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Newspaper File. (open access)

Newspaper File.

Patent for a new and improved newspaper file. This design "is adapted and designed to be laid upon a table or placed in the usual rack or suspended by a hook, and . . . it may be held in one hand by means of its handle at the base while perusing the paper" (lines 17-22). It consists, "with a standard formed at or near its upper and lower ends . . . with a suitable perforation extending through the same from the back to the front thereof, of springs arranged upon the back of the standard, one near each end thereof and each formed at its free end with an eye" (lines 22-28).
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Jaehnig, Charles H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Maverick County

Map of Maverick County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 1892
Creator: Warren, W. H.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chas. Fessmann (open access)

Chas. Fessmann

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name with text reading: "Dealer in Wines, Liquors and Cigars, And Agent for the Anheuser-Bush Keg and Bottle Beer."
Date: 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History