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Bellville 1906 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bellville in Austin County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bellville 1906 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bellville in Austin County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vaginal Irrigator (open access)

Vaginal Irrigator

Patent for a vaginal irrigator. Illustration included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Farrington, Charles Oliphint & Watson, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Musical Instrument. (open access)

Musical Instrument.

Patent for a new musical instrument, similar to a lyre, designed to "provide a new and improved musical instrument which is simple and durable in construction, very light, of high resonant qualities, and arranged to permit convenient manipulation of the strings without the player touching the soundboard with the fingers" (lines 10-15), which includes illustrations.
Date: February 6, 1906
Creator: Krueger, Amandus M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Plows (open access)

Attachment For Plows

Patent for an attachment for plows. This invention "relates to new and useful improvements in attachments for plows, and my object is to provide means whereby the pitch of the moldboard or shovel may be regulated as desired" (lines 12-16). Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Wilke, Ernest
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History