Animal Tag. (open access)

Animal Tag.

Patent for a new and improved animal tag. This design "consists in an animal-tag formed of a tube provided with a removable cover and an elongated staple for the strap, by which this tube is held to the animal" (lines 11-14).
Date: November 21, 1882
Creator: Queen, Elias G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saddle Girth. (open access)

Saddle Girth.

Patent for a new and improved saddle girth. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the central ring and pad, of the strips and the radiating straps . . . [and] [t]he combination, with the central ring and pad, of the loop and the radiating straps" (lines 56-62).
Date: October 24, 1882
Creator: Williams, Calvin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Lampasas Dispatch (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1882 (open access)

The Lampasas Dispatch (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1882

Weekly newspaper from Lampasas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 6, 1882
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History