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[Letter from Mrs. Walter Caldwell to T. N. Carswell - November 14, 1944]
A letter written to Mr. Carswell from Mrs. Caldwell, Clyde Texas, dated November 14, 1944. Caldwell expresses her appreciation for the letter from Carswell and for his friendship advising that she had heard Walter say many times that "there isn't any one in the world, outside my own family, that I love more than I do Tommy Carswell". She discusses Walter's death and her decision to stay in their home in order to have a place for the children to come together.
Date:
November 14, 1944
Creator:
Caldwell, Mrs. Walter
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fragment of a Document Prepared by Sayles & Sayles #2]
Fragment of a document discussing the purchase of property for a proposed railway from Abilene, Texas through Callahan County, Texas.
Date:
1910-11-06~
Creator:
Sayles & Sayles
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fragment of a Document Prepared by Sayles & Sayles #1]
Fragment of a document discussing the purchase of property for a proposed railway from Abilene, Texas through Callahan County, Texas.
Date:
1910-11-06~
Creator:
Sayles & Sayles
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Callahan County
Map of Callahan County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Asylum Lands and the Western boundary of Peter's Colony are marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
November 1878
Creator:
Wise, Louis C.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener
Patent for new and improved construction of wire tightener allows for post in place while wire is being fastened.
Date:
July 28, 1900
Creator:
Short, William Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch.
Patent for a new and improved gate-latch. This design consists in "the rings loosely suspended on opposite sides of a central line, levers extended past such central line, and having their inner ends engaged with the rings on the opposite sides of the center from the handle ends, and partition-plates interposed between such levers and the rings past which they are extended" (lines 79-86).
Date:
November 15, 1887
Creator:
Charleville, George William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hanging Bed.
Patent for improvements in hanging or hidden beds by having “hangers pivoted at their upper ends to fixed supports and having upwardly-opening angular hooks at their lower ends, of a bed-frame, legs pivoted to the ends of the end bars thereof, pitman-rods extending inwardly from said legs, a piece to whose ends said rods are connected, an outward projection between the ends of said piece detachably engaging and closely fitting one of said hooks, and a pivot passing through the projection and piece and into the end bar, as and for the purpose herein before set forth.” (Page 2, lines 26-36) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 24, 1891
Creator:
Buell, Will M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow-Scraper.
Patent for a disk plow scraper.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Shackelford, James J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin
Patent for a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 29, 1910
Creator:
James, Walter W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History