P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Red River County, Block 8

Parent map for Red River County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:13,000.
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): Red River County, Block 14

Parent map for Red River County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:13,000.
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): Red River County, Block 20

Parent map for Red River County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:13,000.
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): Red River County, Block 26

Parent map for Red River County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:13,000.
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): Red River County, Block 32

Parent map for Red River County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:13,000.
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): Red River County, Index

Index map for Red River 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 1:106,444.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Survey Report]: Sanders, Big Pine and Collier Creeks, Texas (open access)

[Survey Report]: Sanders, Big Pine and Collier Creeks, Texas

Report of the U.S. Army Engineers describing the geography of Sanders, Big Pine and Collier Creeks, Texas including the likelihood of floods and benefits of flood control.
Date: 1963
Creator: United States. Department of the Army. Office, Chief of Engineers.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder (open access)

Clothes-Pounder

Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustrations included.
Date: October 5, 1909
Creator: Van Landingham, Lewis E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Arc Lamp. (open access)

Electric-Arc Lamp.

Patent for improvements to electric-arc lamps to regulate the feed of the carbon-carrying rod, with illustrations.
Date: July 6, 1897
Creator: Walsh, James J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a device that would make coupling cars together easier and safer. Cars would be able to be coupled automatically, and then detached without having to go in between them. Includes Illustrations.
Date: February 12, 1901
Creator: White, George O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gun Attachment (open access)

Gun Attachment

Patent for improvement of a gun handle attachment to rifles and shotguns. It is intended to be applied to the barrels end for support and so the user has use of the elbow joint.
Date: January 2, 1906
Creator: Wight, Alfred T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint Chair. (open access)

Rail-Joint Chair.

Patent for a new rail-joint chair used in the connection between rails to prevent rail movement, including illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Williams, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter (open access)

Seed-Planter

Patent for a seed planter. Illustrations included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Williams, Paul Eaton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the radial arms of the wheel-frame and the vertical pivot-posts thereon, the sails or fans pivoted to said posts, the pivoted detents, and the pivoted governing-levers to which said detents are connected, said levers carrying adjustable weights" (lines 16-23).
Date: June 5, 1883
Creator: Witherspoon, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for improvements to windmills.
Date: April 29, 1884
Creator: Witherspoon, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clock Striking Mechanism. (open access)

Clock Striking Mechanism.

Patent for a new and improved clock-chimes. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the chime of bells in the clock case, of the wheel having the lateral pins, the rock-shaft, a lever extending from the rock-shaft and engaging the said pins, and the hammer arms respectively connected with the rock-shaft by the short arm" (lines 21-26).
Date: September 22, 1885
Creator: Witherspoon, Frank.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ligthtning-Arrester. (open access)

Ligthtning-Arrester.

Patent for improving lightning arresters, an invention used to distribute electrical current over a large area and ground it at a different points should a building be struck by lightning.
Date: June 15, 1901
Creator: Wood, William D.; Roach, Henry B. & Pots, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Linting Machine. (open access)

Linting Machine.

Patent for a linting machine (Carver type) that contains an air pocket at the end of the passage to prevent cotton from clogging the machine.
Date: August 10, 1920
Creator: Woodrow, George N. & Bruce, Thomas D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Cultivator-Plow Standard. (open access)

Adjustable Cultivator-Plow Standard.

Patent for an adjustable cultivator plow that is designed to be strong and durable as well as efficient and simple.
Date: December 15, 1914
Creator: Wright, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History