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Atascosa County
Map of Atascosa County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. A tree grove is marked on the map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1862
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Bending Stirrups.
Patent for an invention that "is to provide a simple and efficient machine for bending and shaping stirrups for saddles" (lines 10-12). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
February 1, 1870
Creator:
Forest, Demsey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Atascosa County
Map of Atascosa County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
January 1873
Creator:
Lucas, A. L. & Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Atascosa County
Map of Atascosa County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. The center of Atascosa County is marked on map. There are nine black ink spots on the map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
September 1879
Creator:
Langermann, A. B.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine.
Patent for a new and improvement in adding-machines in which a mechanical wheel has teeth. " The object of the invention is to provide the means for adding columns of figures by machinery"(lines 13-15), with instruction and illustration
Date:
February 12, 1884
Creator:
Barmore, Albert King
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding Machine.
Patent for a new and improved adding machine. This design "consists in the combination, with a box, of a spindle in the same, a sleeve surrounding the spindle, a hand on the spindle, a hand on the sleeve, devices for turning the spindle from the sleeve, a cog-wheel revolving from the spindle, and an extra hand in connection with the cog-wheel" (lines 10-16).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
McCaleb, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved measuring-wheel. This design "relates to the construction of an instrument whereby lineal measurements may be taken and automatically registered where the distance is greater than the circumference of the measuring-wheel. The invention consists of a graduated wheel in the slot of a bifurcated handle, and of an automatic registering attachment" (lines 7-14).
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
McCaleb, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
T. M. Peeler
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes cattle illustration and stylized text reading: "Ranch, 'Basin Hill.' Atascosa Co."; "Postoffice, Campbellton, Atascosa Co."
Date:
1893
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Atascosa 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:
1894
Creator:
[Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Atascosa County Jail
Photograph of Atascosa County Jail. Unidentified individuals stand outside the building. A horse and carriage stand in the street beside the building.The jail was torn down in the 1950's.
Date:
April 7, 1894
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Deed For Lot No. 1 in Pleasanton]
Letter from F. M. Mansfield and J. N. Murphey to A. G. Martin containing the deed for Lot No. 1 in Pleasanton, Texas. The letter concerns the transferring of a deed for land in Pleasanton, Texas by the First Baptist Church. Also attached to the letter is a form signed by a notary public.
Date:
February 26, 1896
Creator:
Mansfield, F. M. & Murphey, J. N.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Field Notes of a Survey
Survey report about land in Atascosa County, Texas, for A. M. Avant. The report describes the results of a survey of land situated on the waters of Metah Creek, a tributary of La Parita River, about 12 miles southeast of Pleasanton, Texas.
Date:
February 28, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Bouquet Holder.
Patent for a new and original bouquet-holder made of ductile wiring.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Postert, Alwina D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cactus-Burner.
Patent for a new and useful cactus burner for "removing thorns from cactus or prickly pear or similar plants or growths of a fleshy or succulent nature provided with spines" (line 10 - 13).
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Beever, Charles H. & McCoy, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Miss Blanche Avant's Teaching Certificate]
Teaching Certificate belonging to Miss Blance Avant of Pleasanton, Texas. Signed the 25th day of June 1901.
Date:
June 21, 1901
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheriff's Posse in Atascosa County, Texas, 1903
Photograph of a Sheriff's posse in Atascosa County, Texas in 1903. The men stand with their rifles in hand, in front of the jail around their prisoner, the bandit "Gomez" who sits in a chair.
Date:
1903
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for improvement in cotton chopper and cultivator in “which the cultivator-blades may be readily adjusted to cultivator-blades may be readily adjusted to any desired distance from the row of plants that is being operated upon, and in which the number of chopping-hoes may be increased or diminished, so as to regulate the distance between the stands of cotton or the extent of each stand.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 24, 1903
Creator:
McAda, James Newton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter From John W. Harris to A. M. Avant]
Letter from John W. Harris to A. M. Avant, Esq., concerning rent for land in Atascosa County. The letter is dated April 24, 1903 and is written on Harris & Rogers Insurance letterhead.
Date:
April 24, 1903
Creator:
Harris, John W.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for a seed planter. This invention is designed to plant seed in hills at any desired predetermined distance apart.
Date:
October 6, 1903
Creator:
Coble, William H.; Coble, Robert L.; Johnson, Bennett & Johnson, N. J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm.
Patent for the automatic fire alarm system relates to a fusing wire that reacts to any heat or fire by closing circuit inside of the battery resulting in sounding off the alarm, and thus, improving the fire-alarm system structure.
Date:
March 15, 1904
Creator:
Fred, Mason K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Annual Catalog of the Pleasanton High School Term of 1906 and 1907
Annual catalog of the Pleasanton High School for 1906 and 1907. It contains a description of Atascosa County, courses of study for grades one through ten, and features many local advertisements. The name Ben S. Avant is written in pencil on the front cover.
Date:
1906
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeder
Patent for an attachment or stand-alone seeding device which is "inexpensive...durable, and easy and effective in operation." (lines 16 & 17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 17, 1906
Creator:
Mouser, Robert H., Jr
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter From R. Avant to A. M. Avant]
Letter from R. Avant to A. M. Avant. The letter concerns family business and real estate. It is written on Dillard & Avant letterhead and dated September 30, 1906.
Date:
September 30, 1906
Creator:
Avant, R.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History