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Grayson County
Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Grayson County, Texas. Peter's Colony East Line is shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
January 19, 1859
Creator:
Pressler, Charles W.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 20, 1887
Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 20, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 1887
Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 21, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 22, 1887
Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 22, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 52, Ed. 1 Monday, January 24, 1887
Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 24, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 53, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 25, 1887
Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 25, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 54, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 26, 1887
Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 26, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 55, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1887
Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 27, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 56, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1887
Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 28, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 57, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1887
Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 29, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 58, Ed. 1 Monday, January 31, 1887
Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 31, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Boring Machines.
Patent for improvements in earth-boring machines with new design and connections, including illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Yarborough, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns
Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Gray, Whitley F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improvements in churns with specific improvements in dasher-rods and lids. This patent includes illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for the improved design of churns "in which the dasher-shaft is vertical and receives rotation by gearing at the top of the churn" (2nd para.), including illustrations.
Date:
January 25, 1876
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rerigerator-Cars.
Patent for "improvements in refrigerator-cars for preserving fresh meats, vegetables, and other perishable articles while transporting them over great distance; and it consists of an ice-receptacle at the top of the car, provided with flat top and carved or inclined bottom." (Lines 13-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 18, 1876
Creator:
Zimmerman, Arnold W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Quilting-Frames
Patent for an improved quilting frame that is designed around a folding trestle-frame and two parallel rollers on which a quilt can be rolled, leaving the material between the rollers to be quilted/worked on. Illustration includes a perspective and detail view of the frame.
Date:
January 16, 1877
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Washing and Draining Dishes.
Patent for a new and improved dishwasher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pan provided near its top on the inner side with rigidly-attached brackets, with a tray in the form of a pan whose side and bottom portions are perforated . . . the tray being of less diameter and height than the pan and provided on its outer side near the bottom with brackets and on its upper edge with handles" (lines 94-101).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Caradine, Virginia C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Button Attaching Machine.
Patent for a new and improved button-attaching machine. This design consists in "the combination, with the plunger, of . . . the die having a central projection to enter the concavity of a button and parallel oblique curved recesses in said projection . . . [and] a peripheral flange" (lines 84-99).
Date:
January 24, 1888
Creator:
Tone, Harrison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conflagration Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved conflagration arrester. This design "is to provide a device by which the sides of a building adjacent to other buildings on fire may be protected by a uniform continuous sheet of water covering the sides of such building" (lines 9-13). It consists in "the combination of a series of inclined arms provided with eyes at their outer ends and having hooks to engage the side of a building, a shelf or deflector, and a rod so connecting the latter pivotally with the eyes of the inclined arms that the upper part of said shelf shall overbalance the lower part, which shall . . . rest against the wall" (lines 89-97).
Date:
January 20, 1891
Creator:
Puckett, Florence N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wood Pavements.
Patent for a new and improved construction of Bois D'Arc Pavement, which uses two layers of planks that cross at right angle as a base, sand to hold bois d'arc blocks in place and fill gaps in between, and coal-tar covering planks to prevent sand from shifting. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1879
Creator:
Shellenberger, Samuel Luther
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Fastening.
Patent for sliding car-door fastening to improve the fastening of said car-door.
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Buser, William H. & Shaw, Burrell L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Water-Elevator.
Patent for new and improved compressed air water elevator to lift water from reservoirs.
Date:
January 27, 1880
Creator:
Keating, Thomas, B.; Clarke, Lafe. W. & Gelatt, Wallace W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History