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Quadrula houstonensis, Specimen #1524

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits a round shape; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: unknown
Creator: Singley, J. A.
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quadrula houstonensis, Specimen #1523

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits a round shape; white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: unknown
Creator: Singley, J. A.
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quadrula houstonensis, Specimen #1408

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits a round shape; white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be recently dead when collected.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Tippett outdoors] captions transcript

[News Clip: Tippett outdoors]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Bill Tippett about a 10 year old boy hunting for deer for the first time and duck hunters using duck calls. This story aired at 5pm.
Date: December 7, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Outdoor] captions transcript

[News Clip: Outdoor]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Bill Tippett about hunting in trees and the tagging of hunted deer. This story aired at 5pm.
Date: December 21, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Outdoors] captions transcript

[News Clip: Outdoors]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5pm.
Date: October 13, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Car-Couplings (open access)

Car-Couplings

Patent for equipment to improve car-coupling to allow "automatically couple the cars, which can be readily uncoupled with-out going between the cars" (line 14-16).
Date: February 19, 1901
Creator: Lyons, Robert N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canning Furnace (open access)

Canning Furnace

Patent for a canning furnace. Illustration included.
Date: March 23, 1909
Creator: May, Callie C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Separator, Distributer, and Feeder (open access)

Cotton Separator, Distributer, and Feeder

Patent for a pneumatic suction that draws cotton in to be separated, suctioned down a trough to be distributed and fed into a gin.
Date: June 19, 1900
Creator: Bateman, Eugene E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extermination of Boll-Weevil. (open access)

Apparatus for Extermination of Boll-Weevil.

Patent for Apparatus for Extermination of Boll Weevil. A vehicle which can carry a furnace to generate noxious fumes with insecticides and cool those fumes to produce a toxic atmosphere around effected plants.
Date: May 4, 1903
Creator: Taylor, James Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire Alarm (open access)

Automatic Fire Alarm

Patent for an automatic fire alarm. Illustration included.
Date: August 10, 1905
Creator: Suttle, Willis A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dallas to Houston High-Speed Rail Environmental Impact Statement: Leon County

Map of Leon County depicting the route of a proposed high-speed railroad connecting Dallas and Houston.
Date: 2014
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Leon County

Blue line print of survey map of Leon County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grant or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Handwritten legend with hand drawn red lines to impose San Antonio-Nacodoches Road in 1853 onto published map. Scale [ca. 1:213,333] (4000 varas to 5/8 of an inch).
Date: 1916
Creator: Atlee, Tom
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Highway Map Leon County, Texas

Highway map of Leon County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, oil and gas fields, oil or gas wells, utility lines, petroleum pipelines, mines or quarries, and airfields. Map includes a key to counties diagram and an extensive legend indicating geographical and human-made features. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date: 1972
Creator: Texas. Highway Department. Planning Survey Division.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Leon County.

Survey map of Leon County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes rivers, creeks, cities, towns, and railroads. No scale information given.
Date: 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved, simple, and effective car coupling that couples automatically and without anyone having to go between the cars. It consists of a drawhead with a slot on one side, upper and lower slides in the drawhead, a coupling pin that sits in the upper slide, a lever that is connected to the slide, a spring that holds the lower slide in place, and a bolt that connects the lever with the upper slide.
Date: May 30, 1893
Creator: Cundiff, Middleton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Stalk-Cutter and Rake (open access)

Combined Stalk-Cutter and Rake

Patent for a stalk-cutter and rake design, "such as well enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same" (lines 9-11).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Boykin, Archable T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter. (open access)

Corn-Planter.

Patent for a cotton or corn planter with detachable parts.
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Yarborough, William O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press. (open access)

Cotton Press.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-press. This design "is to so construct a press that the force shall be applied solely by the pulling action of the screw, and so that the cotton can be put in at the top of the box and compressed without the usual tramping of the same therein by an operative preparatory to applying the force of the press, thereby doing away with a door or opening near the top of the box for inserting the cotton, and dispensing with the tramping operation" (lines 32-42).
Date: September 16, 1884
Creator: Haiman, Elias & Winship, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter. (open access)

Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rear of beam, the notched cleat, the handle cross-bar, and the hooks, whereby the hopper may be conveniently attached and detached . . . [and] [t]he pivoted gates, having extensions with a series of holes, with the hopper-bottom plate having holes besides the regular seed-outlet, and the pins" (lines 64-72).
Date: November 6, 1883
Creator: Lindsey, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-StoneTomb. (open access)

Artificial-StoneTomb.

Patent for the concept of an artificial tomb that serves as a tomb and ornamental piece made as one. "This invention relates to certain improvements in artificial-stone tombs; and it has for its object to produce a tomb with head-stone and foo-piece all in one piece that can be built up or placed immediately over grave, so as to form an ornamental finish, at a comparatively small cost." (lines 15-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 6, 1880
Creator: Wilson, Hence
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Fireplace-Lining and Andiron-Support. (open access)

Combined Fireplace-Lining and Andiron-Support.

Patent for a combined fireplace-lining and andiron-support meant to improve the construction of fireplaces and can accommodate fireplace construction.
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Perkins, Oliver B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carving on Cornerstone]

Photograph of a carving of a hand holding a pair of scales on a stone set into the red brick of the old jail building, now housing the Leon County Heritage Society, in Centerville, Texas. The text under the carving reads: "Wm. Johnson, Archt. P. J. Gillen, Con."
Date: unknown
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cornerstone on Old Jail]

Photograph of a cornerstone on the old jail building, now housing the Leon County Heritage Society, in Centerville, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History