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Texas Digital Newspaper Program
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission Newspapers Collection
105
Wichita Times
105
Sanborn Map Collection
18
Texas Patents
13
Texas History Collection
8
Abilene Library Consortium
3
Sayles and Sayles Collection
3
Rescuing Texas History, 2015
2
Rescuing Texas History, 2006
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Agreement Between The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company of Texas and The Wichita Falls Railway Company: Dated May 16, 1901
Contract between The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company of Texas and The Wichita Falls Railway Company amending and extending their original contract entered into on June 12, 1894. This agreement amends Article Five of the previous contract, which regards interstate freight traffic and interchanging freight in Wichita Falls.
Date:
May 16, 1901
Creator:
Rouse, Henry C.; Newby, A.; Reagan, John H. & Storey, L. J.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Bess and Joseph Kell]
Photograph of Elizabeth "Bess" Kell (10yrs) and Joseph Kell (8yrs) posing for photographs. The photograph appears to have been taken in a studio.
Date:
1903
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Contract Between Lake Wichita Irrigation and Water Company and Henry Sayles]
Document describing the contract between Henry Sayles and the Lake Wichita Irrigation and Water Company, in which Sayles purchases permanent water rights from the company. The document also includes descriptions of lands which are not covered by the water rights contract.
Date:
June 15, 1903
Creator:
Lake Wichita Irrigation and Water Company
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for improvements to cultivators.
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Skeen, Virgil G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device For Adjusting Sieves In Threshing Machines
Patent for a device for adjusting sieves in threshing machines. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 5, 1905
Creator:
Steelsmith, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[F.B Massey and Deliveryman]
Photograph of F.B. Massey, Massey store owner, and a Wells Fargo deliveryman. The two men are standing before a Wells Fargo Express store and wagon.
Date:
1907
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[F.B. Massey Home]
Photograph of F.B. Massey's home on Lee Street in Wichita Falls, Texas. The home has since been torn down.
Date:
1907
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gang-Plow.
Patent for a gang plow for “the use of a greater or lesser number of plow units in the gang or series and, to provide as a rear support for the plow a rear furrow-wheel associated with adjusting means for raising or lowering the rear end of the plow to regulate the depth of cut and; with additional adjusting means arranged to shift the crank-axle of said wheel to properly resist the side draft of the plow and, to aid in directing the latter in four-side plowing in order that comparatively sharp corners may be turned.” (Lines 17-28) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 3, 1905
Creator:
Luecke, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
J. D. Avis Home in Wichita Falls
Young girl in a white dress standing in the road by a horse and carriage in front of the J.D. Avis house in Wichita Falls, TX.
Date:
1900~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Judge Barwise]
Photograph of Judge Joseph Hudson Barwise posing on a bench. The photograph appears to have been taken in a studio.
Date:
1900~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Kuntz Family Portrait]
Family portrait of Lewis L. and Laura Kuntz, with children (front to back) Ethel (died age 4 of polio), Freeman, Ola, and Earl.
Date:
1908/1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Kuntz Wedding Photo]
Wedding photograph of L.L. Kuntz and Laura Rowena Parker Kuntz. The back of the photograph reads "Dad and mama."
Date:
1900
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Chas. A. Malone to Henry Sayles, May 8, 1908]
Letter from Chas. A. Malone to Henry Sayles, discussing the rescheduling of a meeting between Mr. Kell and counsel.
Date:
May 8, 1908
Creator:
Malone, Charles A.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Cleaning Vegetable Fiber
Patent fora machine for cleaning vegetable fiber. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
McCauley, John H. & Winfrey, Edgar M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Minnie]
Photograph of Minnie Mae Kemp Adicks.
Date:
1905
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mr. & Mrs. Massey]
Photograph of Mr. F.B. Massey and Mrs. Hester Massey sitting by their house on Lee Street in Wichita Falls. The photograph was previously ripped into three pieces.
Date:
1907
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner
Patent for an oil burner that converts petroleum fuel into gas with its own heat. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
Ziegler, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Penholder.
Patent for a wooden holder for pen-points. The holder is designed to be constructed cheaply and permit the neat and clean insertion and removal of pen-points.
Date:
October 13, 1903
Creator:
Estes, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow, by John W. Hudson. This plow has a beam that can be adjusted to carry different sizes of plows. Beam is designed to help equalize resistance between the two sides of the beam.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Hudson, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard Showing Houston Street in Ft. Worth, Texas]
Postcard showing an illustrated view looking north down Houston Street in Fort Worth, Texas; there are trolley tracks running down the center of the street and wagons lining both sides of the street. The note on the back of the card reads: "Am on my way to Wichita Falls will write when I reach my destination."
Date:
1907-08-26?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard Showing Ohio Avenue in Wichita Falls, Texas]
Postcard showing a view looking down Ohio Avenue in Wichita Falls, Texas; there are people walking walking across the street and an automobile driving towards the camera. The text on the picture reads: "Hello Mayme - This isn't such a bad town, am stopping her a day or two..."
Date:
August 27, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Lubricants.
Patent for "an improved process for making a lubricant especially adapted for parts of moving machinery which will be efficient to keep said parts and their bearings cool and which may also be used to cool heated journals and bearings" (lines 11-16).
Date:
March 26, 1901
Creator:
Hudnall, Millard Stewart
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Tie
Patent for a metallic cross ties. This tie is an improvement on previous metallic rail-ties. Illustration included.
Date:
September 19, 1905
Creator:
Field, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Lock
Patent for a sash lock. This invention pertains to railway cars. Illustration included.
Date:
November 8, 1904
Creator:
Hughes, Henry B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History