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[Habermacher Home Photograph #1]
Photograph of the Habermacher Home, in Sabinal, Texas.
Date:
[1852,1855]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Uvalde County.
Survey map of Uvalde County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes rivers, creeks, lakes, towns, mines, and roads. No scale information given.
Date:
1862
Creator:
Martin, J. & Reichel, R.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uvalde County
Map of Uvalde County, Texas in the Hill Country region. Several features are marked, including the center of the county. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1862
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Uvalde County
Cadastral map of Uvalde County, Texas in the Hill Country region. Some boundaries and notes are marked in color. Several features are noted, including the location of an old silver mine. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
May 1862
Creator:
Reichel, Robert
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uvalde County
Cadastral map of Uvalde County, Texas in the Hill Country region. Geographic features are marked as well as the location of an old silver mine. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1873~
Creator:
Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uvalde County
Cadastral map of Uvalde County, Texas in the Hill Country region. Several features are noted, including the location of an old silver mine; the county border is marked in color. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1873~
Creator:
Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uvalde County
Map of Uvalde County, Texas in the Hill Country region. Some borders and notes are marked in color; several features are marked including the location of an old silver mine. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
January 1876
Creator:
Arlitt, F. H.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Car-Brake.
Patent for a new and improved electric car-brake. This design "consists in a car-brake formed of a pinion attached to the car axle, the pinion taking in a ratchet-wheel provided with a projecting pin, that enters into the slots of a wheel provided with a sleeve, upon which the brake chain is wound, which sleeve can be moved on the axle by means of a lever that is actuated by a rod passing into a helix connected with a battery to the locomotive" (lines 11-19).
Date:
February 24, 1880
Creator:
Conover, Philip Vorus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uvalde County
Cadastral map of Uvalde County, Texas in the Hill Country region. Several features are marked including the location of an old silver mine. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
June 1880
Creator:
Langermann, A. B.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Car Brake.
Patent for a new and improved electric car brake. This design "consists in a combination . . . of a friction-wheel mounted on a laterally-adjustable vertical shaft, provided at its upper end with a beveled cog-wheel, engaging with a beveled cog-wheel on a horizontal shaft, journaled in the under side of the car-floor, on which horizontal shaft is loosely mounted a worm, which engages with a worm-wheel mounted on [a] shaft . . . when this worm is locked on the shaft . . . the brake-chain will be wound on the shaft of the worm-wheel, and the brakes will be applied" (lines 10-23).
Date:
September 26, 1882
Creator:
Conover, Philip Vorus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Tooth.
Patent for a new and improved saw tooth. This design "relates to saws having attachable and detachable teeth held to their places by locking plates or keys inserted, like the teeth, within recesses in the saw-plate; and it consists in a novel construction of the parts, also in combining with the same a spring-bolt, whereby each tooth and its locking key are securely held in position, with facility for detachment when required, and whereby, also, any drawing action, in cutting of the wood on the tooth, tightens the attachment of the tooth" (lines 8-18).
Date:
July 29, 1884
Creator:
Conover, Philip V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uvalde 1885 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Uvalde in Uvalde County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved tire-tightener. This design has "parts [that] are the width of a felly and a fraction less their depth, and bearing solid against their ends are held in place by flanges on each end. As the screw is turned in it forces the parts against the ends of felly, forcing the fellies against the tire, and is prevented from coming in contact with the tire by a rubber fender, or of other substance placed under tire-tightener. Fender is held in place by flanges at each side on bottom of tire-tightener; is also provided with a sliding joint on sides to cover the opening made by expansion" (lines 14-26).
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Pluck, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "a draw-head having a slotted top and a recessed bottom, of a transverse slotted bar journaled in bearings, one end being extended for the attachment of a handle, and the headless coupling-pin having the reduced or flattened portion to permit of its ready insertion and withdrawal from the transverse bar" (lines 73-80).
Date:
January 11, 1887
Creator:
Dial, Augustus A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Envelope-Machine
Patent for "a machine for making envelopes, paper bags, and similar receptacles from paper and other like materials" (lines 7-9).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Sheets of Paper, &c.
Patent for improvements to sheet feeders "to take the sheet which is to be red from the bottom of the pile of sheets on a reciprocating platform which moves forward, when the sheet is seized by the suction-roller, with approximately the same speed as that of the periphery of the said roller" (lines 11-17).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Envelope or Bag Machine
Patent for a machine "for making envelopes, paper bags, and the like wherein the blank which is to form the envelope or bag is automatically fed into the machine at its receiving end by a suitable feeder and is folded and gummed on its way through the machine, being finally delivered in a marketable condition at the delivery end of the machine" (lines 10-17).
Date:
June 24, 1890
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The First National Bank Uvalde
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains illustrations and stylized text of business name, with the names J. L. Dabbs, Prest.; W. W. Collier, Cashr.
Date:
1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for improvements “in wheel-tightening arrangements in which a cylinder with a conical-formed end works by means of a thread inside the hub, for the purpose of forcing the spokes to the outside and to tighten by these means the whole wheel, when the wooden parts of the wheel are shrunk together.” (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 11, 1891
Creator:
Pluck, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blank Book.
Patent for a new and improved blank book. This design "is an improvement upon the Megee-Miller blank book which adapts it for use of type-writers and others requiring one whose sheets or leaves may be readily detached and again secured together after having been written or printed. The sheets are detachably connected with a binding-strip by means of a cord or cords" (lines 7-14).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Burris, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blank Book.
Patent for a new and improved blank book. This design "consists in securing blank sheets to a binding forming the back of the book . . . so that the attachment and detachment of the sheets may be conveniently effected. Thus [the design] produce[s] a blank book which is particularly adapted for use of type-writers and other copyists" (lines 11-18).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Burris, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nueces Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1893
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uvalde 1894 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Uvalde in Uvalde County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1894
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uvalde 1894 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Uvalde in Uvalde County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1894
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History