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[Photograph of Hillsboro, Texas]
Photograph of a street in Hillsboro, Texas with businesses on both sides and wagons driving on it.
Date:
[1900..1920]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whitney 1900 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Whitney in Hill 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
Vehicle-Step.
Patent for a new and useful vehicle step, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 30, 1900
Creator:
Erikson, Eduard August Olef
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Reservoir For Stoves.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in water reservoirs for stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1900
Creator:
Horsley, Robert Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1900
Creator:
Pitts, William Wirt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Cotton-Compress.
Patent for a new and useful roller cotton compress, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Raborn, Louis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Frame
Patent for a bicycle frame that can be used on bicycles in general, but is particularly suited for spring frame bicycles including illustrations.
Date:
September 11, 1900
Creator:
Mills, Virgel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Joshua Calhoun Howell Remembrance Card]
Remembrance card for Joshua Calhoun Howell of Hill County, Texas. It reads: "In Loving Remembrance of J. C. Howell, Died Jan. 5, 1901. Gone but not forgotten. 'Tis hard to break the tender cord,/When love has bound the heart./'Tis hard, so hard, to speak the words:/"We must forever part."/Dearest loved one we must lay thee/In the peaceful grave's embrace,/But thy memory will be cherished/'Til we see thy heavenly face." Below the inscription is an illustration of the Bible.
Date:
1901
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Planter
Patent for improvements in combined cultivators and corn/cotton planters to adapt an ordinary cultivator for planting of seeds with adjustable seed-tube and furrow opener to accommodate various character of ground being worked or cultivation being done.
Date:
July 5, 1900
Creator:
Prentice, Peter Mack
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heating-Drum
Patent for "a simple and efficient construction which may be readily set up and taken down, which will be durable, and in which, moreover, by operation of a single damper the smoke-pipe above the drum may be brought into direct communication with the smoke-pipe below the drum and the several compartments of the apparatus will be opened to permit ready cleaning" (lines 14-22).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L. & Rountree, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for "a clothes pin or clasp which will have a clamping-spring action and which can be conveniently manipulated to apply or remove it to and from a holding position and one wherein the clamping members mainly he within the same plane" (lines 7-13).
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plows for hand-propelled device for use in gardens, including illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1901
Creator:
Ward, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweep Stock Attachment for Plows
Patent for an "improved sweep-stock attachment for plows", so that a "sweep or shovel may be attached to a plow and operated at any desired angle." (lines 8-11)
Date:
October 1, 1901
Creator:
Ziecheck, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for an improvement in baling-presses that uses a plunger operated press for maximum compression and minimum power.
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Hayes, Daniel George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Itasca 1902 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Itasca in Hill County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1902
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Itasca 1902 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Itasca in Hill County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1902
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Itasca 1902 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Itasca in Hill County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1902
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Itasca 1902 Sheet 4
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Itasca in Hill County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1902
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock
Patent for "a simple and inexpensive article which will securely hold a nut in place upon a bolt and form a yielding support beneath the same" (lines 13-16).
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Price, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator and Mirror-Protector.
Patent for improvements in ventilators and mirror-protectors is to “arranging pendent streamers and a rotatable fan near a mirror that the means for actuating the fan will serve to agitate the streamers for the chasing of flies from the mirror and also ventilate and cool a room by the current of wind produced by the fan.” (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 8, 1902
Creator:
McBride, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Heather.
Patent for combination-heater in which it can be submerged directly in a body of water contained in any open-top vessel, such as a bath-hub, bucket or other receptacle for the purpose of raising the temperature of the water to a desired degree. (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 24, 1903
Creator:
Mansfield, Charles Augustus & Hayes, George Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map
Patent for a map of New Jersey.
Date:
June 16, 1903
Creator:
Mayes, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bailing Press
Patent for a baling press. This invention combines a truck and horse that facilitates the pressing of hay.
Date:
June 30, 1903
Creator:
Moore, James Solomon; Adams, Barnett V.; Roy, Ransom J. & Jack, I. Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heating Device
Patent for a heating device. This invention is for using the heat from the device to pass through to an oven for the purposes of cooking. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 14, 1903
Creator:
Henderson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History