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Air Motor. (open access)

Air Motor.

Patent for a new and improved air-motor. This design is of an "air-motor, consisting of an engine, single-acting air-pump, air-receiver, and the double-acting exhaust-pump, with the valves and connections . . . [and] the levers and segments" (lines 81-87).
Date: July 21, 1885
Creator: Koniakowsky, Alois M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
BIRD-CAGE (open access)

BIRD-CAGE

Patent for a new and improved combined Bird-Cages and Fly-Traps. The improvements include the use of netting or wire gauze, making holes at the bottom of the cage to insert feed-cups or let flies in when the cage is used to catch flies, and placing a ring over the seed-cups in order to prevent insects or flies from getting into the cage when it is used as a bird-cage.
Date: July 6, 1880
Creator: Pinter, Francis T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book Holder (open access)

Book Holder

Patent for a book holder to receive or hold a book or in position for writing
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Hackworth, Riggs P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool. (open access)

Combination Tool.

Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design consists in "the combination of the two overlapping fulcrumed or pivoted levers having handles and forward ends of flattened crescent shape bent in reverse directions to cause their extreme reduced ends to abut to form nippers, and provided with beveled shoulders at the bases of their inner edges to form cutters and with serrated projections in rear of the pivot or fulcrum, and an angular arm movably attached to said pivot or fulcrum, carrying a receptacle adapted to be adjusted under the nippers for the reception of staples" (lines 29-42).
Date: July 16, 1889
Creator: Carter, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Commercial Building]

Photograph of the Commercial Building (located at 114 Main Street) in La Grange, Texas.
Date: July 1980
Creator: Kennedy, Carol
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Commercial Building]

Photograph of the Commercial Building (located at 114 Main Street) in La Grange, Texas.
Date: July 1980
Creator: Kennedy, Carol
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Commercial Building]

Photograph of the Commercial Building (located at 114 Main Street) in La Grange, Texas.
Date: July 1980
Creator: Kennedy, Carol
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Press. (open access)

Cotton-Baling Press.

Patent for "an improved construction of hydraulic baling-presses, whereby it is designed to provide simple and more durable and reliable presses of this kind than any now in use" (lines 8-12).
Date: July 29, 1884
Creator: Baumgarten, Christian
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Shade. (open access)

Cotton-Picking Shade.

Patent for a cotton-picking shade that will furnish a portable shade or shield for the use of cotton-pickers to protect them from the direct rays of the sun while at work.
Date: July 22, 1879
Creator: Benthall, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Texas.
Date: July 2, 1980
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Texas.
Date: July 1, 1980
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Texas.
Date: July 5, 1980
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Texas.
Date: July 3, 1980
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Texas.
Date: July 8, 1980
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton (located at near Winchester) in Texas.
Date: July 7, 1980
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Texas.
Date: July 9, 1980
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Texas.
Date: July 6, 1980
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Texas.
Date: July 4, 1980
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Fayette County, Texas.
Date: July 1980
Creator: Kennedy, Carol
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Fayette County, Texas.
Date: July 1980
Creator: Kennedy, Carol
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Fayette County, Texas.
Date: July 1980
Creator: Kennedy, Carol
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Fayette County, Texas.
Date: July 1980
Creator: Kennedy, Carol
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Fayette County, Texas.
Date: July 1980
Creator: Kennedy, Carol
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crofton]

Photograph of the Crofton in Fayette County, Texas.
Date: July 1980
Creator: Kennedy, Carol
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History