[Mission in San Antonio, Texas]

Photograph of a family in front of a mission in San Antonio, Texas. Weeds and trees grow from the adobe walls.
Date: January 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Courtney Sieker Wiggins Lutz, December 16, 2010 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Courtney Sieker Wiggins Lutz, December 16, 2010

Interview with Courtney Sieker Wiggins Lutz, the descendant of a ranching family in Kimble County, from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Lutz discusses her ranching family, meeting her husband, Warren Wiggins, who was later killed in the Philippines during World War II, meeting her second husband who had been in Wiggins's company in the Philippines, and the Dodge dealership her second husband ran.
Date: March 23, 1918
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Heffington, Susan Wiggins & Lutz, Courtney Sieker Wiggins
Object Type: Text
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
[Letter from Dr. James Steele to Dr. Joseph Pound, July 31, 1912] (open access)

[Letter from Dr. James Steele to Dr. Joseph Pound, July 31, 1912]

Letter from Dr. James Steele to Dr. Joseph Pound with regrets that he won't be able to visit at the time he thought he would be able to; Steele says he spends "every Monday morning in San Marcos...and leave on the 1:40 P.M. train in time to reach my office here by 4 P.M." Steele also hopes to meet up with the Pounds in San Marcos one day and let his daughter spend a week with them.
Date: July 31, 1912
Creator: Steele, Dr. James S.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard Addressed to Birdie Walters in Dripping Springs, Texas]

Postcard addressed to Birdie Walters with an image of the United States Arsenal Grounds in San Antonio, Texas; the image shows three cannons mounted on the open grounds with a small building in the trees. The note on the back of the card reads: "Please come quick as you can home because I cant go to Sinton if you don't."
Date: August 8, 1910
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History