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Development and Production History on the Salt Flat and Other Fault Fields of East Central Texas (open access)

Development and Production History on the Salt Flat and Other Fault Fields of East Central Texas

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the Salt Flat fields in East Central Texas. As stated in the introduction, "this report deals with the development and production history of the Salt Flat field and gives comparative data on five outstanding fault fields. Two of these fields are producing from limestone and three from sandstone reservoirs" (p. 2-3). This report includes tables, maps, photographs, and illustrations.
Date: March 1931
Creator: Hill, Harry Blackburn; Bauserman, E. V. H. & Carpenter, C. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Other fires] (open access)

[News Script: Other fires]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a fire in McKinney, Texas and a fire in Lockhart, Texas.
Date: August 29, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton-Blocking Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Cotton-Blocking Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for an attachment for cultivators for arranging blocks of cotton onto a stand. Illustrations included.
Date: February 22, 1910
Creator: Horner, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which has a hoe on one side and a cultivator on the other.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Dittrich, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churning Machine (open access)

Churning Machine

Patent for a churning machine that pumps liquids. It is designed to reduce materials used in this labor. This machine will also improve the quality of the labor and decrease the cost of this labor.
Date: December 6, 1905
Creator: Van Dusen, Henry L
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Photographic-Printing Device. (open access)

Photographic-Printing Device.

Patent for a new photographic-printing device featuring an improved apparatus, as well as new exposure and printing capabilities, including illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Brown, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Blocking Attachment. (open access)

Cotton-Blocking Attachment.

Patent for a cotton blocking attachment for cultivators.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Horner, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gate. (open access)

Automatic Gate.

Patent for an automatic gate that can be unlatched and opened by a vehicle approaching; and then, closed and latched again after passage of the vehicle. The automatic gate is reliable, not easily deranged, and simple in construction.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Laas, Louis August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin (open access)

Clothes-Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: July 13, 1909
Creator: Freeze, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which cuts faster and more accurately than other models and sends the waste cotton and weeds to one side.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Winkler, Christoph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a new churn with a simplified and improved construction, includes illustrations.
Date: October 1, 1901
Creator: New, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a baling press which uses less power to press hay the same tightness as current baling presses.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Smith, Ernest D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Highway Map Caldwell County, Texas

Highway map of Caldwell County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, and oil fields. Map includes ten inset maps - Uhland, Lytton Springs, Dale, McMahan, Stairtown, Reedville, Martindale, Maxwell, Fentress, and Prairie Lea - a key to counties diagram, and an extensive legend in the lower-left corner, indicating geographical and human-made features. A hand-drawn line , with a corresponding note, has been made to the map in pencil to mark the approximate route of the Old San Antonio Road. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date: 1967
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Caldwell Co.

Blue line print of survey map of Caldwell County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, the old San Antonio Road, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil and red ink. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: San Marcos Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of San Marcos, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing Guadalupe, Gonzales, Hays, and Caldwell Counties. The map includes county lines, towns, roads, railroads, rivers, creeks, and schools. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000
Date: 1931
Creator: Marshall, R. B.; Herron, W. H.; Stiles, Arthur; McLaughlin, Fred; Forster, William J.; Elliott, Herman R. et al.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Luling Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Luling, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, roads and highways, railroads, boundaries, rivers, creeks, churches, and schools. The blank portions of the map correspond to the map of the San Marco Quadrangle. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1946
Creator: Reineck, R. H.; Seitz, R. C.; Murphy, T. F.; Schultz, J. T. & Fisher, W. A.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Caldwell and Surrounding Counties: Texas]

Road map of portions of Blanco, Hays, Travis, Comal, Bexar, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Bastrop, Fayette, Washington, Colorado, Lavaca, and Gonzales Counties, showing towns, roads, railroads, mountains, post offices, rivers, creek, and springs. No scale information given.
Date: unknown
Creator: Luer, A.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Bessie and Arthur McCutcheon]

Photograph of Bessie and Arthur McCutcheon. Bessie, a young child, sits in a chair while Arthur stands to the right.
Date: unknown
Creator: Carter, Jno.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of a Group of Relatives]

Photograph of a group of relatives outside of a house which includes a log cabin. A man and girl are separated from the group and are standing to the left. The text on the back reads: " From Daniel F. & Winnie Pearl Gilreath Draper estate of Waco...Home place Gilreath ".
Date: unknown
Creator: A. H. Wells & Bro
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Caldwell County Courthouse]

Photograph of the Caldwell County Courthouse in Lockhart, Texas.
Date: June 1, 1979
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lockhart Vocational High School]

Photograph of the Lockhart Vocational High School in Lockhart, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that "couples automatically and by which a brakeman on a single car can uncouple one or more cars and to provide pipe connections between the cars for this and other purposes" (lines 9-13). It has a pivoted drawhead with lever connections to a piston head and uses steam connections with the cylinder in the piston head to couple.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "a platform having a rod or bar secured to its upper face, and having the ends of the choke-spring coiled thereon, pins or prongs extending from one edge of the platform for engagement with a side of a box, a box having one of its sides elevated, against which the pronged end of the platform abuts for engagement therewith, and having recesses in its opposite ends for the recession of a loop, which passes thence over the free end of the platform for binding the same to the box" (lines 3-14).
Date: June 12, 1888
Creator: Beach, Philemon Theodore
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the wire frame having the parallel base-arms, the coiled-springs, the upwardly-extending arms, and the downwardly-extending loop, the loop or ring on the bend and engaged portions of said wire, and the trigger-wire having the frontwardly-projecting point engaging said ring" (lines 80-87).
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Beversdorf, Louis, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History