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Hill County
Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
October 30, 1857
Creator:
Martin, Joseph
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jonathan T. Eubank to Jesse Grimes, December 2, 1858]
Papers of Jesse Grimes. Letter from Jonathan T. Eubank to Jesse Grimes, concerns commerce
Date:
December 2, 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hill County
Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
November 1862
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hill County
Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
November 1871
Creator:
Klappenbach, L. & Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Gun-Locks.
Patent for "new and useful improvement in Gun-Lock" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Grisham, James Madison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from J. A. Peebles to A. D. Kennard, December 28, 1877]
Letter from J.A. Peebles to A.D. Kennard about a post office order and trade for one hundred and sixty acres at $41.00 per acre.
Date:
December 28, 1877
Creator:
Peebles, J. A.
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Improvement In Apparatus For Washing Dishes and Table-Cutlery
Patent for improvements to a dish washing machine with specifications and illustrations attached.
Date:
August 12, 1879
Creator:
Walling, Edmund, P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Legal Document for J. M. Watts, July 6,1880]
Document allowing R.A. Williamson to act on behalf of J.M. Watts at the Democratic Senatorial Convention to be held on July 8, 1880 in Whitney, Texas.
Date:
July 6, 1880
Creator:
Watts, J. M.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Portable Extension Top for Stoves.
Patent for a new and improved portable extension for stove tops. This design is for a casing with pot-holes that utilizes a flange and a collar to allow for attachment to the stove top. This increases the usable surface area of the stove by a third.
Date:
November 16, 1880
Creator:
Hutchinson, John Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Public sale of town lots, at Hubbard City : on the Texas and St. Louis Railway, Thursday, August 11, 1881.
Map shows late nineteenth century Hubbard, Texas street names, block and lot numbers, lot and street dimensions, parks, courthouse, schools, and railroads. Includes text describing advantages of Hubbard City, the terms of sale, and railroad transportation to the sale. Scale [1:4,800].
Date:
1881
Creator:
M. Strickland & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caster.
Patent for an improved design for casters, otherwise known as "rollers for bedsteads and the like" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date:
April 19, 1881
Creator:
Custer, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Roaster.
Patent for a new and improved "culinary utensil primarily intended for use as a coffee roaster, but also . . . of any article which needs to be stirred while upon the fire" (lines 12-16). This design utilizes a crankshaft to stir the beans (or other foods) as they roast.
Date:
August 23, 1881
Creator:
Walling, Edmund Pendleton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hill County
Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
October 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Trimming Hooves of Animals.
Patent for a new and improved hoof trimmer. This design "consists in an upright standard or support having a concaved supporting-recess adapted to receive the animal's hoof, with parallel guide-ways arranged in rear thereof, a trimming implement moving in said guides, and so constructed as to operate upon the hoof without injury to the frog, and means for reciprocating the trimming device from either side of the animal" (lines 16-25).
Date:
December 11, 1883
Creator:
Mullins, Joshua C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
File.
Patent for a new and improved file. This design consists in "[a] file provided with longitudinal teeth upon one or both of its edges . . . [and] upon its sides so cut that they extend only half-way across the width of the file, the inner ends of the said teeth meeting at an angle at the center of the width of the blade" (lines 50-56).
Date:
March 18, 1884
Creator:
Custer, George.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "relates to improvements in that class of gates in which the gate is suspended from and adapted to transverse a supporting-beam adapted to oscillate and cause the gate to travel back and forth by gravity, according to the position the beam occupies, and has for its object to provide a gate and its operating mechanism which shall be simple and durable in construction, and capable of being readily and easily operated by a horse[back rider] or driver of a team approaching the same from either direction" (lines 9-20).
Date:
May 19, 1885
Creator:
Connelly, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hill County
Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
February 1886
Creator:
Craig, A. M.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock for Money-Drawers, &c.
Patent for improvement to a combination lock for money drawers to make it more secure.
Date:
March 16, 1886
Creator:
Sturgis, Herbert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
File.
Patent for a new and improved file. This design "consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a file having its teeth cut to extend half-way across the face from each edge and at an angle to each other, and having a longitudinal groove in the middle of each face" (lines 22-27).
Date:
November 2, 1886
Creator:
Custer, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the upright frame supported on the beam and carrying the two pivoted arms, in combination with the wheel having studs on both sides, the wires, and the lever middle fastened to the agitator-shaft . . . a hopper having the circular excision in its bottom, of the horizontal feed-wheel and arms, fast to a vertical vibratory shaft" (lines 79-88).
Date:
November 16, 1886
Creator:
Williams, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hillsboro Reflector. (Hillsboro, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 44, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 18, 1887
Weekly newspaper from Hillsboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 18, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Alliance Mail. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1887
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
May 26, 1887
Creator:
Givens, W. S. & Pardue, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hillsboro Reflector. (Hillsboro, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1887
Weekly newspaper from Hillsboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 26, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved rotary cultivator. This design is "to lessen the weight on tongue and the down draft while the power is applied more directly to the plows. By this means [the design is] enabled to make the whole frame very light; also, to provide convenient means of adjusting the altitude of the wheels with respect to the plows, so as to regulate the depth of the latter, and also to hold them out of the ground; also, to obtain suitable means for adjusting the plows at any desirable angle to the line of travel, and to throw greater or less soil to or from the plants" (lines 15-26).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Coleman, Benjamin T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History