May 31st, 2017   New Collections on the Portal Aransas Pass ProgressThe Aransas Pass Progress has served as the leading hometown news source for the “The Harbor City” and the surrounding area for 100 years. Founded by a young printing equipment salesman named W.H. Vernor, the newspaper was initially backed by a real estate firm… Read more »

May 17th, 2017   New Collections on the Portal Private Papers of Daniel Kempner ThorneFamily papers from the first and second generation of the influential Kempner Family of Galveston. Handwritten letters from February 1898 – March 31, 1899 from Daniel Webster Kempner to his mother Eliza Seinsheimer, and brother Isaac Herbert Kempner during an extended… Read more »

May 3rd, 2017   Featured on the Portal Orange Area Newspaper CollectionThe Orange newspaper was published in Southeast Texas under a variety of names including The Orange Tribune, Orange Weekly Tribune, Southeast Texas Journal, Tribune Southeast Texas Journal, Daily Tribune and the Orange Daily Tribune, to name a few. The archive copies retained by the… Read more »