Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Photograph of flood waters at Port Arthur College. A group of people are standing under the awning of a building; a circular sign on the top of the building says "1909." In the foreground, a man is standing in the water; it reaches his upper legs, and resulted from a hurricane.

Photograph of two rows of houses during a flood in Port Arthur, Texas.

Photograph of Sabine Pass in Port Arthur, Texas, after a hurricane. Large puddles of water fill the streets. In the foreground, several metal chairs are sitting in a puddle. In the background, there are people walking in the street in front of business buildings. A sign on one business says "Hardware." In the far background, the building is identified as a school built in 1914.

Yearbook for Port Arthur High School in Port Arthur, Texas includes photographs of and information about the school, student body, teachers, and organizations.

Photograph of a portrait of two men standing in front of a tailor shop on 444 Austin Avenue. Text above the door of the shops says "J. F. Owens The Tailor." A bicycle is leaning against the building. Text on the bottom of the photograph says "444 Austing Avenue 1915." Accompanying material gives information about the tailor shop.

Photograph of a train on the tracks with a group of people walking alongside to the right. Handwriting on the back of the photograph states that it is a Texaco picnic, and dates the event July 22, 1915.

Postcard of the town of Sabine after a flood. There is a man in the foreground leaning down to pick up a chair out of the water. The street is covered with large puddles, and buildings and stores in the background have been damaged. The writing on the front of the photograph dates it September 16-17, 1915. The back of the postcard has a handwritten note about the flood, addressed to Port Arthur, Texas.

Patent for an oil tank with an improved design for extinguishing fires inside the tanks and a means for allowing the escape of exploded gases upon accidental ignition.

Patent for improvements to pipe wrenches to a more simple design.

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Patent for device to "receive messages transmitted in the form of dots, dashes or spoken words through space" (lines 16-17)

Photograph of a company of soldiers standing at attention in a lawn in Port Arthur, Texas. Railroad tracks are visible in the background.