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[Land grant] : Austin, [Tex.], 1876 July 18.
Land Grant for 320 acres in Montague County.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hamilton County
Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Hamilton County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
July 1876
Creator:
Thielepape, George J.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter.
Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Pollard, James M. & Barton, Wallace R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.
Patent for "an improved wheel-cultivator, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted for use in marking the ground, covering the seed, and cultivating the plants." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Riddle, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Methods of Baling and Packing Cotton
Patent for improvement in the methods of baling and packing cotton specifically optimizations in the packing and baling of cotton by avoiding all the mechanical appliances used in forming and securing bales of cotton, such as the press, canvas bagging, band, buckles, and bale-ties.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Drake, James A. & Singer, Edgar C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tube-Expanders.
Patent for improvements to tube expanders with springs rigidly secured at one end, detachable rolls, and the ability to fit tubes of different sizes.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Rooney, Hugh L
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus
Patent for improvement to an ironing apparatus to "produce a cheap portable ironing-machine, with which any capable person (and even children) can with very liggle fatigue and labor, do the ironing for a large family in a very short time".
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Martin, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Detaching Horses
Patent for improvements for a device used to detach a horse or horses from a vehicle. Included illustration shows 3 elevation views of the detacher.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Craig, John Kerr
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in apparatus for packing and bale cotton.
Patent for improved process and apparatus for baling cotton. Improvement relates to a mechanical device by means of which raw cotton is thoroughly compressed into bales suitable for handling.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Drake, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Feeders and Cleaners for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for "devices for feeding seed-cotton to cotton-gins, and also, for cleaning the same preparatory to ginning; and it consists of a hopper having wires extending from side to side over a revolving toothed cylinder and a concave thrasher, and being made to reciprocate on a track by pinions on the ends of the thrasher-cylinder, working in double rack-bars, one in each side of the hopper, so contrived that the pinions run them over one way and under the other, making a simple and cheap mode of obtaining the motion." (Lines 6-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Colquitt, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Power Presses.
Patent for improved horse-powered press; it "relates to horse or other power presses for cotton, hay, and other compressible materials; and the nature of my invention consists in a reversible stay-brace; in a series of sliding plates, which fill the space between the main standards; in an arm hung to each one of the side doors, regulating the opening of such doors; and in auxiliary devices" (para. 3).
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for an improvement in brick-machines by which a new combination of construction materials is contrived.
Date:
July 31, 1876
Creator:
Michel, Ferdinand
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Victoria Advocate. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Victoria, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 20, 1876
Creator:
Linn, E. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Victoria Advocate. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Victoria, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising. The paper is "A Democratic Journal."
Date:
July 27, 1876
Creator:
Linn, E. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Review. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 28, 1876
Creator:
R. W. Davenport & Co.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Judges Docket, Criminal, County Court, Cooke County, 1876-1881]
Ledger from Cooke County, Texas containing the name of the court case, charges, date of indictment and capias, state witnesses, and the proceedings of the court. The list is arranged by date.
Date:
1876-07~
Creator:
Cooke County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Dinkie McGee to Mary Ann Dodd Moore, July 16, 1876]
Letter from Dinkie McGee to her sister, Mary Ann Dodd Moore discussing all the illness from flux, including her daughter, Sissie, who almost died. Discusses numerous other neighbors that had died from the flux. Discusses 4th of July parade and picnic put on by the Grangers (The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry). Discusses the garden and the wheat threshing and the hopes that Mary will be able to visit. She says to "tell Mr. Moore I prefer living here [Tennessee] if the women have children when 50 years old out there [in Texas]."
Date:
July 16, 1876
Creator:
McGee, Dinkie
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Matilda Dodd to Mary Ann Dodd Moore, July 18, 1876]
Letter from Matilda Dodd to her daughter discussing the numerous cases of flux, gathering blackberries, and the weather.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Dodd, Matilda
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Frontier Echo (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Jacksboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 21, 1876
Creator:
Robson, G. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Frontier Echo (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Jacksboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 28, 1876
Creator:
Robson, G. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Jasper Weekly News-Boy (Jasper, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Jasper, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 6, 1876
Creator:
Carraway & Blake
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 6, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 13, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 20, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History