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[Letter from de Zavala Jr. to Adina July 26, 1878]
Correspondence to Adina regarding her request for family history
Date:
July 26, 1878
Creator:
de Zavala, Lorenzo, Jr.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Total Solar Eclipse in Fort Worth (1878)
Photograph of seven astronomers -- Leonard Waldo, R.W. Wilson, J.K. Rees, W.H. Pulsifer, F.E. Seagrave, Alfred Freeman, and A.M. Britton -- with various telescopes set up out-of-doors near a large wooden barn or other structure. According to accompanying information they are on the S.W. Lomax farm, waiting to observe the total solar eclipse that happened on July 29, 1878.
Date:
July 29, 1878
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco County
Map of Blanco County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
July 1878
Creator:
Blau, F. G.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
La Salle County
Map of La Salle County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
July 1878
Creator:
Langermann, A. B.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 29, Ed. 1, Friday, July 19, 1878
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 19, 1878
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 30, Ed. 1, Friday, July 26, 1878
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 26, 1878
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 27, Ed. 1, Friday, July 5, 1878
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 5, 1878
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 28, Ed. 1, Friday, July 12, 1878
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 12, 1878
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Eyeglasses.
Patent for improvements to eyeglasses to accommodate facial differences.
Date:
July 9, 1878
Creator:
Hawkes, Albert K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn-Cob Splitters.
Patent for an improved corn-cob splitter for feeding stock using a tapering pin operated by a rack and pinion to split corn whether shuck is on or off. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 2, 1878
Creator:
Smith, Joseph F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
Patent for a new mechanism by which corn planters may be converted into a machine for planting cotton.
Date:
July 16, 1878
Creator:
Clary, Stephen S. & Clary, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gins.
Patent for improvements in the manner in which cotton is separated.
Date:
July 16, 1878
Creator:
Etheridge, Daniel T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hame-Fastenings.
Patent for improvements in economical and durable hame-fastening.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churn-Motors
Patent for an improvement in churn-motors, which would allow for the motor to run faster or slower as needed, with illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Alexander, Julius A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Cotton-Cultivators.
Patent for improvements in cotton-plant cultivators.
Date:
July 20, 1878
Creator:
Harvey, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for improvements the process of molding moist clay into brick.
Date:
July 23, 1878
Creator:
Kennedy, Lewis B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
Patent for improved maneuvering and loading of firearms while riding horseback.
Date:
July 20, 1878
Creator:
Morrison, John T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an "improvement in car-couplings; and it consists in the arrangement and combination of devices whereby the pin is supported in a raised condition; also in a spring-slide for holding up the link ready for coupling with another car." (lines 13-18)
Date:
July 2, 1878
Creator:
Gassaway, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railway-Tracks.
Patent for improvements in the adjoining of railway tracks.
Date:
July 23, 1878
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps.
Patent for improvement in the means by which cotton plants are watered, protected from pesticides and fires. It provides for a mechanism by which poison and water may be more easily distributed to the plants.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Helmecke, Friederich Andreas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weekly State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 42, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 13, 1878
Weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 13, 1878
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Four Counties. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1878
Weekly newspaper from Richmond, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 4, 1878
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Frontier Echo (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1878
Weekly newspaper from Jacksboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 5, 1878
Creator:
Robson, G. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Frontier Echo (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1878
Weekly newspaper from Jacksboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 12, 1878
Creator:
Robson, G. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History