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[Diary of Minnie Howard Walker: 1919-1923]
Five-year diary of Minnie Howard Walker from January 1, 1919 through December 31, 1923.
Date:
1919-01-01/1923-12-31
Creator:
Walker, Minnie Maud Howard
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Diary of Minnie Howard Walker: 1914-1918]
Five-year diary of Minnie Howard Walker from January 1, 1914 through December 31, 1918.
Date:
1914-01-01/1918-12-31
Creator:
Walker, Minnie Maud Howard
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Diary of Minnie Howard Walker: 1913]
Diary of Minnie Howard Walker from December 29, 1912 through January 3, 1914.
Date:
1913-12-19/1914-01-03
Creator:
Walker, Minnie Maud Howard
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Financial Records Related to Olivewood Cemetery in Houston]
Ledger book containing financial records for Olivewood Cemetery, including personal names with lots and fees paid, with other notes. It includes an alphabetical personal name index to the records at the start of the book.
Date:
1914~/1938~
Creator:
Olivewood Cemetery
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hotel Bender
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustration of hotel with business name and text reading: "The New Million Dollar Hotel in Houston"; "285 Rooms"; "Fireproof"; "Combination Sample Rooms, Management of B. S. Swearingen."
Date:
1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dave Cohen to D. W. Kempner, September 10, 1918]
Letter from Dave Cohen to D. W. Kempner providing his best recollection of where their grandparents were born and letting him know that he will ask Herman Cohen and Mr. Asher for information as well.
Date:
September 10, 1918
Creator:
Cohen, Dave
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Matthew and Lillian Cartwright]
Photograph of Matthew W. Cartwright and his wife, Lillian Talley Cartwright. They are relatives of Sandra Person Wyche.
Date:
1910~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ellington Field Yearbook, Class 1918
Book documenting the 1918 class of pilots at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. It includes graduating students, instructors, and other information about the class and the program.
Date:
1918
Creator:
Ellington Field (Tex.)
Object Type:
Yearbook
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Hudson & Snell Garage]
Photograph of the Hudson & Snell Auto Repairing Garage in Houston, Texas with two cars in front on the street. There are six men standing in the open bays and the man to the left of the business sign is Hugh Wimberly.
Date:
1915~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from Will Moody to Dan Moody, July 15, 1911]
Postcard of three men including Will D. Moody (on the right), sitting by a large moon. The correspondence is from Will D. Moody to Dan. M. Moody discussing an acquaintance who remember Dan Moody.
Date:
July 15, 1911
Creator:
Moody, Will D.
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Will D. Moody with Several Men]
Photograph of Will D. Moody with several men in an office. Moody is wearing a dark suit and is seated in the center front. The other men are wearing shirts and ties, both with and without vests. The accompanying material states this was possibly taken at the Harris County tax office.
Date:
1915~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Will D. Moody at a Desk]
Photograph of Will D. Moody, on the right) at the Harris County Courthouse. Moody and the other man are sitting at a desk with large books open in front of both men. There is a wall of files behind the men and an open door showing other offices behind the men.
Date:
1915?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Will D. Moody]
Photograph of Will D. Moody wearing a dark jacket and tie.
Date:
1910~/1915~
Creator:
Gray
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[U.S. War Department General Court-Martial Orders 197]
Document outlining the trial of privates Babe Collier, Thomas McDonald, James Robinson, Joseph Smith, and Albert D. Wright on charges of murder, mutiny, conspiring to raid the city of Houston, and assault, including the final verdict and sentence. The defendants were participants in the Camp Logan Mutiny.
Date:
September 7, 1918
Creator:
United States. War Department.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[U.S. War Department General Court-Martial Orders 196]
Document outlining the trial of corporals Robert Tillman, John Geter, James H. Mitchell; Private First Class John H. Gould; and privates Henry Henry L. Chenault, Edward Porter Jr., Robert Smith, Hezekiah C. Turner, Quiller Walker, and Charlie Banks, on charges of disobedience, mutiny, conspiring to raid the city of Houston, murder, and assault, including the final verdict and sentence, and a presidential commutation. The defendants were participants in the Camp Logan Mutiny.
Date:
September 7, 1918
Creator:
United States. War Department.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Break-Out Pin.
Patent for a modified break-out pin on an oil derrick which makes it easier to release a wrench for unscrewing pipes when done, but still holds the wrench in place while in use.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Headrick, James O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Projectile
Patent for an aerial projectile for use as an anti-infantry bomb, dropped by planes. Specifically, it is a fragmentation bomb hand dropped from planes that will not only deliver an explosive blast and the subsequent shrapnel, but deliver such a blast as to destroy itself so it cannot be reverse engineered.
Date:
September 25, 1918
Creator:
Bury, Thomas J. & Bury, Oney
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Core-Barrel.
Patent for a core barrel for use in rotary drilling of oil or water wells, that will allow for easy extraction of the upwardly extending column of material.
Date:
October 14, 1919
Creator:
Humason, Granville A. & Childs, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Liquids in Emulsion.
Patent for improved apparatus for separating liquids in emulsion (relates to improved apparatus for separating one liquid from another) when found in emulsion and has especial reference to means for rapidly and effectually dehydrating petroleum oil emulsion.
Date:
May 27, 1919
Creator:
McKibben, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring-Drill.
Patent for detachable heads and plates for frusco-conical rollers that allow for space between drills, including illustrations.
Date:
April 23, 1918
Creator:
Reed, Clarence Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Implement.
Patent for a carpenter's implement designed to be easily carried within one's pocket, with illustrations.
Date:
August 5, 1919
Creator:
Smith, Evander A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Closure for Refrigerators and the Like
Patent is to "provide a simple and efficient construction of doors or lids for refrigerators, refrigerator cars, ice boxes, fireless cookers, telephone booths and the like, and as fire doors for storage houses, and wherever it is necessary or desirable to provide for facility of movement in opening or shrinking, due to head or cold, dampness or dryness, or other climatic or atmospheric or similar changes or conditions, while insuring an air tight, smoke, fire and bug proof, and heat insulating closure and seating joint, regardless or vibration of the receptacle on the door frame and of the size or shape of the door or lid." (lines 9-24).
Date:
May 28, 1918
Creator:
Seifert, John W. of Houston, TX
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Pipe Coupling
Patent for improvement on the methods of controlling oil flow.
Date:
September 2, 1919
Creator:
Childs, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer System.
Patent for "an improved conveyer system that will take a package and automatically carry it to any selected point along the system, discharge the package and return to the starting point" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1919
Creator:
Hanak, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History