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Archer County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Fannin and Archer Counties, Texas. The center of Fannin and Archer Counties is marked. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 1, 1859
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Archer County

Map of Archer County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The center of Archer County is marked. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 24, 1875
Creator: Wise, Louis C.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Archer County [Texas].

Map shows late nineteenth century Archer County, Texas landowners, tract numbers, and towns. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:133,334].
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Archer County [Texas].

Map shows land tracts, patents, landowners, and towns; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:133,334].
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Archer County

Map of Archer County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 1879
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Archer County

Map of Archer County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: January 1886
Creator: Beaumont, G. N.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Dundee. Archer Co. Texas

Map shows street names, block and lot numbers, lot dimensions, railroads, and parks. Scale [1:4,800].
Date: 1890
Creator: Stakemann, M.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Balance. (open access)

Sash-Balance.

Patent for improvements in a combined sash balances and fasteners, using two sashes, a rotatable shaft, a ratchet and a friction-wheel; all these parts work together “to simplify the means whereby one sash is made to balance the other and by which either sash may be adjusted without disturbing the other.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Ingalls, Alfred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer County, Texas (open access)

Archer County, Texas

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of county name with decorative images, and depicts the county courthouse in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts. Letterhead includes names of county officials A. Llewellyn, Judge; W. W. Duren, County & Dist. Clerk; J. D. Powell, Sheriff & Coll.; R. E. Taylor, Attorney; T. M. Cecil, Surveyor; H. L. Robertson, Assessor; and county commissioners J. M. Brown, Precinct No. 1; R. O. Prideaux, Precinct No. 2; A. P. Neal, Precinct No. 3; M. J. Barnes, Precinct No. 4.
Date: 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Archer County

Map of Archer County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for "a double-acting [screw] baling press...capable of exerting pressure from two directions and operated by two independent mechanisms" (lines 15-18).
Date: February 14, 1893
Creator: Kenner, William Housenton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Archer Dispatch. (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1895 (open access)

The Archer Dispatch. (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1895

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 1, 1895
Creator: Cecil, T. M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

This is a patent for "new and useful improvements in a combined cultivator and chopper" (lines 5-7). The new improvements include a combination chopper and cultivator that will maneuver on both sides of a row of cotton crop.
Date: September 4, 1897
Creator: Latta, William D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Archer County [Texas].

Map shows land patents, landowners, tract numbers, towns, railroads, and property boundaries in Archer County and portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits; town of Archer underlined in red. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1898
Creator: Pressler, Charles W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Archer Co. [Texas].

Map shows land patents, landowners, tract numbers, towns, railroads, and property boundaries in Archer County and portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1899
Creator: Pressler, Charles W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for "a new and improved rotary engine which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to utilize the motive agent to the fullest advantage, and to permit of convenient and quick reversing whenever desired" (lines 9-15).
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Hestand, Hardy & Matthews, Arthur R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle - Axle (open access)

Vehicle - Axle

Patent for a vehicle axle with removable spindle, whereby spindles of different length may be connected to the axle to change the gage of the vehicle--that is, from a narrow - gage vehicle to a wide-gage vehicle, and vice versa - and also permit of the replacement of an old worn spindle by a new one (Matthews, 1902)
Date: March 6, 1902
Creator: Mathews, Arthur R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoeing-Rasp (open access)

Horseshoeing-Rasp

Patent for improved horseshoeing rasp, both portable and mechanical, which removes extra hoof after shoe is applied to foot. Invention also provides smoother and trimmer hoof with shoe.
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Daggett, John P. & Hestand, Hardy
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvements to plows, "designed to loosen and pulverize the upper surface of the ground without turning the same over and without forming furrows, whereby the plowed ground retains its moisture to a greater extent" (lines 7-12) and to also reduce the draft.
Date: November 9, 1901
Creator: Sanders, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer Dispatch. (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1904 (open access)

Archer Dispatch. (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1904

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 17, 1904
Creator: Martin, Charles
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Low Down Binder (open access)

Low Down Binder

Patent for low down binder. "This invention relates to new and useful improvements in low down binders; and the object of the invention is to produce an apparatus whereby it will not be necessary to elevate grain, as in common binders, allowing the same to pass down an incline to the packers" (line 14-19). Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Wolf, Davis Levi
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer Dispatch. (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1905 (open access)

Archer Dispatch. (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1905

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 30, 1905
Creator: Martin, Charles
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Archer Dispatch. (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1905 (open access)

The Archer Dispatch. (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1905

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 24, 1905
Creator: Martin, Charles
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Cutter (open access)

Feed-Cutter

Patent for a improvement for cutter.
Date: September 11, 1906
Creator: Wolf, Davis L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History