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Texas, part of New Mexico &c.
Map shows counties, cities, military outposts, areas of Native American habitation, roads, railroads, and routes of military expeditions for Texas, New mexico, and "Indian Territory." Includes names and dates of expeditions. Scale not given.
Date:
[1876..1883]
Creator:
Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Corn And Cotton-Seed Planters.
This patent is an upgraded corn and seed planter machine that plants corn, cotton, and other types of seeds for mass production. The machine is aligned with the surface of the ground. It does not converse with the plows that are attached to it, freeing up the machine to release seeds proficiently with ease.
Date:
April 9, 1878
Creator:
Adams, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement for Axle-Boxes for Vehicles
Patent for an improvement in axle-boxes for vehicles which incorporates an adjustable tube that may take up the wear on its ends.
Date:
June 11, 1872
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Axles for Vehicles
Patent for "an Improvement in Wagon-Axle Skeins" that "has for its object to furnish an improved iron axle for wagons and other vehicles which shall be stronger without being heavier than iron axles made in the ordinary manner."
Date:
July 2, 1872
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Whiffletree-Fastenings.
Patent for the improvement of whiffletree fastenings, relating to the means by which single-trees are attached to a double-tree. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
June 11, 1872
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Lint-Room and Cotton-Presses.
Patent for the improvement of lint-rooms and cotton presses, including a description and illustrations.
Date:
December 20, 1870
Creator:
Albertson, Ichabod H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for improvement of planters.
Date:
February 15, 1876
Creator:
Albertson, Ichabod H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Journal Boxes.
Patent for the improvement in car-journal boxes. This invention "relates to oil-boxes used upon journals of car-axles, the object being to prevent the lid from shaking off of the oil-stop or oil-packing surrounding the axle to be removed and replaced by a new one without removing the box from the journal."
Date:
October 15, 1878
Creator:
Alexander, Francis M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt from G.W. Alexander to Levi Perryman, January 23, 1879]
Receipt from G.W. Alexander to Levi Perryman per W.A. "Bud" Morris for $7.55 in the case of D.C. Bryant vs. S.R. Holmes no. 76 in District Court of Clay County.
Date:
January 23, 1879
Creator:
Alexander, G. W.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churn-Motors
Patent for an improvement in churn-motors, which would allow for the motor to run faster or slower as needed, with illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Alexander, Julius A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Paper Bags.
Patent for an improvement in paper bags with design specifications and a description of their functionality and usage, including illustrations.
Date:
June 18, 1878
Creator:
Alexander, Newton J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fruit-Corers.
Patent for a device to core fruit and cut it into slices.
Date:
December 17, 1872
Creator:
Alexander, Oscar W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "an improved car-coupling simple in construction, convenient in use, and effective and reliable in operation." (lines 12-14) e.g., including illustration.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Allen, Henry & Baldwin, Addison H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. T. P. Allen to J. D. and D. C. Giddings - October 20, 1871]
Letter from R. T. P. Allen to J. D. and D. C. Giddings. Colonel Allen writes that he needs to collect some notes on behalf of Helen L. Carmer from the Giddings brothers, who received the notes from the late Allen Lewis. Mrs. Carmer also would like the brothers to take up the matter of a claim on the Female College Boarding House in Chappell Hill between $2,000-$3,000.
Date:
October 20, 1871
Creator:
Allen, R. T. P.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Recommendation Letter for Henry Crocker, December 4, 1871]
Introductory letter and recommendations for Henry Crocker asking permission to transfer from Murchison Lodge No. 80 in Hallettsville to Joshua Chapter No. 43 in Hallettsville.
Date:
December 4, 1871
Creator:
Allen, W. W.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Recommendation Letter for I. F. Bennett, September 22, 1871]
Introductory letter and recommendations for I. F. Bennett asking permission to transfer from Murchison Lodge No. 80 in Hallettsville to Joshua Chapter No. 43 in Hallettsville.
Date:
September 22, 1871
Creator:
Allen, W. W.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Recommendation Letter for C. L. Muel[..], September 6, 1875]
Introductory letter and recommendations for C. L. Muel[..] asking permission to join Joshua Chapter No. 43 in Hallettsville.
Date:
September 6, 1875
Creator:
Allen, W. W. & Devall, Sam
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John H. Allison to Jack Davis, May 2 1878]
Letter from John H. Allison to Jack Davis. The letter is dated May 2, 1878.
Date:
May 2, 1878
Creator:
Allison, John H.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition.
Patent for an improvement in devices for teaching musical transposition. The invention in question is composed of a keyboard "with sliding instruments and scales" (1).
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Allison, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[George Amery General Business Ledger: 1878-1902]
Ledger containing general business notes and accounts for George Amery.
Date:
1878-10/1902-07
Creator:
Amery, George
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ant Traps
Patent for the improvement of Ant traps, including to illustrated and labeled figures.
Date:
April 1, 1873
Creator:
Ames, Theodore G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c.
Patent for "an improved apparatus for use in fumigating substances used as food; and also for impregnating water with sulphurous-acid gas, for the purpose of preserving such substances by the antiseptic quality of sulphur" (lines 9-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 15, 1878
Creator:
Ames, Theodore George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Plows
Patent for a wheel plow designed to be simple, durable, easily controlled, and of light draft.
Date:
June 19, 1877
Creator:
Amonett, Ammon A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brooms.
Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.
Date:
August 15, 1871
Creator:
Anderson, Edward Americus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History