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Church register (open access)

Church register

Register of pastors -- Register of marriages -- Register of infant baptisms -- Register of members. Some pages blank.
Date: 1886/1925
Creator: Krum United Methodist Church
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Denton County Alliance Delegates Certificate] (open access)

[Denton County Alliance Delegates Certificate]

Photograph of a Delegates Certificate for the County Alliance of Denton, Texas from July 12th, 1886. A State Democratic Convention ribbon from Houston, Texas, 1892, is also visible. It is sign by J.W. cook, president and Charles A. McMeans, secretary.
Date: July 12, 1886
Creator: Chas. A. McMeans
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Susie Whitlock Moten]

Photograph with charcoal over the portrait of Susie A. Whitlock (Moten). She is not smiling and has a very close-cut hair style. She is wearing a dark dress.
Date: 1886~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Minutes of the Organization and First Annual Session of the Denton County Baptist Association (open access)

Minutes of the Organization and First Annual Session of the Denton County Baptist Association

Minutes of the Organization and First Annual Session of the Denton County Baptist Association. The booklet contains the list of delegates and the location of their churches, constitution, rules of order, and the declaration of faith of the association.
Date: 1886-10-01~
Creator: Denton County Baptist Association
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Grand State Farmers Alliance delegates certificate (open access)

Texas Grand State Farmers Alliance delegates certificate

This delegates certificate includes the minutes of a meeting held on July 12th, 1886 in which the officers and representatives were selected. The certificate lists all of the representatives chosen.
Date: July 12, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Lattin book subscription]

Photograph of The Oologist by Frank H, [Haak], a Lattin book subscription. The other page of the form lists the offers of the subscription.
Date: [1886..1905]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hand-Book of Northern Texas (open access)

Hand-Book of Northern Texas

Overview of the north Texas region encompassing Collin, Denton, Fannin, and Grayson Counties for potential visitors, including information about the landscape and climate, the farming and ranching industries, notable persons and businesses, and other information about the area. A description appeared in The Sunday Gazetteer [Denison, TX, Dec. 19, 1886, p.3] which described it: "This book is a quarto volume handsomely gotten up in pamphlet form, and elaborately illustrated with wood engravings. It gives short biographical sketches of prominent men of North Texas, and also pen and pencil pictures of various stock farms, business houses and private residences of the cities and surrounding country of Denison, Sherman Gainesville, Denton, Honey Grove, McKinney, etc., as well as the more important ones of the Indian Nation." Another article that appeared in the Denton Record-Chronicle on Feb. 19, 1927, section 9, p.1, hints to the provenance of the library's copy. It states that, the C. C. Bell household had a copy because "Bell is one of the land-owners who paid at the rate of about $30 per photo to be represented in the 40-page bulletin." The C. C. Bell homestead was, "east of what is now Bell Avenue...was later destroyed by fire." A …
Date: 1886
Creator: C.S. Burch Publishing Company
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed planter. (open access)

Seed planter.

Patent for the improvement of seed planters, according to the inventor, "by providing the hopper of the same with regulating devices, whereby the seed may be planted in desired quantities and at desired intervals".
Date: February 9, 1886
Creator: Ratliff, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter. (open access)

Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with a supporting-frame, of a revolving hopper, comprising circular heads connected by cross-bars having recesses, circular strips inclosing the cross-bars and leaving a space between their inner ends, flanges secured between and projecting through the circular strips and leaving a space between them, a slotted plate located on one of the bars of the frame and having its end located between the flanges, and a set-screw for clamping the plate in place" (lines 92-103).
Date: November 30, 1886
Creator: Holland, Willis Asa
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History