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[Portrait of Margurete Doppslemayer]

Full-length portrait of Margurete Doppslemayer, wearing a light-colored dress with a flower detail on the chest. Margurete Doppslemayer stands with her hands and back supported against a lattice-like wooden fence. A handwritten note on the back reads, "Margurete Doppslemayer, May 25 / 1891."
Date: May 25, 1891
Creator: Holmes, H. C. & Shaw, Robert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balance-Staff for Watches. (open access)

Balance-Staff for Watches.

Patent for improvements in balance-staffs for watches by “strengthen and increase the durability of the pivots or journals of the staff while reducing the friction to a minimum” (lines 16-19), included illustration.
Date: May 5, 1891
Creator: Cooper, Jonathan H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History