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Artesian Well Borer. (open access)

Artesian Well Borer.

Patent for a new and improved artesian-well borer. This design "will be actuated by the weight of the connecting-rods and sink-wells in rock, gravel, earth, or sand without the use of water" (lines 13-16). It consists "[i]n an earth or rock auger, the combination, with a tube and a shank reciprocating in said tube and adapted to operate the auger, of dogs adapted to be projected through the tube by the reciprocation of the shank to engage the well-casing and hold the said tube from rotary movement" (lines 62-68).
Date: January 20, 1891
Creator: Logan, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fort Hancock 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

Chispa 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: 1895
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sierra Blanca 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: 1895
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sierra Blanca Junction]

Copy photo of a group of people lined up outside of the junction in Sierra Blanca, Texas. Written below the image is "Sierra Blanca, Texas 1896 [sic] jct of the T&P and S.P." and "Southwest Collection."
Date: 1896
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train in Sierra Blanca

Photograph of John Chester in Sierra Blanca, Texas while traveling with the Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train. John Chester is pictured next to a wagon sponsored by Copenhagen, Skoal, and Billy Bob's Texas.
Date: April 7, 1896
Creator: Cirincione, Nick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chispa 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: 1897
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eagle Mountain 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: 1897
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for improvements in rail-joint by providing “a fastening means for rail-joints adapted to embrace the bottom and top sides of the foot and the sides of the web of the rail and to extend along the underside of the head, so as to brace the joint vertically.” (Lines 16-31) Illustration is included.
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Boyd, Henry M. & Redmon, Hope
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fort Hancock 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

Van Horn 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: 1906
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sierra Blanca 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: 1907
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hasp-Fastener (open access)

Hasp-Fastener

Patent for a hasp fastener designed to hold a hasp in a locked position by use of gravity. Illustrations included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Robinson, Albert W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chispa 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: 1911
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eagle Mountain 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: 1911
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spike (open access)

Spike

Patent for spikes for securing rails to railroad ties. Illustrations included.
Date: November 12, 1912
Creator: Riggins, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fort Hancock 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: 1914
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sierra Blanca 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: 1916
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hudspeth Co.

Blue line print of survey map of Hudspeth County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, townships, cities, towns, roads, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil. Scale [ca. 1:400,000] (12,000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1917
Creator: Wicker, George T.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hudspeth 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: 1917
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

School Exterior

Copy negative of a two story high school building in Sierra Blanca, Texas.
Date: 1920~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Van Horn 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: 1920
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Mountain Eagle (Sierra Blanca, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1925 (open access)

The Mountain Eagle (Sierra Blanca, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1925

Weekly newspaper from Sierra Blanca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 27, 1925
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Mountain Eagle (Sierra Blanca, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1925 (open access)

The Mountain Eagle (Sierra Blanca, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1925

Weekly newspaper from Sierra Blanca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 11, 1925
Creator: Warren, C. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History