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Refugio County, Texas

Map shows land tracts, original land grants, landowners, town tract for Refugio; Copano Bay; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale [1:133,334].
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus. (open access)

Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.

Patent for an improvement in ironing-machine which can iron clothes quicker and better with very little physical labor. Illustration is included.
Date: September 12, 1876
Creator: Nott, Henry J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine Shuttles (open access)

Improvement in Sewing-Machine Shuttles

Patent for an improved sewing-machine shuttle, which shuffles the bobbins back and forth among one another. This makes sewing faster for easier for any person who sews.
Date: June 30, 1877
Creator: Nott, Henry J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Ironing-Machines.

Patent for an ironing machine that includes a "movable table operated by a crank" (lines 16-17). Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1873
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Refugio County

Cadastral map of Refugio County, Texas in the Gulf Coast region. Some notes are marked in color. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1872
Creator: Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Refugio County

Cadastral map of Refugio County, Texas in the Gulf Coast region. Some notes and features are marked in color. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1875
Creator: Hensoldt, E. A.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History