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Combination-Tool. (open access)

Combination-Tool.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in a combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1898
Creator: McCarty, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of Woman

Copy negative of a portrait of Emma Harvey Miller wearing a light colored blouse, taken by M. L. Sanders.
Date: 1890~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of Man

Copy negative of a portrait of Walter Miller sitting in a chair, wearing a suit, taken by M. L. Sanders.
Date: 1890~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Opener. (open access)

Bale-Tie Opener.

Patent for "a simple and durable device by means of which the buckles or securing devices on cotton-bale ties or bands may be readily opened and the band removed from the bale without destroying the buckle or the band, so that they may be again used." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 1, 1897
Creator: Gaskill, Clinton R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power. (open access)

Churn-Power.

Patent for an improved construction design for churn power that "may be readily employed in connection with any ordinary vessel serving as a churn body, and which will effect a rapid production of butter" (lines 12-15).
Date: January 23, 1894
Creator: Taylor, Marion M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Removing Grease, &c. (open access)

Composition of Matter for Removing Grease, &c.

Patent for a compound that is meant to remove grease, oil, paint, and similar things from delicate cloth. It is composed of gasoline, chloroform, sulfuric ether, alcohol, spirits of ammonia, powdered borax, powdered carbonate of soda, and saltpeter in lumps.
Date: February 7, 1893
Creator: Ehman, Benedickt
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Harvester. (open access)

Corn-Harvester.

Patent for an improved, simple, and durable corn harvester that "when drawn over a field of corn of cutting the ears of corn from two rows simultaneously, and of depositing the cut corn in a receiver at the rear of the cutters" (lines 11-15).
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Perkins, James Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power. (open access)

Churn Power.

Patent for a new and improved churn-power. This design "relates particularly to a vertical single-dasher reciprocating churn, and has for its object to provide a churn-power of the character that shall be simple and durable in construction, one that will give a maximum length of stroke, and one that will always keep the dasher elevated when not in operation" (lines 7-14).
Date: September 23, 1890
Creator: Dickey, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm (open access)

Burglar-Alarm

Patent for "a very simple and economically-constructed alarm mechanically connected with windows and doors of a house or a room and adapted to be sounded by a raising or opening of the same, and at the same time to strike a light or illuminate the surroundings (lines 10-15).
Date: October 7, 1890
Creator: Canterbury, Crawford R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for an improvement in churn by using a combination of a sliding bar, a cord secured to the dasher-shaft, and vertical rods to create a mechanical movement that would wind and unwind the cord in order to operate the churn. Illustration is included.
Date: March 3, 1891
Creator: Crouch, Riley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm. (open access)

Burglar-Alarm.

Patent for a burglar-alarms by constructing “an alarm which would adapted and arranged to sound and to be operated at and by the raising of the window or opening of the door, and simultaneous with the sounding of the alarm to produce an illumination.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date: April 14, 1891
Creator: Canterbury, Crawford R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power. (open access)

Churn-Power.

Patent for improvements in churns is to “simplify and improve the construction of the means for operating vertically-reciprocating churn-dashers and to enable the dasher to be adjusted vertically, according to the amount of lacteal fluid to be churned.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date: April 21, 1891
Creator: Dickey, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Daniel Baker College Graduating Class, 1895]

Photograph of the first graduating class of Daniel Baker College. The photo shows five young men in suits - four of whom have mustaches - standing behind three young women in light-colored clothes, who are sitting. The photograph has scripted text along the left side which has been cut off by the edge of the photo, and on the back of the photo is handwritten text indicating the year. The name Clark Coursey and the location, Brownwood, Texas has been written on the back of the photo.
Date: 1895
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Family of James and Elizabeth Milam]

Photograph of the Milam family, grouped together in two rows. James, sporting a long beard, and Elizabeth, in a long black dress, sit along the bottom row. The children are grouped by age. Top row, from left to right: Mary Lenora "Nora" Milam (1881–1966), Katie Viola "Ola" Milam (1878–1960) , James Milton Milam (1877–1919), Allen Milam (1875–1954), and Buren Milam (1883–1959). Bottom row: Henry Cumbee Milam (1890–1981), James Henry Milam (1854–1923), Elizabeth Ann Milam (1857–1931), who holds Eunice Agnes Milam (1895–1969), and Rosa Esther Milam (1887–1979). Mattie Agnes Milam (1893–1981) sits in a rocker chair below James. A note on the back indicates that Albert Feldmann Milam (1897–1973) had not yet been born.
Date: 1895/1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1895-1896 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1895-1896

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1895~
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1898-1899 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1898-1899

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1898~
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1897-1898 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1897-1898

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1897
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1896-1897 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1896-1897

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1896~
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1899-1900 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1899-1900

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1899~
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1892 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1892

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1892
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1891 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1891

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1891
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference, of the Methodist Epsicopal Church, South. (open access)

Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference, of the Methodist Epsicopal Church, South.

Journal proceedings of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the proceedings, appointments, memoirs, report of boards and committees, and statistical tables.
Date: 1898
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownwood Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History