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Adjustable Handle for Sweep-Stocks and the Like
Patent for adjustable handles for sweep stocks, plows, cultivators, and related equipment.
Date:
February 26, 1907
Creator:
Hoerhold, Theodore
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Oil Mill Seed Huller
Patent for a cotton oil mill seed huller. This invention is designed to prevent the breaking or drilling of knives by foreign matter. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 8, 1910
Creator:
Kappler, John G. & Gaines, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Highway Map Lee County, Texas
Highway map of Lee County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage betweem points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, oil fields, utility lines, petroleum pipelines, mines or quarries, state parks, and airfields. Map includes three inset maps - Tanglewood, Lincoln, Dime Box - a key to counties diagram, and an extensive legend indicating geographical and human-made features. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date:
1972
Creator:
Texas State Highway Department Planning Survey Division
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cretaceous Area North of the Colorado River
Geologic map of a portion of South Texas, showing Cretaceous rocks divided into two sequences - lower Cretaceous series and upper Cretaceous series. Shows also Tertiary and Paleozoic rocks. The map also includes county lines, cities and towns, roads, railroads, bodies of water, and areas of elevation. Relief shown by contours and spot heights.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Taff, J. A.; Leverett, S. & Dumble, Edwin Theodore
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Supervisory Authority of the “Lutheran Concordia College of Texas”.
Report regarding the development of Lutheran Concordia College of Texas. The report includes a section that asks that the institution retain its six year long course structure.
Date:
June 1932
Creator:
Osthoff, R.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Lee County
Blue line print of survey map of Lee County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, the Old San Antonio Road, and railroads. Hand drawn lines have been made on the published map in red ink. Scale [ca. 1:228,571] (6000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date:
1890
Creator:
Maxcy, J. W. & Wynne, Amos
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for the "new and improved Baling-Press which is very simple and durable in construction, and is very easily operated by hand or other power" (lines 4-10) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new baling-press, including illustrations.
Date:
April 10, 1888
Creator:
Mattijetz, Andreas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for "an exceedingly rapid baling of the hay, to provide for the easy transportation of the press and the power employed in connection therewith, and to provide for the adjustment of the size of the baling-chamber" (lines 9-13).
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Mattijetz, Andreas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer.
Patent for improvements in car-replacers by using a jack-screw with a swiveled rest secured on top. The swiveled rest consists of an oblong box having rollers projecting above its upper edge. A windlass with a rope is journeyed in the jack-screw, passing through the swiveled rest, over a pulley and out of one end of the rest; the rope end having a hook or other suitable means for connecting it with the car. When the windlass is turned, “the car-body is moved laterally upon the rollers until the car-wheels are in line with the track.” (Lines 46-47) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 8, 1891
Creator:
White, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for improvements in bait-trigger traps for catching small animals, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Edwards, Joseph H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements to a press that bales hay. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 15, 1891
Creator:
Mattijetz, Andreas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General highway map Lee County Texas
Map shows city boundaries, highways and roads, railroads, and some structures in Lee County, Texas during the late twentieth century. Includes legend, key to counties, and population statistics. Insets: "Lincoln" and "Dime Box." Scale not given.
Date:
1982
Creator:
Texas State Dept. of Highways and Public Transportation.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Historic plaque, Lee County Courthouse
Photograph of a historic plaque in Giddings, Texas. It reads: "Lee County Courthouse. Designed by J.R. Gordon along lines similar to New York State Capitol and several buildings at Harvard University. Classified as Richardsonian Romanesque style, after the famous Louisiana-born architect Henry B. Richardson. Built by Sonnefield, Emmins and Abright of San Antonion, 1899. Replaced first courthouse, which burned 1897. Located on crest of divide separating the Colorado and Brazos River Basins. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1968."
Date:
October 8, 2006
Creator:
Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Church in Giddings
Photograph of a church in Giddings. It is a white wooden building with a tall steeple.
Date:
October 8, 2006
Creator:
Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lee County Courthouse, detail of cornerstone
Photograph of a cornerstone at the Lee County Courthouse. The words carved into the cornerstone are difficult to read.
Date:
October 8, 2006
Creator:
Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lee County Courthouse, detail of cornerstone
Photograph of a cornerstone at the Lee County Courthouse. Words have been carved into the stone.
Date:
October 8, 2006
Creator:
Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Capital Area Council of Governments Annual Report: 2011
Annual report for the Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG) describing developments and updates on organizational programs.
Date:
2011~
Creator:
Capital Area Council of Governments (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Lee County, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Lee County, Texas.
Date:
January 2007
Creator:
United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Soil Map, Lee County, Texas
Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Milam County, Block 20
Parent map for Milam County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Bastrop County, Block 2
Parent map for Bastrop County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Williamson County, Index
Index map for Williamson County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:131,112.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Fayette County, Block 2
Parent map for Fayette County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Lee County, Inset A01
Inset map for Lee County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:5,500.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History