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Map of Shelby County
Cadastral map of Shelby County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. There is a note on the right side regarding the creation of the map.
Date:
1847
Creator:
Stafford, W.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Shelby District
Cadastral map of Shelby County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Some notes are made in color.
Date:
1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Shelby County
Cadastral map of Shelby County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Several features are marked, including the center of the county. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
July 1863
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Set.
Patent for an invention "which can be used for setting the teeth of all kinds of saws by hand, and without requiring and intricate machinery" (lines 15-18). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
February 15, 1870
Creator:
Harris, H. A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tenoning-Machines
Patent for an improvement in tenoning-machines, including saws, gauges, flanges, and hinged plates.
Date:
April 18, 1871
Creator:
Bourland, Melton S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent for an improvement in buckles which involves the creation of a diamond-shaped plate.
Date:
June 27, 1876
Creator:
Kennon, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reciprocating Churns
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in the construction of churns, whereby dashers are caused to rotate very rapidly, thus greatly facilitating the process of producing butter; also, the churn and its supporting frame-work being constructed and arranged in sections permits of it being taken apart very readily, and packed in a very small space for shipment." (lines 12-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1877
Creator:
Welch, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for improvements to the gang-plow consisting of "an adjustable frame, within which two or more ordinary plows can be arranged to form the gang, said frame being constructed so as to enable one set of plows to run deep, while the other set can be made to run shallow." (Lines 15-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1877
Creator:
Crump, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Motors for Operating Churns.
Patent for "a simple and effective motive power for operating the dashers of churns; and it consists of a suitable frame-work provided with a fly-wheel, operated by a pitman attached to a bar projecting from brackets on the side of an ordinary rocking-chair, said fly-wheel being provided with cogs upon one side, which mesh into the cogs on a smaller wheel, which caries a crank for operating the dasher of the churn, a suitable belt being arranged upon the rim of the fly-wheel and around a small pulley for setting in motion a rotary fan." (Lines 13-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 15, 1878
Creator:
Crump, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shelby County
Cadastral map of Shelby County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Several features are marked including the center of the county; some borders are shaded in color. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
July 1880
Creator:
Thielepape, George J.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame fastener. This design utilizes a clasp that slides along a bar. When the clasp is at the desired position relative to the hame, a pin and a locking plate on the clasp lock the clasp in place; thus the hame is fastened.
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Crump, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sawing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved drag-saw. This design "consists in the combination of a drag-saw, an operating-lever, and a wheelbarrow or truck, the wheelbarrow being made to support the saw and move it . . . [t]he object of [the] invention is to provide an easy and ready means of transporting the saw from place to place, and to so connect it to the wheelbarrow or truck which supports it that they can be readily separated, so that the wheelbarrow or truck can be used by itself" (lines 13-24).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Crump, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
History of the regulators and moderators and the Shelby County war in 1841 and 1842, in the republic of Texas, with facts and incidents in the early history of the republic and state, from 1837 to the annexation, together with incidents of frontier life and Indian troubles, and the war on the reserve in Young County in 1857
Pamphlet from Texana Collection
Date:
January 1, 1883
Creator:
Middleton, John W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Timpson Times. (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 4, 1885
Creator:
Truit, J. H. & Truit, J. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Motor.
Patent for a hydraulic motor designed for water intake through top ring.
Date:
May 11, 1886
Creator:
Cooper, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press.
Patent for a new and improved press. This design consists in "the combination of the manipulating-levers, the followers, and the toggle-arms, of which arms the outer ends of two are connected to the outer ends of the levers, while their inner ends are connected to the sides of the follower near its inner end, and the outer ends of the others are connected to the levers" (lines 96-102). The inner ends of these other toggle-arms have "their inner ends . . . connected to the sides of the other follower near its inner end" (lines 1-3).
Date:
January 10, 1888
Creator:
Gordon, Lorenzo Dow
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cupper
Patent for improvements in the type of equipment known as cotton cupers.
Date:
October 1, 1889
Creator:
Wilder, Theodore C. & Wilder, Atwood, E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in reversible plows: "The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of reversible plows and enable them to be adjusted to any desired depth" (lines 9-12).
Date:
August 18, 1891
Creator:
McKay, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gun-Magazine.
Patent for an improved gun magazine that consists of a glass lining with openings on its sides.
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Whitten, Burrel Franklin & Porcher, Joseph Ford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Crate.
Patent for an egg-crate that has "hinged sections, the middle section being composed of a solid block with cavities top and bottom corresponding with cavities formed in the lower and the top surface respectively of the upper and the lower portions which fit on opposite sides of the middle solid portion, the said three portions or sections being hinged together and provided with a suitable fastening" (lines 16-25).
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
West, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. W. Downey to H. R. Fory, February 21, 1894]
Letter of introduction for C. C. Cox, from H. R. Downey of the Houston East & West Texas Railway to H. R. Fory, a station agent in Timpson, Texas. Included is a map of the HE&WT system and connecting railroads in Texas.
Date:
February 21, 1894
Creator:
Downey, H. W.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Felly for Wheels.
Patent for a felly for wheels designed to be used for a heavy wagon or cultivators. It consists of malleable iron with the inside edge being smaller than the outside, an indentation in the center going around the outside surface, and conical spoke sockets.
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Mosely, Jeremiah Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Swaging Machine.
Patent for an improved saw-swaging machine that is used as "an anvil-die and an independent roller-die" (lines 17-18). "The saw may be swaged from the front of the tooth without scalloping or concaving the tooth and at the same time avoiding friction thereon" (lines 21-24).
Date:
June 2, 1896
Creator:
Shepley, Benjamin A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shelby County Texas.
Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date:
1897
Creator:
[Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History