Shaft-Support. (open access)

Shaft-Support.

Patent for improvements in harnesses through the accommodation of "varying positions of the animal with respect to the shafts or thills, so as to remove all strain from and upon the shafts and the saddle, while at the same time effectively supporting the shafts and preventing the slipping of the same up and down upon the sides of the animal."
Date: October 26, 1897
Creator: Coleman, Thomas Gardner
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unicycle Road and Racing Sulky. (open access)

Unicycle Road and Racing Sulky.

Patent for a one-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, with illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1897
Creator: Coleman, Thomas Gardner
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Breckenridge 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: 1897
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History