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Map of Tom Green 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: 1892
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

San Angelo 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jos. Funk & Bros., Cattle Raisers and Dealers (open access)

Jos. Funk & Bros., Cattle Raisers and Dealers

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes cattle illustrations, business name, cattle brand descriptions, and the names Joseph Funk; J. F. Funk; T. S. Funk, Ike Funk.
Date: 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is in couplers adapted to use a link of ordinary form and to be so set that coupling may be automatic or not, as desired" (lines 15-17). It consists, "with the draw-head having lugs upon each side of the same, of the vertical coupling-pin, the pivoted pin-supporting arms arranged to contact with the lugs, and tripping arms adapted to be operated by the centering-link and throw the arms from the lugs" (lines 23-29).
Date: June 28, 1892
Creator: Callaway, William H. & West, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History