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Bin-Measuring Apparatus (open access)

Bin-Measuring Apparatus

Patent for a bin measuring apparatus for weighing dry products for sale quickly and accurately.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Duke, Joseph S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Hook. (open access)

Back-Band Hook.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in back band hooks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1898
Creator: Lynch, John Elbert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling-Frame for Planters. (open access)

Coupling-Frame for Planters.

Patent for a coupling frame for planters for attaching two planters together.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Barkley, Robert A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Attachment For Cultivators (open access)

Cotton Attachment For Cultivators

Patent for a cotton attachment for cultivators. This invention allows for the attachment to any normal cultivator of cotton attachment to cultivate cotton. Illustration included.
Date: November 15, 1904
Creator: Willis, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. This invention is for use with railways to prevent passage of stock over the tracks. Illustration included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Jungman, Leo A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hamilton County

Blue line print of survey map of Hamilton County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil and appear to denote the addition of names and roads. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1916
Creator: Atlee, Tom & Bramlette, H. M.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of a Young Girl With Her Hand on a Chair]

Portrait of a young girl in a white dress with her left hand on a wicker chair.
Date: unknown
Creator: Wiseman
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for an improvement to machinery to wind fibrous materials (e.g., cotton) into cylindrical bales that does not use a core or fixed horizontal rollers.
Date: March 30, 1897
Creator: Ross, William Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad-cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the draw-head, the trip-block pivoted on the upper side of the same, the trigger secured to the upper side of the draw-head, and the spring bearing on the trip-block" (lines 82-86).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Woolsey, Charles Alexander & Woolsey, William Wesley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Motor. (open access)

Churn Motor.

Patent for a new and improved churn motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a wheel or disk having a toothed periphery and provided with a broad friction-flange, or a disk at right angles to the former, bearing against its friction-flange, and having studs engaging its teeth . . . [also] [i]n a churn-motor, the combination, with the box or body of the cover, having uprights, [a] shaft having [a] crank, disk having teeth and [a] flange, and the vertical shaft having [a] disk, provided with studs" (lines 67-77).
Date: October 3, 1882
Creator: May, Benjamin Cary
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Soil Map, Hamilton County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads of Hamilton County, Texas. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: July 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Newspaper Clipping: Twenty-Five Years Ago in Hamilton, April 15, 1910] (open access)

[Newspaper Clipping: Twenty-Five Years Ago in Hamilton, April 15, 1910]

Newspaper clipping titled "Twenty-Five Years Ago in Hamilton: Items from the Herald of April 15, 1885," which provides a list of the County officials at the time and events that happened on that date. It appeared in The Hamilton Herald on April 15, 1910.
Date: April 15, 1910
Creator: The Hamilton Herald
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
["Twenty-Five Years Ago in Hamilton" Newspaper Clipping, May 20, 1910] (open access)

["Twenty-Five Years Ago in Hamilton" Newspaper Clipping, May 20, 1910]

Newspaper clipping titled "Twenty-Five Years Ago in Hamilton: Items from the Herald of May 20, 1885" which provides a list of events from that date. It appeared in The Hamilton Herald on May 20, 1910.
Date: May 20, 1910
Creator: The Hamilton Herald
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-624 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-624

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of order of Hamilton County Board of Trustees abolishing Cottonwood Common School District and annexing a part thereof to Star School District and part to Evant Independent School District.
Date: April 15, 1939
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6462 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6462

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: (1) Authority of Commissioners' Court to determine whether county officers shall be on fee or annual salary basis at time other than at its first regular meeting in January. (2) Maximum compensation of sheriff of Hamilton County.
Date: 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Hamilton County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Hamilton County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Hamilton County, Texas.
Date: July 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: New top Texas weather] (open access)

[News Script: New top Texas weather]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 23, 1970, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

2000 Census County Block Map: Hamilton County, Block 1

Parent map for Hamilton County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:24,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Coryell County, Block 1

Parent map for Coryell County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Mills County, Index

Index map for Mills County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:120,186.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Mills County, Block 8

Parent map for Mills County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:27,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Comanche County, Block 14

Parent map for Comanche County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:27,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Hamilton County, Block 11

Parent map for Hamilton County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:24,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Hamilton County, Block 8

Parent map for Hamilton County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:24,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History