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Common Errors in Cotton Production (open access)

Common Errors in Cotton Production

Pamphlet published by the U.S.D.A. about problems that cotton-growers may encounter and ways to avoid or fix them. Contents (from page 1): Mistakes that interfere with progress -- Causes of deterioration -- General measures of improvement: - Changing the method of buying cotton - Organizing 1-variety communities -- Some causes of inferior cotton: - Planting poor seed, Planting on price conjectures - Changing the seed - Planting too many varieties - Failure to test varieties - Misleading claims for varieties - Propagating hybrids - Planting unsuitable land - Planting too early - Thinning too early - Spacing too wide - Picking too late - Breeding weevils in the fall - Mixing seed at public gins - Ginning too close - Ginning too wet or too dry.
Date: January 1932
Creator: Cook, O. F.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Southwest Review, Volume 18, Number 3, Spring, 1933 (open access)

Southwest Review, Volume 18, Number 3, Spring, 1933

Front cover and spine of the Southwest Review, containing a variety of articles.
Date: 1933
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[5-Cent Trade Token]

One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." This coin is silver-colored and says, "Good for 5 [cents] in Trade" on one side; on the other it has the text: "Pats Place, August O. Schultz Prop., Phone 229, 115 W. Court St., Seguin, Texas." as well as "Osborne Reg. Co. Cin. O." in tiny letters.
Date: 1934~
Creator: Osborne Reg. Company
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas As It Was Then

Front cover and spine of a historical book about Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: Emmett, Chris
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial:  Fort Davis (open access)

The Texas Centennial: Fort Davis

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of Fort Davis in Fort Davis, Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial:  Mission Concepcion, San Antonio (open access)

The Texas Centennial: Mission Concepcion, San Antonio

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of Mission Concepcion in San Antonio, Texas
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial:  Mission San Francisco de La'Espada (open access)

The Texas Centennial: Mission San Francisco de La'Espada

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of Mission San Francisco de La'Espada in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial:  Mission San Jose (open access)

The Texas Centennial: Mission San Jose

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of Mission San Jose in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial:  Old Fort Leaton (open access)

The Texas Centennial: Old Fort Leaton

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of Old Fort Leaton in Presidio, Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial: Old French Embassy (open access)

The Texas Centennial: Old French Embassy

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of the Old French Embassy in Austin, Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial:  Old Seward Home (open access)

The Texas Centennial: Old Seward Home

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of the Old Seward Home in Independence, Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial:  Old Stone Fort (open access)

The Texas Centennial: Old Stone Fort

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of the Old Stone Fort in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial: Roy Bean's Place (open access)

The Texas Centennial: Roy Bean's Place

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of Roy Bean's Place in Langtry, Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial:  Ruin of "La Reunion,"” Old French Colony (open access)

The Texas Centennial: Ruin of "La Reunion,"” Old French Colony

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of the ruin of "La Reunion," Old French Colony in Dallas, Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Centennial: The Alamo (open access)

The Texas Centennial: The Alamo

Pamphlet about the Texas Centennial celebrations and information about the state including the Centennial Gateway in Dallas, Texas missions, landmarks in south and west Texas, the Texas mountains, as well as other geographic features and points of interest. This issue includes a photograph of the Alamo, "Cradle of Texas Liberty," in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

Commemorative glass

Drinking glass, clear, with blue silk-screened designs; one is horse and rider, other is seal with "Texas Centennial Exposition/1836, 1936/Dallas" (all caps)
Date: 1936~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Commemorative glass

Drinking glass, clear, with blue silk-screened designs; one is horse and rider, other is seal with "Texas Centennial Exposition/1836, 1936/Dallas" (all caps)
Date: 1936~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History
Explorers of Texas (open access)

Explorers of Texas

Historical leaflet issued during Texas Centennial containing information regarding the first explorers of Texas. Some of the explorers mentioned include Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, Fernando de Soto, and Rene Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Following Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas]

Front page of a book containing an illustrated portrait of Stephen Fuller Austin, labeled "Father of Texas, born at Austinville, Wythe Co., VA., Nov. 3, 1797."
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Artwork
System: The Portal to Texas History
Indian Tribes In Texas (open access)

Indian Tribes In Texas

Historical leaflet issued during Texas Centennial containing information regarding the primary Native American tribes native to Texas and some of the interactions between them and the Texas colonists. The tribes include the Caddo, Apache, Lipan, Comanche, Coahuiltican, Karankawa, Tonkawa, and Cherokee tribes.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mirabeau B. Lamar: Father of Education (open access)

Mirabeau B. Lamar: Father of Education

Historical leaflet issued during Texas Centennial containing biographical information about Mirabeau B. Lamar (president of the Republic of Texas 1838-1841).
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Missions of Texas (open access)

The Missions of Texas

Historical leaflet issued during Texas Centennial containing information about the history of missions in Texas including San Miguel del Socorro, Isleta del Sur, San Francisco de los Tehas, Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, San Francisco de la Espada, Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, San Antonio de Bexar, and others, mentioned geographically.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Official Souvenir Guide:  Texas Centennial Exposition (open access)

Official Souvenir Guide: Texas Centennial Exposition

Front and back covers and forward of a guide to the Texas Centennial Exposition of 1936.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Playing Card: Eight of Hearts]

Single playing card from a deck of cards commemorating the Texas Centennial. The design on the back is split diagonally with the text "Texas Centennial 1936" in the upper-left, red triangle; the lower-right triangle is a black background containing the Texas state flag and an image of the Alamo at the bottom. This card is an eight of hearts.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History