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Reconnaissance of Aransas Pass, Texas
This map is a nautical chart showing the hydrography of the area in Texas around the Aransas Pass. The physical features are outlined and shaded in color (relief shown by soundings and contours). Depths are marked with lines and numbers in feet. Text in the upper left corner is labeled "Sailing Directions" and "Note"; the text gives explanatory details regarding the markings and measurements on the map. Scale 1:20,000.
Date:
1853
Creator:
United States Coast Survey
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reconnaissance of Aransas Pass, Texas.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century Aransas Pass, Texas coastal details. Includes sailing directions. Relief shown by soundings and contours. Scale: [1:20,000].
Date:
1853
Creator:
United States Coast Survey
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reconnaissance of Aransas Pass, Texas
Navigation chart for Aransas Pass, between Mustang Island and San Jose Island. There are sailing directions and notes in the upper-left corner of the map. The physical features are outlined and shaded (relief shown by soundings and contours). Depths are marked with lines and numbers in feet. Scale 1:20,000
Date:
1853
Creator:
United States Coast Survey
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shackles.
Patent for a shackle for the hands and feet that is designed to prevent the use of objects in order to escape.
Date:
September 30, 1870
Creator:
Belcher, Melvin Anderson & Perrenot, George Francis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aransas County
Map of Aransas County, Texas, including the Gulf Coast region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1871
Creator:
Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Chair-Backs.
Patent for chair back.
Date:
March 10, 1874
Creator:
Perrenet, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing-Machines.
Patent for a new ironing machine design, including illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1874
Creator:
Perrenet, George Francis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements In Ironing-Machines
Patent for new and useful improvements in the ironing machine. Machine has carrying case that is mounted on wheels and allows the iron to move over garments as it straightens out wrinkles.
Date:
May 4, 1875
Creator:
Perrenot, George F
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sad-Iron Heaters.
Patent for improvements to sad-iron heaters, including illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1875
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon Wesley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Reissue patent for an ironing machine that "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontally-moving iron and horizontally-reciprocating table..." (para. 2).
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Patent for "a certain new and useful improvements in Ironing-Machines"
Date:
February 29, 1876
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W. & Cottingham, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fence-Building Machines.
Patent for "a portable machine comprising a pile-driving apparatus, with a portable attachment for making the holes and driving in the posts; also, a boring attachment for deep holes, and also wire-drums for carrying and delivering wires for the wire fence or telegraph wires." (Lines 6-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1876
Creator:
Tally, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Patent for "a machine for ironing clothing by means of a revolving heated roller, under which is passed a reciprocating table, on which the clothing is placed." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1876
Creator:
Bailey, Charles F. & Perrenot, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Sash-Holder.
Patent for "the design [of] a sash or window-frame fastener" (lines 28-30).
Date:
April 10, 1877
Creator:
Overton, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Ironing And Fluting Machines.
Patent for improvements to Ironing and Fluting Machines.
Date:
June 13, 1878
Creator:
Bailey, Charles F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Water-Elevators.
Patent for improvements on governor for water-elevator to alleviate problems of waste of water from overage of water and also allows for self-regulation of the supply of water. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1880
Creator:
Fulton, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Plow
Patent for "rotary plows for plowing land, preparing the land to receive the seed and cultivating the plants, which shall be convenient in use, effective in operation, and not liable to get out of order" (lines 19-23) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1880
Creator:
Tally, Thomas Jackson.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Heater for Washing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved water heater for washing machines. This design "relates to that class of washing-machines in which a rotary slatted cylinder for holding the clothes and a coil of pipe for supplying the drum with hot water are employed; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction and arrangement of the heater and pipes for conveying water to and discharging it from the drum" (lines 14-21).
Date:
June 28, 1881
Creator:
Bailey, Charles F. & Perrenot, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aransas County
Map of Aransas County, Texas, including the Gulf Coast region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch)
Date:
1883
Creator:
Schmidt
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coast chart no. 109 : Aransas Pass Aransas and Copano Bay, Texas.
Map shows late nineteenth century coastal detail along Aransas Pass and Copano Bay, Texas. Includes "List of Authorities", and information on light houses, buoys, tides, and soundings. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [1:80,000].
Date:
1884
Creator:
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Movement
Patent for "improvements in devices for converting reciprocal into rotary motion, and is more particularly adapted and intended for use with windmills in applying the reciprocal motion of the pump-rod to the operation of rotating machines" (lines 11-16).
Date:
January 8, 1889
Creator:
Fulton, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
O'Connor Brothers, Stock-Raisers
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustrated images and decorative text with business name and text reading: "Steer Cattle a Specialty" in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston. Letterhead contains names D. M. O'Connor; T. M. O'Connor.
Date:
1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Scouring Water-Ways.
Patent for an improved apparatus for scouring water-ways by using water-discharge pipes and air-discharge pipes arranged at each side of the vessel. When “vessel is slowly moved forward while the water and air forcing pumps are working,..... direct force of the water-jets and air-jets will agitate and scatter and lift the dislodged particles and float them much higher and longer than would be the case were the water-jet pipes alone used.” (Lines 63-75) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 31, 1891
Creator:
Holden, Elbridge G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Bar Frame.
Patent for a new and improved mosquito-bar frame. This design "relates to improvements in that class of mosquito-bar frames which are adapted to be placed above a bed, so as to support the mosquito-netting in a way to cover the bed and guard the occupants thereof; and the object of [the] invention is to produce an extremely simple frame which may be easily dropped into a horizontal position over the bed or as easily tipped up and made to slide behind the head-board, where it will be entirely out of the way" (lines 7-17).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Holden, Elbridge G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History