Garment Supporter (open access)

Garment Supporter

Patent for a garment supporter. Intent of garment supporter is to provide a cost effective and simple to use devise to hold up trousers.
Date: August 18, 1919
Creator: Smiley, John F
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Rotating a Locomotive-Headlight. (open access)

Mechanism for Rotating a Locomotive-Headlight.

Patent for a "manually operated mechanism that will enable a locomotive engineer to rock the headlight about a pivotal access without leaving his cab" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Teter, William E. & Gray, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weighing Attachment for Ice-Tongs. (open access)

Weighing Attachment for Ice-Tongs.

Patent for a device designed so that "the weight of the ice may be determined while the ice is engaged by the tongs" (lines 12-14). The weighing device can be safely attached to the tongs, and the patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Henderson, Douglas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0457]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This is one of earliest pictures Will Rogers and Eddie Cantor as performers, made 1913 in Winnipeg when they toured Orpheum circuit together as unknowns."
Date: August 18, 1913
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1911 (open access)

The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1911

Weekly newspaper from Lancaster, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 18, 1911
Creator: Hulbert, Elbert Monroe & Tufts, Minnie Wetmore
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1916 (open access)

The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1916

Weekly newspaper from Lancaster, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 18, 1916
Creator: Tufts, Minnie Wetmore
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1911 (open access)

The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1911

Weekly newspaper from Mesquite, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 18, 1911
Creator: Davis, John E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1916 (open access)

The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1916

Weekly newspaper from Mesquite, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 18, 1916
Creator: Davis, John E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History