Buggy Wrench (open access)

Buggy Wrench

Patent for a buggy wrench. Illustration included.
Date: September 20, 1904
Creator: Ware, Richard M. & Carroll, James Malcum
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment for Umbrellas or Parasols. (open access)

Fan Attachment for Umbrellas or Parasols.

Patent for a fan attachment for umbrellas or parasols, including illustrations.
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Beseler, Otto
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling. (open access)

Hose-Coupling.

Patent for hose couplings which "may be very quickly and effectively placed in engagement with and held upon the nozzle of a hydrant, thus making the device very available for fire-hose" (lines 10-14).
Date: October 7, 1902
Creator: Dolen, Felix P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivaor (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivaor

Patent for a combine cotton chopper and cultivator, illustrations included.
Date: October 2, 1900
Creator: McCracken, Ninian S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine (open access)

Cotton-Chopping Machine

Patent for a cotton chopping machine. Illustrations included.
Date: August 8, 1911
Creator: Lynn, Walter Hugh
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning And Condensing Machine (open access)

Cotton Cleaning And Condensing Machine

Patent for cotton cleaning and condensing machine. "This invention relates to cotton cleaning and condensing machinery; and it has for its object to proved simple, durable, and comparatively inexpensive machine for cleaning the cotton fiber and forming it into a bat as it leaves the gin in preparation for the baling press" (9-15). Illustration included.
Date: October 17, 1905
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gage Attachment for Bench-Planes. (open access)

Gage Attachment for Bench-Planes.

The invention is "to improve the construction of gages for planes and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be readily applied to the stock of the plane and capable of being set at different angles" (lines 10-15) "to enable the face of a board to be accurately planed at the desired angle" (lines 16-17).
Date: November 13, 1900
Creator: Smith, Millage M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Breast. (open access)

Cotton-Gin Breast.

Patent for a cotton gin breast that applies pressure to the cotton roll and prevents it from bulging.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Barnes, Peter Benjamin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Pipe-Wrench. (open access)

Adjustable Pipe-Wrench.

Patent for an adjustable pipe wrench "in which the opposing jaws of the wrench are maintained at an angle to each other, so hat they converge toward their extremities, thus enabling a firmer hold to e obtained upon the pope or other article to be gripped by said jaws." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1897
Creator: Fauver, Addis E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a simple and reliable car-coupling that embodies "novel features of construction that adapt[s] said coupling for an automatic coupled engagement with a similar coupling, and that may be safely uncoupled from the side of the car whereon the improvement is secured" (lines 11-16).
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Tiner, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a novel, simple, and practical car coupling that has a link and gravity pin. It "may be set to coupe two of the improved couplings on approaching cars, when these devices engage each other, and also that may be manipulated by the usual lever or chain attachment to uncouple two connected drawheads, effecting such a detachment from the sides or roof of the car" (lines 12-19).
Date: October 17, 1893
Creator: Tiner, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1001 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1001

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The present maximum salaries of the Chief Deputy Sheriff and of other deputy sheriffs of Wilson County.
Date: February 17, 1950
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1278 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1278

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Wilson County to issue bonds to construct a building to house the County Agent, the County Home Demonstration Agent, the Production Marketing Administration office and the like.
Date: September 11, 1951
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1432 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1432

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Obligation of Wilson County to pay its pro rata share of the salary of the district attorney's stenographer when the commissioners' courts of the other four counties in the judicial district have approved the stenographer's employment and salary rate.
Date: April 9, 1952
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Wilson County, Block 6

Parent map for Wilson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Wilson County, Block 3

Parent map for Wilson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Wilson County, Block 5

Parent map for Wilson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Atascosa County, Index

Index map for Atascosa County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:109,260.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Wilson County, Block 14

Parent map for Wilson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Gonzales County, Block 12

Parent map for Gonzales County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:27,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Karnes County, Block 1

Parent map for Karnes County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Wilson County, Block 7

Parent map for Wilson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Karnes County, Block 9

Parent map for Karnes County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Bexar County, Block 75

Parent map for Bexar County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History