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Single strand. M. C. Shinn, Patented March 1, 1881
Single strand. M. C. Shinn, Patented March 1, 1881
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double strand barbed wire, M.C. Shinn, patented March 1, 1881
Double strand barbed wire, M.C. Shinn, patented March 1, 1881
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lien for purchase of land by L.H. Stuckey to George Burkhart, March 15, 1881]
Note with Vendor's Lien for purchase of 140 10/11 acres from George Burkhart by L.H. Stuckey, for land located in the Charles D. Ball survey in Montague County.
Date:
March 15, 1881
Creator:
Stuckey, L.H.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Tax receipt for Milton Parks, March 5 1881]
Tax receipt for Milton Parks. The receipt is for the year of 1880 in the amount of eight dollars and twenty-seven cents.
Date:
March 5, 1881
Creator:
Morris, J.R.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Fannie Curtis to parents, March 13 1881]
Letter from Fannie Curtis to parents. The letter is dated March 13, 1881. Fannie Curits was born October 27, 1852 and died Jan 18, 1898. She was the widow of J.C. Curtis.
Date:
March 13, 1881
Creator:
Curtis, Fannie
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Moore County
Map of Moore County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
March 15, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grimes County
Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Grimes County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
March 1881
Creator:
Blau, F. G.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Potter County
Cadastral map of Potter County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Notes are made in different colored inks. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
March 17, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 27, Ed. 1, Saturday, March 19, 1881
Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 19, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 9, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 3, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 3, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 10, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 10, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 11, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 17, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 17, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 13, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 31, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 31, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved combination wrench. This design "is to provide a wrench whose moveable jaw is adjustable without a screw, and with whose handle are combined several useful tools or instruments" (lines 8-11).
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Butler, Edward Martin & Campbell, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Crib.
Patent for a new and improved child's crib. This design utilizes "a rock-shaft with inward-projecting arms, from the inner ends of which the cords are suspended, [and it] avoid[s] the friction and wear of the cords incident to the carrying of these through the screw-eyes, as shown in [a previous patent], making them last much longer, beside simplifying the construction of the crib" (lines 67-74).
Date:
March 15, 1881
Creator:
Brown, Fred Harvey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Seed and Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved combined cotton seed and corn planter. This design is especially "for seeding cotton; but the machine is converted into a corn-planter by detaching the bottom of the hopper, removing the space-block, disconnecting the pitman, and then removing the slide, and substituting in lieu thereof a device composed of a bottom, having a seed-opening, and a bridge-form metallic striker, arranged across the same, and a dropper-slide, having dropper holes" (lines 95-2).
Date:
March 22, 1881
Creator:
Evans, William V. & Moore, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Hook.
Patent for a new and improved clothing hook. This design utilizes elastic, vulcanized rubber end-pieces for the hooks to hold the article of clothing more effectively. These end-pieces can be produced more cheaply than their threaded-metal counterparts, which require screwing on.
Date:
March 29, 1881
Creator:
Delany, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Basket Splints.
Patent for a new machine for cutting basket splints. This design is for a large ring with grooves of varying depths to receive pieces of timber, whereupon a horse pulls a knife-tipped sweep along the perimeter of the ring, gradually turning the timber into splints for baskets. The machine can be conveniently disassembled and stored when not in use, and it is simple and easy enough for a unskilled laborer to assemble.
Date:
March 29, 1881
Creator:
Crow, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump and Sprinkler.
Patent for a new and improved pump and sprinkler. This design "consists of a portable force-pump provided with a capricious air-chamber, and having on the end of its discharge-pipe a sprinkler of novel form, which causes the liquid to be ejected in a fine spray. . . . [This] provide[s] a simple, durable, and effective device, designed especially for use in sprinkling cotton-plants with poisonous solutions, to protect them against the ravages of injurious insects and worms" (lines 7-17).
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Polansky, Alois Josef
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Air-Compressor.
Patent for an improved hydraulic air compressor: "The principal object of my invention is to provide the cylinder with a pressure and water regulating device" (lines 7-9).
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Freeman, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design calls for a grooved nut and bolt to hold a pin between the two while the bolt is screwed onto the nut. Depending on whether or not the pin is in said grooves, the nut may or may not be removed from the bolt, which increases the worker's control over the nut and bolt and prevents unintended loosening.
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Bunker, John Williamson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw Gummer.
Patent for a new and improved gin saw gummer. This design "consists in constructing a gin-saw gummer of a base-block, having a slot to receive the saw, and carrying the dics or stationary cutters, the guide-bar and shoe, the weight-bar, the pivoted bar, carrying the cutter and the gage, the lever and cam for operating the cutter-bar, and the feed mechanism" (lines 23-29).
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Clopton, John Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Spading Machine.
Patent for a new and improved rotary spading machine. This design "consists in the combination of a cylinder or drum armed with a series of spades or teeth, and mounted on a revolving shaft having a bearing or ground wheel, and a series of cleaning fingers or disks, which operate between the teeth of a second cylinder or drum which is mounted in a frame hung loosely on the main shaft of the machine, so as to rise and fall and adapt itself to the inequalities of the ground" (lines 21-30).
Date:
March 8, 1881
Creator:
Schuchard, Julius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddle Mail Bag.
Patent for new and improved saddle bags. This design calls for a saddle with two metal boxes with hinged doors at the bottom, through which metal pouches, to contain the mail, are inserted. The air left between the top of the pouch and the inside of the box prevents water from seeping into the box and ruining the contents, even when fully submerged.
Date:
March 29, 1881
Creator:
Beazley, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History