General Highway Map Caldwell County, Texas

Highway map of Caldwell County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, and oil fields. Map includes ten inset maps - Uhland, Lytton Springs, Dale, McMahan, Stairtown, Reedville, Martindale, Maxwell, Fentress, and Prairie Lea - a key to counties diagram, and an extensive legend in the lower-left corner, indicating geographical and human-made features. A hand-drawn line , with a corresponding note, has been made to the map in pencil to mark the approximate route of the Old San Antonio Road. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date: 1967
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Caldwell Co.

Blue line print of survey map of Caldwell County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, the old San Antonio Road, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil and red ink. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: San Marcos Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of San Marcos, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing Guadalupe, Gonzales, Hays, and Caldwell Counties. The map includes county lines, towns, roads, railroads, rivers, creeks, and schools. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000
Date: 1931
Creator: Marshall, R. B.; Herron, W. H.; Stiles, Arthur; McLaughlin, Fred; Forster, William J.; Elliott, Herman R. et al.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Luling Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Luling, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, roads and highways, railroads, boundaries, rivers, creeks, churches, and schools. The blank portions of the map correspond to the map of the San Marco Quadrangle. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1946
Creator: Reineck, R. H.; Seitz, R. C.; Murphy, T. F.; Schultz, J. T. & Fisher, W. A.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Caldwell and Surrounding Counties: Texas]

Road map of portions of Blanco, Hays, Travis, Comal, Bexar, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Bastrop, Fayette, Washington, Colorado, Lavaca, and Gonzales Counties, showing towns, roads, railroads, mountains, post offices, rivers, creek, and springs. No scale information given.
Date: unknown
Creator: Luer, A.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Baptistry Painting for Luling, Texas] (open access)

[Baptistry Painting for Luling, Texas]

Black and white photograph of baptistry painting done by Perry for the church in Luling, Texas. Scene depicts creek, different types of trees, large tree in foreground, hills, clouds. Painting is photographed outside against a brick wall with a sidewalk and window. Back of photograph reads in part, "Luling, Tex [Texas] in spring."
Date: unknown
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

1st 134th Battalion Reunion

Photograph of a group of men standing in a room during the first reunion of of the 134th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion. The men are holding mugs of beer towards a central point while smiling at the camera.
Date: [1946..1947]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

1st 134th Battalion Reunion

Photograph of eleven men posing together beside a stone wall during the first reunion of the 134th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion. The men are holding mugs of beer towards a central point while smiling at the camera. William Giannopoulos stands above the other men.
Date: [1946..1947]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of a Young Woman]

Photograph of a young woman wearing a lightly hued dress with a dark mantle and large buttons. She is visible from the chest upward.
Date: unknown
Creator: Baker, W. H.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

School Exteriors

Copy photograph of two images of school houses. The top image shows Elm Grove School, a one-storey brick building. Outside the school is an automobile. The bottom image shows Valley Creek School, a wooden one-room structure with no windows.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dr. Thomas I. Poe, Jr. to Truett Latimer, Janauary 30, 1953] (open access)

[Letter from Dr. Thomas I. Poe, Jr. to Truett Latimer, Janauary 30, 1953]

Letter from Dr. Thomas I. Poe, Jr. to Truett Latimer discussing support for Texas House Bill #5 in order to raise the legal standards in the field of optometry.
Date: January 30, 1953
Creator: Poe, Thomas I.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jack W. Daniels to Truett Latimer] (open access)

[Letter from Jack W. Daniels to Truett Latimer]

Letter from Jack W. Daniels to Truett Latimer discussing his wife's, Mrs. Eva R. Daniels, imprisonment. Mr. Daniels explains the crime she was convicted of, their family's situation, and how much their children need her. He asks that Mr. Latimer contact the board of pardons and paroles to help his wife.
Date: 1961-01?
Creator: Daniels, Jack W.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History