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Axle-Box. (open access)

Axle-Box.

Patent for an axle-box for vehicle wheels that "contains a lubricant-receiving recess from which the lubricant is automatically fed to the spindle of the axle as necessity may occasion" (lines 10-13).
Date: May 8, 1894
Creator: Casto, Tony Lo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Construction. (open access)

Car Construction.

Patent for "a construction which will permit the speedy and easy removal of brake supporting blocks or equivalent parts from the lower or floor frame of a car and the substitution of others without displacement or injury of other parts of the car." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 25, 1894
Creator: Coffin, Walter E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Excavator. (open access)

Excavator.

Patent for an excavator that quickly and without much effort shifts dirt and "can be readily and easily employed for such purposes as building embankments or levees or for excavating extensive or large areas" (lines 19-22).
Date: May 8, 1894
Creator: Oie, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 6

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 7

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 8

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 9

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 10

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marshall 1894 Sheet 11

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1894
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Weisman]

Portrait of Weisman, seated atop a fabric-covered chair, wearing a light-colored gown. The back of the photograph has intricate designs of foliage, stars, and scrolls. A hand written note on the back reads, "Henry Landsfield's [tentative] son Weisman, 3 mo. old, July 4 / 94."
Date: July 4, 1894
Creator: Bruce & Corti
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Report of deportment, attendance, scholarship and examination grades of Mary McAllister] (open access)

[Report of deportment, attendance, scholarship and examination grades of Mary McAllister]

Report card of the City Public Schools of Marshall, Texas, for Mary McAllister, eighth grade, High School Department. Signed by J. B. Madden, Teacher. Marks are given for attendance, conduct, reading, writing, arithmetic, etymology, geography, grammar, Latin, algebra, and physiology. Mrs. G. L. McAllister signed as parent. The form was printed by "Jennings Printer Marshall."
Date: 1894/1895
Creator: Marshall, Texas. City Public Schools.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester. (open access)

Spark-Arrester.

Patent for a simple and durable spark arrester for locomotives that has a minimum number of parts and "which will remove arrested sparks to the fire box of the locomotive and will prevent live sparks being thrown out by the locomotive and thereby endanger property adjoining the railroad tracks" (lines 19-23).
Date: March 20, 1894
Creator: O'Donnell, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine. (open access)

Type-Writing Machine.

Patent for a type-writing machine that has an improved variable line spacer. The simple and durable line spacer has the minimum number of parts and is easily adjustable to any distance.
Date: June 19, 1894
Creator: Hudson, John Horace
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History