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[Receipt of Payment of Taxes, November 13, 1896]
This is a receipt from the Office of Collector of Taxes for Montague County to Levi Perryman, to acknowledge payment received for county and state real estate taxes for the year 1896.
Date:
1896-11-13~
Creator:
Office of Collector
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bowie 1896 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bowie in Montague County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bowie 1896 Sheet 4
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bowie in Montague County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bowie 1896 Sheet 5
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bowie in Montague County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bowie 1896 Sheet 6
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bowie in Montague County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bowie 1896 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bowie in Montague County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bowie 1896 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bowie in Montague County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Twister and Tightener.
Patent for a wire twister and tightener for wire fences. With this invention, "the fence-wire is caused to be contracted, twisted, and made taut" (lines 17-18). It is a set of toothed ratchet wheels that have v-shaped slots for the wire. Pawls act on the teeth, and springs and levers move the pawls.
Date:
March 17, 1896
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sharpening and Gumming Saws.
Patent for a machine that sharpens and gums saws for cotton-gins. It does so quickly and does not fatigue the operator. It automatically feeds "the saws so as to bring the teeth successively into position to be operated upon, and which will cut the teeth uniformly, thereby preserving the circular outline of the saws and preserving the teeth of a uniform length and appearance" (lines 15-20).
Date:
July 14, 1896
Creator:
Hulme, William A. & Hulme, Thomas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reaping-Machine.
Patent for a reaping-machine that has grooved rollers spread throughout a recess in the base, slides where the rollers are mounted, horizontal movable shafts with pinions, racks on the slides that engage the pinions, a ring-driver wheel that surrounds the rollers and fits in the rollers with interior flanges, cutters, a belt extending from the rollers to the mechanism that operates the cutters, and a belt that connects the rolls. The cutter is a series of knives on a bar and springs that prevents the cutter from moving independently.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Rich, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History