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[Othello Norvell Lister as a Child]
Studio-style portrait of Othello Norvell Lister [Hill] as a child in Ennis, Texas. She stands next to a wire-back chair and wears a light ruffled dress with dark stockings and shoes. A bow is in her hair.
Date:
1904~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Joe Lister]
Framed studio portrait of Joe Lister, holding a hat and standing next to an elaborate wicker chair in front of a backdrop with a paisley design in the lower-left corner.
Date:
1900~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas 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:
1902
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleburne 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:
1908
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas 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:
1909
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ellis County
Blue line print of survey map of Ellis County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, oil and gas wells, drilling locations, and railroads. A legend indicating producing wells, drilled wells, gas wells, and abandoned wells is included in the lower-right corner of the map. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date:
[1900..1925]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Changeable Exhibitor.
Patent for a changeable exhibitor, which has horizontally and vertically moving rollers for displaying items.
Date:
August 24, 1909
Creator:
Williams, Winfield B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet
Patent for a cabinet which acts as a receptacle for money. Dollars and coins may be sorted using the tray mounted within the cabinet.
Date:
May 22, 1906
Creator:
Ferris, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coop
Patent for a coop. Illustration included.,
Date:
December 28, 1909
Creator:
Mann, John P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check Book.
Patent for an improvement to check books and covers.
Date:
April 10, 1900
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton, Berry, or Vegetable Picking or Dairy Stool
Patent for a stool strapped to the user so as to facilitate an ease in picking cotton, berry, or vegetables. Illustration included.
Date:
May 10, 1904
Creator:
Farley, John C. & Prince, Hyman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead
Patent for a bedstead on rubber wheels which allows easy removal of the wheels to fit the bed through narrow doorways.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Blacknell, Elihu
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Pot
Patent for a coffee pot. Illustration included.
Date:
February 28, 1905
Creator:
James, Will S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention is designed to mounted on a cultivator carriage. It also provides detachable devices by which the cotton chopping mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Cowart, Stephen A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper where the chopping blades are connected to a cultivator frame, and the frame is made to reciprocate causing the cutters to chop in both directions, including illustrations
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Lancaster, Benjaman C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for invention relating "to improvements in automatic car-couplings" (lines 9-10) for railroad cars.
Date:
April 16, 1901
Creator:
Priddy, Miles C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 10, 1907
Creator:
Mizell, Hardy P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Abrams, Frederic
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Harris, Irvin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bucksaw.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements in bucksaws to provide a simple construction to secure the saw-blade detachably in position and to tighten the same to any degree of operation." (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1900
Creator:
Henry, Hugh
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for improvements “in axle-nut wrenches in which the wrench comprising an angular socket portion adapted to extend partially within the wheel-hub to engage the nut,” (lines 81-83) so that the nut may be unscrewed by rotating the wheel. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 15, 1902
Creator:
Haines, Samuel Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Removing Insects From Plants Or The Like
Patent for a machine for removing insects from plants or the like. Illustration included.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Busseell, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Machine
Patent for a wire fence machine. This invention is designed to tie wires to the line wires and line wires to the stay. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 10, 1903
Creator:
Baumgartner, Blassie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Pulling Stalks.
Patent for improvements in machine for pulling stalks in which it “can break the stalks in small pieces and guide the stalks into the pulling-section of the machine; the pulling-section may be adjusted to suit the average height of the stalks and bodily raised and lowered at any time to permit the pulling-section to be carried out of the way of obstructions when occasion so demands.” (Lines 11-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 24, 1904
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, George Milton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History