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Broom-Rack.
Patent for a new and useful broom rack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Smith, Walter I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Weisman]
Portrait of Weisman, seated atop a fabric-covered chair, wearing a light-colored gown. The back of the photograph has intricate designs of foliage, stars, and scrolls. A hand written note on the back reads, "Henry Landsfield's [tentative] son Weisman, 3 mo. old, July 4 / 94."
Date:
July 4, 1894
Creator:
Bruce & Corti
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Margurete Doppslemayer]
Full-length portrait of Margurete Doppslemayer, wearing a light-colored dress with a flower detail on the chest. Margurete Doppslemayer stands with her hands and back supported against a lattice-like wooden fence. A handwritten note on the back reads, "Margurete Doppslemayer, May 25 / 1891."
Date:
May 25, 1891
Creator:
Holmes, H. C. & Shaw, Robert
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Box.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable wheel-axle box that is "adapted to contain a supply of lubricating material and constructed to feed the same continuously to the axle-spindle to prevent overheating, and furthermore, to provide means for preventing ingress of dust" (lines 9-14).
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Casto, Tony Lo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carrier Iron for Draw Bars.
Patent for a new and improved carrier iron for draw-bars. This design "is to provide an improved draw-bar support exceedingly strong and durable in construction and very cheap and simple which will prevent spreading of the draft-timbers or sagging of the draw-bar and which can be reversed" (lines 19-24). It consists in "[t]he combination, in a car, of the draft-timbers, the draw-bar between the same, and the loop-shaped carrier-iron in one piece embracing said timbers and passing above and below and supporting the draw-bar and secured to said timbers by bolts" (lines 78-83).
Date:
September 27, 1892
Creator:
Minton, William Dryden & Douglas, Alexander Stewart
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Box.
Patent for an axle-box for vehicle wheels that "contains a lubricant-receiving recess from which the lubricant is automatically fed to the spindle of the axle as necessity may occasion" (lines 10-13).
Date:
May 8, 1894
Creator:
Casto, Tony Lo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cinder and Smoke Consuming Apparatus.
Patent for "devices for conducting exhaust steam, gases and cinders to the fire place of a boiler and is primarily intended for use in locomotive boilers, and its object is to increase the efficiency of such apparatus" (lines 11-16).
Date:
February 14, 1893
Creator:
Little, Francis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balance-Staff for Watches.
Patent for improvements in balance-staffs for watches by “strengthen and increase the durability of the pivots or journals of the staff while reducing the friction to a minimum” (lines 16-19), included illustration.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Cooper, Jonathan H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carling-Socket for Car-Frames.
Patent for improvements to "carlings for the roofs of cars, such as used for transporting live or dead freight," (lines 11-13) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1891
Creator:
Coffin, Walter E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Construction.
Patent for "a construction which will permit the speedy and easy removal of brake supporting blocks or equivalent parts from the lower or floor frame of a car and the substitution of others without displacement or injury of other parts of the car." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Coffin, Walter E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher.
Patent for "a dasher that the force required to operate it may be varied and the time necessary to churn the butter be shortened as the force operating the dasher is increased." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 12, 1895
Creator:
Hudson, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Fan.
Patent for "an attractive sign, which by reason of its revolutions will receive notice from the general public and illustrate business cards or signs, and furthermore to operate the same by and in conjunction with a fan, such as is commonly used in public places." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Lo Casto, Tony
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pad.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple concave back-pad meant to be used between the horse and the saddle. The design of the invention makes saddles stay in place.
Date:
May 14, 1895
Creator:
Powell, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Train #243 in Marshall, Texas]
Copy photo of T&P train #243 in Marshall, Texas. There's a label on the image that says "Rogers Locomotive Company, Paterson, New Jersey - United States of America." Written below the photo are "(Marshall, Texas) Rogers 1898" and "R. H. Carlson."
Date:
1898
Creator:
Carlson, R. H.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Train #185 in Marshall, Texas]
Copy photo of men posing for a picture in front of train #185. The text below the image says "Marshall, Texas - circa 1890" and "Ed Robinson (Copy Photo)."
Date:
1890~
Creator:
Robinson, Ed
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Ginocchio Hotel Under Construction]
Photograph of the Ginocchio Hotel under construction. There are men all around the site and houses in the background. Written below the image are "Ginocchio Hotel - Marshall, Texas under construction all brick fired on the property, 4th from right: Charles A. Ginocchio, C. A. Ginocchio Home in background" and "Hobart Key Jr. Collection."
Date:
1896
Creator:
Key, Hobart Jr.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Ginocchio Hotel]
Photograph of the Ginocchio Hotel in Marshall, Texas. There is a train car on tracks to the right of the image with men on the back. Written below the image are "Ginocchio Hotel Marshall, Texas - just finished being built 1898, large sign (to left) says: - Hack Drivers, Hotel Runners, Peddlers and Boot Blacks not allowed on this platform, smaller sign (to left) says: Western Union Telegraph Office" and "Hobart Key Jr. Collection T&P Neg #3 - photo 1898 by R. E. Hinchey R.R. Photog'r De Soto, Mo."
Date:
1898
Creator:
Hinchey, R. E.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Report of deportment, attendance, scholarship and examination grades of Mary McAllister]
Report card of the City Public Schools of Marshall, Texas, for Mary McAllister, eighth grade, High School Department. Signed by J. B. Madden, Teacher. Marks are given for attendance, conduct, reading, writing, arithmetic, etymology, geography, grammar, Latin, algebra, and physiology. Mrs. G. L. McAllister signed as parent. The form was printed by "Jennings Printer Marshall."
Date:
1894/1895
Creator:
Marshall, Texas. City Public Schools.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hand-drawn map by Mary McAllister, School Assignment]
Hand-drawn map on card stock showing Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea. It was drawn by Mary McAllister in Marshall, Texas, for a school assignment. She signed it in the lower left corner and dated it May 5, 1893. Written in pencil in a different hand on the right side of the map is the grade 99 1/2. McAllister was born in June 1889 and would have been 12 years old when she drew the map. On the other side of the card is lithographed: "From M. A. Fine Merchant Tailoring, Sample No." with the number 2959 stamped next. Printed below that are names of different types of clothing with blank lines where the cost of constructing them in the sample fabric could have been filled in. Mary McAllister has written her name twice in pencil on that side of the card, and some additional letters are written on the top, possibly by her. The upper left and lower right corners of the card have been broken off.
Date:
1893
Creator:
McAllister, Mary.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Daily Messenger Subscription Receipt]
Subscription receipt to A. S. Fields for 50 cents to pay for one month of the newspaper "The Daily Messenger" beginning June 1, 1892, signed by T. A. Ardis. An accompanying note by the dealer from whom the receipt was purchased states that A. S. Fields was a longtime Harrison County Clerk. Printed at the top left of the form: W. A. Adair, Proprietor. The receipt is a printed form with blanks for names and dates, which have been completed in pencil.
Date:
1892
Creator:
Daily Messenger (Marshall, Texas)
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Mary McAllister, 1897]
Cabinet card photograph of Mary McAllister, three-quarters view, head and shoulders. She is wearing a light colored dress or blouse with high neck and flowers pinned next to the collar. Her hair is pulled back. Born in 1880, she was 17 years old when this photograph was taken. [Although the date 1917 is written on the bottom of the mount card, another copy of this photograph in the family collection bears the date June 21, 1897.] The photographers' imprint at the bottom of the card and on the back is Bruce & Corti, Marshall, Texas.
Date:
1897
Creator:
Bruce & Corti
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Marshall 1894 Sheet 10
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1894
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Marshall 1899 Sheet 10
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1899
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History