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Austin, Texas, illustrated : famous capital city of the lone star state (open access)

Austin, Texas, illustrated : famous capital city of the lone star state

From the title page: Austin Illustrated. A short resume of the history of the Capital of Texas, together with descriptions of its business, homes, churches, schools, climate, and general environments.
Date: 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Baby George Harris]

Photograph of baby George Harris. He is wearing a white outfit, sitting on a wooden chair.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Beautiful Drive]

Postcard of a road through trees in Beaumont, Texas with the caption, "A Beautiful Drive, Beaumont, Texas." In the far distance down the road is possibly an automobile.
Date: [1900..1952]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biographical sketch of General Mirabeau B. Lamar (open access)

Biographical sketch of General Mirabeau B. Lamar

Manuscript (reproduction) about Mirabeau B. Lamar, written by Edward Fontaine his personal secretary. Original manuscript dates from 1857.
Date: 1900
Creator: Fontaine, Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Boy with Horse]

Photograph of an unknown boy posing with a horse. The boy is a possible Zuber family member. The bottom of the photograph reads "Pope, Photographer."
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cleburne Paint Company Store]

Copy print of a man in a horse-drawn wagon outside the Cleburne Paint Company store. Two men are standing between the store and the wagon including James Ganong (left). The building is a small, one-story brick building with a decorative roofline including overhanging eaves and eave returns on the gable ends. There are large vertical signs across the storefront and horizontal signs above the porch. More information is printed on the back.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Doll Girls and Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images include young girls, young women, and adult women in fashionable dresses; two (identical) girls have only upper bodies).
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Doll Pieces]

Collection of paper doll figures, accessories, and accompanying pieces that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images include a young girl, women, and furniture.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Doll Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images are all young ladies and adult women in fashionable dresses; one of the dolls is missing her head.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Doll Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images are all adult women in fashionable dresses.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Doll Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images are all adult women in fashionable dresses.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Collection of Paper Dolls]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images include young girls and children as well as adult women in fashionable dresses and men in dressing gowns.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cotton Gin "Old Red", Richardson, Texas

Cotton gin, two-story wooden frame building. Four 2-horsedrawn wagons containing cotton. 15 men visible. Telephone pole in foreground. Numerous outbuildings. Additional information: Telephone service in Richardson was established in 1900.
Date: 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Damaged Schoolhouse Photograph]

Framed photograph of Buffalo Gap schoolhouse attendants. Top row 3rd from left, holding a book, is Lewis Walker Vardeman. The photograph is damaged with the right portion ripped and various chunks missing around the edges.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (open access)

The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days

"This reminiscence of a Texas pioneer summarizes the decades from the early settlements by U.S. immigrants in Texas until he left the region as the sectional conflict was beginning.”
Date: 1900
Creator: Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899 & Donaldson, Nanna Smithwick
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the First Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas, May 26 and 27th, 1900 (open access)

The fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the First Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas, May 26 and 27th, 1900

A book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First Presbyterian Church of Austin.
Date: 1900
Creator: First Presbyterian Church
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Galveston City Company Document Index] (open access)

[Galveston City Company Document Index]

Index to various Galveston City Company accounts, starting with a list at the start of ledgers containing minutes, wills, inventories, bonds and oaths, return sales, and annual & final accounts. Personal accounts are listed alphabetically by last name with various notations and columns labeled W, I, Br O, R S, and Accts. Newspaper clippings at the front of the ledger list all of the victims killed during the hurricane that happened September 8, 1900.
Date: 1900~
Creator: Galveston City Company
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geologic Atlas of the United States: Uvalde Folio, Texas (open access)

Geologic Atlas of the United States: Uvalde Folio, Texas

This atlas contains three colored maps from the quadrangle region around Uvalde (Culberson County) and Zavalla (Angelina County), Texas including historical geography, topography, and structure sections. The illustrated text of the atlas discusses the geological elevation of the area, provides in-depth breakdown of the kinds of rocks and minerals as well as other features of the region, and includes economic geology, agriculture and cattle raising information.
Date: 1900
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Grandparents]

Photograph of Lillian Place Patterson's grandparents. The couple is standing in front of their home.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Henry William Coit and family, Renner, Texas

Photograph of 9 people standing on a steam tractor or attached gang plow. 2 women, three children, 4 men. The woman standing farthest right is veiled. The rear of the tractor is visible, in a partially plowed field. 2 women, 2 man, and 1 child (girl) are holding levers used to raise and lower the plows.
Date: 1900/1910
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Home of J. Frank Keith]

Postcard of J. Frank Keith's home, Arbol Grande, on Calder Avenue. In the foreground is a utility pole. Printed on the bottom of the postcard is " 'Arbol Grande" and printed at the top is "Beaumont, Tex." Printed on the back of the postcard is the following information regarding the postcard's creation: "Tom Jones, Cincinnati, O" and "For 'Szafirs,' Stationers, Beaumont, Tex." Handwritten on the back of the postcard, "Hello Miss V. & saw your brother this morning. Why didnt you come to (?) There is lots of excitement here now. Carnival, Race horses and Preachers. Howard" The card is addressed to Miss Virgie Reed Burnet Tex.
Date: [1900..1929]
Creator: Tom Jones, Cincinnati, O
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Horses and Carts in Cleburne's Market Square]

Photograph of many horses and carts in Market Square in Cleburne, Texas. There are some business names printed on the roofs of the buildings bordering the square and the Johnson County Courthouse.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Installing Telephone Pole]

Photograph of a telephone crew putting up a telephone pole on Pecan and First Street in Hico, Texas.
Date: 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Jasper County, Texas Tax Roll: 1900] (open access)

[Jasper County, Texas Tax Roll: 1900]

Tax rolls for Jasper County, Texas documenting real and personal properties taxed during the year 1900. Information includes land plot(s) and owner's name, the acreage and assessed value for each property, additional assets, taxes assessed by the state and county, and other relevant details.
Date: 1900
Creator: Jasper County (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History