Improved Compound for Destroying Vermin in Cattle (open access)

Improved Compound for Destroying Vermin in Cattle

Patent for topical medication to kill screw-worms in livestock wounds.
Date: August 10, 1869
Creator: Kalteyer, Frederick
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps. (open access)

Improvement in Animal-Traps.

Patent for an improvement in animal traps to catch animals without bait, including illustrations.
Date: March 10, 1874
Creator: De Vilbiss, John W., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoeing-Machine (open access)

Hoeing-Machine

Patent for improvements "to afford facilities for the more ready and perfect protection of the plant while the pulverizing-blades are cultivating the soil around it; second, to provide a better and more ready means of guiding the pulverizing-blades along the row I attain these objects by giving my guiding-fender a motion independent of the motion of the pulverizing-blades along the row and around the plants" (lines 13-19).
Date: December 10, 1889
Creator: Hurd, Judson B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Odorless Dry Outhouse and Refuse-Burner. (open access)

Odorless Dry Outhouse and Refuse-Burner.

Patent for a combined odorless dry outhouse and refuse burner for a cellar or vault in which night-soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time with low expense, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Check. (open access)

Door Check.

Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design "consists in the combination, with a jaw provided with a pocket having an opening in its bottom, of a pivoted bar having a bead or nipple, which bar is passed through the pocket, and of a spring held in the pocket jaw and resting on the bar" (lines 12-17).
Date: November 10, 1885
Creator: Maurer, Adam
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Medina County, Block 15

Parent map for Medina County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Medina County, Inset F01

Inset map for Medina County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:5,221.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Medina County, Block 20

Parent map for Medina County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Medina County, Block 10

Parent map for Medina County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Medina County, Block 5

Parent map for Medina County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Medina County, Index

Index map for Medina County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:97,233.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Signal and Sign-Displaying Lamp for Vehicles. (open access)

Combined Signal and Sign-Displaying Lamp for Vehicles.

Patent for a combined signal and sign-displaying lamp for vehicles that uses only one light to illuminate all the sections and allows for easy interchanging of number plates.
Date: October 10, 1911
Creator: Puckett, Almor Manor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cheese Cutter (open access)

Cheese Cutter

Patent for a cheese cutter which includes a scale to determine the amount of cheese including illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Niggli, Emil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trip and Signal Device. (open access)

Trip and Signal Device.

Patent for a trip and signal device for mounting on railroad car wheels, which does not hammer on the wheels.
Date: August 10, 1909
Creator: Davis, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shutter - Fastener (open access)

Shutter - Fastener

Patent for an improvement in shutter and blind fasteners. The invention provides a way for someone to lock or fasten blinds so they cannot be opened from the outside.
Date: October 10, 1905
Creator: Niggli, Emil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Cord Holder (open access)

Sash Cord Holder

Patent for a sash cord holder. Illustration included.
Date: May 10, 1904
Creator: Haas, Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel (open access)

Resilient Wheel

Patent for a resilient wheel that is not puncturable by objects in the road bed.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Mathieson, Marius
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Match Box (open access)

Match Box

Patent for a match box. Illustration included.
Date: January 10, 1905
Creator: Kuehn, Joachim F. W. & Steiner, Fritz
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Permutation-Lock. (open access)

Permutation-Lock.

Patent for improvements and simplification of the permutation lock including a latch-bolt slidable case and a tumbler-shaft journaled in a side wall of the case.
Date: July 10, 1906
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Cleaning Apparatus (open access)

Dry-Cleaning Apparatus

Patent for a dry cleaning apparatus. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: White, Edward Y.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Educational Device. (open access)

Educational Device.

Patent for improvements in educational device by providing “a simple and comparatively inexpensive one designed for teaching addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division and capable of enabling the same to be explained with greater ease and at the expenditure of much less energy of both pupil and teacher.” (Lines 12-18) Illustration is included.
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Williams, Willoughby Columbus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: March 1996 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: March 1996

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities. This set of reports includes information about permits for March 1996.
Date: April 10, 1996
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
EODC Migrant Manpower Project For Bexar County (open access)

EODC Migrant Manpower Project For Bexar County

A report on the Migrant Manpower Project of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation in Bexar County.
Date: April 10, 1972
Creator: Economic Opportunities Development Corporation
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Decorticating Fibrous Leaves of Plants. (open access)

Device for Decorticating Fibrous Leaves of Plants.

Patent for a machine that decorticates fibrous material from leaves and plants designed to be of low manufacturing cost and light enough to be carried on pack animals.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Askew, Joel Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History