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[Sierra Blanca Junction]
Copy photo of a group of people lined up outside of the junction in Sierra Blanca, Texas. Written below the image is "Sierra Blanca, Texas 1896 [sic] jct of the T&P and S.P." and "Southwest Collection."
Date:
1896
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train in Sierra Blanca
Photograph of John Chester in Sierra Blanca, Texas while traveling with the Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train. John Chester is pictured next to a wagon sponsored by Copenhagen, Skoal, and Billy Bob's Texas.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Cirincione, Nick
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chispa 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:
1895
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sierra Blanca 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:
1895
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chispa 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:
1897
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Hancock 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
Eagle Mountain 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:
1897
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artesian Well Borer.
Patent for a new and improved artesian-well borer. This design "will be actuated by the weight of the connecting-rods and sink-wells in rock, gravel, earth, or sand without the use of water" (lines 13-16). It consists "[i]n an earth or rock auger, the combination, with a tube and a shank reciprocating in said tube and adapted to operate the auger, of dogs adapted to be projected through the tube by the reciprocation of the shank to engage the well-casing and hold the said tube from rotary movement" (lines 62-68).
Date:
January 20, 1891
Creator:
Logan, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History