Smith County [Texas].

Map shows original land grants, patents, and surveys, cities and towns, and railroads; land ownership. Includes dates, book volume, and page numbers for title deed entries. In lower left corner: Small maps of any county in Texas, Oklahoma or Kansas for sale by Lee Map Company, First National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas. Scale not given.
Date: 1903
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Smith County

Blue line print of survey map of Smith County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1903
Creator: Hunnicutt, W. H. P.; Hedick, J. D.; Duke, J. K. & Terrell, O. O.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Support for Attachment to Desks. (open access)

Support for Attachment to Desks.

Patent for "a stand, shelf, or holder for attachment to desks...for the purpose of supporting a type-writer [or] reference-book... the object in view being to provide a support of this character with means for attaching the same to a desk and means for swinging or revolving said support so that the... article may be readily and conveniently brought around to the front of the desk for use... and then swung back out of the way upon the side of the desk." (lines 12-24)
Date: August 11, 1903
Creator: Bell, William Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Felt Picker (open access)

Felt Picker

Patent for a felt picker. This invention is for use of piano-workmen in making flexible the felts in piano-actions.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Bell, William Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree (open access)

Whiffletree

Patent for a whiffletree.
Date: April 28, 1903
Creator: Mayo, Daniel L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buckle. (open access)

Buckle.

Patent for a "buckle which may be quickly and readily attached to or detached from the straps and which will permit of the ready and rapid adjustment of the straps and at the same time will positively hold the same in their adjusted positions" (lines 13-18).
Date: September 1, 1903
Creator: Pool, Robert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History