Braunfels birthday]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 6, 1970, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Geve House]

Photograph of the Geve House (located at 554 West Mill) in New Braunfels, Texas.
Date: April 2, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Geve House]

Photograph of the Geve House (located at 554 West Mill) in New Braunfels, Texas.
Date: April 2, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: New Braunfels anniversary] (open access)

[News Script: New Braunfels anniversary]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 2, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Schmidt Home]

Photograph of the Schmidt Home (located at 354 West Bridge) in New Braunfels, Texas.
Date: April 2, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Schmidt Home]

Photograph of the Schmidt Home (located at 354 West Bridge) in New Braunfels, Texas.
Date: April 2, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Schmidt Home]

Photograph of the Schmidt Home (located at 354 West Bridge) in New Braunfels, Texas.
Date: April 2, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Schmidt Home]

Photograph of the Schmidt Home (located at 354 West Bridge) in New Braunfels, Texas.
Date: April 2, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Schmidt Home]

Photograph of the Schmidt Home (located at 354 West Bridge) in New Braunfels, Texas.
Date: April 2, 1970
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for an improved wheel tire. The improvements to a conventional tire include multiple hinged springs which limit the movement of the wheel in two directions when contact is made with the ground. The wheel includes shoes placed concentrically around the wheel that provides shock absorption, better traction, and overall stability.
Date: April 12, 1919
Creator: Schmidt, Oscar J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tractor (open access)

Tractor

Patent for "novel features of construction and combinations of parts" in tractors to ensure a steady, even pace of travel and allow for traversing uneven landscape while maintaining a level setting, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 23, 1918
Creator: Altgelt, Herman E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill. (open access)

Drill.

Patent for improvements in drills by providing “a frame which may be readily attached to any suitable support and wherein the drill-spindle may be engaged for operation by a common form of chest-brace.” (Lines 9-13) The frame would enable the stock-rest to adjust in proper positions to receive different thicknesses of stock.” (Lines 15-17) Illustration is included.
Date: April 2, 1901
Creator: Willmann, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Force Pump. (open access)

Rotary Force Pump.

Patent for a new and improved rotary force-pump. This design "consists in a rotary force-pump constructed with a tubular standard provided with one or more flexible tubes having interior half-tubes and an interior cylinder mounted upon a crank-shaft and provided with adjustable bars carrying rollers whereby a liquid can be raised by the successive action of the said rollers upon the said flexible tubes" (lines 22-29).
Date: April 14, 1885
Creator: Serdinko, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Glass Globes or Reservoirs for Lamps. (open access)

Improvement in Glass Globes or Reservoirs for Lamps.

Patent for an "invention to prevent the breaking of glass globes used in kerosene lamps as reservoirs for the burning fluid; and this invention consists in the application around the reservoir of a rubber ring let into a groove, but projecting sufficiently to receive the concussion in case the lamp is overthrown." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 16, 1872
Creator: Otto, Adolph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1870 (open access)

Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1870

Weekly German newspaper from New Braunfels, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 29, 1870
Creator: Lindheimer, Ferdinand J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1870 (open access)

Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1870

Weekly German newspaper from New Braunfels, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 22, 1870
Creator: Lindheimer, Ferdinand J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History