[Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway 11th District File M-2868] (open access)

[Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway 11th District File M-2868]

File of documentation related to a grievance by the firemen of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway asking to consolidate the 11th and 12th districts, including correspondence, petitions, seniority lists, and other documentation.
Date: 1915-10/1917-09
Creator: Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from 11th District Enginemen to 12th Enginemen, October 25, 1915] (open access)

[Letter from 11th District Enginemen to 12th Enginemen, October 25, 1915]

Letter from 11th District Enginemen to 12th District Enginemen discussing the consolidation of the enginemen seniority to one district for all territory south of Hillsboro, Texas.
Date: October 25, 1915
Creator: 11th District Enginemen
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, October 1915 (open access)

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, October 1915

List of firemen employed in the Trinity Division of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad South Texas Division as of October 1915. It includes the name of each person and employment date, with the most senior person listed first.
Date: October 1, 1915
Creator: Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. South Texas Division.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, October 1914 (open access)

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, October 1914

List of firemen employed in the Smithville District of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company South Texas Division as of October 1914. It includes the name of each person and employment date, with the most senior person listed first.
Date: October 26, 1914
Creator: Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. South Texas Division.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, October 1917 (open access)

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, October 1917

List of firemen employed in the Smithville District of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company South Texas Division as of October 1917. It includes the name of each person and employment date, with the most senior person listed first.
Date: October 5, 1917
Creator: Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. South Texas Division.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Landon and Bob and Three Children]

Photograph of Landon and Bob and three children sitting in a yard with shrubs and a wooden fence in the background. One of the men is wearing a shirt and tie and is sitting on the grass on the left with a baby on his knee, the other man is sitting in a rocking chair with a child sitting on the edge of the seat, and a third child wearing a light-colored dress and a bow in her hair is sitting in the grass on the right.
Date: October 24, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lola Fishing]

Photograph of Lola, a young girl wearing a light-colored dress and a bow in her hair, fishing in a water tank in a corral while an unidentified woman watches her. Part of a wagon is visible in the foreground and behind them there is a wooden fence, a barn, and trees in the background.
Date: October 18, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Boy in Cowboy Hat]

Photograph of an unidentified boy wearing a cowboy hat and suede gloves and pants standing in an open field.
Date: October 24, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mrs. Shroeter Pumping Tire]

Photograph of Mrs. Schroeter wearing a dress and a scarf on her head hand-pumping air into the flat tire of her automobile; there appears to be a car jack on the ground on the right and another person is partially visible on the far left side.
Date: October 8, 1913
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Palm's Roundup]

Photograph of seven unidentified men and women on horseback rounding up a herd of cattle on an open plain; on the far left there is a calf with another cow.
Date: October 12, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Girls with Bows]

Photograph of an unidentified young woman and a girl wearing light-colored dresses and bows in their hair standing in a yard with trees and a wooden fence in the background.
Date: October 24, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Shuey's Silo and Tractor]

Photograph of an unidentified man and woman standing with a dog in front of Shuey's tractor with several men standing around a silo in the background with trees and shrubs on the left and right side.
Date: October 27, 1913
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Girls by a Fence]

Photograph of an unidentified young woman and two girls wearing light-colored dresses posing standing in a yard with their arms on each other's shoulders; the girls on the left and right are wearing hats and the one in the middle has a bow in her hair and there is a picket fence in the background.
Date: October 24, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women and Child]

Photograph of three unidentified women wearing dresses and a young boy sitting next to a table setting for the birthday celebration of Maria C. Palm. The table is set with a light-colored table cloth, glasses, plates, vases of flowers, a cake, and other plates of food and there is a window with lace curtains, a telephone, and a wall-papered wall with various pictures and calendars hanging on it in the background.
Date: October 4, 1913
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cattle in Pen at Mr. Shroeter's Farm]

Photograph of a large herd of closely-grouped cattle in a pen at Mr. Schroeter's farm with another group of cattle in another pen in the background.
Date: October 21, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cattle in Pens at Shroeter's Farm]

Photograph of a large herd of closely-grouped cattle in a pen at Mr. Shroeter's farm with another group of cattle in another pen in the background.
Date: October 21, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cattle with Windmill at Shroeter's Farm]

Photograph of a herd of closely-grouped cattle in a corral at F.A. Shroeter's farm with several unidentified people on horseback and a windmill visible in the background.
Date: October 21, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cattle and Windmill at Shroeter's Farm]

Photograph of a large herd of closely-grouped cattle in a corral at Mr. Shroeter's farm with several cowhands on horseback, trees, and a windmill in the background.
Date: October 21, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cattle at Mr. Shroeter's Farm]

Photograph of a large herd of closely-grouped cattle in a pen at Mr. Schroeter's farm.
Date: October 21, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cowhands Branding at Shroeter's Farm]

Photograph of several unidentified cowhands branding a cow at Mr. Shroeter's farm with several other cattle in the background. Three men and a young boy are holding the cow down while a man on the right is holding a branding iron and there is smoke visible in the background.
Date: October 21, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cattle and Cowhands at Shroeter's Farm]

Photograph of a large herd of closely-grouped cattle in a corral at Mr. Shroeter's farm with two cowhands on horseback, several trees, and a windmill visible in the background.
Date: October 21, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man and Children with Dog]

Photograph of an unidentified man wearing a dark suit sitting in the grass in a yard with three children and a dog; behind them a wooden fence, tree, and an automobile are visible in the background.
Date: October 24, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bob Shuler's Free Lance, Volume 2, Number 11, October 1918 (open access)

Bob Shuler's Free Lance, Volume 2, Number 11, October 1918

Monthly publication written by pastor Bob Shuler, providing personal anecdotes and opinions about topics related to living according to the Methodist faith, particularly support for the Prohibition.
Date: October 1918
Creator: Shuler, Robert P. (Robert Pierce), 1880-
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Durham Cow in Corral]

Postcard of Brahman-Durham cow in a corral at McFaddin ranch with other cattle in pens in the background. "Oct 1917" is written on the front of the postcard.
Date: October 5, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History