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Agricultural Implement. (open access)

Agricultural Implement.

Patent for "the production of simple and inexpensive means whereby the ordinary farming implements--such as plows, cultivators, and the like--may be readily convert to the sulky or wheeled type." (line 11-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1906
Creator: Cornelison, Jesse U.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mrs. Harold Holden to Truett Latimer, February 23,1959] (open access)

[Letter from Mrs. Harold Holden to Truett Latimer, February 23,1959]

Letter from Mrs. Harold Holden to Texas State Representative Truett Latimer thanking him for introducing House Bill 291, a liquor law bill.
Date: February 23, 1959
Creator: Holden, Harold
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lever Mechanism for Baling-Presses. (open access)

Lever Mechanism for Baling-Presses.

Patent for new and improved lever mechanisms specifically for hand baling presses to increase the amount of pressure exerted on the material being baled in a short stroke.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Swan, George B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock. (open access)

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the loop-formed nut-locking device and the plate to which it is hinged, of the supplementary locking device, consisting of a wire or rod having one end bent at right angles and embracing the hinge of the main device and its other end provided with a hook to receive the side bar of the main device" (lines 37-44).
Date: April 23, 1889
Creator: Leiby, Isaac F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Pangburn Family Videos, No. 14 - A Trip to Eula, Texas] captions transcript

[Pangburn Family Videos, No. 14 - A Trip to Eula, Texas]

This home movie excerpt documents a drive to Eula, Texas as narrated by Eric Pangburn Sr.
Date: February 23, 1995
Creator: Pangburn
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Right of Way from Roy L. Duke and Bonnie C. Duke to Gulf Pipe Line Company and Gulf Production Company (open access)

Right of Way from Roy L. Duke and Bonnie C. Duke to Gulf Pipe Line Company and Gulf Production Company

Document granting the Gulf Pipe Line Company and Gulf Production Company a right of way over lands owned by Roy L. Duke and Bonnie C. Duke in Callahan County, Texas.
Date: May 23, 1927
Creator: Duke, Roy L. & Duke, Bonnie C.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History