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Livestock

Photograph of sheep grazing on temporary pastures of wheat. Mr. R.R. Wooten has about 290 acres of Buffalo pasture but utilizes temporary pasture each year to prevent overgrazing of his permanent pastures. TX-40-912.
Date: October 12, 1942
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Texas Spur [and] The Dickens Items (Spur, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1925 (open access)

The Texas Spur [and] The Dickens Items (Spur, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1925

Weekly newspaper from Spur, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 23, 1925
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carpet Stretcher (open access)

Carpet Stretcher

Patent for carpet stretcher. Illustration included.
Date: October 17, 1905
Creator: Williams, Robbert D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for improvements to wire-stretchers, "particularly to those arranged for disposal upon wagons, and has for its object to provide a wire-stretcher with which a plurality of wires may be stretched simultaneously and which will be arranged to hold the spools containing the wire which is to be strung." (lines 12-18), including illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: Manning, Butler S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dickens County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Dickens County, Texas. The center of Dickens County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 2, 1891
Creator: Appell, P. F.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History