Automatic Safety-Burner (open access)

Automatic Safety-Burner

Patent for an automatic safety burner for lamps that turns off the flame if the lamp is tilted.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Splettstosser, Fritz
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Door (open access)

Car Door

Patent for a car-door. The design is to prevent rattling and reduce wear on rail car doors. Illustration included.
Date: September 6, 1910
Creator: Lott, Andrew Gains & Handley, John A., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 18, 1899
Creator: Christie, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brazing Compound (open access)

Brazing Compound

Patent for a compound for brazing saws and metal such as silver and tin.
Date: September 3, 1912
Creator: Ge Bott, Jay Dell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beef Tenderer. (open access)

Beef Tenderer.

Patent for a new and improved meat tenderizer. This design consists in "the combination, with the triangular end plates having the bearing-notches, the detachable connecting-bar provided with the threaded ends and shoulders, the thumb-nuts, the smooth rollers, and the coiled springs, of the crank-handle and the [other] roller provided with the teeth having square flat faces and flat sides at right angles to said faces and arranged in aligned longitudinal series and spirally arranged circumferentially, the areas of the teeth being one-fourth of an inch" (lines 7-18).
Date: July 17, 1888
Creator: Welch, Lee L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Button. (open access)

Button.

Patent for a new and improved button. This design consists "[i]n a detachable button, the combination, with the hollow threaded shank of the button-head, having end serrations, and the base-disk, having a central screw, of the loose clamp-disk, applied on the screw, and having a spring-pawl or projection to engage the serrations of the shank" (lines 70-76).
Date: March 11, 1884
Creator: Matthews, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Polk County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, ponds, rivers, pipelines, roads, towns, schools, churches, gins, lumber railroads, and railroads. Alabama and Coushatta Indian Reservation is indicated. Map includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1935
Creator: United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-57 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-57

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the facts stated, whether the Governor is precluded from appointing a Criminal District Attorney of Polk County.
Date: April 10, 1963
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7442 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7442

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Continued expenditure of money for labor and material by Commissioner of Precinct No. 3, Polk County, after his budget is exhausted; though other Commissioners have balances and there is surplus in Road and Bridge Fund.
Date: November 16, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7446 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7446

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The employment of an applicant by the State Board of Control as the bus driver of a school bus transferring children from the Alabama-Coushatti Indian Reservation to and from the Big Sandy School at Livingston, Texas, under the provisions of the Constitution, Article XVI, Section 33, and Senate Bill 167, Acts, 49th Legislature, 1945.
Date: October 21, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-43 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-43

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legality of legislative appropriations for benefit of the Alabama Coushatta Indian Reservation in Polk County, and related questions.
Date: March 5, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6689 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6689

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under House Bill No. 238 who will pay the salaries of the county school trustees until January, 1946?
Date: September 4, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-410 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-410

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction of H.B. 353, Acts, 50th Leg., 1947, p. 104, as it relates to Polk County.
Date: October 18, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-468 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-468

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of and procedure for the leasing of land of the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation in Polk County, Texas for oil and gas development.
Date: June 30, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: San Jacinto County, Block 9

Parent map for San Jacinto County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Angelina County, Block 15

Parent map for Angelina County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Angelina County, Index

Index map for Angelina County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:133,843.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Trinity County, Block 16

Parent map for Trinity County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Polk County, Inset B04

Inset map for Polk County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:7,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Polk County, Inset D01

Inset map for Polk County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:3,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tyler County, Block 12

Parent map for Tyler County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Polk County, Block 5

Parent map for Polk County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Polk County, Inset B05

Inset map for Polk County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:7,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tyler County, Block 1

Parent map for Tyler County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History