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Stamp Canceler and Register.
Patent for a new and improved stamp canceller. This design "consists in the combination, with an ordinary hand canceling device, of an indicator" (lines 22-24). This design utilizes a lever, and "[b]y properly adjusting [it], the device will indicate the cancellation of one-cent or three-cent stamps, and it is obvious that by making similar and proper provision for the adjustment of the throw of [the lever] the cancellation of stamps of any denomination may be indicated" (lines 83-89).
Date:
May 3, 1881
Creator:
Lupton, Lewis R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, May 29, 1875]
Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote his wife while traveling around to work as a judge. He wanted to know more about the state of their garden and crops because their son, Paul, had not written much about them in his last letter. John let her know where she should direct her future letters and requested that she send them early enough so that he would receive them upon his arrival.
Date:
May 29, 1875
Creator:
Osterhout, John Patterson
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Cover.
Patent for an improvement in churn covers "which will embody a closed dead-air space above the body of the churn, a guide-tube for the dasher-rod, and the special construction at the outer edge of the base of the cover by which to provide a channel to fit upon the upper edge of the churn-body" (lines 10-15).
Date:
May 27, 1902
Creator:
Van Hoozer, Thomas H. B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Support
Patent for a supporting mechanism for the top of a buggy or vehicle while it is being lowered or traversing rough terrain. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 5, 1908
Creator:
Elms, Joab
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of W. L. Hancock Home and Family]
Copy negative of W. L. Hancock standing with his family and their dog standing in the front yard of their home near the turn of the twentieth century. The family members pictured are Charlie W. Hancock (1883-1939), William L. Hancock (1849-1908), Clara Alma (Lee) Hancock (1854-1927), Minnie (Hancock) Kite (1878-1942), and Eva May Hancock (188?-1940).
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Wesley Kite Home]
Copy negative of people sitting on the porch of the home of Wesley Kite, circa 1910.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Kite Family Home]
Copy negative of Wesley Kite, his wife Minnie Ulman Hancock, and their three children standing outside of their home in Comanche County in 1905.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Mexico School Teachers and Students]
Copy negative of a group of students and teachers from Mexico School in the early twentieth century. One of the teachers is identified as Miss Ocie Johnson.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Wheat Reaping Team]
Copy negative of workmen reaping wheat in J. A. "Jim" Hancock's field, with a team of horses hitched to a reaping machine during the early twentieth century.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Singing School at Mexico]
Copy negative of a group of adults and children standing outside of a building, with a piano in the middle of the group. The group was gathered for a singing school at the Mexico schoolhouse, circa 1910; the teacher's name was Eiland.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Wesley Kite's Children and Their Teacher]
Copy negative of Miss Bertie Suber, teacher at Mexico School, with the children of Wesley Kite: Zadie, Vernon, and Zelma, circa 1915.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 2014
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 8, 2014
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 2014
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 1, 2014
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 2014
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 29, 2014
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 2013
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 2, 2013
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 2013
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 16, 2013
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 2014
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 22, 2014
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 2013
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 30, 2013
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 2013
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 23, 2013
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 2013
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 9, 2013
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 2014
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 15, 2014
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 2013
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 23, 2013
Creator:
Wilkerson, James C., III
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 2014
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 8, 2014
Creator:
Wilkerson, James C., III
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 2013
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 30, 2013
Creator:
Wilkerson, James C., III
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History