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Chemise (open access)

Chemise

Patent for improvements in chemises which would relieve wearers “the annoyance of having the garment gather about the limbs while walking which often produces great embarrassment in public places.” (Lines 42-45) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Burt, Emma Ruby
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of William Townley]

Portrait of William Townley at 20 years old, wearing a suit and standing next to a chair. A handwritten note on the back of the photo indicates that he died in 1932 at age 61.
Date: 1891~
Creator: Blair, W. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gatesville 1891 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Gatesville in Coryell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gatesville 1891 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Gatesville in Coryell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame Hook. (open access)

Hame Hook.

Patent for a new and improved hame hook. This design "consists of a hook composed of two members hinged together and adapted to be clamped upon a hame-staple, one of the said members being provided with a pin adapted to project into an opening in the opposite member" (lines 14-19).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Dankworth, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvement in plows by using a “combination of mold-board, land-bar, and share, which will effectually shed the land and prevent the latter from adhere to it.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date: May 26, 1891
Creator: Brown, William Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History