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[Tax Collection Receipts] (open access)

[Tax Collection Receipts]

Ledger containing receipts for payments documented by the Office of Collector of Taxes in Victoria County, Texas.
Date: 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Poison Distributor (open access)

Insect-Poison Distributor

Patent for "new and useful improvements in devices for sprinkling potato-vines and the like with powder - such as paris-green" (lines 15-18).
Date: December 25, 1888
Creator: Heaton, Lorenzo D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power (open access)

Horse-Power

Patent for "a machine adapted for operation from an auxiliary motor actuated by horse or animal power, and has for its object to provide a simple, efficient, and durable machine of this character by or from which a cotton-gin, agrist or saw mill, or other machinery may be driven" (lines 7-13).
Date: August 28, 1888
Creator: Sampson, Allen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History