Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 16 July [1881] (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 16 July [1881]

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: July 16, 1881
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 14 July 1881 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 14 July 1881

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: July 14, 1881
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 26 July 1882 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 26 July 1882

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: July 26, 1882
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, [12 July 1881] (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, [12 July 1881]

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: July 12, 1881
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 7 July 1881 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 7 July 1881

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: July 7, 1881
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hardin County

Map of the Piney Woods region covering Hardin County, Texas. The center of Hardin County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: November 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Log-Turner (open access)

Log-Turner

Patent for "that class of log-turners which is operated by power, and has for its object to provide a device that will be quick and positive in its operation" (lines 39-42).
Date: May 10, 1887
Creator: Ferris, Henry Murry & Gallon, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand Cultivator. (open access)

Hand Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide hand-cultivators constructed in such a manner as to cut up and destroy grass and weeds without throwing the soil around and covering small plants, and without breaking the soil away from around the plants" (lines 16-21).
Date: November 18, 1884
Creator: Hurd, Judson B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Plow. (open access)

Revolving Plow.

Patent for a new and improved revolving plow. This design calls for a cylinder with blades attached radially for "cutting up, breaking, and turning over the soil or turf, in which the cutter blades are freed automatically" (lines 7-10). This plow cuts up, breaks, and turns over earth faster than previous designs.
Date: October 31, 1882
Creator: Hurd, Judson B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History