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Antifriction-Bearing. (open access)

Antifriction-Bearing.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in antifriction bearings for " the ends of the hub and means for eluding dust fro the bearings" (line 11 -13).
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Bearing. (open access)

Antifriction-Bearing.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in anti-friction bearings.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ball-Bearing Axle-Box. (open access)

Ball-Bearing Axle-Box.

Patent for a new and useful ball bearing axle box, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 12, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles Bingley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The Gass Schmiede Photograph #1]

Photograph of The Gass Schmiede, in Comfort, Texas. The focus of the image is a gate labeled "New Pattent Gate of Comfort," behind which stands a group of men and a horse-drawn cart. A man standing to the right is labeled "W. Brown, agent for them."
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photocopy of Beseler Bar Photograph]

Photocopy of a photograph of the interior of a bar room, printed on a sheet with a handwritten note about the name of the bar, and the date of the photo. The photo depicts a group of men standing in front of a bar counter, their backs to the camera, and three bar-tenders wearing aprons and standing behind the bar. The wall behind the counter is lined with mirrors, cabinets, and bottles.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Kendall County.

Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1899
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Blanco 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: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fredericksburg 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: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Maria-Martha Verein Minutes, Volume 1, 1893-1924] (open access)

[Maria-Martha Verein Minutes, Volume 1, 1893-1924]

Records of the minutes of the Maria-Martha Verein, a civic society in Comfort, Texas. Membership rolls begin on pages 166 and 182.
Date: 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Post. (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1898 (open access)

The Boerne Post. (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1898

Weekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 14, 1898
Creator: Guthrie, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Sinking Wells. (open access)

Tool for Sinking Wells.

Patent for improvements in tools for sinking artesian wells, that the tool “will perform its duty under all circumstance and excavate as well in hard materials as in soft earth, as quicksand and cavey formations, and will not have its functions interfered with when an insufficient flow of water is encountered.” (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Stephenson, James D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for the invention of new and useful improvement to car-couplings. "This invention is an improved car coupling seeking among other improvements to provide simple, easily operated devices by which the cars may automatically couple..." (lines 7-10) Including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Vogt, August G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neck-Yoke. (open access)

Neck-Yoke.

Patent for "a safety attachment for neck yokes which, if the neck yoke or the straps which connect it to the pole or to the collars break, will come into action and prevent the pole from dropping" (lines 8-13).
Date: July 24, 1894
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. (open access)

San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative illustration with business name.
Date: 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ointment for Skin Diseases (open access)

Ointment for Skin Diseases

Patent for "a liniment or ointment for the treatment of ring worm or cutaneous troubles, and the compound is described in the following specification and claim" (lines 10-13).
Date: April 4, 1890
Creator: Bergmann, Anton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History