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Confederate Veterans
Unidentified Confederate veterans from the Civil War at Camp Ben McCullough.
Date:
August 8, 1940
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Confederate Veterans
Unidentified Confederate veterans from the Civil War at Camp Ben McCullough.
Date:
August 8, 1940
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lyndon Johnson at a Lectern]
Photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson giving a speech to the Lions Club. He is standing at a lectern on a table between five men while addressing an audience.
Date:
August 26, 1953
Creator:
Dietel, Norman
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lions Club Meeting]
Photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson posing with two members of the Lions Club. In the background it says "World Salutes."
Date:
August 26, 1953
Creator:
Dietel, Norman
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hays County
Map of the Hill Country region covering Hays County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
August 1861
Creator:
Arlitt, F. H.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Pianos or Organs
Patent for "an attachment that can be used on pianos or organs, whereby the manipulation of the keys is greatly facilitated and playing upon the instrument greatly simplified, and the attachment is especially designed for those who do not to any great extent understand music or beginners who find it difficult to make the several chords in any particular key, the device being capable of ready attachment to the keyboard of any piano or organ and removed when not required for use" (lines 27-37).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Stukes, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Drop-Lid for Bins or Boxes.
Patent for "boxes or bins for store counters and shelves; and it has for its object to provide certain improvements in the lid devices for boxes or bins, so as to avoid the many objections to hinged lids, which interfere with free access to the interior of the box or bin when the same is used under the counter or on shelves" (lines 8-15).
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Dailey, Basil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for "a machine for planting corn or cotton, that may be attached to almost any kind of plow, simple in construction, easily repaired by an ordinary blacksmith, and capable of use in a satisfactory manner for planing where stumps and rocks would interfere with the operation of machines of ordinary construction" (lines 9-15).
Date:
August 31, 1880
Creator:
Krüger, Theodore Charles Herman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "has for its object to construct a plow with a detachable point, which may be removed from the plow in an easy and convenient manner and which may be held securely attached to the plow without the use of bolts" (lines 8-13). It consists in "the combination of a pair of clamping-plates, a seat or base-plate having a downwardly-extending flange secured between the front ends of said plates, said base-plate being provided with a transverse slot, the mold-board and point provided at their meeting edges with flanges" (lines 85-91).
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Messer, Jeremiah C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved sewing-machine motor. This design has for its object "the production of a motor capable of rapid and convenient adjustment to permit operation by hand or foot . . . Heretofore motors have been provided for [this purpose] but the difficulty experienced in these machines is that during the operation of the machine by hand the treadle forms no substantial support for the feet, the pitman simply being disconnected from the driving-wheel and thrown back. . . . [T]he present invention . . . will obviate the above objection" (lines 10-22).
Date:
August 28, 1888
Creator:
Briggs, Emma Flora
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self Cleaning Plow.
Patent for a new and improved self-cleaning plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a mold-board having a plane face on the larger portion of its area, a blade having an axle journaled near the center of the said plane, a wheel journaled in the plow, with its rim parallel to and extending below the landside of the plow, a beveled gear-wheel upon the said wheel-axle, and another beveled wheel upon the blade-axle, engaging each other" (lines 79-87).
Date:
August 18, 1885
Creator:
Jones, Allen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John J. Herrera to George J. Garza - 1963-08-05]
Letter to George J. Garza, not signed and dated August 5, 1963. The letter refers to the recent LULAC convention and expresses concerns over the role of the organization PASO in the Latin-American community in Houston.
Date:
August 5, 1963
Creator:
Herrera, John J.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1202
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Inquest procedures under chapter 49 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure (RQ-2051)
Date:
August 6, 1990
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 3, 1878
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 3, 1878
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 10, 1878
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 10, 1878
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 41, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 17, 1878
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 17, 1878
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 42, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 24, 1878
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 24, 1878
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 31, 1878
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 31, 1878
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1883
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 2, 1883
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1883
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 9, 1883
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1883
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 16, 1883
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1883
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 23, 1883
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1883
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 30, 1883
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1882
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 3, 1882
Creator:
Julian, Isaac H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History