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Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 145, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 17, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 145, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 17, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 17, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 146, Ed. 1, Friday, December 18, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 146, Ed. 1, Friday, December 18, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 18, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 147, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 19, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 147, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 19, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 19, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 148, Ed. 1, Monday, December 21, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 148, Ed. 1, Monday, December 21, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 21, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 149, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 22, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 149, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 22, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 22, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 150, Ed. 1, Wednesday, December 23, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 150, Ed. 1, Wednesday, December 23, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 23, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 151, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 24, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 151, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 24, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 24, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 152, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 26, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 152, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 26, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 26, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 153, Ed. 1, Monday, December 28, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 153, Ed. 1, Monday, December 28, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 28, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 154, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 29, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 154, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 29, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 249, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 21, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 249, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 21, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 90, Ed. 1, Tuesday, October 13, 1908 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 90, Ed. 1, Tuesday, October 13, 1908

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 13, 1908
Creator: Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Brownsville Area, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Brownsville Area, Texas

Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of the Brownsville Area, Texas.
Date: August 22, 1908
Creator: Mangum, A. W. & Lee, Ora
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, Brownsville sheet

Map displays soil types along with canals, lakes, rivers, swamps, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: August 22, 1908
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man with Girl and Dog]

Photograph of a man wearing a straw hat and suspenders standing in a grain field next to a girl in a light-colored dress to his right. A dog is standing on the girl's right side and above it is a handwritten text that reads: "Lon. Hill. Irrigated Farm Harlingen, Tex. Sorghum Planted May 4. Phots. July 25, '08." On the bottom of the photograph the same text is type-written.
Date: July 25, 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lon C. Hill and William Jennigan Bryan Sitting]

Photograph of Lon C. Hill and William Jennigan Bryan sitting in chairs with a line of other unidentified men standing behind them and a house and trees in the background. The man on the right is wearing a suit and hat, the man on the left is wearing a coat and cowboy hat, and the other men are wearing dark suits and several are also wearing hats.
Date: 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Magazine Clipping of Harlingen Sorghum] (open access)

[Magazine Clipping of Harlingen Sorghum]

Magazine clipping of an image that has printed text across the top and bottom that says, "Harlingen Sorghum--Planted May 4,1908, Photographed July 25,1908." The photograph includes Lon C. Hill and a young girl standing in front of the long grain, and the young girl has one arm resting on a dog. The reverse has text from a Gulf Coast Magazine article.
Date: 1908~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Reprint Photograph of a Group of Men]

Reprint photograph of a group of men in dark color suits with two sitting down and the rest standing up behind them. Text under the photographs separate the photographs as "before buying land" and "after buying land from Conway & Hoit. Mission, Tex". There is handwritten text on the back that reads "Hoyd = This is re-print taken in 1908. Just found original in files. Yours truly, Jas. Bryan." "Jim Hill, Wm. J. Bryan, Hoit x Conway standing back".
Date: 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man, Girl, and Dog in Field]

Photograph of a young girl, dog, and man standing in a cotton field with trees and houses visible in the background. The girl standing in the foreground in front of the field, wearing a light-colored dress with the dog on the left and the man, wearing suspenders and a hat, is standing behind her in the field. A text on the front of the photograph reads "Lon C. Hills Irrigated Farm Harlingen Tex. Cotton Planted Apr. 20. Photo July 25 '08. Producing 1 1/2 Bales Per Acre."
Date: July 25, 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men in Cotton Field]

Photograph of seven unidentified men wearing light-colored shirts and hats standing in the middle of a cotton field. In the foreground on the right one man is facing towards the camera, as are the three men behind him. On the left two men are spaced farther apart, standing behind horses that are facing the other direction. Trees and telephone poles are visible in the background and a text on the front of the photograph reads "Lon Hill Irrigated Farm Harlingen Tex. Cotten planted May 4. Photo July 25 08. Producing 1 1/2 bales per acre."
Date: July 25, 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man, Girl, and Dog on Farm]

Postcard of a man wearing suspenders and a straw hat standing in the middle of a cotton field with a young girl in a light-colored dress and a dog. The girl is standing in the foreground with the dog on the left and the man is behind her on the left. More fields and houses are visible in the distant background and a text on the front of the postcard reads "Lon C. Hills Irrigated Farm. Harlingen, Tex. Cotton Planted APr. 20. Photo. July 25, 08. Producing 15 Bales per acre."
Date: July 25, 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man, Girl, and Dog]

Postcard of a man wearing a straw hat and suspenders standing in a grain field next to a girl in a light-colored dress to his right. A dog is standing on the girl's right side and above it is a text that reads: "Lon. Hill. Irrigated Farm Harlingen, Tex. Sorghum Planted May 4. Phots. July 25, '08."
Date: July 25, 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Men Drinking]

Photograph of three men wearing light-colored shirts and dark pants standing behind a table with three liquor bottles on it. The two men on the right are holding shot glasses in their right hands and the man on the left is holding a beer glass in his left hand. The man in the middle has a long light-colored beard and the other two men have mustaches.
Date: 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locking-Bolt for Guards to Openings. (open access)

Locking-Bolt for Guards to Openings.

Patent for a locking mechanism for windows, which cannot be unlocked from the outside.
Date: March 31, 1908
Creator: McNeil, Clarence W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History