Soil map, Texas, Morris County sheet

Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, rivers, towns, churches, schools, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: October 17, 1910
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Nacogdoches County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, bridges, crossings, landings, lumber camps, lumber railroads, towns, churches, schools, stores, roads, and commercial railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1930
Creator: United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Morris County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Morris County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Morris County, Texas.
Date: October 17, 1910
Creator: Watson, E. B. (Ebenezer Bliss) & Allen, Risden T.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Daingerfield Quadrangle

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 1:24,000
Date: January 10, 1997
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cason Quadrangle

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 1:24,000
Date: 1980
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Naples Quadrangle

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 1:24,000
Date: 1980
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cookville Quadrangle

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 1:24,000
Date: 1980
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dalby Springs Quadrangle

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 1:24,000
Date: 1975
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coopers Chapel Quadrangle

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 1:24,000
Date: 1980
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lone Star Quadrangle

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 1:24,000
Date: 1962
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lafayette Quadrangle

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 1:24,000
Date: 1960
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Camp, Franklin, Morris, and Titus Counties, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Camp, Franklin, Morris, and Titus Counties, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Camp, Franklin, Morris, and Titus Counties, Texas.
Date: 1990
Creator: Roberts, Kirthell; Douglass, James A.; Fox, Richard W.; Galloway, Thomas L. & Thomas, Jesse R.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Soil Map, Camp, Franklin, Morris, and Titus Counties, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Scale 1:253:440
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Engines.

Patent for improvements in rotary engines.
Date: June 5, 1866
Creator: Hughes, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Engines.

Patent for improvements in valves used in rotary engines.
Date: May 9, 1871
Creator: Hughes, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ball-Bearing. (open access)

Ball-Bearing.

Patent for ball-bearings that "consists in improvements in hubs or journal-boxes and in the journals of axles or spindles" (lines 8-10), the "object [of which] is to construct journals and journal-boxes which will be perfectly adjustable and durable and which will be subjected to the least possible friction" (lines 12-15).
Date: January 26, 1897
Creator: Baker, Joseph B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Attachment. (open access)

Type-Writer Attachment.

Patent for a typewriter attachment that holds and feeds rolls of paper through typewriters. It is inexpensive and fits on several types of typewriters.
Date: August 25, 1896
Creator: Baker, Joseph B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Holder. (open access)

Tool-Holder.

Patent for "a holder for any class of tools, but being especially adapted for hatchets, garden-tools, and tools of like character." (Lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Richardson, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow-beam, of two side-bars, the rear portion of each of which is folded back upon itself, forming a standard, a shorter standard, a handle the front end of which and the end of the double portion are secured to the said bar by means of a single bolt, and the downturned end of one-half of the adjusting device and a brace for said handle being secured by a single bolt at another place" (lines 8-17).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Putman, John Howard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Plow (open access)

Steam Plow

Patent for Steam-Plow. "The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved steam-plow, which is simple in construction, has great tractive force, can-not slip, and plows very rapidly and perfectly." (lines 7-10)
Date: August 3, 1886
Creator: Lay, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor (open access)

Motor

Patent for a "new and improved propeller for boats which is simple in construction, prevents a loss of power, and is thus very economical." (lines 8-10). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 5, 1886
Creator: Lay, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Bearing. (open access)

Roller-Bearing.

Patent for improvements in roller bearing for vehicles.
Date: October 5, 1897
Creator: Baker, Joseph B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Derrick. (open access)

Portable Derrick.

Patent for improvements to derricks which make them portable and easily manipulated. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 15, 1891
Creator: Hurd, George Murray
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Condenser. (open access)

Cotton Condenser.

Patent for a new and improved cotton condenser. This design involves "[t]he lint pass[ing] from the gin through the flue and between the condensing-cylinders, by which it is formed into a bat. The blast from the gin serves to blow all dust from the lint through the wire-cloth of the cylinders and out through the openings in the ends of the latter. The upper cylinder will move vertically in its bearings . . . and thus adjust itself to any quantity of lint that may pass from the gin" (lines 46-55).
Date: July 10, 1883
Creator: Sewell, Franklin Milner
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History