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Attachment for Riding Breaking-Plows (open access)

Attachment for Riding Breaking-Plows

Patent for a seeder attachment for riding breaking plows.
Date: June 21, 1910
Creator: Harrell, Joab B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

San Saba Co.

Blue line print of survey map of San Saba County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1918
Creator: Wicker, George T.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Destroyer. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Destroyer.

Patent for a boll weevil or insect exterminating device on wheels for use outdoors, including illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Graves, James Newell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of San Saba County, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of San Saba County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of San Saba County Texas.
Date: 1917
Creator: Veatch, J. O. (Jethro Otto); Rogers, R. F.; Beck, M. W. (Miles Walter) & Lewis, H. G. (Henry Guy)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, San Saba County sheet

Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, tanks, towns, schools, churches, fairgrounds, ranches, crossings, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1917
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

San Saba County

Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1918
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
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: 1918
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lampasas 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: 1917
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

San Saba 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: 1917
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady 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: 1918
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

San Saba 1912 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of San Saba in San Saba County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

San Saba 1912 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of San Saba in San Saba County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Twine Holder. (open access)

Twine Holder.

Patent for a twine-holder designed to keep the proper tension on the twine and allow for the free end to be reached easily by users.
Date: 1919
Creator: Nicks, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill (open access)

Windmill

Patent for a new and improved windmill rotor, including illustrations.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Smith, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Signaling Track Conditions (open access)

Mechanism for Signaling Track Conditions

Patent for a mechanism that would be placed on a bridge or trestle trains pass over that automatically indicates dangerous track conditions.
Date: May 20, 1913
Creator: Matsler, James M. & Matsler, Benjamin T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Torch or Burner (open access)

Torch or Burner

Patent for a torch or burner used towards growths on plants and weeds around plants.
Date: March 12, 1917
Creator: Taylor, Samuel T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Store Furniture (open access)

Store Furniture

Patent for a piece of furniture that can hold rolls wrapping paper of various size. The rolls are contained in a device that rotates and allows the user to select and easily pull paper from roll.
Date: October 21, 1919
Creator: Nicks, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Farm-Gate. (open access)

Farm-Gate.

Patent for improvements upon Farm-Gates, through an object that will help in, "the simple and efficient means for either opening or closing the gate upon the pulling of an operating cable."(line 12- 14)
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Skaggs, Silas R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight-Steering Mechanism (open access)

Headlight-Steering Mechanism

Patent for an automobile steering mechanism that turns the headlights to match the path of the car as it is steered.
Date: August 2, 1917
Creator: Shannon, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dumping-Platform. (open access)

Dumping-Platform.

Patent for a dumping platform for wagons to drive under and be filled with their load.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Rector, Eldridge L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Device. (open access)

Draft Device.

Patent for a draft device, which can have three animals attached to it.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Rouse, Spencer
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History