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[Bill of sale for the slave "Joe" to William Murrell by D.S. Wade, May 15, 1854] (open access)

[Bill of sale for the slave "Joe" to William Murrell by D.S. Wade, May 15, 1854]

Bill of sale for the slave "Joe" to William Murrell by D.S. Wade, May 15, 1854 for $835.
Date: May 15, 1854
Creator: Wade, D.S.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle Stopper. (open access)

Bottle Stopper.

Patent for a new and improved bottle stopper. This design "consists in the combination of the tubular body, having its lower end closed by means of a cork, and having its upper end formed into a measuring-chamber, which is adapted to be closed by means of a cork, so as to protect the measuring chamber from dust and dirt" (lines 13-19).
Date: July 15, 1884
Creator: Cotten, Jefferson Davis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Flour and Meal Bin. (open access)

Portable Flour and Meal Bin.

Patent for a new and improved bin for flour and meal. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the casing having compartments provided with contracted curved bottoms, the spouts in said bottoms, the spirally-grooved shafts in said spouts, the chambers the bottoms of which are hinged to the casing and provided with the sieves, and the stirrers on the ends of the shafts and within the hinged chambers" (lines 81-89).
Date: March 15, 1887
Creator: Cox, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 39, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 15, 1888 (open access)

The Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 39, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 15, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 68, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 15, 1888 (open access)

The Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 68, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 15, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 93, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1888 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 93, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 15, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 120, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 15, 1888 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 120, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 15, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 145, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 15, 1888 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 145, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 15, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 172, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1888 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 172, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 15, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 197, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 15, 1888 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 197, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 15, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 223, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 1888 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 223, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 15, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 250, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 15, 1888 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 250, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 15, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 302, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1888 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 302, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 15, 1888
Creator: Leonard, J. T. & Sullivan, J. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 15, 1888 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 15, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 15, 1888
Creator: Leonard, J. T. & Sullivan, J. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 89, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1889 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 89, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 15, 1889
Creator: Leonard, J. T. & Sullivan, J. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 140, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 15, 1889 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 140, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 15, 1889
Creator: Leonard, J. T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 167, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 15, 1889 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 167, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 15, 1889
Creator: Leonard, J. T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 219, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1889 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 219, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 15, 1889
Creator: Leonard, J. T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 246, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 15, 1889 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 246, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 15, 1889
Creator: Leonard, J. T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Torch and Gas Burner Key. (open access)

Combined Torch and Gas Burner Key.

Patent for a new and improved combined torch and gas-burner key. This design "relates to a device for lighting gas-burners and operating the cock of the gas-burner, and has for its object to provide a combined torch and key by means of which the gas may be lighted without the flame of the torch coming in contact with the globe surrounding the burner and the cock of the gas-burner readily taken hold of and operated" (lines 8-15).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Lindsay, George Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cultivating Machine (open access)

Cotton-Cultivating Machine

Patent to "provide an implement which, in passing once over the row of cotton, will chop, scrape, and cultivate said row" (lines 10-13).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijah
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 271, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 15, 1889 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 271, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Leonard, J. T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design "is to obviate the . . . great difficulty . . . experienced in the construction of wheels in putting the axle-box in the hub and getting it true. . . . and [to] improve and strengthen the construction of wheels, and especially the manner of securing the spokes in the hubs" (lines 9-17).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Holland, William Johnson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 298, Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1889 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 298, Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 15, 1889
Creator: Leonard, J. T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History