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Rope Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rope attachment. This design "relates to a novel and useful device which is adapted to be rigidly and substantially secured to the end of a rope, and which is constructed with a curved lip on its protruding end, so that when pressed over the loop of a snap-hook it will form a link or jointed connection of the snap-hook with the rope, ferrule, or clamp" (lines 12-19).
Date: August 13, 1889
Creator: Powell, John Seymour
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Air-Brake Coupling

Description: Patent for "improved automatic pipe-coupling which shall overcome the difficulties found in the devices of this class heretofore in use, and which shall be cheap to manufacture, easy to repair, simple in construction, and extremely effective in use and operation" (lines 27-33).
Date: July 30, 1889
Creator: Roquemore, Peter G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Marshall 1889 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marshall 1889 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marshall 1889 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marshall 1889 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marshall 1889 Sheet 5

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marshall 1889 Sheet 6

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marshall 1889 Sheet 7

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marshall 1889 Sheet 8

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Piston Packing.

Description: Patent for a new and improved piston packing. This design consists in a "piston head cast entire and having radial arms bored out, in combination with the piston-segments, the steam-ports in the piston-plates, and stems of said segments, packing expansible rings on said stems, and the expansible packing-rings inclosing the said piston-segments" (lines 87-93).
Date: February 7, 1888
Creator: St. James, Henry L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Portrait of Charlie McAllister, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Photograph of Charlie McAllister, taken in a photographer's studio. He is standing next to a faux bois rustic chair with his hand on a large imitation rock in front of a scenic backdrop. He is wearing high button shoes, short pants with matching jacket, white shirt with large rounded collar and large bow tie. Imitation grass is on the floor by his feet. The photographer's imprint on the bottom of the card: " Cabinet Portrait, Wm. Brown, Marshall, Texas." Written on the back: "Charlie McAllister… more
Date: 1888
Creator: Brown, William
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Portrait of Mary McAlister at Age 8, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Photograph of Mary McAlister, at eight years old, taken in a photographer's studio. She is standing next to a faux bois rustic chair with her hand on an imitation stone balustrade in front of a scenic backdrop. She is wearing high button shoes, a dress with a low waist, long sleeves, gathered skirt, white collar, and what appears to be a large imitation flower at the collar. Her hair is pulled back from her face but is loose down her back, and there are two small curls on her forehead. The phot… more
Date: 1888
Creator: Brown, William
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Yearbook of Wiley University, 1888

Description: Yearbook for Wiley University in Marshall, Texas includes information about the college, student body, professors, and organizations. The yearbook is for the school year 1887-1888 and the calendar at the end of the yearbook is for the school year 1888-9.
Date: 1888
Creator: Wiley University
Item Type: Refine your search to only Yearbook
Partner: Wiley College

Nut Lock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "is to produce a nut-lock which will require a minimum number of parts to adjust, will require no other tools than a wrench, which will stay where adjusted in spite of any amount of pounding or concussion, and which, when desired, may be removed without difficulty. To this end [the] invention consists in a nut provided with a serrated face and a washer having sharp spring-lips engaging with the serrations. [The] invention also consists in a pe… more
Date: December 6, 1887
Creator: Parks, John W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Roller Cotton-Press

Description: Patent for a new improved Roller Cotton-Press. The "invention relates to machines for compressing cotton and other similar material into the form of cylindrical bales." (lines 15-18). Includes description and illustrations.
Date: July 19, 1887
Creator: Evans, Henry A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Table.

Description: Patent for a new and improved table. This design "is to increase the utility of tables by providing them with drawers extending from side to side, that will open from either side of the table, and also providing the drawers with additional means of support that will enable them to contain articles of great weight without injury to the structure, and thus adapt the same for use in stores" (lines 10-18).
Date: October 13, 1885
Creator: Davis, James Franklin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Henry S. Moore to Charles B. Moore, September 3, 1885]

Description: This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Henry S. Moore to his brother Charles B. Moore. In the letter, Henry informs Charles of news from Collin Co. and it includes: the letter sent to Sam with a turnip seed in it, a family friend's haul of corn, the construction of the reaper shelter per Charles' advice, Betty Thornhill and Neal Moore's visit, the unexpected visit of Jim Nelms, Solomon's trip to Hunt Co. and details that he has not returned yet, the plowing of … more
Date: September 3, 1885
Creator: Moore, Henry S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Life Boat.

Description: Patent for a new and improved life boat. This design consists "[i]n a life-boat, the combination of a hull having the portion of its sides above the water-line overhanging and concave and having the portion of its sides below the water-line convex, with air-chambers having their inner walls curved corresponding to the curves of the upper portion of the sides and converging into the sides at their lower edges, the said chambers increasing in capacity toward the upper edges of the sides of the hu… more
Date: June 16, 1885
Creator: Dwyer, Daniel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Marshall 1885 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marshall 1885 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marshall 1885 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marshall 1885 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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