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[Transcript of letter from Stephen F. Austin to James F. Perry, November 15, 1831] (open access)

[Transcript of letter from Stephen F. Austin to James F. Perry, November 15, 1831]

Copy of transcript for a letter from Stephen F. Austin to James F. Perry discussing the retrieval of Perry's goods, and reporting that Fisher and Teran may now be collecting duties at Anahuac. Austin also explains why James and Emily should settle at Peach Point, rather than Chocolate Bayou.
Date: November 15, 1831
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hardin County

Map of the Piney Woods region covering Hardin County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1862
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hardin County

Map of the Piney Woods region covering Hardin County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1862
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hardin County

Map of the Piney Woods region covering Hardin County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 3, 1871
Creator: Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 7 July 1881 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 7 July 1881

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: July 7, 1881
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, [12 July 1881] (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, [12 July 1881]

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: July 12, 1881
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 14 July 1881 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 14 July 1881

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: July 14, 1881
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 16 July [1881] (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 16 July [1881]

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: July 16, 1881
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 26 July 1882 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 26 July 1882

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: July 26, 1882
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Plow. (open access)

Revolving Plow.

Patent for a new and improved revolving plow. This design calls for a cylinder with blades attached radially for "cutting up, breaking, and turning over the soil or turf, in which the cutter blades are freed automatically" (lines 7-10). This plow cuts up, breaks, and turns over earth faster than previous designs.
Date: October 31, 1882
Creator: Hurd, Judson B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand Cultivator. (open access)

Hand Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide hand-cultivators constructed in such a manner as to cut up and destroy grass and weeds without throwing the soil around and covering small plants, and without breaking the soil away from around the plants" (lines 16-21).
Date: November 18, 1884
Creator: Hurd, Judson B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hardin County

Map of the Piney Woods region covering Hardin County, Texas. The center of Hardin County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: November 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Log-Turner (open access)

Log-Turner

Patent for "that class of log-turners which is operated by power, and has for its object to provide a device that will be quick and positive in its operation" (lines 39-42).
Date: May 10, 1887
Creator: Ferris, Henry Murry & Gallon, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nona Mills Company (open access)

Nona Mills Company

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustration of business with decorative business name and text reading: "Manufacturers of All Kinds of Rough, Sized and Dressed Long Leaf Yellow Pine and Cypress Lumber, Mouldings, Laths, Pickets, Shingles. R. R. Ties, Bridge Timber, Etc."; "Capacity of Mills 70,000 Feet Per Day. On Sabine and East Texas R. R." in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston.
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee and Head Block for Saw Mills. (open access)

Knee and Head Block for Saw Mills.

Patent for a new and improved knee and head block. This design consists, "with a saw-mill carriage, of a head-block extending flush with the outer edges of the tracks of said carriage and provided with the usual groove or recess extending the entire length of said head-block, a knee sliding in said groove and provided on its front vertical edge with a recess, and a log-supporter fitting flush within said recess and provided at its lower end with a forwardly-extending lug or projection" (lines 39-48).
Date: April 29, 1890
Creator: Willis, George F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "relates particularly to a combined pipe and nut wrench, and has for its object to provide a wrench of the class described which can be quickly changed to an ordinary wrench . . . [the] invention consists of a shank having a rigid jaw attached thereto, a movable jaw adjustable on the shank and an eccentrically-headed lever pivoted to the rear end of the movable jaw and bearing on the shank adapted to separate the rear end of the movable jaw and said shank to throw the forward end of the movable jaw closer to the rigid jaw" (lines 7-22).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Hooks, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Tread. (open access)

Animal-Tread.

Patent for improvements in animal-treads when “animal is placed in the tread, the single or double tree being attached to the arm c’, and thus in addition to his weight he will have his strength to operate the tread. The function of the rope and weight is to keep the traces and tree from under the animal’s feet in case he should slack his speed, and thus prevent his tripping.” (Lines 59-66) Illustration is included.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Bevil, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Rubber Heel. (open access)

Detachable Rubber Heel.

Patent for "a rubber heel tap adapted for detachable connection to the heel of a boot or shoe, and which shall serve to cushion the fall of the heel," and "to provide a corrugated surface upon the face of the heel which shall adapt the same for service as an ice creeper." (Lines 14-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 28, 1895
Creator: Williams, Thomas Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine. (open access)

Adding-Machine.

Patent for an adding-machine meant to "add fixed amounts of money received or to calculate the number of days a laborer has worked or the number of fractions of days" (lines 14-17). Mounted keys have mechanisms that rotate a ratchet wheel or disk. "Secured to the shaft upon which this ratchet wheel or disk is mounted is a rate-indicator, consisting of a disk divided off into radial sections, and also divided by lines running parallel to the circumference of said disk, dividing the same up into sections, which indicate money advanced on pay-roll, addition column, total amount at a fixed rate, and the number of days worked by any workman" (lines 25-34).
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: McElyea, James L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
G. J. Peterson (open access)

G. J. Peterson

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains decorative illustration and business name with text reading: "Dealer in General Merchandise and Agricultural Implements"; "Stock, Rice and Fruit Raiser (4,000 Growing Fruit Trees)"; "Dewdrop, Texas"; "Send All Goods and Telegrams to Sour Lake, Jefferson County, Texas."
Date: 1896
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Log-Cart. (open access)

Log-Cart.

Patent for a log-cart in which "one end of the log is elevated or drawn up underneath the axle, while the other end drags along on the ground" (lines 14-17). This design is more efficient than other models of log-carts.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Moon, Robert G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for a "pump for effectively pumping oil or quicksand from wells troubled with quicksand." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1897
Creator: Wintz, James Philip
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sour Lake Hotel (open access)

Sour Lake Hotel

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes detailed illustration of hotel and decorative business name with text reading: "Orders for Water, Tar & Mud Promptly Attended To"; "Reopened Under A New Proprietorship, Under New Auspices And New Management."
Date: 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car - Coupling (open access)

Car - Coupling

Patent for a new and useful improvements in car-couplings. This design "relates to car-couplers of the pivoted-hook type" (line 11 -12).
Date: February 8, 1898
Creator: Chance, Ransom M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History