Map shows street layout, railroads, and docks for the town of Sabine Pass; navigational detail for the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to Sabine Lake; quarantine, lighthouse, and other points along the shoreline. Depths shown by soundings and contours. Scale [ca. 1:7,500].

Map shows street layout, railroads, and docks for the town of Sabine Pass; navigational detail for the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to Sabine Lake; quarantine, lighthouse, and other points along the shoreline. Depths shown by soundings and contours. Scale [ 1:7,500 ].

Map shows Includes notes. Insets: "Profiles of Jetty Walls: East Jetty - West Jetty." Depths shown by soundings and contours. Scale [1:7,500].

Map shows Includes notes. Insets: "Profiles of Jetty Walls: East Jetty - West Jetty." Depths shown by soundings and contours. Scale [1:7,500].

Map shows late nineteenth century Gulf of Mexico coast detail. Includes notes and tables. Depths shown by isolines and soundings. Scale [ca. 1:400,000].

Map shows late nineteenth century New Orleans street names, parks, docks, ferries, cemeteries, public institutions, select buildings, and steam and horse railroads. Includes explanation and key to buildings. Scale [ca. 1:50,700].

Map shows cities, railroads, in the southeastern portion of the United States including most of Kansas, Indian Territory, and eastern portion of Texas during the late nineteenth century. Map shows Padre Island, Texas as "Isla del Madre." Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.

Map shows union and confederate fortifications in the New Orleans area; swamps, roads, canals, and railroads; layout of the city of New Orleans; residents and landowners along some roads. Includes list of authorities. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:75,100].

Map shows roads, military posts, railroads, ferries, post offices, cities, and towns in southeastern portion of Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:633,600].

Map shows roads, railroads, canals, swamps, post offices, military posts, cities, towns, and settlements in southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi. Includes notes on geography and forests. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:633,600].

Map shows late nineteenth century coastline and inland watershed in Texas from Austin and Georgetown in the northwest and Goliad and the San Antonio River in the Southwest to the coast; Matagorda Bay, Galveston Bay, Sabine Lake and Lake Calcasieu; roads, railroads, cities, towns, post offices, ferries, mining activity, and marshlands in Texas and for southwestern Louisiana. Includes notes on vegetation and topography. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:633,600].

Map shows late nineteenth century coastline and inland watershed in Texas from Austin and Georgetown in the northwest and Goliad and the San Antonio River in the Southwest to the coast; Matagorda Bay, Galveston Bay, Sabine Lake and Lake Calcasieu; roads, railroads, cities, towns, post offices, ferries, mining activity, and marshlands in Texas and for southwestern Louisiana. Includes notes on vegetation and topography. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:633,600].

Map shows major roads, major cities and towns in northeastern Texas and northwestern Louisiana; railroads, post offices, and ferries. Includes notes on geography and forests. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:633,600].

Map shows major roads, major cities and towns in northeastern Texas and northwestern Louisiana; railroads, post offices, and ferries. Includes notes on geography and forests. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:633,600].

Map shows major roads, major cities and towns in northeastern Texas and northwestern Louisiana; railroads, post offices, and ferries. Includes notes on geography and forests. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:633,600].

Map shows union and confederate fortifications in the area of Port Hudson, Louisiana; marshes, roads, and railroads. Includes list of batteries with artillery specifications. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:15,245].

Map shows Confederate fortifications in the Sabine Pass area; redoubts, marshes, roads, and railroads. Inset: "Redoubts on large scale. Distance from Sabine Pass 6 1/2 miles." Includes notes. Scale [ca. 1:43,360].

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).

Map shows late nineteenth century Gulf of Mexico coast detail. Includes notes and tables. Depths shown by isolines and soundings. Scale [ca. 1:80,000].

Map shows late nineteenth century Gulf of Mexico coastal detail. Includes notes and and tables: "Gulf Stream currents," "Abbreviations of Bottoms," "Light Houses," and "Weather Signal Stations." Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:1,200,000].

Map showing location of railway through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Adjoining states also shown. Counties, cities, towns and rivers included. Back of map has text describing the state of Texas and its counties including cultural, industrial, agricultural and geographical highlights. Schedule of train service is included.

Map shows the late nineteenth century path of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and "Indian Territory" [Oklahoma] boundaries, counties, and major cities are indicated. Includes seven geologic profiles in Texas with "elevations in feet above sea level." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,550,000].

Patent for a surface trolley for electric railways that operates "upon the surface of the pavement or ground between the tracks of the road, for connecting the car with the motor power, in place of the trolley and over head wires now suspended upon the unsightly poles in the center or at the sides of the street, which are found to be very objectionable on account of their obstructing the passageway in the streets and upon the side walks, and the wires preventing the free movement of fire companies in extending their ladders in gaining access to buildings, and also because of the great danger attending persons and animals moving about in the street, on account of the charged or live wires frequently being thrown down upon the ground, and coming in contact with and destroying the life of persons, and also on account of the frequent fatal accidents to persons having charge of the repair of the wires and other apparatus in connection with them, often coming in contact with live wires while elevated on the poles and engaged in repairing them" (lines 16-38).

Portrait of William McFaddin wearing a suit and hat and holding a cane in his left hand. A handwritten note below the photo says "Wm McFaddin's father William McFaddin b. 1819."