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Soldiers and Kitchen Workers; Solders, Portarms

Copy negative of two pictures of soldiers at Camp Travis, from 45th Co., 12th T. R. Battalion, 165th Depot Brigade. The first picture shows a group of seven soldiers, five of them in cook uniforms, posing in front of a wooden building. The second picture shows two men in uniform holding guns standing near two buildings.
Date: 1915~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Case for Motion-Picture Films (open access)

Case for Motion-Picture Films

Patent for a case for motion picture films that protects the film from damage when rewinding or transferring from one reel to another. The case also ensures that the film will be wound uniformly.
Date: October 5, 1915
Creator: McNeel, William Pinkney
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine (open access)

Adding-Machine

Patent for adding machine that has improvements such as a controllable disk to avoid over or under rotation and simpler means of adding and removing adding disks.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Sweet, William F. & Tideman, S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Compressing Apparatus. (open access)

Air-Compressing Apparatus.

Patent for a new air compressing apparatus which employs two kinds of tanks called high pressure containers and low pressure containers charged by means of an air compressing engine.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine (open access)

Adding-Machine

Patent for improvements to adding machines, which is key-operated and includes a vertically disposed shaft and a means to actuate the sliding plate.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Gatewood, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telltale Switch (open access)

Telltale Switch

Patent for switch that indicates when a vacuum fails. Used for systems in "which it is desired to keep a ... uniform vacuum such as in fruit dryers, creosoting plants, surgace and jet condensing for steam plants and the like" (lines 21-25).
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Howland, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Headlight (open access)

Automobile-Headlight

Patent for an improved automobile headlight function that allows the light to be pointed directly at the road in front of the wheels to avoid the glare/reflection associated with straight-forward lighting.
Date: July 20, 1915
Creator: Allan, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Texas Surgical Society Minutes: October 18-19, 1915] (open access)

[Texas Surgical Society Minutes: October 18-19, 1915]

Summary of the first semi-annual meeting of the Texas Surgical Society, with details about what was discussed and important people present, including a discussion of requirements for membership and list of new members.
Date: October 1915
Creator: Thorning, W. Burton
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[James E. Thompson Speech to Texas Surgical Society] (open access)

[James E. Thompson Speech to Texas Surgical Society]

Presidential address given by James E. Thompson to the Texas Surgical Society in San Antonio, Texas. In the speech, Thompson discusses the status of surgery and education of surgeons in the state of Texas, as well as recent and future changes.
Date: 1915
Creator: Thompson, James Edwin
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard to Mrs. F. Adler, July 16, 1915]

Postcard to Mrs. F. Adler. The front of the postcard features a photograph of a man-made dam on a small lake, taken from down-stream. Trees surround the lake and dam on all sides, and there are large, rectangular stones piled up on the right side. A man in a light shirt and dark pants walks along the edge of the dam (where the water pours over the edge), going left.
Date: July 16, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard to Mrs. Fritz Adler, September 2, 1915]

Postcard to Mrs. Fritz Adler, in San Antonio. The postcard features a photograph of the town, and some of the small farms surrounding the town, taken from a great distance. There are larger trees on the right left side of the town, and in the background, small bluffs are visible on the horizon.
Date: September 2, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 237, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 29, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 237, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 29, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 29, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 236, Ed. 1 Friday, May 28, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 236, Ed. 1 Friday, May 28, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 28, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 235, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 235, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 27, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 234, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 26, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 234, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 26, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 26, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 233, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 25, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 233, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 25, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 25, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 271, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 271, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 8, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 287, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 27, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 287, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 27, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 27, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 288, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 28, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 288, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 28, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 28, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 289, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 29, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 289, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 29, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 29, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 290, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 290, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 30, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 291, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 31, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 291, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 31, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 31, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 292, Ed. 1 Monday, August 2, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 292, Ed. 1 Monday, August 2, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 2, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 293, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 3, 1915 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 293, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 3, 1915

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 3, 1915
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History