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The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest (open access)

The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest

This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Forney] 1896 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of [Forney] in Kaufman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance. Scale 50 Feet to an Inch
Date: August 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Forney] 1896 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of [Forney] in Kaufman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance. Scale 50 Feet to an Inch
Date: August 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Forney] 1896 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of [Forney] in Kaufman County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance. Scale 50 Feet to an Inch
Date: August 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Kaufman County

Map of Kaufman County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:66,667 (2000 varas per inch).
Date: November 9, 1896
Creator: Schutze, Ed.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Hospital for the Insane Annual Report: 1896 (open access)

North Texas Hospital for the Insane Annual Report: 1896

Annual report of the North Texas Hospital for the Insane, providing data about operations, updates about programs, and other information related to activities at the hospital.
Date: 1896
Creator: North Texas Hospital for the Insane
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Feeder. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Feeder.

Patent for "a machine especially adapted for cleaning cotton and distributing the same to one or more gins; and it has for its object to so construct the machine that it will receive the cotton from the usual suction-pipe or equivalent supply, will clean the cotton, shred or separate the same and deliver it to a carrier, which in its turn will distribute the cotton to the hoppers of one or more gins, the distribution being evenly and expeditiously accomplished; and a further object of the invention is to provide for a steady feed of the cotton at the delivery end of the carrier, said device effectually preventing choking at that point." (Lines 7-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Moore, Martin L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History