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First National Bank of Ballinger (open access)

First National Bank of Ballinger

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston. Letterhead includes the names W. S. Davis, President; D. M. Baker, Cashier; A. Matthews, Vice President.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hayrick 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: 1891
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sliding Weather-Strip for Doors. (open access)

Sliding Weather-Strip for Doors.

Patent for a device "which, in addition to excluding wind and rain from beneath the bottom of the door, shall also serve to bind or hold the door open to any position to which it may be brought," (lines 29-32) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 21, 1891
Creator: Brown, Josiah T. & Garret, William T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Abilene 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ballinger 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing Machines. (open access)

Quilting Attachment for Sewing Machines.

Patent for a new and improved quilting attachment for sewing machines. This design "is to provide a device . . . adapted to be adjustable in any manner desired over the leaf, table, or arm of a sewing-machine" (lines 14-17). It consists in "a standard supporting a track-bar, a bar swiveled to said hanger and having end journals, and curved end yokes or arms movably connected to said end journals of the latter bar and supporting-rollers, said curved end yokes or arms having the said bar connected to the central part of the upper portions of the same and open at their lower ends" (lines 15-24).
Date: October 25, 1892
Creator: Galloway, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sweetwater 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
Wagon Attachment. (open access)

Wagon Attachment.

Patent for an improved wagon seat for a wagon that carries butter, eggs, or other salable commodities. The seat folds forward and has double-bottomed seats, and things can be stored inside the seat.
Date: February 21, 1893
Creator: Piper, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for an inexpensive, durable, easily-operated, and powerful hay press that packs hay and similar materials. It consists of a baling chamber, a power platform, a stub shaft, a grooveless power wheel, a tire on the upper side of the wheel, a roller, and a draft-pole.
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Gressett, Lawrence Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hayrick 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: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ballinger 1896 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Ballinger in Runnels County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: March 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ballinger 1896 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Ballinger in Runnels County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: March 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Runnels County.

Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, railroads. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:66,667].
Date: 1898
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Runnels County

Blue line print of survey map of Runnels County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, mountain peaks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:190,476] (5000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1898
Creator: Pressler, Herman & Davis, Grady W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Runnels County.

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: 1898
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History