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Drill (open access)

Drill

Patent for a drill. Illustrations included.
Date: April 5, 1910
Creator: Tye, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Gathering Cotton. (open access)

Machine for Gathering Cotton.

Patent for a cotton gathering machine, which picks the cotton bolls off of the plant while being driven through a field.
Date: April 5, 1910
Creator: Edge, William Warren & Campbell, Knotley Fonzo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The Patterson's]

Photograph of the Patterson family. Back Row: Perry (Dad-father of Cloys E. Patterson Sr.), Homer, Amos. Front Row: May Myrtis, William Frank (Father), Benard Eland, Myrtis (Mother), Terrie Irene. William Frank and Myrtis are the great grandparents of Cynthia Patterson Peterson.
Date: 1911
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Rule 1911 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Rule in Haskell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1911
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Hanging Machine. (open access)

Paper-Hanging Machine.

Patent for improvements in paper-hanging machines to "provide a device of this class of simple and improved construction adapted to hold a roll of wall paper, to guide the paper over a trimming device and under a paste applying device, and said machine being also provided with a cutting device for severing the strip of paper after the same has been applied to the wall" (lines 10-18); it includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Phillips, Jay V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an Acetylene gas generator that allows waste to be emptied from the machine without losing any gas.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Finley, Jesse T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator and cuts the rows of cotton evenly.
Date: October 17, 1911
Creator: Ashlimann, Adolf E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Henry Johnson, November 10, 1911] (open access)

[Letter to Henry Johnson, November 10, 1911]

Letter to Henry Johnson informing that the homestead lands have been traded and asking for his thoughts on sales, and delegated responsibilities.
Date: November 10, 1911
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Show-Case. (open access)

Show-Case.

Patent for a show-case for cigars that can be opened at various points by levers.
Date: November 14, 1911
Creator: Kainer, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene gas generator designed to prevent from being overcharged with carbide. Illustrations included.
Date: November 19, 1912
Creator: Finley, Jesse T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Haskell 1913 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Haskell in Haskell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1913
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Haskell 1913 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Haskell in Haskell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1913
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Haskell 1913 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Haskell in Haskell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1913
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Haskell 1913 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Haskell in Haskell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1913
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Haskell 1913 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Haskell in Haskell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1913
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for improved construction and function of wrenches. Improvements include a more simple, durable, and inexpensive method of construction and arrangement of the adjustable jaw as to allow a single hand to hold and adjust the wrench simultaneously.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Ashliman, Adolph E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Silo-Chute. (open access)

Silo-Chute.

Patent for "a chute that may be readily attached to or detached from a silo" (lines 14-15).
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Latimer, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Anson 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: 1915
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Drying Apparatus (open access)

Cotton Drying Apparatus

Patent for an improved cotton dryer which uses heat from steam to dry wet cotton more effectively with simpler construction and lower cost.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Evans, Alva A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Header and Ensilage-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Header and Ensilage-Cutter.

Patent for harvesting machine that simply and efficiently cuts heads off stalks to save seeds and also cuts stalks close to ground for for use for ensilage or to be left as fertilizer. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1915
Creator: Welch, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Albany 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: 1916
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweep-Wing Attatchment for Plows (open access)

Sweep-Wing Attatchment for Plows

Patent for adjustable sweep wings that attach near the shovel or blades of a plow, and which will vary the throw of the soil as it is dug by the plow.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Casstephens, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Maize Header and Cutter. (open access)

Maize Header and Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved hand-operated implement designed for cutting heads of Kafir corn or maize in a more simple and efficient manner, including illustrations.
Date: August 29, 1916
Creator: Grindstaff, Isaac S. & Johnson, Luke
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetlyene Generator (open access)

Acetlyene Generator

Patent for an imporived acetlyene generator, "wherein the carbid container or receptacle will be elevated clear above the surface of the water contained in the generator when said receptacle is not discharging into the water."
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Michael, Mack W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History