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Sanborn Map Collection
62
Texas Patents
61
Rescuing Texas History, 2007
7
Texas Soil Surveys
4
George Pendexter Postcard Collection
2
Rescuing Texas History, 2015
2
Abilene Library Consortium
1
Texas & Pacific Railway Collection
1
USGS Topographic Map Collection
1
Map Collections from the University of Texas at Arlington
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Soil Survey of the Cooper Area, Texas
Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of the Cooper Area, Texas.
Date:
August 12, 1908
Creator:
Rice, Thomas D. (Thomas Donnelly) & Smith, H. C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Cooper sheet
Map displays soil types, creeks, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date:
August 12, 1908
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Paris sheet
Map displays soil types along with roads, railroads, towns, rivers, creeks, and lakes. Legend provides soil profiles.
Date:
1904
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of the Paris area, Texas
Text describes the location and boundaries, history, climate, physiography and geology, soils, and agricultural conditions of the Paris area of Texas.
Date:
1904
Creator:
Caine, Thomas A. & Kocher, A. E. (Arthur E.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mary Fooshee Scott]
Mary Fooshee Scott of Paris in 1904.
Date:
1904
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Judge David Howell Scott's house before the fire]
Judge David Howell Scott's house before the fire.
Date:
1900
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Judge David Howell Scott's house before the fire]
Judge David Howell Scott's house before the fire.
Date:
1900
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Tom Scott from his father, April 12, 1904]
Letter to Tom Scott from his father, upon Tom's engagement.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Scott, David Howell
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Tom and Carolyn from Mary Foshee Scott]
Letter to Carolyn Street and Tom Scott from his mother, Mary Foshee Scott.
Date:
1904
Creator:
McGuire, Caroline
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Announcement card for the birth of Charles Howell Scott ]
Birth announcement for Charles Howell Scott, March 8, 1906.
Date:
March 8, 1906
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Raleigh Court, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
"Official souvenir" color postcard depicting the Raleigh Court at the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. There is a lake in the foreground with many boats on it, walkways lined with lamp posts along the water, and numerous red buildings in the background with landscaping and fountains. Correspondence on the card reads,"This looks well on a card, but in reality it is bum, in big letters. It is addressed to Miss Rosa Bassano, S. Mill St., Paris, Texas and postmarked Norfolk, Va on Sept 22, 1907.
Date:
September 22, 1907
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Paris sheet
Map shows early twentieth century soil composition, roads, railroads, towns, and lakes and waterways for Lamar County; layout and boundaries for the city of Paris; the course of the Red River. Includes soil profile and legend. Scale [1:63,360].
Date:
1903
Creator:
United States Bureau of Soils
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paris Sheet
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 1:125000
Date:
1903
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carrier-Frame for Baskets.
Patent for a carrier frame for moving baskets up and down in a store, which does not get tangled with the basket ropes.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Cameron. James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Bait
Patent for an artificial bait. Illustration included.
Date:
June 16, 1908
Creator:
Caldwell, Charley D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke
Patent for an animal poke worn on the head of cattle to prevent jumping outside the field which allows the cow to graze freely while wearing the poke.
Date:
July 16, 1907
Creator:
Seay, Mark Machel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cheese Cutter
Patent for a cheese cutter. Illustration included.
Date:
September 13, 1904
Creator:
Martin, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a churn. This invention consists of a vertically disposed rotatable dasher. Illustration included.
Date:
June 28, 1904
Creator:
Lavender, Samuel C.; Chennault, Steven A. & Chennault, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle
Patent for a a nursing bottle employing a jacket designed to hold the parts of the bottle together. Illustration included.
Date:
September 18, 1906
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a device that would make coupling cars together easier and safer. Cars would be able to be coupled automatically, and then detached without having to go in between them. Includes Illustrations.
Date:
February 12, 1901
Creator:
White, George O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder
Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 5, 1909
Creator:
Van Landingham, Lewis E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie.
Patent for improvements in bale-ties is to produce a “buckle-plate having a middle portion with an opening therein, arms at each end separated from the middle portion by spaces open at one side, a longitudinal entering-passage connecting the opening with one of said spaces, and a hoop the free ends of which are looped down through said opening and up through the spaces, resting upon the arms under the standing part of the hoop.” (Lines 74-83) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 8, 1902
Creator:
Johnson, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Water Heater and Smoke Consumer
Patent for a combined water heater and smoke consumer. Illustration included.
Date:
August 14, 1906
Creator:
Miles, Joseph Furnas; Rodgers, A. N. & Wade, James William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead
Patent for bedsteads. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Stone, John Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History