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[Bird's Eye View Map of Coriscana, Texas, 1886]

Illustrated pictorial map of Corsicana, Texas with a key at the bottom listing what each point represents on the map. According to the map, the major railroad runs right through the center of the town.
Date: 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the draw-heads provided with projections . . . each having at its inner-portion a horizontally-elongated slot, and at its outer portion a vertically-elongated slot, of the horizontally-slidable coupling-pins, for respectively engaging the said slots" (lines 82-88).
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Sessions, Egbert G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Planter. (open access)

Cotton and Corn Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination of the main wheel and shaft, a dish-shaped disk mounted on the shaft, the inner side of said disk having a series of bolt-heads rigidly secured thereto, the bolts extending inward laterally and being provided with threaded ends, the main wheel being provided with openings for the reception of said bolts ends and the adjusting-nuts on both sides of said wheel" (lines 11-19).
Date: November 30, 1886
Creator: Tyus, Robert M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists of "a yielding draw-head having a horizontally-moveable coupling-pin and a pivoted lever connected to said pin, of a rotatable latching-plate connected with said lever by a rod or chain, a spring for acting on the pin-lever, and a spring-catch for engaging the latch-plate, said catch and latch-plate being disengaged by the pressure of the draw-head in the act of coupling, thereby releasing the retracted coupling-pin and allowing it to automatically engage the opposite draw-head" (lines 14-24).
Date: December 7, 1886
Creator: Sessions, Egbert G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley - May 1886] (open access)

[Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley - May 1886]

Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley, dated May 1886 and sent from Fairfield, in which she writes about her trip home from Corsicana, her desire for him to get better, and her own health.
Date: May 1886
Creator: Bradley, Minnie
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley - May 7, 1886] (open access)

[Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley - May 7, 1886]

Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley, dated May 7, 1886 and sent from Fairfield, in which she writes about her health and whether she will be able to visit him in Corsicana.
Date: May 7, 1886
Creator: Bradley, Minnie
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard for Gin Saws. (open access)

Guard for Gin Saws.

Patent for a new and improved guard for gin-saws. This design consists in "the combination of the saws, the breast, the grate formed by the ribs and hinged at its upper edge in the frame, guides upon the inner sides of the side pieces of the gin-frame below the saws, and a curved plate or guard hinged to the lower edge of the grate, formed by the ribs, folding inward, and having its edges guided by the guides so that it covers the lower portions of the saws below the lower edge of the breast" (lines 75-84).
Date: September 28, 1886
Creator: Wallace, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History