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Cass County
Map of Cass County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cass County
Map of Cass County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1847
Creator:
Cherry, Jesse
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cass County
Map of Cass County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1848
Creator:
Holcomb, A. F.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Titus County]
Cadastral map of a portion of the Piney Woods region covering Titus, Cass, Morris and Marion County, Texas. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cass County
Map of Cass County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1862
Creator:
Arlitt, F. H.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for improved plow-stock applying multiple plow-irons to the same plow-frame.
Date:
February 11, 1873
Creator:
Love, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for the invention of a new and improved type of adjustable plow, including illustrations.
Date:
March 31, 1874
Creator:
White, Moses F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Fences.
Patent for portable fencing with sections that can be connected and set up in a particular area, or removed and put elsewhere at will.
Date:
April 21, 1874
Creator:
Griffin, James Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cass County
Cadastral map of Cass County in the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
July 1, 1874
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for a new and improved turn-plow which "consists in several features of improvement, by which the preparation and tillage of soil may be done at less the usual expense, and more than the usual convenience to the farmer." (lines 13-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1874
Creator:
White, Moses F. & Blankenship, Augustus J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for an improvement to cotton presses, including an illustration.
Date:
July 29, 1879
Creator:
Lively, Mark C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
Patent for a new and improved construction and combination of parts used by machines that convert either into a cotton or corn planter, including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Rhea, Robert H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
Patent for an improvement in the construction of cotton-scrapers, "which is secured to the stock or standard so as to project out to one side of the cultivator-shovel" (lines 14-16) including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Hill, Abner R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mathews-Powell House]
Photograph of the Mathews-Powell House (located at Miller Street) in Queen City, Texas.
Date:
1880
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Mill Dog.
Patent for a new and improved saw mill dog. This design "is an improvement in the class of dogging apparatus which is affixed to one of the knees of a head-block of the log-carriage" (lines 8-11). The improvement consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, specifically "the notched dog and adjustable slotted drop-catch with the slotted moveable dog-bar and base-stand" (lines 77-79).
Date:
November 2, 1880
Creator:
Wickham, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. This design "consists in the combination of a front pair of scraping-wings attached to a central furrow-opener, a revolving biconical wheel for pressing open the furrow and operating a toothed or spiked seed stirring and distributing shaft, and a rear covering-roller having a concave periphery" (lines 18-24).
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
Crow, John Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupler.
Patent for a new and improver coupler for railroad cars. This design "consists, first, in a transversely-arranged bar supported by suitable hangers secured to the end of the car a suitable distance above the draw-bar, each end of said transverse bar being provided with hand-wheels having a notch on their outer periphery, with which engage weighed pawls suitably pivoted to the side of the car; secondly, in an arm extending from said transverse bar for supporting the link" (lines 22-31).
Date:
July 12, 1881
Creator:
Farnam, Stephen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie.
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design is of a metal band with several slots, so that the accompanying metal button can pass through any two overlapping slots, securing the bale within the band.
Date:
July 19, 1881
Creator:
Griffin, James Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator for Scales.
Patent for a new and improved indicator for scales. This design "consists in a weighted rocker and indicating-arm combined with a scale-beam for operation thereby . . . [it has] for [its] object to dispense with the slides heretofore used and provide for an automatic indication of weight" (lines 8-14).
Date:
January 17, 1882
Creator:
Fulcher, Valentine M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in a lever pivoted in the front of the top of the draw-head and provided at its outer end with an aperture, through which the coupling-pin is passed into the aperture in the draw-head, below which lever another lever is pivoted, hanging vertically across the front-opening of the draw-head, and provided at the upper part of its inner edge with a projection, so that when the coupling-link pushes the lower lever inward the upper lever and the pin are raised, and drop as soon as the link has passed into the draw-head" (lines 10-21).
Date:
January 31, 1882
Creator:
Griffin, James Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car coupling, including illustrations. "This invention relates to an improvement to car coupling, having for its object to effect the coupling of cars with facility and without danger to the operator, the coupling operation being performed automatically, and without requiring the passing of the operator between the cars" (lines 10-15).
Date:
November 7, 1882
Creator:
Nelson, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar Alarm.
Patent for a new and improved burglar alarm. This design "consists in the combination of the lock-frame with a pivoted plate which is connected to it at one end, and which plate carries the nipple to receive the catch, and is provided with sharp points to catch in the jamb of the door, with a sidewise-moving trigger, which is operated by the door, and a set-screw for securing the lock-plate in position upon the door" (lines 13-21).
Date:
June 26, 1883
Creator:
Wright, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cass County Sun. (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 31, 1883
Weekly newspaper from Linden, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 31, 1883
Creator:
Kesseler, C. A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton, Corn,and Pea Planter and Fertilizer Distributer
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Combined Mowers and Seed Planter"(lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 4, 1883
Creator:
Nelson, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History