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Cooke County Courthouse, Gainesville
Photograph of the Cooke County Courthouse under renovation. There are vans and orange construction equipment in front of the building, and many of the windows are boarded up.
Date:
October 10, 2005
Creator:
Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Morton Museum of Cooke County
Morton Museum of Cooke County
Date:
October 10, 2005
Creator:
Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cot.
Patent for a cot that "may be easily and quickly applied to wagons, cars, and to all other places where beds are inconvenient" (lines 8-10). It attaches to a vertical wall.
Date:
October 2, 1894
Creator:
Looney, Joseph H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Torch and Gas Burner Key.
Patent for a new and improved combined torch and gas-burner key. This design "relates to a device for lighting gas-burners and operating the cock of the gas-burner, and has for its object to provide a combined torch and key by means of which the gas may be lighted without the flame of the torch coming in contact with the globe surrounding the burner and the cock of the gas-burner readily taken hold of and operated" (lines 8-15).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Lindsay, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boot Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved boot scraper. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the inclined bow-shaped upper plate, having a transverse bar connecting the branches of the plate, the inner edges of which are inclined outward and upward from the upper edge of the transverse bar, and in providing, in connection with the bow-shaped plate, an under or subsidiary plate of forked form, having a rounded recess between the forks adapted to conform to the shape of the heel" (lines 18-30).
Date:
October 23, 1883
Creator:
Collins, Morris A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an inexpensive, strong, and simple wire stretcher that can be used quickly to stretch and secure wires. It also connects wires of different heights, and stretches wires to different tensions.
Date:
October 17, 1893
Creator:
Gillis, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design "is to obviate the . . . great difficulty . . . experienced in the construction of wheels in putting the axle-box in the hub and getting it true. . . . and [to] improve and strengthen the construction of wheels, and especially the manner of securing the spokes in the hubs" (lines 9-17).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Holland, William Johnson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the posts, the latch-bar pivoted to the main rail by inclined braces and operated by a rock-shaft and push-arms inclined in a direction opposite to that of the inclined braces, weight-box, and cranks for operating the rock-shaft to open and close the gate" (lines 19-25).
Date:
October 25, 1881
Creator:
Smith, Robert B. & Curry, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Post.
Patent for a new and improved fence post. This design is for a "fence-post molded of a cement and sand or gravel, with a transverse vertical slot . . . a vertical opening in its top communicating with the vertical slot [designed] for the wire fastening . . . openings [found] in its sides or edges for the wires [as well as] a flange" (lines 51-56).
Date:
October 10, 1882
Creator:
McGee, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Expansible Pulley
Patent for "expansible pulleys, or pulleys of that character or description which may be expanded or contracted, so as to increase or decrease the circumference thereof." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 8, 1895
Creator:
Kennerly, Samuel J. & Cox, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for a support for quilting frames that can be attached to a sewing machine. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Obuch, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Scraper.
Patent for improvements in cultivators and scrapers: "The object of our invention is to provide a cultivator and scraper of simple and economical construction" (lines 15-17).
Date:
October 13, 1891
Creator:
Huneycutt, Noah & Moseley, Thomas Elverton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cultivating Machine
Patent to "provide an implement which, in passing once over the row of cotton, will chop, scrape, and cultivate said row" (lines 10-13).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Runyon, Edwin Elijah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt of Levi Perryman, October 25, 1875]
Receipt for a registered letter, sent to Blanton & Blanton in Gainesville, Texas from Levi Perryman. Signed by G.H. Eidson.
Date:
October 25, 1875
Creator:
Perryman, Levi
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Receipt for Ross & Bros., October 30, 1875]
Receipt for Ross & Bros. from Levi Perryman for the amount of $27.15. For the case of Ross & Bros. vs Wm. Freeman.
Date:
October 30, 1875
Creator:
Ross & Bros.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Criminal Docket District Court, Cooke County, 1887-1897]
Ledger from Cooke County, Texas, containing criminal docket information that includes attorney names, the names of parties involved, offenses, witnesses, and orders made.
Date:
1887-10~
Creator:
Cooke County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7422
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether or not the Commissioners Court of Cooke County has the authority to pass an order providing for the payment to a constable of the sum of $12.00 per month for expenses, where such constable is otherwise paid upon a fee system.
Date:
October 4, 1946
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-285
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What is the legal authority for the creation of Independent School Districts at the Gainesville State School, the Gatesville State School and the Colored Girls Training School at Crockett, Texas, since Opinion No. WW-251 does not define these schools as Eleemosynary Institutions? and related questions.
Date:
October 24, 1957
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Gainesville Blaze Loss Over Million]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at two cotton warehouses in Gainesville. The mayor claimed that this was the worst fire in the city's history.
Date:
October 9, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 245, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 1897
Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 13, 1897
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 258, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 6, 1896
Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 6, 1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 184, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 24, 1894
Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 24, 1894
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 187, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 27, 1894
Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 27, 1894
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 277, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 30, 1892
Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 30, 1892
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History