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Belfalls Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1990
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Troy Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1990
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chilton Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1990
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bruceville Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1990
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Moody Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1990
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Robinson Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1990
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Westphalia Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1990
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 46
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives requesting Congress to authorize the Secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to convey the Thomas T. Connally Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Marlin, Texas, to the State of Texas.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
And Horns on the Toads
Volume of folk stories and tall tales about the horned toad and other Texas folklore. The index begins on page 235.
Date:
1959
Creator:
Boatright, Mody Coggin
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for the improvement of the rotary cultivator with adjustable thinning-points and rotating cutter, including illustration.
Date:
April 10, 1855
Creator:
Morrel, A. H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for covering cotton seeds by using a hoe transversely with cams and slides with the main axle of the planter, including illustration.
Date:
May 15, 1855
Creator:
Morrel, A. H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Hand-Machines for Gathering Cotton in the Field" (lines 3-5), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 16, 1856
Creator:
Shields, B. G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Fences.
Patent for "a simple, cheap, and portable fence...which can be readily folded up for transportation from place to place." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.
Date:
November 18, 1873
Creator:
Taylor, Byron L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Molds.
Patent for improvement in brick-molds, with description and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1875
Creator:
Singer, Edgar C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of brick-machines, consisting in the arrangement, with the molds, of one or more valves of flood-gates in the bottom of the pugmill, for the purpose of controlling the flow of the clay into the molds, and a roller and knife upon each side of the mill for pressing the clay into the molds and dressing the tops of the bricks. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
July 16, 1872
Creator:
Houghton, Gideon H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for car-couplings.
Date:
December 22, 1874
Creator:
McCormick, Charles C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Bedsteads.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bedsteads. This design has for its object "to provide an attachment for bedsteads whereby the side rails are prevented from springing outward or expanding from any cause, and thus allowing the slats to fall through" (lines 14-18).
Date:
November 20, 1888
Creator:
Holmes, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breast for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for improvements in breasts for cotton gins: " My invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of gin breasts for cotton gins and consists in providing in conjunction with a gin breast an adjustable "up-per circle" to facilitate the formation of the roll, to prevent the seed cotton from overflowing from the gin breast as the roll rotates, and preserve the proper degree of contact between the gin saws and the roll" (lines 12-20).
Date:
April 10, 1894
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupler.
Patent for a car-coupler, with illustrations. The purpose of this patent for a car-coupler was to improve existing car-couplings by providing, "safe, convenient, and expeditious means for readily coupling and uncoupling sections of cars with the danger incurred of getting between them" (lines 12-16).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Williamson, John A., JR.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Blocker.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-blocker. This design "relates to cotton-blockers . . . to be applied to cultivators; and the object of the invention is to provide a blocker and mechanism for operating it which may be applied to cultivators of any construction, and with but little trouble, and to provide a hoe-blade which will clear itself of dirt and weeds and make a regular and steady stroke" (lines 11-18).
Date:
October 4, 1887
Creator:
Jordan, James Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Sheller.
Patent for improvement in corn-shellers; in which “it consists in a perforated casting provided with radial teeth or projections which extend toward its center and which is to be secured to a support having an opening through it, combined with a double-ended handle which has an opening through its center and teeth projecting from the opening.” (Lines 13-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 22, 1891
Creator:
Bander, Charles Bornet
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale.
Patent for an automatic weighing-scale meant to be connected to a pneumatic conveyer to weigh cotton, grain, or other products. The invention weighs "any amount to which its scale may be set, and then cutting off the supply and emptying itself, when it may be reset, preferably by hand, to repeat the weighing operation" (lines 18-22).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Weighing Scale.
Patent for an automatic cotton-weighing scale that is designed "to be used in connection with pneumatic conveyers, and it is of such construction that it will automatically weigh any amount that its scale may be set at, cut off the supply from the conveyer, empty itself, and immediately reset itself, the resetting of the machine opening the supply-valve from the conveyer, so that the weighing operation can be repeated" (lines 13-21).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the supporting stand and the suds-box, of the cleats at the upper end of said box and formed with openings, the blocks pivotally secured to said stand and provided at one end with the thumb-screw, and the springs secured at their lower ends in said blocks and their upper ends working loosely in the openings in the cleats" (lines 24-31).
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Neal, Stephen N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History