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Apparatus for Treating Timber, Railway Ties, &c. (open access)

Apparatus for Treating Timber, Railway Ties, &c.

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for treating and preserving. This design "insure[s] the complete and perfect treatment or impregnation of timber of varying hardness and density, and to provide a portable organization of apparatus by which timber at various points or stations along the line of a railroad can be treated with great facility, efficiency, and economy" (lines 12-19).
Date: November 22, 1881
Creator: Kreuter, Hugh E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar Proof Safe. (open access)

Burglar Proof Safe.

Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "relates to burglar-proof safes, the object being to provide a safe with non-explosive seams; and the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-17).
Date: September 6, 1881
Creator: Gerard, Alonzo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Seed and Corn Planter. (open access)

Combined Cotton Seed and Corn Planter.

Patent for a new and improved combined cotton seed and corn planter. This design is especially "for seeding cotton; but the machine is converted into a corn-planter by detaching the bottom of the hopper, removing the space-block, disconnecting the pitman, and then removing the slide, and substituting in lieu thereof a device composed of a bottom, having a seed-opening, and a bridge-form metallic striker, arranged across the same, and a dropper-slide, having dropper holes" (lines 95-2).
Date: March 22, 1881
Creator: Evans, William V. & Moore, Edgar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cotton Picking]

Photograph of workers and children picking cotton in a field.
Date: [1881..1899]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 734: Stone, B. Warren (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 734: Stone, B. Warren (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Stone, B. Warren (died March 1881) and Susan Stone (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-03/1883-01-02
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 776: Stevens, J.H. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 776: Stevens, J.H. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Stevens, J.H. (died December 24, 1881) and Mary A. Stevens (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-12-24/1901-06-21
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 779: Sandifer, A.G. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 779: Sandifer, A.G. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Sandifer, A.G. (died May 25, 1881) and Nancy E. Sandifer (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-05-25/1881-11-17
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 780: Ritchie, H.J. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 780: Ritchie, H.J. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Ritchie, H.J. (died October 24, 1881) and Julia Ritchie (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-10-24/1881-11-08
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 806: McCarty, Edw. M. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 806: McCarty, Edw. M. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of McCarty, Edw. M. (died February 8, 1881) and Louisa J. McCarty (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-02/1883-05-29
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 810: Batchelder, C.H. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 810: Batchelder, C.H. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Batchelder, C.H. (died April 2, 1881) and Mary G. Batchelder (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-04-02/1883-05-21
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 811: Porter, Wm. D. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 811: Porter, Wm. D. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Porter, Wm. D. (died February 5, 1883) and Thos. V. Porter (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-06-01/1890-12-24
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 847: Fuqua, Lizzie (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 847: Fuqua, Lizzie (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Fuqua, Lizzie (died June 13, 1881) and C.C. Fuqua (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-06-13/1883-08-30
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 850: Illingsworth, Annie (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 850: Illingsworth, Annie (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Illingsworth, Annie (died November 2, 1881) and W. Illingsworth (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-11-02/1883-06-24
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 852: Huffhines, Monroe & Willie (Minors) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 852: Huffhines, Monroe & Willie (Minors)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Huffhines, Monroe & Willie (Minors) and W.J. Halsell (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-02-24/1882-10-20
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 857: Gottslich, Antone (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 857: Gottslich, Antone (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Gottslich, Antone (Deceased) and L.F. Bohny (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-04-28/1884-06-13
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 874: Underwood, H. F. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 874: Underwood, H. F. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Underwood, H. F. (died February 12, 1884) and Mary A. Underwood (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-07-18/1884-07-14
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 879: Hancock, J.W. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 879: Hancock, J.W. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Hancock, J.W. (Deceased) and J.C. Hancock (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-12-15/1896-07-22
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 890: Abel, James (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 890: Abel, James (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Abel, James (died December 17, 1884) and Mary A. Abel et al (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-03-22/1885-11-16
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 893: Burns, Jas. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 893: Burns, Jas. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Burns, Jas. (died May 29, 1881) and Annie M. Burns (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-05-29/1885-05-06
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 906: Merrill, G.M. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 906: Merrill, G.M. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Merrill, G.M. (died 1881) and A. Dysterbach (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881/1883-03-21
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 941: Harwood, Alex (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 941: Harwood, Alex (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Harwood, Alex (died July 31, 1885) and Sarah A. Harwood (Executor or Guardian), Alex Harwood was the Dallas County Clerk.
Date: 1881-05-24/1886-09-01
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 947: Good, Jno. J. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 947: Good, Jno. J. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Good, Jno. J. (died September 17, 1882) and Jas. O. Crutchfield (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-04-28/1892-10-09
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 962: Brochier, Rosa Lee & A. (Minors) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 962: Brochier, Rosa Lee & A. (Minors)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Brochier, Rosa Lee & A. (Minors) and Max Vacher (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-01-05/1888-07-19
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 980: Campbell, Robt. F. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 980: Campbell, Robt. F. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Campbell, Robt. F. (died November 18, 1881) and W.L. Campbell et al (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1881-11-12/1882-02-18
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History