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Swisher County
Cadastral map of Swisher County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Several features are marked including the center of the county and some notes are made in color. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
April 1879
Creator:
Stakemann, Max
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swisher County
Cadastral "tracing" map of Swisher County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
May 1879
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swisher County
Cadastral "tracing" map of Swisher County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Some features are marked in color. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
August 17, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
R. P. Smyth, Surveyor of Hale county
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs and business name, with list of attached counties.
Date:
1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The City Hotel
Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains decorative designs, business name, and text reading: "Rates One Dollar Per Day. Reduced Rates by the Week"; "This Hotel is First-Class in all appointments, and is located within Eighty Yards of the Passenger Depot. The Tables are supplied with everything the market affords, and the Beds are equal to any in Texas," in lithographic print by Champion Print. Letterhead includes the names of M. L. Williams & Co., Proprietors; C. A. Morphis, Manager.
Date:
1892
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Students from the Tulia School]
Photograph of a large group of students from the Tulia School. The students are positioned in various rows outside the school building.
Date:
1902
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence
Patent for a fence. Illustration included.
Date:
July 5, 1904
Creator:
Ricks, George L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derrick
Patent for a derrick. Illustration included.
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
McClain, Thomas & McDaniel, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Large Group of Students From Tulia Public School]
Photograph of a large group of students from Tulia Public School. The younger students are positioned towards the front and the oldest toward the back. The school building is visible in the background.
Date:
1907
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Love School, 1909
Photograph of students at Love School in rural Swisher County, Texas. Four rows of students are standing before the school building, with six students seated on the ground in front. One adult, probably a teacher, stands in the center of the group. The school is a wood frame building, with two open windows on the wall behind the students.
Date:
1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Young Students and Their Teacher]
Photograph of young students and their teacher. The children are positioned in multiple rows and each student as a number written on them. On the back of the photo is a list of names for most numbers.
Date:
1909~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Students Outside Tulia High School]
Photograph of students outside Tulia High School. The students are positioned in different groups with the women in the front and the men in the back. Behind the group is the brick building of the school where students are also standing in the windows.
Date:
1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swisher County
Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date:
1910
Creator:
[Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swisher County Institute, 1910
Photograph of a group of adults, possibly teachers, posed in front of the Tulia, Texas school, a brick building with an arched doorway. There is snow on the ground and the group is warmly dressed.
Date:
1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Fastener
Patent for a portable door fastener that can be used to lock hotel doors. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Mellott, Judson R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Camera Attachment
Patent for a camera attachment.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
Moine, Selest E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Rack.
Patent for a harness rack that is for holding and exhibiting a set of harness in a store or other place where harness are made or sold. The harness rack when in use serves to hold a set of harness so that all parts are in correct relative position so that it can be inspected, including illustration.
Date:
December 30, 1913
Creator:
Dyer, Simpson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swisher County
Blue line print of survey map of Swisher County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:190,476] (5000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date:
1914
Creator:
Clark, S. C. & Bramlette, H. M.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for an improved wrench which utilizes two circular heads, individually situated at the ends of a single handle.
Date:
January 13, 1914
Creator:
Johnson, Alva Putman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attachment For Cultivators.
Patent for draft attachments for cultivators that would enable four to five horses to be used without having to alter the construction of conventional cultivators.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
Poff, Blan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shifting Camera Back.
Patent for a shifting camera back that allows a photographer to take a large number of photographs on a single plate or film, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Moine, Selest E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Lister-Plows.
Patent for a lister plow, which is a device to be attached to listers, plows, and other farming equipment. The broad design (consisting of mold board wings) and blades (or knives) will remove weeds or prevent weeds from damaging different types of farming equipment.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
McCune, Floyd S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vignetter for Cameras.
Patent for an improved vignetter for cameras which is able to blend backgrounds of "a number of photographic impressions made upon a single sensitized plate or film" (lines 14-16).
Date:
September 28, 1915
Creator:
Moine, Selest E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Silo Construction.
Patent for a new and improved silo of "simple and superior construction" (line 12) whose design is also "strong, durable, efficient, and inexpensive to produce" (lines 18-19).
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Harris, Andrew J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History