Armstrong County

Map of Armstrong County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The center of Armstrong County is marked. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: May 5, 1879
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Armstrong County

Map of Armstrong County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: September 1881
Creator: Matthews, Sam. P.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Armstrong County

Map of Armstrong County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: January 1886
Creator: Blau, F. G.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Armstrong County

Map of Armstong County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sod Cutter. (open access)

Sod Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved sod-cutter. This design consists, "with a sod-cutter comprising the frame, the horizontal blade, the beam, the handle-bars, and the brace-rod connecting the said beam with the outer handle-bar . . . of the upwardly and outwardly curved guide-rods secured to the rear of the said blades, the curved cutting-blades secured to said rods for dividing the cut sod into separate portions, and the fender provided with a forwardly-bent flange at its upper edge and secured to the said brace-rod diagonally of the machine and behind and above the said blades" (lines 76-88).
Date: July 29, 1890
Creator: White, Maston Timothy
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel (open access)

Wind-Wheel

Patent for a new and novel design for a wind wheel.
Date: August 12, 1890
Creator: Gatlin, Lilburn M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Stamp. (open access)

Hand-Stamp.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, simple, and durable hand stamp that uses the minimum number of parts.
Date: November 7, 1893
Creator: Dysart, Marby P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke. (open access)

Animal-Poke.

Patent for an animal-poke that is "placed over the animal's neck and provided with spurs, whereby the animal is pricked when he attempts to pass a fence or other barrier" (lines 9-12). This invention doesn't prick the animal while it is grazing and is more comfortable to wear than similar animal-pokes.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Dickey, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cowboys in the Corral at Pennington Ranch

Cowboys changing horses at noon in the corral at the Pennington Ranch near Claude, Texas in 1900.
Date: 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

J.L.Pennington Ranch near Claude, Texas

Photograph of cowboys having dinner on the J.L.Pennington Ranch on the panhandle plains of Texas. The man third from the left is T.H. Pennington.
Date: 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Panhandle (open access)

A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Panhandle

Historical account of the history of settlement in the Texas Panhandle, including the original explorers and military actions in the area. The report goes into detail about the the different settlements and settlers who came into the area prior to 1890.
Date: 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Grinder (open access)

Corn-Grinder

Patent for a grinder of ordinary corn
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Zimmerman, Frank W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Goodnight College Students]

Photograph of a group of Goodnight College students posed in a wooded area. About fifty young men and women are seated on the ground at the foot of a steep hill. All are formally dressed, the women in light-colored, long-sleeved dresses, the men in suits and ties.
Date: May 10, 1901
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sod-Turning Plow (open access)

Sod-Turning Plow

Patent for a plow to turn prairie sod. On the land side the pow has a longer runner which are attached by a cross bar.
Date: May 12, 1902
Creator: Fletcher, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Stanchion (open access)

Cattle Stanchion

Patent for a cheap and simply constructed cattle stanchions. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Reck, Emile & Reck, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Armstrong County

Blue line print of survey map of Armstrong County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1904
Creator: Morris, J. W. & Walne, W. H.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Armstrong County.

Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1904
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Goodnight boys dormitory1905-06

Photograph of male students of Goodnight College in Goodnight, Texas in front of the boy's dormitory. Students of various ages stand in a loose row, with several seated on the ground in front and a small group further back, before an open door. Several others appear in the five windows of the building's second story. The dormitory is a two-story wood frame building built in an "L" shape. Two of the students, Earl Paine and Bill Hill, are identified on the image.
Date: 1905~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch (open access)

Switch

Patent for a switch. "This invention obviates likelihood of derailment by splitting the switches, so as to thereby secure a means for preventing the rolling stock from being thrown from the tracks." Illustration included.
Date: August 22, 1905
Creator: Hibbets, Charles M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Goodnight College students]

Photograph of students posed in front of the Goodnight College girl's domritory. Students stand in a long line behind a picket fence, on the second floor balcony of the building behind them, and on the stairs leading to the balcony. Most of the students are women, and many of them are wearing mortarboards. The dormitory is a four-story wood frame building with dormer windows on the third floor and gables on the fourth. Five ladders lead from the second floor balcony to windows on the floor above. A smaller, one-story building is visible at the right rear.
Date: 1906~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard Rail (open access)

Guard Rail

Patent for a guard rail. Illustration included.
Date: September 25, 1906
Creator: Hibbets, Charles M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment. (open access)

Cultivator Attachment.

Patent for improvement in cultivator attachments by using “a pair of cutting blades or knives adapted to be adjustably connected to the lister-beam after the plow-blades have been removed and after the planting of the field, and these knives are adapted to straddle the center row and to work down to three inches under the surface of the ground, extending half-way to the adjoining row on both sides of said center row, thus absolutely killing all grass, weeds or the like, and turning up just enough dirt to cover the scrub. By thus treating each row in succession a field may be cleared more quickly, more easily, and more thoroughly.” (Lines 15-27) Illustration is included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Pope, Henry O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1907 (open access)

The Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1907

Weekly newspaper from Claude, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 9, 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Variable Speed Mechanism (open access)

Variable Speed Mechanism

Patent for a variable speed mechanism. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Doebbeling, Almond J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History