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[Texarkana Train Station]

Photograph of the train station in Texarkana. The train tracks can be seen in front of the buildings. Text below the image says "Texarkana, Texas c. 1890's" and "Southwest Collection."
Date: 1890~/1899~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed Device for Gin-Saw Sharpeners (open access)

Feed Device for Gin-Saw Sharpeners

Patent for "a feeding device for the teeth which is independent of the filing devices, and which shall be so constructed that it will properly feed the teeth of saws of varying diameters, so as to give a regular and uniform size to each tooth without reference to the number of teeth in the saw" (lines 18-24).
Date: January 29, 1889
Creator: Behan, William & Friensehner, Paul
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gaines Bros. & Bedinger, Dealers in Cattle and Hay (open access)

Gaines Bros. & Bedinger, Dealers in Cattle and Hay

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and the names A. K. Gaines; L. A. Gaines, D. E. Bedinger.
Date: 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drier. (open access)

Drier.

Patent for a new and improved drier. This design "relates to improvements in driers for lumber . . . and the objects of [the] improvement are to provide, with stackless arches having a closed top and openings in the side, another arch or arches alongside of the first with openings in its sides, and pendent deflecting-plates to arrest all sparks that may issue from a furnace also provided with deflecting walls or plates, and thereby secure perfect safety in the use of that class of driers" (lines 9-23).
Date: August 14, 1888
Creator: McPherson, Wallace
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drier. (open access)

Drier.

Patent for a new and improved drier. This design "relates to improvements in driers for lumber . . . and the objects of [the] improvement are to provide, with stackless arches having a closed top and openings in the side, a series of spark-arresting plates located opposite said openings, to deflect downward all the sparks that may escape through said openings, and thereby secure perfect safety in the use of that class of driers" (lines 9-22).
Date: August 7, 1888
Creator: McPherson, Wallace
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1888 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1888 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1888 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1888 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1888 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1888 Sheet 6

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1888 Sheet 7

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1888 Sheet 8

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw-Sharpening Machine (open access)

Gin-Saw-Sharpening Machine

Patent for improvements of gin saw sharpening machines.
Date: June 28, 1887
Creator: Behan, William & Friensehner, Paul
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Basket. (open access)

Wire Basket.

Patent for a new and improved wire basket. This design "consists in a wire basket formed of a circular bottom, and a wire frame bent to form a cylinder, in the lower part of which cylinder the circular bottom is held" (lines 13-16).
Date: February 10, 1885
Creator: Elliott, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1885 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1885 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1885 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1885 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texarkana 1885 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bowie County

Map of Bowie County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. The center of Bowie County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1884
Creator: Schmidt, V.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay and Cotton Press (open access)

Hay and Cotton Press

Patent for "hay and cotton press that can be easily and cheaply constructed and that can be operated by hand or horse power" (Lines 20-22).
Date: June 19, 1883
Creator: Donaldson, Sven
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps (open access)

Improvement in Animal-Traps

Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
Date: April 14, 1874
Creator: Flournoy, Rice Smith
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bowie County

Map of Bowie County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. The center of Bowie County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: January 1872
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History