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Floyd County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Floyd County, Texas. The center of Floyd County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: February 1879
Creator: Stakemann, Max
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Floyd County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Floyd County, Texas. The center of Floyd County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: May 12, 1879
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Floyd County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Floyd County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: January 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
S. B. Chadwick & Co. (open access)

S. B. Chadwick & Co.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes stylized text with business name and text reading: "Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries."
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Floyd County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Floyd County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Floyd County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Floyd County, Texas. The Millington Base Line is shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: September 30, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Floyd County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Floyd County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 1895
Creator: Appell, P. F.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Frank Duncan]

Portrait of Frank Duncan with a dark mustache and wearing a suit. A handwritten message on the back of the photo states that it is a "self made" portrait.
Date: 1901
Creator: Duncan, Frank
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
COMBINED HEATING AND COOKING STOVE. (open access)

COMBINED HEATING AND COOKING STOVE.

Patent for new and improved combined heating and cooking stove which may be "operated by using a light chaffy form of fuel..." (line 15).
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Van Hook, John Lloyd
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter (open access)

Seed Planter

Patent for a seed planter. Illustration included.
Date: June 24, 1903
Creator: Merrick, Samuel M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Floyd County

Blue line print of survey map of Floyd County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made to the published map in red and blue pencil to indicate the addition of White River Draw and various trails. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1904
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Floyd 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
Process of Producing Pictures (open access)

Process of Producing Pictures

Patent for a process of producing pictures. Illustration included.
Date: July 19, 1904
Creator: Fields, Moses M.; Edwards, J. W. & Winn, W. M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from W. W. Kirk to William John Bryan, February 2, 1905] (open access)

[Letter from W. W. Kirk to William John Bryan, February 2, 1905]

Letter from W. W. Kirk to William John Bryan discussing Bryan acquire a train pass for a trip Kirk is taking.
Date: February 2, 1905
Creator: Kirk, W. W.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter From an Attorney for Ballinger & Abilene Ry. Co. To Dr. R. A. Childers, December 21, 1908] (open access)

[Letter From an Attorney for Ballinger & Abilene Ry. Co. To Dr. R. A. Childers, December 21, 1908]

Letter from an attorney for Ballinger & Abilene Ry. Co. to Dr. R. A. Childers discussing monies owed for a lot of land purchased by Childers.
Date: December 21, 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner (open access)

Oil Burner

Patent for a class of oil burners to be used with stoves. Illustration included.
Date: September 6, 1910
Creator: Mitchell, Cliff W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome (open access)

Aerodrome

Patent for an aerodrome. Illustrations included.
Date: April 16, 1912
Creator: Helm, Amos J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spoke-Tightener (open access)

Spoke-Tightener

Patent for a spoke tightener that reduces the strain on the felly.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Norton, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check for Draft Apparatus. (open access)

Check for Draft Apparatus.

Patent for a check attachment for a draft apparatus that pulls rope from the apparatus to effect the draft on the object "which will automatically lock the pull rope against movement under the influence of tension of the apparatus when the force applied to the rope to the effect such tension is removed" (lines 20-24).
Date: July 15, 1913
Creator: Battey, Orlando F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for a pump, designed to increase the flow of water without increasing the length of the stroke or the numbers of strokes of the plunger rod. The pump lifts water by force and suction simultaneously.
Date: February 24, 1914
Creator: Muncy, David J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin. (open access)

Clothes Pin.

Patent for a coil clothes-pin "capable of ready engagement and disengagement with and from the clothesline" and "which may be loosely and slidably mounted upon a clothesline".
Date: July 6, 1915
Creator: Plaster, Joseph J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine. (open access)

Traction-Engine.

Patent for traction engines used in farms that will make it easier to construct, make it less heavy, and cheaper to build.
Date: August 8, 1916
Creator: Roberts, Adrian J. & Wright, Wayne C., Sr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Old Mission, Juarez, Mexico after a Battle]

Postcard image of a side view (from the north) of a Franciscan mission, labeled in the center of the image as "Old Mission, Juarez, Mex. after a Battle." One man on horseback, in the street, and a line of unidentified men standing on the sidewalk are in front the the building, which has visible damage from bullets and canons which resulted from the Battle of Ciudad Juárez (1911). There is a handwritten note on the back sent from "Hess" to Mable Dagley in Lockney, Texas.
Date: October 1916
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel Tire (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel Tire

Patent for vehicle wheel tire made of spring steel which includes a mechanism to adjust "tensioning means that will be regulated in accordance with the load" (lines 23-27).
Date: June 26, 1917
Creator: McGehee, Tom S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History