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Hardeman County
Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Hardeman County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
August 1876
Creator:
Brooks, J.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Memories of Martha Elizabeth Gibson Anglin
A transcript of a 1963 oral history with Martha Elizabeth Anglin (née Gibson), recalling her childhood in Alabama, her family's move to Texas in 1895, and her marriage and life on a farm in Commerce, Texas. Footnotes are provided to add context to the narrative.
Date:
1887/1963
Creator:
Anglin, Michael W.; Anglin, Reba; Barnett, Robert & Barnett, Patricia
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
River Steamboat
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of passenger and freight river steamboats.
Date:
December 13, 1887
Creator:
Simpson, George Louis James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
County Surveyor's Office, Hardeman County
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs and the name E. I. Flynt, County Surveyor. Reverse of letter contains map of Hardeman County land.
Date:
1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Quanah City Council Minutes: Volume 1, 1890-1917]
Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Quanah, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from the first meeting on June 12, 1890, through spring 1917.
Date:
1890-06/1917-04
Creator:
Quanah (Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two Wheeled Vehicle.
Patent for a new and improved two-wheeled vehicle. This design consists, "with the vehicle-body, the side springs secured thereto, and the bow-shaped brackets secured to said springs, of the axle and the shafts secured to the axle, the links pivoted to the axle and the said brackets and suspending the vehicle-body from the axle, the spring having its rear end secured to the vehicle body and provided with an eye at its front end, the cross-bar connecting the shafts, an eyebolt depending from the said cross-bar, and the adjustable link adapted to be lengthened or shortened" (lines 53-64).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Harper, William D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
First National Bank Quanah
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and depicts bank building in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts. Letterhead includes names Jno. G. James, President; W. E. Johnson, Vice President; Jno. R. Good, Cashier.
Date:
1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Quanah
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains decorative designs and stylized text with the name Mrs. E. A. Ballard, Proprietress.
Date:
1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stiteler & Carroll
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs and business name, with text reading: "Dealers in Hardware, Stoves, Implements, Queensware, Sporting Goods, Etc."; "Agents for Rock Island Plows and Harrows, Casaday Sulkies, McCormick Harvesters and Binders, Farmer's Favorite Grain Drills, Studebaker Wagons and Superior Stoves and Ranges," in lithographic print by Chief Print.
Date:
1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Worsham Cattle Co.
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs, cattle illustrations, business name, and text reading: "P. O. Henrietta, Ranch Pease River," in lithographic print by Geo. D. Barnard & Co. St. Louis. Letterhead includes names Washington Becker, Pres't Secy & Treas.; W. B. Worsham, Gen'l Manager.
Date:
1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide.
Patent for improvements in poisons for prairie-dogs, a “chemical compositions adapted to destroy vermin and more particularly prairie-dogs; but it may also be used to destroy many other sorts of vermin, including birds and insects.” (Lines 12-16) Ingredients and instruction of how to mix this compound are included. No illustration.
Date:
July 28, 1891
Creator:
Staples, David W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky.
Patent for improvements in sulkies by using materials such as curved springs, cross-bar and braces to support the body of the vehicle and making it rigid, with a sturdy frame, the sulky would vibrate freely in every direction. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 28, 1891
Creator:
Harper, William D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1892 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1892
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1892 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1892
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah Tribune
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with business name and text reading: "Best Advertising Medium in the Panhandle"; "Wagner & Osborne, Prop's."; "Established in 1889."
Date:
1892
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame for Sweing-Machines.
Patent for a quilting-frame for sewing-machines that "a folding tripod which is adapted to support the quilting frame, by means of a swiveled pulley connected to the handle of the frame carrying the rollers, the said pulley running backward and forward on the upper surface of a horizontal shaft which is held by means of adjustable rods, to a parallel shaft which is slidingly held to the upper surfaces of two of the tripod strips" (lines 18-26). The invention can fold compactly for storage.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Parsons, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Quanah
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and photograph of the hotel. Letterhead includes name R. F. Scott, Proprietor.
Date:
1895
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Carter House
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and the name T. B. Carter, Proprietor.
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
G. A. Yantis, Cattle Dealer
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains cattle illustration, cattle brand description, and stylized text of business name.
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chief Quanah Parker Visiting Quanah, Texas
Photograph of Quanah, Texas when Chief Quanah Parker visited on July 4, 1896. The Fort Worth and Denver Railway station is at the left. Over 250 Comanche braves rode horses in the parade with Parker and three of his wives.
Date:
July 4, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fountain-Pen.
Patent for a fountain pen that has a piston which suctions ink into the pen's barrel and feeds it to the pen-point. The pen will be sturdy with no loose parts.
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
Rogers, William Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shot-Carrying Shell.
Patent for "a cartridge-shell which shall clean the barrel of the gun each time one is discharged, thereby preventing the gun becoming foul or clogged," and "which can be employed for shooting shot at long or short range." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1897
Creator:
Williams, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing For Bicycles.
Patent relating to "a new and useful improvement in gearing for bicycles and the like, and has for its object to so construct and arrange a device of this description as to avoid sudden shocks or jars which are occasioned by unevenness in the road-bed over which the machine is traveling, and also to enable the rider to exert a sudden force upon the pedals without straining the framework or wheels of the machine" (lines 9-18).
Date:
August 17, 1897
Creator:
Godfray, Ernest H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Generator for Acetylene Gas
Patent for a new and improved generator for acetylene gas.
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Williams, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History