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San Saba 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:
1885
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Rye Valley School 1886-1888]
Photocopy of a group of students of varying ages posed on the porch of a wooden building. Several of the children sitting on a bench in the foremost row are barefoot and most are holding hats in their laps. Older students are standing to the right in the top row, most of them young women in long-sleeved, patterned dresses with their hair tied up in buns. A young man is standing to the left of the top row, wearing a dark suit.
Date:
[1886..1888]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lampasas 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
Hamilton 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:
1888
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mills County, state of Texas.
Map shows late nineteenth century Mills County, Texas property boundaries, land patents, landowners, towns, and plat numbers. Scale [1:66,667].
Date:
1888
Creator:
Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brownwood 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:
1889
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle Bit.
Patent for a new and improved bridle bit. This design "consist[s] of curb-plates provided with the mouth-bar and having the upper ends provided with slots and the lower ends formed with longitudinal slots, and the cheek-plates loosely fitted to the outer ends of the mouth-bar and having their opposite ends formed with openings for the attachment of the head-stall and reins" (lines 72-79).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Allen, John Hudson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from C. B. Wade to Charlie, March 27, 1891]
Letter from C. B. Wade to Charlie discussing the possibility of a railroad being built from Dublin, Texas, a recent fire, and other recent news. The letter is written on The Hamilton National Bank letterhead. It appears that someone practiced handwriting on the back of the first page, and there is a note written to Mr. Wade from Mrs. John Bevry, [?] Jr. on the back of the last page.
Date:
March 27, 1891
Creator:
Wade, C. B.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The First Fire at Goldthwaite 1892]
Photograph of people loosely gathered in an open area of town with carts, horses, and various material items scattered about. Musical instruments are visible on tables in the right foreground, and several buildings are visible throughout the background.
Date:
1892
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Goldthwaite Fire 1892]
Photograph of a wide open area in part of the town of Goldthwaite, with buildings in the background. A group of several people standing together and a person driving a horse-drawn car are visible in the mid-ground, and a few individuals are visible throughout the background. The photo was taken from an elevated point, with railroad tracks visible in the foreground. Handwriting at the top of the photo reads, "Goldthwaite first fire of 1892-" and "1st big fire 1892". Handwriting on the back of the photo reads, "This was a disastrous fire, summer of 1892, Goldthwaite Tex."
Date:
1892
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Goldthwaite Round House and Crew]
Photograph of a crew of men posed in front of a train roundhouse in Goldthwaite, Texas, with several tracks leading into the building from the left.
Date:
1892
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole auger. This design "is adapted to be attached to a cart or wagon and moved from place to place thereon in line with the proposed operating fence and operated to bore post-holes without the necessity of detaching it from the wagon, whereby the machine may be readily transported and arranged in position for use" (lines 14-20). It consists, "with a wagon having brackets secured to one side thereof, of a vertically-sliding frame moving within said brackets and carrying an earth-auger and gearing for actuating said auger" (lines 14-18).
Date:
April 5, 1892
Creator:
Cryer, Henry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Goldthwaite Cornet Band 1892]
Photograph of a group of men standing in a single row in a field with trees and tall grass visible in the background. Each is holding either a brass or drum instrument, except for the man sixth from the left who is holding a small conductor baton by his side. "Goldthwaite Cornet Band, May 11th 1892" is printed on the bottom edge of the photo. The men are listed on the back from left to right as "B. A. Harris, Fred Peck, Will Gresham, James Lammers, J. D. Urqhart, Mr. Boyer "Teacher", Joe A. Price, John Roberts, Jim Vickers, Newt Cole, A. J. Gatlin, I. G. Abney, and Jack Carswell".
Date:
May 11, 1892
Creator:
Jones, Bob
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Bed-Bottom.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable spring bet bottom that consists of a frame, slats, separate inverted cone-shaped coiled springs that sit on the slats and that loop together at the tops, clamps that hold the springs onto the slats, and hooks that hold the upper coils to the frame.
Date:
December 26, 1893
Creator:
Crowder, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brownwood 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
Goldthwaite 1894 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Goldthwaite in Mills County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1894
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hamilton 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
Lampasas 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
San Saba 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
Wire-Coiling Machine.
Patent for a wire-coiling machine that improves on a previous patent (No. 296,806), that was granted to Wildermuth. The improvement allows for either left- or right-handed use, by making the crank movable to either side and by "providing the upper end of the post at opposite sides with stationary cutter blades and a single movable cutter adapted to be shifted for operation with either one of the said fixed cutters" (lines 28-32).
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Crowder, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Goldthwaite High School About 1895]
Photograph of a classroom full of students, with some sitting in desks and others standing in the back of the room, while empty desks are visible in the foreground. Several hats are hanging on the wall in the background, to the right of a long chalkboard. A bookcase sits in the corner in the background, and two windows are visible on the wall to its right. Handwriting on the top edge of the mat reads, "G.H.S. about 1895". A few of the people in the photo are identified by printed labels adhered to the bottom edge as, Omar Weatherby, George O'Quin, Mary Lou Grundy, Lee Yarborough, and Lesha Tobert.
Date:
1895~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mountain Eagle. (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 7, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Goldthwaite, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 7, 1896
Creator:
Thompson, R. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Julius Kauhs Family, 1897 Bulls Creek]
Photocopy of a family of nine posed outdoors and dressed in dark attire, except for two toddlers wearing light colored dresses. A wooden house with a small, covered porch is in the background, and a dog is laying on the ground to the left. Text on the bottom edge reads, "Julius Kauhs Family - About 1897 Bulls Creek". Names of some of the members are written on the back.
Date:
1897~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
K. Jones
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs and business name with text reading: "Drugs, Patent Medicines, Oils, Paints, Varnishes"; "Prescriptions Carefully Compounded At All Hours."
Date:
1897
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History