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[Jasper County, Texas Tax Roll: 1900] (open access)

[Jasper County, Texas Tax Roll: 1900]

Tax rolls for Jasper County, Texas documenting real and personal properties taxed during the year 1900. Information includes land plot(s) and owner's name, the acreage and assessed value for each property, additional assets, taxes assessed by the state and county, and other relevant details.
Date: 1900
Creator: Jasper County (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Galveston City Company Document Index] (open access)

[Galveston City Company Document Index]

Index to various Galveston City Company accounts, starting with a list at the start of ledgers containing minutes, wills, inventories, bonds and oaths, return sales, and annual & final accounts. Personal accounts are listed alphabetically by last name with various notations and columns labeled W, I, Br O, R S, and Accts. Newspaper clippings at the front of the ledger list all of the victims killed during the hurricane that happened September 8, 1900.
Date: 1900~
Creator: Galveston City Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Accounts of D.M. O'Connor Estate: September - November 1900] (open access)

[Accounts of D.M. O'Connor Estate: September - November 1900]

Ledger documenting general business transactions for the estate of D.M. O'Connor, including payments made by the estate, the completion of sales, salaries for work, and other estate business.
Date: 1900-09-20/1900-11-09
Creator: Howard, George; Carsner, C. F. & O'Connor, Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter Book: 1900-1904] (open access)

[Letter Book: 1900-1904]

Ledger containing copies of business correspondence conducted on behalf of the Dennis M. O'Connor estate including payment of taxes, receipts of rent, and other transactions.
Date: 1900-12-20/1904-04-28
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Petroleum. (open access)

Texas Petroleum.

This report contains information about the petroleum industry in the state of Texas, including chapters on the history, nature and origin of the resource, as well as oil and gas-bearing formations. The index begins on page 93.
Date: July 1900
Creator: Phillips, William Battle
System: The Portal to Texas History
Austin, Texas, illustrated : famous capital city of the lone star state (open access)

Austin, Texas, illustrated : famous capital city of the lone star state

From the title page: Austin Illustrated. A short resume of the history of the Capital of Texas, together with descriptions of its business, homes, churches, schools, climate, and general environments.
Date: 1900
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biographical sketch of General Mirabeau B. Lamar (open access)

Biographical sketch of General Mirabeau B. Lamar

Manuscript (reproduction) about Mirabeau B. Lamar, written by Edward Fontaine his personal secretary. Original manuscript dates from 1857.
Date: 1900
Creator: Fontaine, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
The fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the First Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas, May 26 and 27th, 1900 (open access)

The fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the First Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas, May 26 and 27th, 1900

A book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First Presbyterian Church of Austin.
Date: 1900
Creator: First Presbyterian Church
System: The Portal to Texas History
Something of interest concerning Austin, the great capital of Texas (open access)

Something of interest concerning Austin, the great capital of Texas

Pamphlet relating the benefits of Austin.
Date: 1900
Creator: Warner, George P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Austin, 1900-1901. (open access)

Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Austin, 1900-1901.

General directory for Austin, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "the Present State, County and City Governments, and a Complete List of all Postoffices and Money Order Offices in Texas; Also an Index of Societies, Associations, Churches, Corporations, Educational Institutes; Full Name and Address of all Residents, Their Occupations or Pursuits, and a Complete Classified Business Directory, also a Valuable Street and Avenue Guide." Table of Contents is on page 3 and Index to Advertisements is on page 4.
Date: 1900
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geologic Atlas of the United States: Uvalde Folio, Texas (open access)

Geologic Atlas of the United States: Uvalde Folio, Texas

This atlas contains three colored maps from the quadrangle region around Uvalde (Culberson County) and Zavalla (Angelina County), Texas including historical geography, topography, and structure sections. The illustrated text of the atlas discusses the geological elevation of the area, provides in-depth breakdown of the kinds of rocks and minerals as well as other features of the region, and includes economic geology, agriculture and cattle raising information.
Date: 1900
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (open access)

The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days

"This reminiscence of a Texas pioneer summarizes the decades from the early settlements by U.S. immigrants in Texas until he left the region as the sectional conflict was beginning.”
Date: 1900
Creator: Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899 & Donaldson, Nanna Smithwick
System: The Portal to Texas History