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Karnes County

Map of Karnes County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. All but one county boundary is colored, as shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 29, 1856
Creator: Von Rosenberg, W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Karnes Co.

Cadastral map of Karnes County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, rivers, and creeks. No scale indicated.
Date: 1870
Creator: Arlitt, F. H.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Karnes County

Map of Karnes County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. The roads to San Patricio, to Oakville, to Gonzales, to Yorktown, to San Antonio, and from San Antonio to Victoria via Yorktown, Texas are shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1870
Creator: Arlitt, F. H.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Karnes County

Map of Karnes County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. The roads to San Patricio, to Oakville, to Gonzales, to Yorktown, to San Antonio, and from San Antonio to Victoria via Yorktown, Texas are shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: January 1872
Creator: Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Karnes County

Map of Karnes County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: April 1879
Creator: Groos, Otto
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Karnes County

Map of Karnes County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: April 1879
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Karnes County

Map of Karnes County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1880
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brace Wire Fastening for Wire Fences. (open access)

Brace Wire Fastening for Wire Fences.

Patent for a new and improved brace-wire fastening for wire fences. This design consists "[i]n a fence, the combination, with the panel wires, of the braces with their ends hooked upon one and the same side of the upper and lower panel-wires, and said braces being stepped to receive and applied to the opposite side of the intermediate panel-wires, and the tri-armed or T-shaped clasps with their arms embracing the panel-wires and the braces at their points of intersection" (lines 81-89).
Date: September 22, 1885
Creator: Lott, Arthur
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence. (open access)

Fence.

Patent for a new and improved fence. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the fence-wires, the stay-rods having their lower ends fitted in the ground and provided with a series of steps or rests fitted to the fence wires, a series of tie-wires securing the fence-wires to said steps, and braces twisted around the stay-rods near the upper ends thereof and having their ends secured to buried anchors" (lines 59-66).
Date: February 7, 1888
Creator: Lott, Arthur
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Feeder and Indicator (open access)

Boiler Feeder and Indicator

Patent for an improvement automatic steam-boiler feeders which controls the feed pump and actuates an alarm whistle (lines 21-23).
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Newman, Prentice A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow. (open access)

Sulky-Plow.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in sulky plows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 18, 1898
Creator: Labus, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Runge 1902 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Runge in Karnes County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1902
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Runge 1907 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Runge in Karnes County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1907
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Runge 1907 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Runge in Karnes County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1907
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for a planter for planting cotton seed, which can be used with a walking or wheeled planter and automatically drops seeds when moving forward but not backward, and which can have the mechanism turned off while in transit.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Vaughn, George Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for a hay press. This invention includes a reciprocating plunger with plunger heads and designed to work in separate compressing chambers. Illustrations included.
Date: May 19, 1908
Creator: Biela, Valentine
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safe (open access)

Safe

Patent for a safe. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Smith, Virgil A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grubbing Plow (open access)

Grubbing Plow

Patent for a grubbing plow. Illustration included.
Date: April 5, 1910
Creator: Jauer, Christman D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plowshare for Grubbing-Plows, &c. (open access)

Plowshare for Grubbing-Plows, &c.

Patent for a plowshare for grubbing plows and other plows used for clearing through timber. Illustrations included.
Date: May 3, 1910
Creator: Jauer, Christman D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of High School in Kenedy, Texas]

Postcard of a photograph of large, four-story building with windows along each floor, a small tower at the top of the roof, several chimneys, and an arched front entrance. Text at the bottom of the postcard identifies the building as a high school in Kenedy, Texas. There is handwritten text on the other side of the postcard to Mr. Leslie Boone in San Marcos, Texas from his mother.
Date: 1911-11-13~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

Runge 1912 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Runge in Karnes County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Runge 1912 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Runge in Karnes County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Runge 1912 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Runge in Karnes County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Runge 1912 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Runge in Karnes County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History