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[Postcard of the YMCA Building in Palestine, Texas]

Postcard of the YMCA building in Palestine, Texas. A handwritten message on the back of the card reads "Hello Chas. If you have any intentions of going to Purdue next year, which I hope you have let me know at once and I will come down some Saturday or Sunday and talk it over with you. C. F. M." The card is addressed to Mr Chas. Forsgard of Waco, texas.
Date: August 8, 1909
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Church of Christ Building Exterior]

Photograph of a two-story brick building with windows along each floor, a small porch at the entrance, covered by a gabled overhang supported by four brick columns. Two automobiles are parked in front of the building, which has lettering on the overhang that reads, "Church of Christ." To the left of the brick building is a smaller house with a covered porch and a bare tree in the front yard.
Date: [1900..1929]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1900 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1900
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1905 Sheet 7

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1905
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1900 Sheet 7

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1900
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1905 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1905
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1900 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1900
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1900 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1900
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1905 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1905
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1905 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1905
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1900 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1900
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1905 Sheet 8

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1905
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1905 Sheet 6

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1905
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1900 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1900
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1905 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1905
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1900 Sheet 6

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1900
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Palestine 1905 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Palestine in Anderson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1905
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat. (open access)

Car-Seat.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car seats, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Meier, Hermann
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE. (open access)

AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.

Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Dukesmith, Frank H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle guard, which is made up of a wedge shaped piece of metal that allows a cows leg to be caught rather than the foot to allow easier removal of the leg by the cow.
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Mosher, Benjamin E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a wire stretcher, which can stretch and hold a wire for a fence until it is securely fastened to the fence post and is easy to operate.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Dobbs, John & Welborn, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Grinding Valve Seats (open access)

Machine For Grinding Valve Seats

Patent for a simpler machine for Grinding Valve-Seats. This machine relates to the machinery involved in the grinding and finishing of valve seats.
Date: July 28, 1905
Creator: Meyners, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Cultivator or Sulky Plow. (open access)

Wheel Cultivator or Sulky Plow.

Patent for a wheeled cultivator that "may be attached to a wheeled supporting-frame in such a manner that the front end of the plow-beam may be raised and lowered, the construction also providing means for readily detaching the plow-beam from the frame" (lines 12-17) including illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: Vance, Sidney F. & Harrison, Hubbert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vaginal Irrigator (open access)

Vaginal Irrigator

Patent for a vaginal irrigator. Illustration included.
Date: August 2, 1904
Creator: Farrington, Charles O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History