Resource Type

Tea-Chest. (open access)

Tea-Chest.

Patent for "tea-chests and other receptacles of a light nature in which the articles are shipped and retailed in and from the original packages," (lines 8-11) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1891
Creator: Buford, Paschal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shirt Bosom. (open access)

Shirt Bosom.

Patent for a new and improved shirt bosom. This design "is to provide an improved 'dickey' adapted to be worn either with or without an ordinary shirt" (lines 9-11). It consists in a "dickey, the same comprising a bosom divided down its center, a box-plait at the inner edge of each section of the divided bosom, said plaits registering with each other and the two faces of the bosom being finished alike, cross-straps at the lower ends of the sections, a tab depending from each strap, a flap between said tabs, and a collar-band connected to the upper ends of both sections" (lines 66-75).
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Mistrot, Felix E.
System: The Portal to Texas History