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Box for Meat and Oil Presses (open access)

Box for Meat and Oil Presses

Patent for box for meat and oil presses. This box prevents meat from adhering to the box by using a lining, preferably sheet metal (p. 2). This keeps the box from breaking.
Date: May 26, 1885
Creator: Culberston, John J., of Paris, Texas; O'Connell, John C., of Montgomery, Alabama & Gaston, Bernard, of Paris, Texas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-Amerika.

Map shows roads, railroads, lakes, swamps, cities and towns for the southeastern United States. Insets: "Der sudliche treil von Florida im anschluss an blatt 88" and "Der südliche theil von Texas im auschluss an blatt 87." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [1:3,700,000].
Date: 1885
Creator: Petermann, A. (August), 1822-1878
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Alabama.

Map shows late nineteenth century Alabama railroads, counties, cities, towns, and rivers. Scale [ca. 1:1,990,000].
Date: [1883..1889]
Creator: Folger, L. B. (Lewis B.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map to illustrate the Civil War.

Map shows state boundaries, military posts, major cities, and notable physical features. Inset: "North Eastern Virginia." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:9,216,000].
Date: 1885
Creator: A. S. Barnes & Co.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tertiary and Cretaceous Strata of the Tuscaloosa, Tombigbee, and Alabama Rivers (open access)

Tertiary and Cretaceous Strata of the Tuscaloosa, Tombigbee, and Alabama Rivers

From preface: This bulletin is based upon the observations of the Tertiary and Cretaceous strata exposed along the Tuscaloosa, Tombigbee, and Alabama Rivers in the state of Alabama.
Date: 1887
Creator: Smith, Eugene Allen & Johnson, Lawrence C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memories of Martha Elizabeth Gibson Anglin (open access)

Memories of Martha Elizabeth Gibson Anglin

A transcript of a 1963 oral history with Martha Elizabeth Anglin (née Gibson), recalling her childhood in Alabama, her family's move to Texas in 1895, and her marriage and life on a farm in Commerce, Texas. Footnotes are provided to add context to the narrative.
Date: 1887/1963
Creator: Anglin, Michael W.; Anglin, Reba; Barnett, Robert & Barnett, Patricia
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Maps of North America, Birmingham, Alabama and Nashville, Tennesee]

Map shows major cities, state and provincial boundaries, major railroads, submarine cables, and ocean banks in the Caribbean Sea; Dominion of Canada, Danish America, the United States, West Indies, Mexico, Central America; United States of Columbia include [modern] Panama; [modern] Oklahoma divided into Oklahoma and Indian Territory; street names, parks, and public institutions on verso. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 18,700,000].
Date: [1889..1904]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Signal. (open access)

Revolving Signal.

Patent for a new and improved revolving signal-light: "[t]he combination, with a car-axle and a shaft driven thereby, of the lateral supporting stems carrying signaling-lanterns glazed in alternating colors, a shifting-lever acting alternately upon studs or stops of the said shaft, said shaft having a sliding movement, and gearing alternately with said signal-carrying stems" (lines 82-89).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Warren, John W. & Radford, Samuel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History