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Menard County
Map of Menard County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
March 1860
Creator:
Arlitt, F. H.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Fort McKavett Reserve
Cadastral map of the 812 acre Fort McKavett Reserve, showing property lines, ownership, and plat numbers. The map also includes roads, rivers, and Fort McKavett. Scale [ca. 1:17,000] (500 varas to the inch).
Date:
1870
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Menard County
Map of Menard County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1871/1879
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Menard County
Map of Menard County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1871~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Menard County, Texas.
Map shows land tracts with patents, landowners and tract numbers; towns, military forts, roads, and the San Saba River; circle near center of map measures just over twelve cm. in diameter and encompasses Menardville and Old San Saba Fort. Scale [1:133,334].
Date:
1879
Creator:
Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Menard County
Map of Menard County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
July 1879
Creator:
Groos, Otto
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mason 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:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheep-Shearing Machine
Patent for an invention "to prevent these great losses to the sheep-owners of the country by producing a shearing-machine which will shear the sheep rapidly and evenly, and at the same time avoid cutting the sheep, thus preventing the injury to and loss of thousands of sheep yearly, and also increasing the market value of the wool" (lines 44-51).
Date:
June 12, 1888
Creator:
Richardson, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sam'l. Wallick & Co.
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative images and business name with text reading: "Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries and Genr'l Merchandise."
Date:
1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burbank & Babbitt
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative images, livestock illustrations, and business name in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston, Tex.
Date:
1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deervale Ranch Co., Limited
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes livestock illustration and business name, with text reading: "Deervale Ranch, Menard County." Letterhead contains the names Kennedy & Roberts, Managers.
Date:
1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compensating Pump-Spring.
Patent for improvements in compensating pump-springs by “storing up in the downward or idle stroke of the suction-rod, a power which is expended during the upward stroke to assist the crank in lifting the rod; and at the same time reducing the power required to drive the pump, equalizing the resistance, increasing the efficiency and generally prolonging the life of the entire mechanism.” (Lines 36-40) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Black, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Eden 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:
1892
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Angelo 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:
1892
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Friction Sucker-Rod Coupling.
Patent for an anti-frictioin sucker-rod coupling. This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in sectional sucker-rods for artesian, oil, and other wells, and has for its object to provide an improved construction of coupling-joint for connecting the sections of the rods together.
Date:
January 26, 1892
Creator:
Black, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Clasp.
Patent for a new and improved anti-friction clasp. This design "is to provide means whereby the wear due to the rubbing of inclosed rods or ropes against an inclosing casing may be reduced to a minimum and whereby the central alignment of the rods or ropes with respect to the inclosing casing may be accurately preserved" (lines 11-17). It consists in "a series of friction balls or rollers mounted therein and projecting from the periphery thereof and being divided into sections adapted to be clamped at any point around the rod or rope" (lines 97-101).
Date:
October 25, 1892
Creator:
Black, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort McKavett 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:
1893
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compensating Pump-Spring.
Patent for an improvement on the inventor's previous patent (No. 450,657). The improvements include getting rid of the sleeve, and "employ[ing] volute springs instead of the straight flat springs formerly used; [the inventor] also dispense[s] with the links and connect the inner ends of the springs to long pitmen which have a pivotal connection with the suction rod at a point above the springs; [the inventor] furthermore provide[s] a means for adjusting the tension of the springs without altering the connection of the same with the suction rod" (lines 23-31).
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Black, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mason 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
Menard County
Blue line print of survey map of Menard County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks or land, cities, and towns. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date:
1894
Creator:
Warren, W. H.; Blane, F. G. & Ehlinger, L.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Menard 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:
1894
Creator:
[Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple, efficient, and reliable car-coupling that is meant to be especially safe. When the cars become uncoupled, the coupling is automatically reset to couple another car, and it can be easily applied to a drawhead to a car in use.
Date:
February 5, 1895
Creator:
Schneider, Adolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Eden 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:
1896
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
J. W. White, Manager of Littlefield & White Pastures
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains cattle illustration and stylized business name with text reading: "Comprising 110,000 Acres in Mason, Kimble and Menard counties"; "Dealer in Steer Cattle." Letterhead includes the names G. W. Littlefield, Austin, Texas; J. W. White, Mason, Texas.
Date:
1898
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History