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Watkin's "Lazy Plate" barbed wire, William Watkins, November 21, 1876
Watkin's "Lazy Plate" barbed wire, William Watkins, November 21, 1876
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Herald (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1, Sunday, May 21, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
May 21, 1876
Creator:
Smith, R. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky Attachments for Plows.
Patent for improvement in sulky attachments for plows. This invention allows farmers to "apply any kind of plow to the sulky-frame" (1).
Date:
August 21, 1876
Creator:
Langsford, Samuel P. & Stroud, Wiley N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in folding tables.
Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.
Date:
March 21, 1876
Creator:
Arnold, James Edwin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Boring Apparatus.
Patent for improvement in well-boring machines in which it can be “rapidly bore through earth or rock holes of any desired size or depth, for the purpose of procuring water.” (P. 1, lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
Yarborough, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Seed-Planter, Fertilizer-Distributer, and Cultivator.
Patent for improvement in a combined seed-planter, fertilizer-distributer, and cultivator by attaching some prongs to a dropping-wheel for the purpose of taking hold of the cotton-seed and draw it out of the hopper. This dropping-wheel can be covered with a case when planning seeds and, removed if fertilizer is to be distributed with small seeds. Illustration is included.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
Flatau, Louis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gas-Liquefying Pumps.
Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a pump used in ice-machines for liquefying [sic] the gas" (lines 12-14) including illustrations.
Date:
March 21, 1876
Creator:
Boyle, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent for "an improved method of manufacturing a buckle to secure the different part of harness, saddle, or bridle trimmings, by means of mechanical connections that will obviate the use or necessity or stitches or sewing of any kind, and yet retain the adjacent parts firmly and with a secure engagement." (Lines 18-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
Bond, Virgil A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for improvements in cotton-presses by using “a combination of a horizontal double reversed screw, an open semi-cylindrical and longitudinal screw-threaded recess, provided with wheels or rollers to sustain and carry the superincumbent weight or pressure.” (Lines [47]-[52], p. 2) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 21, 1876
Creator:
Jones, Henry B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Victoria Advocate. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Victoria, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising. The paper is "A Democratic Journal."
Date:
September 21, 1876
Creator:
Linn, E. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Frontier Echo (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Jacksboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
January 21, 1876
Creator:
Robson, G. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Frontier Echo (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Jacksboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
April 21, 1876
Creator:
Robson, G. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Frontier Echo (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Jacksboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 21, 1876
Creator:
Robson, G. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Jasper Weekly News-Boy (Jasper, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Jasper, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
September 21, 1876
Creator:
Carraway & Blake
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Pellra Maoming to Gertrude Osterhout, August 21, 1876]
Letter from Pellra Maoming to Gertrude Osterhout. She wrote her friend the last week of vacation from school. The letter was composed of what Pellra and her family had been occupied with since last seeing Gertrude. Included is an envelope addressed to "Mrs. J. P. Osterhout."
Date:
August 21, 1876
Creator:
Maoming, Pellra
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 21, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 21, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 60, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1876
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 21, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 88, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 21, 1876
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 21, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 219, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 21, 1876
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 21, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 251, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1876
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 21, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 139, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1876
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 21, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 225, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 21, 1876
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 193, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1876
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 21, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History