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Regional Wastewater Development Plan: Water Quality Planning (open access)

Regional Wastewater Development Plan: Water Quality Planning

This document reports the study results of waste water in the Alamo area, analyzes existing collection and treatment systems, and presents alternatives for water quality management.
Date: 1970
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Plows (open access)

Improvement in Wheel-Plows

Patent for a wheel plow designed to be simple, durable, easily controlled, and of light draft.
Date: June 19, 1877
Creator: Amonett, Ammon A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1913 (open access)

Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1913

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 26, 1913
Creator: Arno, Carl
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1912 (open access)

Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1912

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 17, 1912
Creator: Arno, Carl
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1914 (open access)

Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 9, 1914
Creator: Arno, Carl
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1914 (open access)

Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 8, 1914
Creator: Arno, Carl
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1915 (open access)

Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1915

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 8, 1915
Creator: Arno, Carl
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1915 (open access)

Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1915

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 7, 1915
Creator: Arno, Carl
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1916 (open access)

Gonzales Reform. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1916

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 6, 1916
Creator: Arno, Carl
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
BUCKLE (open access)

BUCKLE

Patent for "a new and improved buckle" (lines4-5)
Date: July 20, 1880
Creator: Bardwell, Henery G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas Dewville Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Dewville, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, water bodies, roads and highways, boundaries, ranches and farms, water wells, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Barr, J. L.; Rehberg, A. & Lukesh, G. R.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings, more especially of that class known as 'swing-pins;' and the object of the invention is to provide a swinging weight which will press the pin normally into operative position, and which will also support the link" (lines 7-12).
Date: August 12, 1890
Creator: Bass, Alonzo T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pie-Plate Lifter (open access)

Pie-Plate Lifter

Patent for a pie plate lifter used to handle pie plates or other utensils should they be too hot. Illustrations included.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Blue, Henry L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a plow that provides new and improved mechanisms that allow the blade to move at various angles.
Date: January 27, 1914
Creator: Bost, Arthur E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Knife. (open access)

Cotton-Knife.

Patent for a new cotton knife to provide more versatility in its use. It is "for sampling bales of cotton, and [...] cutting the bagging of the cotton, and a hook whereby a sample of cotton may be plucked out" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Bowers, Jacob R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Study of the Requirements for Household Employment in Waelder, Texas (open access)

A Study of the Requirements for Household Employment in Waelder, Texas

The study herein described was made in twenty-four white homes in Waelder, Texas, in which there were household employees. The study was made for the purpose of finding the requirements for household employment in Waelder, Texas.
Date: 1943
Creator: Bradfield, Arldia Westbrook
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Syringe (open access)

Syringe

Patent for a syringe. This invention is meant for use with animals to perform artificial insemination. Illustrations included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Brookes, Robert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Stock. (open access)

Plow Stock.

Patent for a new and improved plow-stock. This design "has for its object to provide an implement of peculiar novel construction, whereby the different forms of plowshares, shovels, or other cultivating implements or combinations of different cultivating instrumentalities may be varied, interchanged, and adjusted at will to suit the character of the soil, the nature of the crop, or the requirements of the occasion" (lines 8-16).
Date: November 1, 1892
Creator: Brooks, Texas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Indicator for Merchandise. (open access)

Indicator for Merchandise.

Patent for a new and improved advertising sign. This design "relates to apparatus or devices for marking or indicating upon the outside of boxes or drawers the names and prices of the merchandise or other articles contained therein; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a device of the above-mentioned class" (lines 23-29).
Date: April 7, 1885
Creator: Brown, Sampson Harvey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marking Device. (open access)

Marking Device.

Patent for a new and improved merchandise tag. This design consists of a stick "provided with means for holding it fixed in its position after it has been inserted and having hinged to its outer end the tag having a strip of suitable material secured around its edges, as shown, so as to form on both sides of the tag the flanges adapted to receive the removable, reversible, and interchangeable cards (lines 1-8).
Date: August 25, 1885
Creator: Brown, Sampson Harvey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balance Staff and Wheel for Watches (open access)

Balance Staff and Wheel for Watches

Patent for an improved design of a balance staff and wheel used for watch repair. The new design allows for an easier repair when replacing a broken staff and decreases the chance that the wheel would be damaged when replacing the staff. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 18, 1880
Creator: Bugbee, George G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles. (open access)

Improvement in Buckles.

Patent for 'buckles for harness or other purposes, adapted for connection to a strap or billet without sewing." (lines 6-8)Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date: November 25, 1879
Creator: Bugbee, George G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buckle. (open access)

Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design calls for "the rear side of the cross-piece [to be] provided with a recess . . . to receive the back of the tongue-joint, so that the latter shall not be in the way when the strap is to be passed between the cross-pieces . . . after being adjusted upon the tongues or studs" (lines 35-41).
Date: November 30, 1880
Creator: Bugbee, George Gooding
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles. (open access)

Improvement in Buckles.

Patent for an improved, multi-piece harness-buckle that is attachable without the need of sewing, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date: March 12, 1878
Creator: Carnes, William J., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History