Briscoe County

Map of Briscoe County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 1879
Creator: Stakemann, Max
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Briscoe County Jail, (Northwest oblique)]

Photograph of the Briscoe County Jail in Silverton, Texas.
Date: March 1979
Creator: Hardy, Daniel
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Briscoe County Jail, (Southwest oblique)]

Photograph of the Briscoe County Jail in Silverton, Texas.
Date: March 1979
Creator: Hardy, Daniel
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint (open access)

Rail-Joint

Patent for "the provision of a substantial and staff joint at a less expense than the ordinary joint including fish-plates and a series of bolts and which will obviate the use of chairs to support the ends of adjacent rails and bordering upon the joint" (lines 13-18).
Date: March 19, 1901
Creator: Stephens, Ammon I. & Stephens, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History