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DeWitt County

Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering DeWitt County, Texas. The road from Victoria to LaGrange, Texas is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: November 1853
Creator: Pressler, Charles W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Mode of Regulating the Velocity and Furling the Sails of Wind-Wheels. (open access)

Improved Mode of Regulating the Velocity and Furling the Sails of Wind-Wheels.

Patent for a new windmill using different parts to help regulate the sails and for folding and unfolding the sails, including illustration.
Date: March 24, 1857
Creator: Witting, F. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for the improvement of the cotton press using a cam-lever for operating the side of the press-box with two different application of power, including illustration.
Date: February 16, 1858
Creator: Witting, F. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Preliminary survey of the entrance to the Rio Grande, Texas

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Includes text on soundings and tides. "I no. 2." "No. 40."
Date: 1854
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History