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Windmill Attachment. (open access)

Windmill Attachment.

Patent for an attachment for hand or windmill pumps in order to reduce stress of upward and load moving strokes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Bertrand, Rabb A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Chopper. (open access)

Plant-Chopper.

Patent for a plant chopper that can chop down plants of the row variety while not disturbing others that are spaced apart. It can also be an attachment to a cultivator.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: Martin, Silas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kiln (open access)

Kiln

Patent for improvements to kilns, which include improvements for transferring heat, "burning lime and clay products"(line 11), powdered fuel feeding and preventing unheated air from flowing into the kiln.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Bone, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Meridian 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: 1919
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heat-Producing Process. (open access)

Heat-Producing Process.

Patent for Improvements in Heat-Producing Processes by way of "process of producing heat and conserving heat..." for use in various types of furnaces (lines 9-10).
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Bone, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from Joe to Ena R. - August 20, 1918]

Postcard from a Joe to Ena R[?] in Jonesboro, Texas, expressing well wishes to her and "Mother". The front of the postcard is a colored photograph of a long line of mess halls at Camp MacArthur, Waco.
Date: 1918-08-20~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Controlling Mechanism for Windmills. (open access)

Controlling Mechanism for Windmills.

Patent for the operation of a windmill pump that may be automatically controlled so that a constant supply of water will be maintained in the storage tank.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Bradford, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Extracting Device (open access)

Automobile Extracting Device

Patent for an Automobile Extracting Device, which may be readily carried in compact form in one of the storage compartments of a motor vehicle, including illustrations.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Morrow, Thomas B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hamilton 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: 1918
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead (open access)

Bedstead

Patent for metallic bedstead which will eliminate drafts in cold weather as well as pillows working back between the upright rails. This device includes a means for elevating the head or foot of the bed, including illustrations.
Date: November 6, 1917
Creator: Martin, Silas Wright
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funnel and Gage. (open access)

Funnel and Gage.

Patent for a funnel and gage with a mechanism used to indicate "when the proper amount of water has been inserted in the battery" (lines 14-15).
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Burkett, Joseph Benjamin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Apparatus (open access)

Amusement Apparatus

Patent for an amusement apparatus of the character set forth with and inclined place made of a number of pivoted sections which may be simultaneously moved into horizontal position to form steps or seats and be held in such position by trip device provided with a target which latter upon being hit by a thrown ball will release the several sections of the inclined plane of steps and permit them through the weight of one or more persons thereon to aline one with the other and form a continuous inclined plane or sliding board down which the persons who were seated or standing upon the steps will be caused to slide and be thrown into a body of water over which the apparatus is erected.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Andrews, J.W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace (open access)

Furnace

Patent for "a system of producing heat for kilns, furnaces for burning lime, furnaces for boilers, and similar purposes, and the object is to provide apparatus for consuming all the fuel fed to the furnaces and for pre-heating the air which is fed to the furnaces and for excluding all air which has not been preheated" (lines 8 - 15).
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Bone, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Registration Certificate of Floyd Stevenson] (open access)

[Registration Certificate of Floyd Stevenson]

Registration certificate to Floyd Stevenson acknowledging his submitted registration and telling him that he has been "duly registered this 5 day of June, 1917."
Date: June 5, 1917
Creator: Voss, Miller
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Alex and Winnie Freeman Standing by Trees]

Photograph of Alex and Winnie Freeman standing together in front of a pair of small trees on a prairie field. Winnie wears a white dress while Alex wears a dark suit and hat.
Date: 1917~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Alex Freeman and His sons Alvin, Louis, and Way]

Photograph of Alex Freeman sitting outside on a chair. His sons Alvin, Louis, and Way stand behind him.
Date: 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gatesville 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: 1917
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lampasas 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: 1917
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Temple 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: 1917
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Winnie Freeman and Her Daughters]

Photograph of Winnie Freeman sitting outside on a chair. Her daughters are gathered around her, and they are identified from the left as Thoyce, Lillian, Vivian, and Verda. All wear white dresses.
Date: 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvester (open access)

Cotton Harvester

Patent for Cotton Harvester
Date: December 12, 1916
Creator: Lovejoy, Daniel B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Hay Press and Baler (open access)

Patent for Hay Press and Baler

Patent for Hay Press and Baler
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Gernigan, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gatesville May Queen Float]

Photograph of a May Queen parade float attached to a team of horses. A canopy covers much of the flower-festooned float. The five formally dressed girls are identified from the left as Nona Christman, Marie Suggs, May Queen Eula Gilder, and Annie Atkins. A man wearing a dark hat and coat sits at the front of the float and holds the reigns of its team of horses. A man can be seen riding behind the horses, and another man holds the heads of the front pair of horses. Ruby's Saloon and the city's First National Bank can be seen in the background. A slip of paper taped to the reverse side says "North Side of the Square."
Date: December 1915
Creator: William J. Blair Studios
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gatesville May Queen Float]

Photograph of a May Queen parade float attached to a team of horses. A canopy covers much of the flower-festooned float. The five formally dressed girls are identified from the left as Nona Christman, Marie Suggs, May Queen Eula Gilder, and Annie Atkins. A man wearing a bowler hat and dark clothes rides a dark horse beside the float. A man wearing a dark hat and coat sits at the front of the float and holds the reigns of its team of horses. A man can be seen riding behind the horses, and another man holds the heads of the front pair of horses. Ruby's Saloon and the city's First National Bank can be seen in the background.
Date: December 1915
Creator: William J. Blair Studios
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History