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[Portrait of a Group of Men and One Woman]

Portrait of a group of eleven formally dressed men in three rows, either standing, sitting in chairs or sitting on the floor. In the middle of the group, sitting in a chair, is one woman wearing a white dress. Photograph border includes the name and logo of the portrait studio, "Driver, Commerce, Tex."
Date: 1900~
Creator: Driver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of Man and Woman

Copy negative of two portraits. The first is of an unidentified man in a suit. The second is of Mattie Sheppard of Campbell, Texas, taken in Greenville, Texas by Adams photography.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Chopper Attachment. (open access)

Stalk-Chopper Attachment.

Patent for rotating stalk-chopper attachment, including illustrations.
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Nix, Spencer W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post. (open access)

Fence-Post.

Patent for improvements to fence post design in which a base is added to hold the post upright while keeping it above ground to prevent deterioration from soil with illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Hammer, Willie Alice
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Commerce 1901 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Commerce in Hunt County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Commerce 1901 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Commerce in Hunt County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Commerce 1901 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Commerce in Hunt County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Commerce 1901 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Commerce in Hunt County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Commerce 1901 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Commerce in Hunt County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wolfe City 1901 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wolfe City in Hunt County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wolfe City 1901 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wolfe City in Hunt County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wolfe City 1901 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wolfe City in Hunt County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wolfe City 1901 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wolfe City in Hunt County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wolfe City 1901 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wolfe City in Hunt County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windlass Elevator (open access)

Windlass Elevator

Patent for providing "an improved device... which is especially designed for use as a water-elevator for drawing a bucket out of a well and arranged so as to conveniently take up the slack cable and coil it upon the windlass-drum" (lines 8-14) including illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Higson, Jasper S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Occlusornce (open access)

Dental Occlusornce

Patent for a dental tool that is used after all of a patients teeth are removed. This devise will restore the patients bite when the jaw is in the closed position.
Date: June 10, 1901
Creator: Stocks, Clarence
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greenville Evening Banner. (Greenville, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 97, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 20, 1901 (open access)

Greenville Evening Banner. (Greenville, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 97, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 20, 1901

Daily newspaper from Greenville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 20, 1901
Creator: Jones, J. C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Or Cotton Press (open access)

Hay Or Cotton Press

Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in Hay or Cotton Presses" (lines 4-6), including illustrations.
Date: November 12, 1901
Creator: Hamilton, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Pressure Brake (open access)

Fluid Pressure Brake

Patent for a fluid pressure brake designed primarily for the railroad. This device is designed so the brakes will not engage prematurely before the fluid reservoir is recharged.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: McComas, Mark
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Extractor. (open access)

Stump-Extractor.

Patent for improvements in stump-extractor by utilize the hoisting or power machine to perform extraction on stump or for other weights. (Lines 12-14) This machine will be portable for “easily moved from point to point, and comprising means for the development of great power with a minimum exertion on the part of the animal or animals used to operate the machine and also within a comparatively small compass.” (Lines 20-25) Illustration is included.
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: Redman, Charley R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greenville Banner. (Greenville, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 26, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 21, 1902 (open access)

The Greenville Banner. (Greenville, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 26, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 21, 1902

Weekly newspaper from Greenville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 21, 1902
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shears. (open access)

Shears.

Patent for improvements in shears “for use in cutting heavy materials, in which the shears can be readily operated in connection with a base-plate to slide beneath the material being cut and can be detached from said base-plate in order to permit the operation of the shears without the said base-plate.” (Lines 28-34) Illustration is included.
Date: June 24, 1902
Creator: Hamilton, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Attachment. (open access)

Window Attachment.

Patent for "window attachments, being in the nature of means for carrying the shade-roller and lace-curtain on the upper sash and devices whereby the sashes may be locked when closed or opened to any desired extent;" (lines 8-13) and illustrations.
Date: June 24, 1902
Creator: Hamilton, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Quinlan Review. (Quinlan, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1902 (open access)

The Quinlan Review. (Quinlan, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1902

Weekly newspaper from Quinlan, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 1, 1902
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History