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Aerocompass.
Patent for an aerocompass, which improves upon a compass combined with inclinometers or map-boards. It is intended for use on submarines, airplanes, or in an area when it would be difficult to use a regular compass.
Date:
January 8, 1918
Creator:
Fischer, Fred Charlie.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for an airshape. This invention is of a helicopter design. Illustration included.
Date:
January 21, 1913
Creator:
Darche, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap
Patent for an animal trap that can continue to trap more animals even after if traps one or more.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Dennis, Decatur D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Approach to North Bluff, Corpus Christi]
Stairway and winding lanes on approach from the bay in downtown Corpus Christi.
Date:
1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aransas Pass 1915 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Aransas Pass in Nueces County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
July 1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aransas Pass 1915 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Aransas Pass in Nueces County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
July 1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aransas Pass 1915 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Aransas Pass in Nueces County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
July 1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aransas Pass 1915 Sheet 4
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Aransas Pass in Nueces County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
July 1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aransas Pass 1915 Sheet 5
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Aransas Pass in Nueces County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
July 1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aransas Pass 1915 Sheet 6
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Aransas Pass in Nueces County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
July 1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Army Hospital]
Photograph of the Army Hospital after the hurricane of 1919 in Corpus Christi. Inscription on back of photo, " The remains of the Army Hospital (this used to be the Beach Hotel) These parts of the second story porch that are gone are concrete. Isn't much of the pretty lawn in sight now."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Artesian Park]
Photograph of flooded park and surrounding buildings after the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Sept. 1919 - Artesian Park - Looking east from Mesquite St. (La Playa Hotel on left - Tribble's Market - Givens Apts. and house across from it -)
Date:
September 1919
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Wheel
Patent for an automobile wheel. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Messerli, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Seeding Attachment for Planters
Patent for an attachment to existing hopper fed planters intended for larger format seeds (corn, cotton, etc.), to allow their use in distribution of smaller format seeds (cabbage, onions, etc.).
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Whitworth, John Allen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Back of our house]
Photograph of a damaged house in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. Caption says, “Back of our house. Notice the windows also, where our kitchen used to be. We used to have to go up several steps to get into it, but not now."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Back of Winona Hotel and Tribble's Meat Market]
Photograph of buildings damaged in the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Back of the Winona Hotel and Tribble's Meat Market."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Battery Connector
Patent for a battery connector that will bind the, "posts and nuts of batteries."
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Hale, Noah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boy swimming [at] Corpus Christi
Photograph of a boy in wavy water (probably Corpus Christi Bay). Only his head is visible as he looks up at the camera. The photographer's shadow is visible on the water from where he is standing above the swimmer on what looks to be a dock.
Date:
August 2, 1910
Creator:
Mitchell, J. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Broadway Bluff Improvement Photograph #3]
Photograph of the Broadway Bluff Improvement in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Date:
1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Broadway Bluff Improvement Photograph #8]
Photograph of the Broadway Bluff Improvement in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Date:
1915
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Buildings in Corpus Christi]
Photograph of several large multi-story buildings taken from an elevated street. In the foreground two unidentified people are standing in front of a short concrete wall with two street lamps on it next to what appear to be a set steps that lead down to the street below. Behind them several storefronts and a city street are visible with more buildings and telephone poles in the background. A handwritten note on the front of the photograph reads "Corpus Christi, Tex."
Date:
1915~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cars overturned on the beach]
Photograph of overturned cars on the beach in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. Caption says, "Cars left on the beach after the storm. You see how clean it is swept. So many places are swept so clean or are so wrecked that you actually can't tell what they were or hardly tell where you are."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cavalry Men On Wagon]
Photograph of three cavalry soldiers sitting in a wagon drawn by three horses. Two of the men are sitting in the front of the wagon and one man is standing at the back behind several large trunks. Tents and other soldiers are visible in the background and there is a handwritten note on the bottom of the photograph that reads "...6/19 Home ward bound Corpus Christi, Tex.
Date:
1915~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cavalry Soldiers at Camp]
Photograph of a group of cavalry soldiers at a camp with a row of barracks on the left, and a horse-drawn wagon and other barracks visible in the background on the right. On the front of the photograph a handwritten note reads "Breaking Camp - Corpus Christi Texas Mar 26."
Date:
1915~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History