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Cooking Utensil.
Patent for cooking utensil designed for roasting coffee, popping corn, roasting meat, and other food by hand over a fire or flame by rotating. The device is made of metal and mesh, turns by cranking, and the length of the shaft is adjustable for stability.
Date:
June 17, 1919
Creator:
Bogue, Robert J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump Jack
Patent for an improved double-acting pump jack that will require less parts and external force to operate and maintain.
Date:
April 29, 1919
Creator:
Lively, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for turning and clearing cotton.
Date:
February 25, 1919
Creator:
Goodman, W. T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for cotton chopper that frees the plants from the "weeds and the soil thereabout cultivated in but a single operation" (lines 14-16).
Date:
February 11, 1919
Creator:
Goodman, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Quanah City Council Minutes: Volume 2, 1917-1924]
Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Quanah, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from spring 1917 through fall 1924.
Date:
1917-04/1924-09
Creator:
Quanah (Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stop
Patent for Automatic Train-Stops "particularly to a system operable in connection with well-known airbrake systems to apply the airbrakes, and shut off the power when an accident of a predetermined character occurs." (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Estes, Betram P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Heading Knife.
Patent for a corn cutting knife that straps to the hand and protects the fingers for a more efficient harvesting of corn and maize.
Date:
May 2, 1916
Creator:
Buchanan, Lemuel O.; Maddox, John S.; Russell, James P. & Speers, Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove
Patent for a more efficient and cost effective heating apparatus. The stove is designed for coal and similar fuel sources.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Hanna, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Reconnaissance For Oil Near Quanah, Hardeman County Texas
This report documents the examination for oil in the vicinity of Quanah, Hardeman County Texas during the fall of 1914.
Date:
October 9, 1915
Creator:
Wegemann, Carroll H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cotton-Separator
Patent for an apparatus for cleaning seed cotton and separating the dust and dirt therefrom prior to the ginning operation. The apparatus will have a perforated metal disk or wheel where cotton will readily slide off, instead of getting clogged. The separator wheel will have a smooth plane surface that will cause no injury to the cotton and the entire surface is freely exposed and unobstructed.
Date:
September 7, 1915
Creator:
Hughes, James Y.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooling and Disinfecting Device.
Patent for improvements in fluid cooling and disinfecting devices. The primary object of improvements is "to provide a simple, inexpensive and efficient device of this character which will be well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed."
Date:
February 23, 1915
Creator:
Womack, Samuel W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1915 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1915 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1915 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1915 Sheet 4
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1915 Sheet 5
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1915 Sheet 6
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1915 Sheet 7
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1915 Sheet 8
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1915 Sheet 9
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quanah 1915 Sheet 10
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Quanah in Hardeman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer
Patent for car replacer. It is an improvement to "what is called a 'frog' or a 'shoe'." The invention involves "two frogs or shoes which are used together" and are used "in such a way as to replace a car truck. . ." (Ledbetter)
Date:
December 1, 1914
Creator:
Ledbetter, Louis H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Kay Shuey and Snip on a bale of cotton, Chillicothe, Texas]
Photograph of an Kay Shuey wearing a light-colored dress and bonnet sitting next to Snip the dog on top of a bale of cotton.
Date:
December 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Kay Shuey and Snip the Dog]
Photograph of an Kay Shuey, wearing a light-colored dress and a hat looking up at a dog named Snip who is sitting on top of a large bale of cotton.
Date:
December 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History