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Handbill announcing Garfield's death
Copy of the "Last Bulletin" announcing the death of President James Garfield, Sept. 19, 1881, 11:30 p.m., Elberon, N.J.
Date:
September 19, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armstrong County
Map of Armstrong County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
September 1881
Creator:
Matthews, Sam. P.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hall County
Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Hall County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
September 30, 1881
Creator:
Matthews, Sam. P.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Colorado County
Map of Colorado County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
September 30, 1881
Creator:
Blau, F. G.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 52, Ed. 1, Saturday, September 10, 1881
Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 10, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 37, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 15, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 15, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 38, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 22, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 22, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 39, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 29, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 29, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 24, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 1, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 1, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 35, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 1, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 1, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 36, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 8, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 8, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Brick Press.
Patent for a new and improved press for bricks. This design "relates to certain improvements in that class of brick-presses in which the clay is molded into shape by hand-power; and the object of [the] improvement is to form a cheap, durable, and effective machine for accomplishing the work" (lines 10-15).
Date:
September 6, 1881
Creator:
Thomas, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar Alarm.
Patent for a new and improved burglar alarm. This design "consists in a wire attached to the anchor or escapement-lever of a clock-work for ringing or sounding an alarm bell, which wire has a hook at its outer end, which is passed into a loop, ring, or hook at the end of a wire connected with the key-bolt or knob-bolt of a lock, or with a wire leading to places a considerable difference from the alarm" (lines 11-18).
Date:
September 20, 1881
Creator:
Holloman, Harvey Allen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee Hive.
Patent for a new and improved bee hive. This design consists of "the combination, with the removable section, having the right-angled slots and the comb-frames of the securing-bar" (lines 95-98).
Date:
September 20, 1881
Creator:
Norwood, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cleaning, Polishing, and Assorting Nuts.
Patent for a new and improved nut cleaner, polisher, and sorter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the nut-cleaning cylinder having the longitudinal door and transversely-arranged wire cylinders having doors, of the intermediate hopper, arranged lengthwise of the cylinder, as well as under it, and having apertures over the doors of the wire cylinders . . . and a series of sieves, successively increasing in mesh, of a perforated floor, an end plate terminating in [an] eccentric, an elevator, and a delivery spout" (lines 28-34).
Date:
September 13, 1881
Creator:
Koerber, Rudolph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Carriage for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved sulky plow. This design "furnish[es] a sulky-frame and plow supporting and adjusting devices of a simplified construction, and [provides] more effective means for gaging the depth of the penetration of the plow into the ground, and guiding or steadying the movement thereof" (lines 17-23).
Date:
September 20, 1881
Creator:
Ward, James & Washburn, Rufus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reflector for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design "consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts, whereby the handle and reflector can readily be detached from the lamp-body and replaced thereon when desired" (lines 15-19). Further, the handle has a hole by which it can be hung.
Date:
September 6, 1881
Creator:
Ludwick, John Harvey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design "regulate[s] the pressure of the rubber upon the clothes, and thus facilitate[s] the operation of washing the said clothes" (lines 13-16).
Date:
September 6, 1881
Creator:
Hollis, William Tailler.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder.
Patent for improved sash-fasteners, which relates to sash-fasteners, the object being to furnish a simple and effective substitute for the ordinary sash weights and locks.
Date:
September 13, 1881
Creator:
Barb, Gustavas Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Farm Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists "[i]n a swinging gate pivoted at its lower inner end and suspended by a diagonal wire, upon which it swings in being opened and closed, the adjustable bar provided with a depending loop or staple for the suspending-wire, the point of suspension by said loop, being between the latch end of the gate and a vertical line drawn through its pivot-pin" (lines 51-58).
Date:
September 13, 1881
Creator:
Miller, Wilson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Farm Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "is mounted upon a hinge-rod, which is adapted for adjustment at its upper end within a rack fixed to the top of the hinge-post and provided with a pivoted keeper for said hinge-rod, the object being to set the upper end of the hinge-rod away from the latch-post as may be required to raise the free end of the gate to take up the sag, to support the gate a sufficient height above the ground to swing free of snow, and to allow of the passage of small stock when the gate is closed" (lines 12-22).
Date:
September 13, 1881
Creator:
Miller, Wilson B. & Bell, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Spout for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved safety spout for lamps. This design is for an angled tube with a mouth to receive oil and a threaded end to screw onto an oil lamp. This allows for the lamp to be safely refilled while lit.
Date:
September 27, 1881
Creator:
Ingle, Ezra W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pulverizing Attachment for Plows
Patent for improvements in pulverizing attachments for plows used for furrow-slices as they are turned by plows.
Date:
September 13, 1881
Creator:
Maddux, Tapley, B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History