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Anson Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1891
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Baird 1891 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Baird in Callahan County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: April 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Baird 1891 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Baird in Callahan County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: April 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Tonic. (open access)

Hair-Tonic.

Patent for improvements in “a compound for the removal and prevention of dandruff;” (lines 7-8) formula of the compound is listed and instructions on how to mix the compound are included. No illustration.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Fraser, Samuel T.; Gilliland, William E. & Wilson, David J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hanging Bed. (open access)

Hanging Bed.

Patent for improvements in hanging or hidden beds by having “hangers pivoted at their upper ends to fixed supports and having upwardly-opening angular hooks at their lower ends, of a bed-frame, legs pivoted to the ends of the end bars thereof, pitman-rods extending inwardly from said legs, a piece to whose ends said rods are connected, an outward projection between the ends of said piece detachably engaging and closely fitting one of said hooks, and a pivot passing through the projection and piece and into the end bar, as and for the purpose herein before set forth.” (Page 2, lines 26-36) Illustration is included.
Date: November 24, 1891
Creator: Buell, Will M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harry Meyer (open access)

Harry Meyer

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustrations, decorative designs, and text reading: "Crockery, Glassware, Hardware and Stoves, Barbed Wire, Nails"; "Wagon & Builders' Material"; "Sole Agent for Bridge, Beach & Co.'s Celebrated 'Superior' Stoves & Ranges," in lithographic print by I. P. Studley & Co. Lith. St. Louis.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for improvements in harrows which can be “adapted to be reversed for pulverizing and leveling the surface traversed, to avoid evaporation as far as possible, and place the ground in the best condition for the travel of harvesters and other machines in gathering crops” (lines 9-14), illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Day, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History