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Houston County
Map of Houston County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
May 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Houston and Party
Photograph of a group of men standing on rocks near the Republican River in Kansas. Temple Houston is the third man from the left.
Date:
1888~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Spring-Motor for Fans
Patent for "a device for operating a fan or other object to which it is desirable to give a continuous reciprocating motion" (lines 12-15).
Date:
October 2, 1888
Creator:
Houston, George Webster
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate for Railway Tracks.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a shaft crossing a railway-track and provided with weighted depending ends, with rollers connected eccentrically to said ends, a gate connected to said shaft, and lever and bar apparatus for operating said weighted ends from the vicinity of the rails" (lines 41-47).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Jacobs, William Ramsey & Houston, Samuel Callahan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power Fan.
Patent for a new and improved power fan. This design consists in "the combination of the slowly-revolving spring-barrel and the toothed gearing, the pitman-rod operated from the revolving gearing by a crank, the fan-lever connected to the pitman-rod, a weight sliding upon the fan-lever, and a ratchet mechanism for automatically raising the sliding weight" (lines 78-84).
Date:
January 10, 1888
Creator:
Mason, James Alexander; Mulkey, Elijah F. & Houston, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator
Patent for "an apparatus which will indicate to the passengers of railway or street cars when the car is approaching, standing at, or leaving a station, the station or street name, distance from the last station passed or to the next station, or any point upon the line that may be desired, and wherein all of the above data may be displayed simultaneously or any one or more items" (lines 10-18).
Date:
October 23, 1888
Creator:
Helland, Hans & Matzow, Frantz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design has for its object "to provide a press in which the material to be baled can be compressed into bales of the desired sizes, and then emptied from the baling-box by tilting up the tail-board, which is provided with angle irons to catch under the bale" (lines 15-20).
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Hoop, Friedrich W. J. & Isaac, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for improvement in swings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 7, 1888
Creator:
Goebel, Herman A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[H. Kempner, Fine, Horseback Speed Ticket]
Transcription and two copies of court record no. 116, The Mayor, Aldermen and Harris Kempner, in which Kempner was charged with the offense of "running through the streets of Houston on horseback at a rate quicker than 5 miles an hour." Kempner was brought into court and, after evidence was presented, ordered to pay a fine of $5.00 plus the cost of the court for this offense.
Date:
May 1888
Creator:
Ander, William
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hammock.
Patent for a new and improved hammock. This design "is to provide a . . . hammock which is simple and durable in construction, very comfortable, and yielding to the motion of the body, at the same time avoiding the catching of buttons on the dress, as is frequently the case with hammocks having meshes. The invention consists of a number of slats, each provided at its ends with a transverse aperture, through which passes a cord or wire for holding the slats together to form the hammock" (lines 7-18).
Date:
October 2, 1888
Creator:
Norris, Barry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Escape.
Patent for a new and improved fire-escape. This design "has relation to that class of fire-escapes consisting of a chute placed in an inclined position against a window . . . and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a chute fire-escape having transverse rollers in the bottom of the chute for reducing the friction between the bottom of the chute and the body sliding down the chute, and provided with means for regulating the revolutions of the anti-friction rollers" (lines 21-32).
Date:
August 21, 1888
Creator:
Howard, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Water Trap for Cisterns and Other Receptacles.
Patent for a new and improved water-trap. This design consists in "the combination, with a bent main pipe, of a vessel secured on the said main pipe and connected at its top with the interior of the said main pipe, a pin held on the bottom of the said vessel, a fixed sleeve provided with a spiral groove and engaged by said pin, a grooved pin held in the said fixed sleeve and resting at its top end on the bottom of the said pin, a roped connected with the said grooved pin, and a weight held on the said rope to counterbalance the said main pipe and vessel" (lines 103-114).
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Pickering, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1888-1889
General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1888-89."
Date:
1888/1889
Creator:
Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 237, Ed. 1, Monday, March 26, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 26, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 238, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 27, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 27, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 239, Ed. 1, Wednesday, March 28, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 28, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 230, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 29, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 29, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 231, Ed. 1, Friday, March 30, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 30, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 232, Ed. 1, Saturday, March 31, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 31, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 233, Ed. 1, Sunday, April 1, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 1, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 234, Ed. 1, Monday, April 2, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 2, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 235, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 3, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 3, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 236, Ed. 1, Wednesday, April 4, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 4, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 237, Ed. 1, Thursday, April 5, 1888
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 5, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History