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Device for Elevating Wagon-Bodies. (open access)

Device for Elevating Wagon-Bodies.

Patent for a pulley system for elevating wagons off the ground and "keeping them suspended under the roof of a barn or other roofed structure while not in use" (lines 19-21), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1880
Creator: Booker, David
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grave Cover. (open access)

Grave Cover.

Patent for a new and improved grave covering. This design calls for a concrete slab, slightly larger than its lidless wooden box, to rest on the upper edges of the latter. A slat in the slab will receive a headstone, which will rest on the slab via flanges.
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Thomas, James R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Van Zandt County, Texas

Cadastral map of Van Zandt County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Some boundaries are marked in color. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1880~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Body Lifter (open access)

Wagon-Body Lifter

New and useful improvements in Wagon-Body lifters. Furnish a wagon-body lifter simple in structure, efficient in its operation and durable.
Date: August 24, 1880
Creator: Morris, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History