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Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes-pin made of one piece of wire twisted around with a spring-clamping mechanism for holding clothes.
Date: July 9, 1907
Creator: Freeze, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canopy Support (open access)

Canopy Support

Patent for a canopy support. Illustration included.
Date: March 21, 1905
Creator: Raines, Henry & Gooch, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Llano 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: 1909
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Kerrville 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: 1904
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fredericksburg 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

Llano 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: 1904
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mason 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: 1903
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher, Clamp, and Splicer (open access)

Wire Stretcher, Clamp, and Splicer

Patent for wire stretcher, clamp, and splicer. Illustration included.
Date: December 6, 1904
Creator: Raines, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Axle (open access)

Vehicle-Axle

Patent for improvements in axles "particularly to axles for buggies and other light vehicles." (Lines 12-13)
Date: February 19, 1907
Creator: Raines, Stephen H. & Schuessler, Amile O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vermin-Destroyer. (open access)

Vermin-Destroyer.

Patent for a device to exterminate burrowing animals.
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Phillips, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Clamp. (open access)

Spring-Clamp.

Patent for a spring clamp "for suspending small articles -- such as towels, dishcloths, and napkins -- and which may also be employed for hanging window-curtains, portières, goods in show-windows, and similar purposes" (lines 7-12)
Date: January 6, 1903
Creator: Westbrook, Nancy Z.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Punching Machine (open access)

Punching Machine

Patent for a punching machine. Illustration included.
Date: October 4, 1904
Creator: Raines, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Puller (open access)

Stump-Puller

Patent "to improve the construction of stump-pullers and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one which will possess great strength and durability and which ma be readily operated with a minimum amount of power" (lines 10-15).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Bethel, Ion Maywood
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Signal (open access)

Telephone Signal

Patent for a telephone signals. This inventions is a switchboard drop of the visual signal for magneto system at a central office. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Schuessler, Gustavus W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Support for Vehicles. (open access)

Tongue-Support for Vehicles.

Patent for a tongue-support for the tongues of vehicles that "provide an exceedingly simple and effective catch or holder for holding the support up against the under side of the tongue" (lines 18-21), including illustration and instructions
Date: May 8, 1900
Creator: Ashby, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for a hay press. Illustration included.
Date: November 6, 1906
Creator: Stewart, Warren Walter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self Locking Door For Cotton Presses (open access)

Self Locking Door For Cotton Presses

Patent for a self-locking door clamp for cotton presses, including illustrations.
Date: July 23, 1901
Creator: Westbrook, John Alburt
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversible and Adjustable Heel-Sweep. (open access)

Reversible and Adjustable Heel-Sweep.

Patent for an adjustable heel sweep for farm equipment, which can cut both wide and narrow angles.
Date: November 2, 1909
Creator: Brockman, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History