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: 1891
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
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: 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
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: 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cycloidal Chariot. (open access)

Cycloidal Chariot.

Patent for a new and improved cycloidal chariot.
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Evans, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Harrow. (open access)

Disk Harrow.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in disk harrows.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Livengood, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bedstead. (open access)

Folding Bedstead.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in folding bedsteads, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 15, 1898
Creator: Evans, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
School-Desk. (open access)

School-Desk.

Patent for improvement in school desks by mounting the desks’ legs on the base-bars, the row of desks so mounted can be moved at the same time by employing the roller devices at the opposite end of the base-bars. The roller devices may be permanently connected with the base-bars of each row or it can be detached if desired; for conveniently removing the desks whenever desired. (Lines 45-55) Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1903
Creator: Litsey, Robert G.
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: 1906
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
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: 1906
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Match-Box. (open access)

Match-Box.

Patent for match boxes that automatically opens when unlatched and has a projecting member arm that slides the lid with a match for removal conveniency.
Date: April 17, 1906
Creator: Whiteker, Bosque M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track-Level. (open access)

Track-Level.

Patent for a track level, which is used to measure the lay of the land that a road is being built through.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Young, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canopy-Suspending Attachment for Bedsteads. (open access)

Canopy-Suspending Attachment for Bedsteads.

Patent for a canopy-suspending attachment for bedsteads, which is adjustable to different size beds and folds up when not in use.
Date: July 27, 1909
Creator: Skinner, Miles T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Square. (open access)

Carpenter's Square.

Patent for a carpenter's square, which has a table of rafter cut measurements, a table of measurements in inches, and the standard carpenter's measure table.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Bailey, Louis Eugene
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
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
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
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