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Hartley County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Hartley County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: December 1878
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hartley County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Hartley County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: January 1881
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hartley

Cadastral map of Harley County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, rivers, and creeks. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Date: June 20, 1884
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hartley County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Hartley County, Texas. The center of Hartley County and the location of the Capitol Land Reservation are marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 20, 1884
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hartley County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Hartley County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Two-Way Faucet. (open access)

Two-Way Faucet.

Patent for "a two-way faucet adapted for attachment to a hydrant or other source of supply and also for connection with a hose, whereby water my be obtained for general or household purposes without the necessity of the water passing through the rubber hose, which would render the water unfit for domestic use or for culinary purposes." (Lines 13-20) Illustration included.
Date: May 15, 1900
Creator: Barrett, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tooth Cleaning Implement (open access)

Tooth Cleaning Implement

Patent for a tooth cleaning implement. This invention is designed to get between the teeth. Illustration included.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Bessonet, George C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ink Pad (open access)

Ink Pad

Patent for an ink pad. Illustration included.
Date: March 14, 1905
Creator: Bessonet, George C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for "Improvements in Wire-Stretchers" (line 6) relating to "a combined wire stretching, tying, and splicing machine" (lines 15-16).
Date: January 2, 1906
Creator: Curtis, Zenas Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy. (open access)

Toy.

Patent for a whirligig toy, containing a rotatable platform carrying horse and sleigh figurines that spin in the same direction.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Curtis, Zenas Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher (open access)

Wire Stretcher

Patent for a wire stretcher. The invention utilizes wire-winding reel and gear-wheels Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Curtis, Zenas Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cushioned Tire (open access)

Cushioned Tire

Patent for a cushioned tire. This invention is for tires for vehicle-wheels " to obiate the collapsing of the tire by puncturing thereof, as in pneumatic tires" (line 11-12). Illustration included.
Date: March 12, 1907
Creator: Curtis, Zenas Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Channing school]

Photograph of schoolchildren in Channing, Texas, standing and kneeling before the open door of a brick building. A teacher stands at the rear of the group. A boy in the front row holds a slate upon which is written "Channing, Tx, Room II, 3-1-09."
Date: March 1, 1909
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Equalizer (open access)

Draft Equalizer

Patent for a draft class. This device is for use with wagons to equalize draft animals. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Bouldin, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel, which has a tire tread cushion on it to absorb shocks, reduce war on the tread, and make the tire move relatively to the hub of the wheel.
Date: August 10, 1909
Creator: Curtis, Zenas Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for "improvements in pumps which move a long column of water with each stroke but discharge a relatively small quantity" (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1911
Creator: Kangas, Frank Oskar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock (open access)

Nut-Lock

Patent for a nut lock. Illustrations included.
Date: October 22, 1912
Creator: Martin, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock (open access)

Nut-Lock

Patent for a nut lock. Illustrations included.
Date: October 22, 1912
Creator: Martin, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hartley County

Blue line print of survey map of Hartley County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:213,333] (4000 varas to 5/8 of an inch).
Date: 1925
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hartley 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: 1925
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas Ranches Panhandle Section

Survey map of large ranches in the Texas Panhandle region, including the name and/or the owner(s) of each ranch. Map also includes labeled counties, towns, rivers, creeks, and roads. Handwritten notes have been made to the map in pencil to denote the approximate acreage of a number of ranches.
Date: 1949
Creator: Williams, J. W. & Neal, A. D., Sr.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tucumcari

Topographic quadrangle map of Tucumcari, New Mexico, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights and includes location and sectionalized township diagrams. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1955
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dalhart

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 1:250000
Date: 1958
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tucumcari

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 1:250000
Date: 1958
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History