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Blanco County
Map of Blanco County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
October 7, 1862
Creator:
Dietz, Osw.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco County
Map of Blanco County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
December 1871
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco County
Map of Blanco County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1872~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improvement in plows which will allow for adjustments in width.
Date:
June 26, 1876
Creator:
Traweek, Robert C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco County
Map of Blanco County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
July 1878
Creator:
Blau, F. G.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco County
Map of Blanco County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. The center of Blanco County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
March 1880
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design utilizes a plunger to create a partial vacuum in the corresponding tub, whereupon water, when rushing to fill the partial vacuum, saturates the clothes, cleaning them.
Date:
December 6, 1881
Creator:
Appelt, August E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Goeth Ranch House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Goeth Ranch House, in Blanco, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
1882
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plaiting Machine.
Patent for a new and improved plaiting machine. This design "is to make the plaits with less labor and in less time than could be done by the plaiting-machines heretofore known or used" (lines 9-11).
Date:
August 1, 1882
Creator:
Shane, Oscar G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved bridle attachment. This design "consists of a contrivance of nose-clamping strap having end rings through which pass the ends of a chin-strap connected by reign-straps passing through rings of a head-strap of the attachment . . . the invention comprising also a connection of the martingale-straps with the rings of the nose-clamping straps . . . to powerfully check up the horse when required, and also to prevent rearing and plunging" (lines 9-20).
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
Massey, John T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide a cultivator adapted to receive a plow for breaking new land, a hopper for seeding purposes, and a leveler for breaking lumps and evening the furrows, a further object being to provide a light, durable, and economical cultivator for general farm use" (lines 16-22).
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
Lloyd, William D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burnet Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Llano Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the central mineral region : chiefly from actual surveys made under the direction of Theo B. Comstock, geologist for central Texas.
Map shows geological composition of surface strata, towns, creeks, crossings, railroads, and names of mountain peaks for Mason, Llano, McCulloch, Gillespie, Blanco, San Saba, Kimble, and Burnet counties, and portions of Hays and Travis counties. Includes notes and key to colors used to represent strata types. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:247,300].
Date:
1890
Creator:
Nagle, J. C. (James C.),1865-1927
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
N. C. Galloway
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with business name and text reading: "Drugs and General Merchandise, Round Mountain, Texas. Highest Price Paid for Cotton."
Date:
1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Sheller.
Patent for improvements in corn-shellers in which it would be easily-operated and consists of “a semi-cylindrical trough having serrations upon the sides and bottom thereof, so that upon pushing the ear back and forth in the trough the corn will be scraped off.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Townsley, Christopher C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burnet Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1893
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1894
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fredericksburg Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1894
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Llano Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1894
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke.
Patent for "a light and effective head-frame for horned cattle, designed to prevent their going through or injuring wire fences or from goring persons or animals." (Lines 14-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1897
Creator:
Moore, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for an improvement to the cotton chopping machine, which includes a hoe-blade that leaves the plants being processed in bunches.
Date:
January 14, 1902
Creator:
Berringer, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1903
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History