Cultivating-Plow. (open access)

Cultivating-Plow.

Patent for "an improved cultivating-plow adapted for cultivating a number of rows of growing plants at a single operation" with improvements in connecting plow-beams to the axle, to devices for raising the plows from the ground, and in operating the cultivator.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: Wells, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Skein (open access)

Axle-Skein

Patent for an axle skein that holds the skein on the axle.
Date: December 20, 1910
Creator: Bevil, Andrew H. & Bevil, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight. (open access)

Headlight.

Patent for "an electric head-light which will adjust the carbons of the arc lamp without the usual vibration" (lines 12-14) and be more durable and efficient.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Dooley, Robert M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Level, Grade, Distance, and Elevation Finder. (open access)

Combined Level, Grade, Distance, and Elevation Finder.

Patent for a tool that acts as a combined plumb and spirit level.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Barclay, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements a cotton chopper that "consists of a two-wheeled carriage having a hoe situated to thin the cotton and is operated by bevel gear-wheels, a ratchet-wheel, and a spring" (lines 12-15).
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Levings, Enoc
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Thinner. (open access)

Corn-Thinner.

Patent for improvements in corn-thinners for removing excess stalks in the field by constructing the “upper portion’s blade flat to present straight side cutting edges, and having the lower portion curved transversely to present to a lower semicircular cutting edge.” (Lines 53-56.) With this design, the operator would not have to stoop over, making the thinning operation easier. Illustration is included.
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Horn, Henry G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Steps (open access)

Car Steps

Patent for rail car steps. Illustrations included.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Collier, James Dallas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Stay. (open access)

Bed Stay.

Patent for a new and improved bed stay. This design "consist[s] of wires doubled at their center parts and twisted . . . to form loops . . . and diverged from said twisted parts and attached to the corner portions of the bedstead, and a tension and locking device consisting of a straining-lever fulcrumed to one of the loops and adapted to lock thereon and engaging the other loop" (lines 90-97).
Date: October 2, 1888
Creator: Bethea, Cade
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton compressor (open access)

Cotton compressor

Patent for cotton compressor using platens, bearings, pulleys, levels, rods and shafts.
Date: September 1, 1885
Creator: Brown, Maurice T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Stay. (open access)

Bed Stay.

Patent for a new and improved bed stay. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a bed-stay, of wires connected to the corners of the bed-stead, blocks on the wires, loops connected to the blocks, a lever hung to the loop, and a latch device locking the free end of the lever to the loop" (lines 10-15).
Date: December 6, 1887
Creator: Bethea, Cade
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-192 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-192

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Tyler County or the utility company must bear the expense of relocating poles and other facilities of the utility company incident to the widening of a public road.
Date: January 11, 1968
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO89-50 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO89-50

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the wife of the Tyler County Judge may be employed by the Tyler County Hospital as head of a new Cardiac Rehabilitation Department.
Date: June 19, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Soil Map, Tyler County, 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.
Date: unknown
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Tyler County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Tyler County, 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 Tyler County, Texas.
Date: 2008
Creator: Steptoe, Levi, Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Angelina County, Index

Index map for Angelina 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 1:133,843.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tyler County, Block 5

Parent map for Tyler County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Jasper County, Block 5

Parent map for Jasper County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tyler County, Block 12

Parent map for Tyler County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tyler County, Block 9

Parent map for Tyler County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Jasper County, Index

Index map for Jasper 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 1:141,506.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tyler County, Inset C01

Inset map for Tyler County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:3,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Jasper County, Block 14

Parent map for Jasper County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tyler County, Block 1

Parent map for Tyler County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Polk County, Block 22

Parent map for Polk County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History