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[1885 Fire Wagon]
Photograph and description of Orange's volunteer firemen standing by a fire wagon in 1885. This is the oldest known picture of an Orange scene.
Date:
1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A 1886 Drug Store]
Photograph of a 1886 Drug Store. The drug store is located in a two story brick building on the corner of a dirt street. The sign "Drug Store" on the northwest corner of the building, has a horse hitched to the support post. The front of the building has two glass box windows on either side of the double door entrance. Eight men are standing on the sidewalk near the front entrance. There is a man sitting in each of the four second story windows on the front side of building. A hitching post is on far left; two white wooden buildings on far right with the top of a two story brick building partially visible over the roof tops of the wooden buildings. The photograph is mounted on a tan cardboard substrate. Image dimensions are: 19.7 cm x 12.4 cm. Pencil writing near top left corner of cardboard reads [not fully legible]: 84.50 49.00 $35.50 $35.50 (with x's under the cents).
Date:
1885/1889
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Abilene 1885 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Abilene in Taylor County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
March 1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Abilene 1885 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Abilene in Taylor County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
March 1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Abilene 1885 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Abilene in Taylor County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
March 1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Abilene 1885 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Abilene in Taylor County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
March 1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Ordinances: 1885-1902]
Ledger containing ordinances/resolutions passed by the city of Abilene, Texas from April 1885 to September 1902.
Date:
1885/1902
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding Machine.
Patent for a new and improved adding machine. This design "consists in the combination, with a box, of a spindle in the same, a sleeve surrounding the spindle, a hand on the spindle, a hand on the sleeve, devices for turning the spindle from the sleeve, a cog-wheel revolving from the spindle, and an extra hand in connection with the cog-wheel" (lines 10-16).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
McCaleb, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Advertiser. Weekly. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local news, entertainment, and advertising.
Date:
January 30, 1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Albany 1885 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Albany in Shackelford County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
February 1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, January 2, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 2, 1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 9, 1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 16, 1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, January 23, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 23, 1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 30, 1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, February 6, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 6, 1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. [51], Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 13, 1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 20, 1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Alexander D. McNabb I]
Photograph of "Alexander D. McNabb I, perhaps about 1885. Born May 4, 1854 and died February 20, 1911. He was the first child of John McNabb and Mary Smith McNabb. He is buried in Morton Cemetery in Richmond" as identified on back of photograph in pen. Photograph is of a young man with thin, dark hair and mustache. He is wearing a three piece (light colored) suit with different color (or perhaps fabric) trim on inside portion of lapel. He has on a white shirt and light colored bow tied tie. Photograph is mounted on a cardboard substrate with " Cabinet Portrait. C.J. Wright. Houston" Printed in black at the bottom. The back of the cardboard is pink with multi-circular designs as background. Written in back under a drawing of a camera, paint palette, brushes in front of the sun and an emblem is: I HAVE ENGAGED THE SUN TO SHINE FOR ME. C. J. WRIGHT, HOUSTON, TEXAS. ALL NEGATIVES PRESERVED. Duplicates may be obtained at any time.
Date:
1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Allie Bland's House and Cove School
Photograph of the Cove School at left and Ms. Allie Bland's house on the right. There is a white-picket fence surrounding the yard of the house and the school. In front of the fence is a man in a dark suit and hat. Within the house yard are two women in long skirts and a man in a vest and hat. There are large trees with moss surrounding the buildings.
Date:
1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado 1885 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Alvarado in Johnson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
March 1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Angle & Maddox
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with flowers, business name, and text reading: "Angle & Maddox Land Dealers & Agents"; "233 Commerce St."; "G. W. Angle Agent for the New York & Texas Land Co Limited, Owner of the International & Great Northern R. R. Land Grant, The Houston & Great Northern R. R. Land Grant, and other lands." Printed by George D. Barnard & Co. St. Louis. Letterhead includes names G. W. Angle; J. W. Maddox.
Date:
1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Power.
Patent for a new and improved engine. This design has a "tread-wheel on which the animal is placed, and which is provided with a cog-wheel on its under side to mesh with a pinion placed on one end of the crank-shaft, a connecting-rod which is attached at one end to the crank and at the other to a pivoted lever . . . a second connecting-rod which is fastened to the upper end of the pivoted lever . . . a balance-wheel, and the main driving-shaft provided with a number of arms, each one of which carries a planet-wheel for the purpose of moving around a fixed wheel" (lines 15-29).
Date:
July 7, 1885
Creator:
Yarbrough, Ezekel James & Kyker, John Marshal
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History