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Castro County
Map of Castro County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Capitol Lands are marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
April 27, 1891
Creator:
Rowe
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
First public school in Castro County, Texas
Photograph of a group of 37 schoolchildren of various ages and two adults, posed in rows before a blank wall. Numbers have been added to the image in pen, tied to the identification of fifteen individuals on the verso.
Date:
1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beer-Cooler.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple beer cooler that is used in bars, hotels, and other places that disperse beer in small amounts. The cooler has an ornamental appearance and is "adapted to thoroughly cool the beer by a consumption of a minimum amount of ice; to so construct the cooler as to adapt the same to serve as a refrigerator for the storing and cooling of bottled goods such as beer, ale, porter, &c., and furthermore to arrange the cooler in such manner as to permit of the introduction and removal of beer-kegs without the necessity of lifting the same from the floor" (lines 14-23).
Date:
March 13, 1894
Creator:
Gibson, Wyatt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History