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Cowboys Having Dinner in Coke County, Texas

Photograph of cowboys having dinner on a ranch in Coke County. The lid for a skillet in the foreground was used for baking bread. On the lid of the chuck box, lowered to serve as a cook table, can be seen an old time coffee grinder and leg of roasted beef. An oil lantern hangs on the bow above the chuck box and the harness is hanging over the front wheel. The men are, L-R: Henry Russell, unknown, Jack Montath, Ned Richards, Jake Stubblefield, and John Dodd.
Date: 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Coke County Bank (open access)

The Coke County Bank

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name with decorative designs, and the names W. F. Buchanan, President; H. H. Pearce, Cashier.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
G. W. Perryman, County Judge, Coke County, Texas (open access)

G. W. Perryman, County Judge, Coke County, Texas

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and text reading: "Attorney at Law and Land Agent. Will Practice Law in the District Court of Coke and Adjoining Counties, and Transact a General Land Business in Coke County, Texas."
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hayrick 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
Jno. L. Chambers, County Surveyor (open access)

Jno. L. Chambers, County Surveyor

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains decorative designs and stylized text of business name.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
J. R. Patteson, County Surveyor of Coke County (open access)

J. R. Patteson, County Surveyor of Coke County

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs and business name.
Date: 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sweetwater 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: 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hayrick 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: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
House-Moving Truck. (open access)

House-Moving Truck.

Patent for a simple, easy to use house-moving truck that goes under the sills of a house after it has been lifted from its foundation. It has "a swiveled caster, which is held in place by means of removable plates and braced by removable rods held in eyes of screw-rods, which pass through the bed-plate of the device and engage in the sleepers or sills of the building to be moved" (lines 19-24).
Date: September 10, 1895
Creator: Davis, Mace
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drumm & Collyns, Cattle Raisers and Dealers (open access)

Drumm & Collyns, Cattle Raisers and Dealers

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes designs, cattle brand descriptions, and stylized text with business name. Letterhead contains the names Andrew Drumm; W. H. Collyns.
Date: 1896
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drumm & Collyns, Cattle Raisers and Dealers (open access)

Drumm & Collyns, Cattle Raisers and Dealers

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs, cattle brand descriptions, and stylized text with business name. Letterhead contains the names Andrew Drumm; W. H. Collyns.
Date: 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in planters, which "can be used with all kinds of grain and seed, and can be attached to almost any plow" (line 5-7).
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Durham, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Cotton-Picker. (open access)

Design for a Cotton-Picker.

Design patent for a cotton-picker that is designed to be fitted over the fingers of the operator.
Date: July 4, 1899
Creator: Richards, Ruben F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for improvements in nut-locks by using a locking attachment; “the attachment comprises, essentially, a shouldered pin adapted to underlie the lower surface of the nut, adjacent one of the corners thereof, and project into suitably-formed receiving-apertures in the surface of the member to be clamped or in a washer designed to be employed between said member and the nut.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: Popplewell, Felix King
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Manual Motor for Churns (open access)

Manual Motor for Churns

Patent for a manual motor for churns. The invention is to "provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one of great strength and durability capable of enabling a churndasher to be rapidly reciprocated, whereby butter is quickly produced" (line 11-16) illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Faubion, Thomas Daniel Arnold
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coke County

Blue line print of survey map of Coke County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, and towns. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1904
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coke County.

Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1904
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter (open access)

Planter

Patent for a planter. Illustrations included.
Date: June 7, 1904
Creator: Durham, John Landrum
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incubator (open access)

Incubator

Patent for an egg incubator. Illustrations included.
Date: November 1, 1904
Creator: Goss, Charles Edward & Goss, George Wilson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement Attachment (open access)

Implement Attachment

Patent for an implement attachment for holding hand tools. Illustration included.
Date: November 8, 1904
Creator: Adams, Charles Augustus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for cultivator attachment improvement "for the purpose of thinning cotton plants to save chopping" (p. 1, lines 9-10). Improved cultivator attachment is used in conjunction with cultivator shovel to cause intermittent deposition of soil on plants to achieve thinning.
Date: July 3, 1906
Creator: Teeter, William Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sweetwater 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: 1907
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump Rod Coupling (open access)

Pump Rod Coupling

Patent for pump rod coupling. This invention is designed to couple adjacent ends of pistons or pumps. Illustration included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Fletcher, Homer M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weight Motor (open access)

Weight Motor

Patent for a weight motor. This invention is meant for the use of driving fans to circulate rooms. This "invention refers to the winding mechanism wherein a drum on which the cord is wound and the first gear wheel are independently rotatable in one direction on the winding shaft, the latter having keyed thereon two ratchet wheels which engage respectively, pawls on the drum and on the gear wheel" (line 13-20). Illustration included.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Rackley, John Clavin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History