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Building Structure (open access)

Building Structure

Patent for a building support structure for bridges, buildings, dams, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: May 5, 1908
Creator: Morton, Milo A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bank-Ledger (open access)

Bank-Ledger

Patent for a Bank-Ledger
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Ford, Earle
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer. (open access)

Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer.

Patent for improvement to the machine set forth in the patent granted to John S. Doak and Alexander G. Farrington on April, 1902, No. 696419. (Page 1, lines 12-14.) The improvements are to use “a pair of troughs connected to a truck and provided with upwardly-projecting wings on their outer edges, spring-arms attached to the truck and pressing normally against the wings and the outside parts of the troughs, spiral springs adjustably mounted on the truck and pressing against the spring-arms, and means for forcing insects from growing plants into the troughs.” (Page 3, lines 74-83.) Illustration is included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Doak, John S. & Farrington, Alexander G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Block Machine (open access)

Building Block Machine

Patent for a building block machine. This invention is used to mold concrete and other artificial stone blocks. Illustration included.
Date: September 18, 1906
Creator: Latimer, Samuel A. & Krischke, Joseph, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a “duplex baling-press wherein the power is alternately applied by novel mechanism to the two baling-plungers in such manner that only one plunger at a given time is operating to compress the bale, and at the completion of the stroke thereof the other plunger is operated to compress its bale, the arrangement being such that the plungers are alternately engaged and released by the power mechanism and are automatically returned to operative position after they have been released.” (Lines 9-21.) Illustration is included.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Watkins, William D. & Pruit, Trose P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Roost. (open access)

Chicken-Roost.

Patent for a chicken roost, which has a receptacle for droppings that is easily cleaned.
Date: September 14, 1909
Creator: Kaneaster, Henry R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for new and useful improvements in Crude-Oil Burners which provide a novel constructions that may be utilized in many locations.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Pippin, John William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Block Machine (open access)

Building Block Machine

Patent for a building block machine. This invention is used to form blocks out of plastic material into artificial stone, as well as molding concrete blocks. Illustrations included.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Latimer, Samuel A.; Dunkin, James J.; Stacey, J. H.; Hall, A. L.; Porter, R. S.; Haynes, S. F. et al.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bucket-Jack (open access)

Bucket-Jack

Patent for a bucket jack for holding paint buckets while painting on roofs or the sides of buildings which holds the bucket horizontal.
Date: July 27, 1909
Creator: Phinny, Christpher W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Forty-first Annual Session, Northwest Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (open access)

Journal of the Forty-first Annual Session, Northwest Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the conferences, condensed minutes, resolutions, reports from committees, selected biographies, and statistical tables.
Date: November 1906
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of White's Mines and Dirt Road]

Photograph of a tall, multistory and multi-wing building with small windows, visible over a line of bushes. Smoke rises from the building's stacks. A small, one-story wood building sits a short distance from the building on the right. A thin layer of snow covers the ground beneath the bushes, which sit behind a barbed wire fence bordering a dirt road.
Date: [1900..1929]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Large Brick Building]

Photograph of a large, two-story brick building with panels of windows along each floor, and a large, double-door entrance at the top of two short flights of stairs at the front of the building. The building can be seen down a dirt road, between two wooden houses, one within a border of shrubbery and the other within a wooden fence. An automobile is parked in front of the building down the road.
Date: [1900..1929]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Automobiles Gathered at Brown County Courthouse]

Photograph of a large, three-story brick building surrounded on the front and left side by parked automobiles. There are windows along each floor of the building and the front entrance is accessible through three brick arches supporting a balcony on the second story. The overhang above the balcony is supported by tall columns. A small group of men stand on the corner outside the building, while two boys in flat caps sit on the sideboard of one of the automobiles. The edge of an overhang is visible at the left of the photo, while in the background on the right, another building is visible.
Date: [1900..1929]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1901-1902 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1901-1902

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1901~
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1907-1908 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1907-1908

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1907
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1900-1901 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1900-1901

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1900~
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1909-1910 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1909-1910

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1909
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1908-1909 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1908-1909

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1908
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1906-1907 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1906-1907

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1906~
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1903-1904 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1903-1904

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1903~
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1902-1903 (open access)

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1902-1903

Catalogue describes the governance, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: 1902~
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 215, Ed. 1 Monday, June 24, 1907 (open access)

Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 215, Ed. 1 Monday, June 24, 1907

Daily newspaper from Brownwood, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 24, 1907
Creator: Mayes, Will H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 201, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1907 (open access)

Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 201, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1907

Daily newspaper from Brownwood, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 7, 1907
Creator: Mayes, Will H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 64, Ed. 1 Friday, December 31, 1909 (open access)

Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 64, Ed. 1 Friday, December 31, 1909

Daily newspaper from Brownwood, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 1909
Creator: Mayes, Will H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History