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Seal. (open access)

Seal.

Patent for a car door seal lock device made of a strip of twistable metal.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Reister, John Christian
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Protector (open access)

Shoe-Protector

Patent for a shoe protector to be worn on the soles to prevent contact from snow or mud. Illustrations included.
Date: May 19, 1908
Creator: Beck, Alfred P. & Teltschik, Frank H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drier (open access)

Drier

Patent for a drier used for drying sugar canes from a sugar mill. Illustrations included.
Date: March 3, 1908
Creator: Rayner, Henry William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crate (open access)

Crate

Patent for a crate designed for more convenience in shipping. Illustrations included.
Date: April 16, 1907
Creator: McLeod, Norman J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eagle Lake 1907 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Eagle Lake in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1907
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eagle Lake 1907 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Eagle Lake in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1907
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eagle Lake 1907 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Eagle Lake in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1907
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eagle Lake 1907 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Eagle Lake in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1907
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for a plow attachment. This invention works with sweep plows and consists of a runner and secured to the end of the plow beam. Illustration included.
Date: January 1, 1907
Creator: Wiegert, Theodore & Neumann, Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Weimar 1907 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Weimar in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1907
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Weimar 1907 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Weimar in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1907
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Weimar 1907 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Weimar in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1907
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Umbrella (open access)

Umbrella

Patent for an umbrella. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Gra, Hernando B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch Indicator (open access)

Automatic Switch Indicator

Patent for an automatic switch indicator. This invention is designed to "prevent accidents resulting from misplaced switches, due to the carelessness of the railroad employees or the inability of the engineer to see the customary track-signals" (line 14-19). Illustrations included.
Date: October 23, 1906
Creator: Coffin, Edward F.; Shaw, Carey & Green, Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting Jack. (open access)

Lifting Jack.

Patent for lifting-jack invented by Calvin W. and Eugene Tanner. This lifting-jack invention is meant to be more durable in material, the material more inexpensive to acquire.
Date: July 3, 1906
Creator: Tanner, Calvin W. & Tanner, Eugene
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Columbus 1906 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Columbus 1906 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Columbus 1906 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Columbus 1906 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Columbus 1906 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Columbus 1906 Sheet 6

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stapling Machine (open access)

Stapling Machine

Patent for a stapling machine. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Kennedy, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dr. J. W. Allen and Dr. F. D. E. Allen]

Photograph of Dr. James Walter Allen and Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen taken in a studio. The photograph shows the two from the waist up in front of a backdrop with painted sky and trees. Dr. J. W. Allen wears a suit jacket, checkered waistcoat, and plaid tie. Dr. F. D. E. Allen wears a white blouse with a high collar and long sleeves, and a thin white tie with a fluer de lis brooch attached at mid-chest. The photograph is cut into an oval shape and is mounted on dark cardstock with an embossed decorative pattern framing the photo. At the top is a white strip of paper with printed text reading, "Dr James Walter Allen - Dr D Emery Allen."
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History