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Love Abstract Company's map of Robertson County Texas.

Map shows Robertson County, Texas numbered tracts and boundaries, ownership; towns, railroads, and drainage. Scale not given.
Date: [1900..1920]
Creator: Love Abstract Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Construction (open access)

Sash Construction

Patent for sash construction with grooves no need for putty or points.
Date: June 19, 1900
Creator: Holland, Willie Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Calvert 1901 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson 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

Calvert 1901 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson 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

Calvert 1901 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson 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

Calvert 1901 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson 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

Hearne 1901 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson 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

Hearne 1901 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson 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

Hearne 1901 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson 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
Automatic Weighing-Machine (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Patent for "an automatic weighing-machine possessing simplicity, accuracy, and capable of continuous and automatic operation" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Perry, Frank S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Patent for new weighing machine and hopper dispensing cotton-seed meal, including illustrations
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Perry, Frank S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Phone Messages and Travel Expenses] (open access)

[Receipt for Phone Messages and Travel Expenses]

Receipt for items billed to the estate of Col. W. K. McAlpine by Garrett & Co., including phone calls and travel expenses. The receipt is marked "Paid Garrett & Co."
Date: June 8, 1901
Creator: Garrett & Company
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Statement of W. K. McAlpine's Account with Galveston National Bank] (open access)

[Statement of W. K. McAlpine's Account with Galveston National Bank]

Bank statement of W. K. McAlpine's account with the Galveston National Bank showing the activity of his account from April 22 to June 10, 1901.
Date: [1901-06-10..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mower or Reaper (open access)

Mower or Reaper

Patent for the improvements of machines called mowers or reapers. It includes an explanation of the improved specifications.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Love, Patrick H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle. (open access)

Bottle.

Patent for non-refillable bottles which can be filled and emptied easily with inexpensive construction. Instead of a stopper, a bottleneck pattern can be used which is efficient and safer.
Date: August 5, 1902
Creator: Holland, Willie Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for a cotton gin that has a large ginning capacity (similar to saw types of gins) and also preserves the fiber (similar to roller types of gins).
Date: August 19, 1902
Creator: Fuller, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire for Vehicle-Wheels. (open access)

Tire for Vehicle-Wheels.

Patent for a vehicle-wheel tire with illustrations included. It is expected to provide "simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction adapted to increase the strength and durability of vehicle-wheels" (lines 12-14) and allow for easy replacements.
Date: September 16, 1902
Creator: Carter, Mansion C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Historic Property, Photograph 4542-01]

Photograph of a historic property in Texas.
Date: December 24, 1902
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Building Implement (open access)

Wire Fence Building Implement

Patent for a wire fence building implement. This implement is "adapted to take up slack in an unbroken fence-wire, draw together ends of a broken fence-wire, so as to permit said ends to be spliced together, cut off surplus wire, and pull staples from the fence-posts" (lines 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Hall, Ed Francis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent is for a cotton press adapted to bale cotton and other materials by compression.
Date: June 28, 1903
Creator: Fuller, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Ginning Apparatus (open access)

Improvements in Ginning Apparatus

Patent for improvement to a ginning point that provides support and holds points in position for cotton gin cylinder section.
Date: July 28, 1903
Creator: Fuller, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: July 12, 1904
Creator: Wilhitte, Lemuel Manuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press (open access)

Cotton Press

Patent for cotton press. This invention "is the production of a press adapted for baling cotton and other materials in cylindrical bales in which the material forming the bales is compactly arranged under heavy pressure in superimposed spiral layers or laps" (line 10-15). Illustrations inlcuded.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Fuller, James T. & Workum, Julius F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Swingletree (open access)

Swingletree

Patent for a swingletree. Illustrations included.
Date: December 20, 1904
Creator: Brazell, David H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History