Bed - Slat. (open access)

Bed - Slat.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in bed-slates to provide a strong brace.
Date: January 4, 1898
Creator: Pickett, Mollie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power. (open access)

Churn-Power.

Patent for improvements in churn-power by using a combination of “a vertical support [piece], an operating-lever pivoted thereto, a dasher-shaft, a horizontal bar connected to the said lever, and a cord secured at its ends to the said bar and wrapped between its ends around the dasher-shaft. All these parts combined to enable the churn to operate as described.” (Lines 55-61) Illustration is included.
Date: November 24, 1891
Creator: Reese, Roswell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Roby 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