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Fire Tongs.
Patent for new and improved fire tongs. This design "is designed to produce an article . . . which will be practical in every respect, and which will prevent the slipping or sliding of the legs or arms thereof while handling the logs, enabling the latter to be grasped with a firm hold, thereby avoiding the numerous accidents that often occur from the use of the present form of tongs" (lines 9-17).
Date:
March 9, 1886
Creator:
Bishop, John Andrews
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Packing attachment for cotton presses.
Patent for improvement of packing attachment for cotton presses.
Date:
October 6, 1885
Creator:
Bradford, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Clothes Washer and Churn.
Patent for a new and improved combined clothes washer and churn. This design "is to facilitate the operations of washing clothes and churning, and also to avoid the necessity of having a separate mechanism for each use. The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-21).
Date:
March 6, 1883
Creator:
Bridges, Mary Jane
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved sewing-machine motor. This design has for its object "the production of a motor capable of rapid and convenient adjustment to permit operation by hand or foot . . . Heretofore motors have been provided for [this purpose] but the difficulty experienced in these machines is that during the operation of the machine by hand the treadle forms no substantial support for the feet, the pitman simply being disconnected from the driving-wheel and thrown back. . . . [T]he present invention . . . will obviate the above objection" (lines 10-22).
Date:
August 28, 1888
Creator:
Briggs, Emma Flora
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from L.H. Browne to John C. Beasley - February 16, 1886]
Letter written to John C. Beasley from L.H. Browne, responding to a letter about a time-sensitive issue.
Date:
February 16, 1886
Creator:
Browne, L. H.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Wagon.
Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design "consists in a suitable frame-work supported on wheels and covered on top by canvas or other suitable material to protect the pickers from the rays of the sun or from the rain, and on one or both sides of the frame, preferably both, is a trough for receiving the picked cotton" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Collins, Charles P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Wagon.
Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design consists in "the combination of the frame, supporting wheels, cover, side-curtains, troughs, and partitions" (lines 53-55).
Date:
May 1, 1883
Creator:
Collins, Charles P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Orceneth Asbury Fisher from Mary Fisher]
Letter to Orceneth Asbury Fisher from his wife, Mary Fisher discussing family matters and health.
Date:
January 24, 1880
Creator:
Fisher, Mary, 1843-1912
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Orceneth Asbury Fisher, from Mary Fisher]
Letter to Orceneth Asbury Fisher from his wife, Mary Fisher discussing family news.
Date:
1881?-10-18
Creator:
Fisher, Mary, 1843-1912
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Report of Board of Trustees of Coronal Institute
Report to the West Texas annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South discussing the positive state of the San Marcos District School - Coronal Institute and its value to the church.
Date:
October 11, 1880
Creator:
Fisher, Orceneth Asbury, 1831-1884
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag.
Patent for a new and improved bag. This design is "compris[ed of] the body divided down its front, one edge having staples and the other edge having openings adapted to engage said staples, a covering-flap provided with an opening adapted to engage one of said staples, and a flexible fastening device secured to said bag and adapted to be passed through said staples for securing the edges and covering-flap" (lines 62-71).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Franks, Lewis Wigfall
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fan.
Patent for a new and improved automatic fan. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the attaching-plate, the depending rod, the fixed plate on the lower end thereof, the socket arms pivotally connected to said plate at their inner ends, and the fans held in the sockets in said arms, of the plate loosely mounted on the rod above [the] plate, having arms, the rods pivotally connecting the outer ends of said arms, the pitman connected to [another] plate, and the operating crank" (lines 67-76).
Date:
October 9, 1888
Creator:
Goodspeed, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Packer.
Patent for an improvement that "relates to that class of cotton-packers which receive cotton from the condenser after ginning and pack it in a box preparatory to being pressed and tied into a bale; and its object is to provide means whereby the cotton may be packed int he box automatically" (lines 8-14).
Date:
September 29, 1885
Creator:
Hart, Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 11, 1885
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 11, 1885
Creator:
Hull, C. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 18, 1885
Creator:
Hull, C. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 25, 1885
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 25, 1885
Creator:
Hull, C. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 1, 1885
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 1, 1885
Creator:
Hull, C. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 8, 1885
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 8, 1885
Creator:
Hull, C. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 15, 1885
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 15, 1885
Creator:
Hull, C. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 22, 1885
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Hull, C. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 29, 1885
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 29, 1885
Creator:
Hull, C. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 6, 1885
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 6, 1885
Creator:
Hull, C. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 20, 1885
Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 20, 1885
Creator:
Hull, C. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History