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The Detroit Informer. (Detroit, Mich.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1900 (open access)

The Detroit Informer. (Detroit, Mich.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1900

Weekly African-American newspaper from Detroit, Michigan that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 13, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Mechanism for Harvesters or Mowers. (open access)

Cutting Mechanism for Harvesters or Mowers.

Patent for a new and useful cutting mechanism for harvesters or mowers. This design is to "provide a ball-bearing for the cutter-bar which shall support the same so that it will not have a sliding contact with its support" (line 18 - 22).
Date: January 18, 1898
Creator: Douglass, Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Marriage Certificate]

Photograph of a marriage certificate for Francis D. Wilson and Hannah A. Jones from January 1, 1860.
Date: January 1, 1860
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Land grant to Levi Shumway : Monroe, Mich., 1835 October 6. (open access)

Land grant to Levi Shumway : Monroe, Mich., 1835 October 6.

Land Grant for 40 acres in Monroe, Michigan, granting "the north east quarter of the south west quarter, of section nine, in the township eight south, of range three east, in the District of lands subject to sale at Monroe, Michigan Territory, containing forty acres." This is Certificate 149.
Date: January 6, 1835
Creator: United States. General Land Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library