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[Hot Well and Health Resort]

Postcard of Hot Well and Health Resort in Marlin, Texas, showing the front of the buildings and the street where a horse and buggy are parked. The text "Hot Well and Health Resort of Marlin, Texas" is printed under the image depicting three structures, a square three-story building, a Victorian-style house, and a pavilion. Correspondence on the back is addressed to "Dr. R. Gittelsohn" mentioning that the author has written, but not received a response while staying in Marlin.
Date: June 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Patent for a boll weevil exterminator, which rids cotton plants and bolls of insects and exterminates them. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Watkins, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard with a View Looking Down a Road Between Trees]

Postcard with a photograph of a view looking down "Lover's Lane" positioned underneath a grove of trees; the caption reads: "You had better bring Harry down here. What you think?" The note on the reverse side of the card reads: "Am having some joy - so sorry you would not ride with me Sunday. Lots of girls here. I leave tomorrow. At home about Sun./six."
Date: August 22, 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for a plow attachment designed for shovels. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Polk, Calvin Lucious
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter (open access)

Stalk Cutter

Patent for stalk cutters.Invention can be horse drawn to fell stalks. Illustrations included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Durham, Thomas L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Embroidering Attachment for Sewing-Machines (open access)

Embroidering Attachment for Sewing-Machines

Patent for embroidering arm attachment to be mounted on the needle-bar of a sewing machine with the embossing material passed through the needle eye so that it does not need to go through the presser-foot.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Rodman, Rollin L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a wire-stretcher used in the building and repair of wire fences, including illustrations. This wire-stretcher's design has features which improve the efficiency of the construction of wire fences.
Date: April 17, 1906
Creator: Feist, Felix L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trunk-Corder. (open access)

Trunk-Corder.

Patent for "Improvement in Trunk-Corders." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Kessee, Walter Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Temple 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: 1906
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scrub Brush. (open access)

Scrub Brush.

Patent for an invention that combines a mop and a scrub brush into one device. With this device "the mop will travel in the rear of the brush and take up water and scour what may have been passed over by the brush" (lines 10-13) including illustration
Date: September 29, 1905
Creator: Sanders, Ida D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whip Handle (open access)

Whip Handle

Patent for a whip handle. This invention applies to the repair of harness. Illustration included.
Date: April 25, 1905
Creator: Boeselt, Reinhold
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler (open access)

Milk Cooler

Patent for a milk cooler. Illustration included.
Date: January 10, 1905
Creator: Walkup, John W. & Walkup, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching Implement (open access)

Wire Stretching Implement

Patent for a wire stretching implement. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1904
Creator: Smith, Isaac
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer (open access)

Insect Destroyer

Patent for an insect destroyer. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Beasley, Henry & Huber, Gauttleb
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch (open access)

Gate Latch

Patent for a gate latch. Illustration included.
Date: December 29, 1903
Creator: Abernathy, James Rubin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. This invention is a cultivator-plow designed for cultivating cotton, corn, potatoes, etc. into rows while at the same time cutting out grass and weeds. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Griffin, Tom & Howell, Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Bar and Regulating Lever (open access)

Plow Bar and Regulating Lever

Patent for a plow bar and regulating lever. This invention is to improve regulating depth of plow.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Horton, James L. & Bennett, Dosier A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a swinging gate for "general purposes; and consists in the constrcution hereinafter described and shown by which when the gate is shut the hinge-supports are relieved of any strain which would tent to pull them out of perpendicular position, and at the same time the gate itself when in a closed position is so supported that all liability of sagging is avoided, and the gate when in closed position is securely locked against accidental opening.(line 11-20)
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: Ogden, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter (open access)

Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter

Patent for Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed-Planter.
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: Sylvester, C.T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marlin 1903 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marlin in Falls County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1903
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marlin 1903 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marlin in Falls County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1903
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marlin 1903 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marlin in Falls County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1903
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marlin 1903 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marlin in Falls County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1903
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Marlin 1903 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marlin in Falls County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1903
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History