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Cattle-Guard for Railroads.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard for railroads that improves on preventing cattle from passing from their enclosure onto a railway track. The invention does not trap animals or people or cause injury, and lies below the upper treads of the rails.
Date:
September 18, 1894
Creator:
Brady, Peter L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a simple cattle-guard that provides an unstable footing for the cattle without injuring them, and thus preventing the cattle from going onto train tracks. The cattle do not get injured when stepping on this device.
Date:
February 20, 1894
Creator:
Brady, Peter L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties.
This book gives an overview of the twelve Blackland Counties of Texas in alphabetical order. For each county, a brief description of the geographic and agricultural characteristics is given as well as statistics on population and county income. Additionally, a geological description of the Black Prairie Region gives more specific aspects of the area and the soil compositions and a final chapter discusses the property market of the area.
Date:
1895
Creator:
Crawford, Wilbur F. & [Moore, Monta J.]
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calvert 1896 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Franklin 1899 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Franklin in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1899
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hearne 1891 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calvert 1896 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calvert 1891 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calvert 1891 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hearne 1896 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calvert 1896 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calvert 1896 Sheet 4
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hearne 1891 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calvert 1891 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Franklin 1899 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Franklin in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1899
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hearne 1896 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of the Holbert Family]
Portrait of the Holbert family. Seated are Rowland, Lark, and Mrs. Janie Lark Holbert, and standing behind them are Reginald, Leonard, and Willie Holbert. The photograph was purchased at the Thomas W. Whaley, Jr. estate sale in Waco, Texas.
Date:
1890~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Word-Counter for Type-Writing Machines.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in word counters for type writing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 2, 1898
Creator:
Moseley, Marion S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive thill-coupling that "can be conveniently applied to any ordinary vehicle, which is arranged in such a way that rattling is positively prevented, and which, when the thills are dropped, permits them to be freely lifted from the coupling; also to a modified form of the device designed to prevent rattling only" (lines 12-18).
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Parker, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for "an improved plow of simple and inexpensive construction employing two shovels so arranged and attached that either one may be quickly and easily removed to convert the plow into either a right or left hand plow, and has for its further object to provide a plow especially designed for opening new ground wherein the plowing is rendered difficult by the presence of roots and similar growth" (lines 9-18).
Date:
December 15, 1896
Creator:
Stephens, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton-Handling Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in pneumatic cotton handling machines.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley Mechanism.
Patent for a trolley mechanism that is a pivoting "yoke adapted to normally follow being swerved out of line when the car is going around curve of the trolley wire; to prevent catching on cross-wires in case the trolley wheel should leave the line-wire; and to adjust the amount of pivotal action of said yoke with regard to the trolley pole" (lines 13-20).
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Muzzle-Yolk.
Patent for a cattle-yolk that stops the animals from jumping or breaking through fences. The yolk "will bind upon him, thus effectually stopping the animal from any further effort" (lines 12-15) if it tries to jump or break through a fence.
Date:
March 10, 1896
Creator:
Courtney, Thomas Lafayette
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History