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[Many wagons on a market day in Killeen]
Killeen on a market day, c. 1890s. Dozens of men and their wagons face towards the photographer. The perspective is looking west along the railroad tracks, with the stockyards at the center. Featured businesses are Campbell & Sons Lumber, Hardware, Buggies, Wagons; Studebaker; Campbell - Root Lumber sheds, and Wendland's Produce.
Date:
1890~/1899~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars
Patent for "a coupling of such construction as will permit the coupling and uncoupling of the cars to be effected by the engineer and to be entirely and at all times under his perfect control" (lines 16-20).
Date:
July 8, 1890
Creator:
McWhirter, Robert & Scheble, Eugene S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design is "to place two baling-chambers at a suitable angle to each other and to connect both of the followers to the same sweep; to attach each of the filling-doors of the baling-chambers to the sweep, so that when one door closes from its own weight the other will be opened by the movement of the sweep, and to provide each of the filling doors with an automatically-acting bolt mechanism, whereby the movement of the follower bolts the door, so that it cannot be opened upward by the pressure of hay that is being pressed" (lines 15-26).
Date:
March 4, 1890
Creator:
Spencer, Anderson Hood
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band Cutter and Feeder.
Patent for an improvement of band-cutters, involving cutting bands and spreading grain in regulated quantities and intervals. Includes illustration.
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Izard, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine
Patent for improvements to typewriters "to provide means whereby a number of sheets of paper may be inserted at one time and removed successively after each page is written, there by obviating the necessity of removing the completed sheet and replacing it by a new one at the end of each page" (lines 14-20).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Pierce, Jesse W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for "improvements in the water-wheel and in the, mechanism for imparting motion thereto, whereby the washing-liquid is made to flow upward between the sides of an outer and inner pan and downward upon the articles to be washed, which are inclosed in the said inner pan, as will be now described and claimed, and is adapted to wash any articles that may be placed within the said inner pan" (lines 17-26).
Date:
May 13, 1890
Creator:
McCausland, William, I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Brake.
Patent for a new and improved wagon brake. This design consists, "with the vehicle, of the rock-shaft arranged upon opposite sides of the rear wheels, the bell-crank lever fulcrumed on the body between said shaft, the rod connecting the rear shaft and one arm of said lever, the bar pivoted to the other arm of the lever and the front rock-shaft, and the operating lever provided with the integral arm arranged at an angle to the lever and connected with the front rock-shaft" (lines 92-101).
Date:
August 19, 1890
Creator:
Walton, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists, "with the beam and two or more depending bolts and two or more series of opposite flanged supporting plates mounted on the bolts, of two or more pairs of bifurcated L-shaped opposite hangers mounted in the plates and held rigid by the latter, and side beams, and bolts passing through the side beams and supports and making the side beams adjustable" (lines 4-12).
Date:
February 11, 1890
Creator:
Walton, Sam Houston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design is "to combine a single and double plow so that they may be used either conjointly or independently of each other, and to provide means for the ready adjustment of the plow-beams with relation to each other and for the adjustment of the shovels so as to present the same at different inclinations for penetrating the ground at various depths" (lines 8-16).
Date:
July 15, 1890
Creator:
Walton, Sam Houston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved hay press. This design consists, "with the frame, of the pivot-pin mounted in the end of the frame and having a crank disk on its lower end, the pitman pivoted to said disk, the spring secured to the pitman and the frame, the double-cam secured on the pivot-pin, the sweep loosely mounted on the pivot-pin above the said double cam, and the dogs pivoted within the sweep and bearing on the cam" (lines 59-67).
Date:
January 7, 1890
Creator:
Mayes, Thomas T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter
Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple, durable, and inexpensive, which may be readily converted from a corn into a cotton planter, and vice versa, which may be easily and effectively adjusted so as to plant the corn in hills at any desired distance apart, and which shall be in every respect convenient and efficient" (lines 10-17).
Date:
August 12, 1890
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for improving the quilting devices and attachments related to sewing-machines.
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Urban, John & King, William Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the main frame and plow or plows, curved plate slotted and perforated . . . and rigidly secured to said frame, a horizontal lever passing through the slot of the same and pivoted to the main frame, a spring-bolt and operating devices, a vertical bar pivotally suspended from said lever, and a carrying-wheel having one of its spindles bearing in the lower end of the bar, together with a depending bar secured rigidly to the frame and having a pivotal depending link" (lines 1-12).
Date:
September 2, 1890
Creator:
Stuart, Isom & Stuart, Bronick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, September 12, 1890]
Letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout. She wrote to her mother to update her on events back home in Belton. Gertrude hoped her mother was feeling better and told her how Gertrude's sister, Ora, was doing in school as well as Gertrude's work at Baylor Female College. Among other small bits of news, she included how her father was doing and some information about the local church.
Date:
September 1, 1890
Creator:
Osterhout, Gertrude
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ora Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, September 3, 1890]
Letter from Ora Osterhout to her mother, Junia Roberts Osterhout, discussing the first day of school on September 3, 1890 and other recent events.
Date:
September 3, 1890
Creator:
Osterhout, Ora
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ora Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, September 21, 1890]
Letter from Ora Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout discussing school and other recent news.
Date:
September 21, 1890
Creator:
Osterhout, Ora
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ora Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, September 26, 1890]
Letter from Ora Osterhout to her mother, Junia Roberts Osterhout. She says that she is homesick after hearing the song "Home Sweet Home," so she decided to write. She wants very badly to see her mother soon.
Date:
September 26, 1890
Creator:
Osterhout, Ora
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, July 11, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 11, 1890
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 21, 1890
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 2, 1890
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 21, 1890
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, October 24, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 24, 1890
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 26, 1890
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 3, 1890
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History