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Ant-Trap.
Patent for a new type of ant trap that captures ants by having them crawl up a wooden central chamber and then fall into a sheer metal pit. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 8, 1891
Creator:
Walker, Stephen A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "is capable of vertical adjustment, so that the plowshare and landside will be elevated out of contact with the ground in order to prevent the point from wearing out in transporting or moving it from one field or place to another; and it is furthermore provided with an improved fender and scraper, which prevents the dirt from clogging up and wearing the axle, and keeps the periphery of the wheel clear of mud or other matter that is liable to adhere thereto" (lines 27-37).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
Grimm, Frederick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plow in which the plow can perform a variety of purposes and to obviate the necessity of employing more than one plow for accomplishing the same. The plow can be adjusted to run either on shallow or deep ground. Illustration is included.
Date:
December 8, 1903
Creator:
Campbell, John Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Cam Wheel.
Patent for A Cam-Wheel that has opposite reversely disposed duplicate lobes of segmental form.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Wheeler, Andrew Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of W. L. Hancock Home and Family]
Copy negative of W. L. Hancock standing with his family and their dog standing in the front yard of their home near the turn of the twentieth century. The family members pictured are Charlie W. Hancock (1883-1939), William L. Hancock (1849-1908), Clara Alma (Lee) Hancock (1854-1927), Minnie (Hancock) Kite (1878-1942), and Eva May Hancock (188?-1940).
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Wesley Kite Home]
Copy negative of people sitting on the porch of the home of Wesley Kite, circa 1910.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Kite Family Home]
Copy negative of Wesley Kite, his wife Minnie Ulman Hancock, and their three children standing outside of their home in Comanche County in 1905.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Mexico School Teachers and Students]
Copy negative of a group of students and teachers from Mexico School in the early twentieth century. One of the teachers is identified as Miss Ocie Johnson.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Wheat Reaping Team]
Copy negative of workmen reaping wheat in J. A. "Jim" Hancock's field, with a team of horses hitched to a reaping machine during the early twentieth century.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Singing School at Mexico]
Copy negative of a group of adults and children standing outside of a building, with a piano in the middle of the group. The group was gathered for a singing school at the Mexico schoolhouse, circa 1910; the teacher's name was Eiland.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Wesley Kite's Children and Their Teacher]
Copy negative of Miss Bertie Suber, teacher at Mexico School, with the children of Wesley Kite: Zadie, Vernon, and Zelma, circa 1915.
Date:
May 8, 1975
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 2014
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 8, 2014
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 2013
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 8, 2013
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 8, 2012
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 8, 2012
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 2014
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 8, 2014
Creator:
Wilkerson, James C., III
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 2013
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 8, 2013
Creator:
Wilkerson, James C., III
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 8, 2012
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 8, 2012
Creator:
Wilkerson, James C., III
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1944
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 8, 1944
Creator:
Wilkerson, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1944
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 8, 1944
Creator:
Wilkerson, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, June 8, 1945
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 8, 1945
Creator:
Wilkerson, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 2009
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 8, 2009
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a washing machine that combines parts, such as washing rollers, toothed wheels and segments, in an effective manner.
Date:
August 8, 1916
Creator:
Queen, Ernest N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Comanche Chief and Pioneer Exponent (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 8, 1913
Creator:
Bell, Tom H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Comanche Chief and Pioneer Exponent (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1915
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 8, 1915
Creator:
Calloway, Grade
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History