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Reversible Hoe.

Description: Patent for a new and useful reversible hoe, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1898
Creator: Schultz, Carl Herman Severin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee - Pot.

Description: Patent for a new and useful coffee pot, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 19, 1898
Creator: Ingle, Jacob Odem
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Granbury 1898 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Granbury in Hood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1898
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Granbury 1898 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Granbury in Hood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1898
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Granbury 1898 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Granbury in Hood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1898
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

The State of Texas, County of Hood

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustration of courthouse with county name in lithographic print by Geo. D. Barnard & Co. St. Louis. Letterhead contains the names H. T. Berry, Co. Judge; Phil. Jackson, Dist. & Co. Clerk; J. T. Petty, Shff. & Tax Collector; S. C. Colvin, Treasurer; T. O. Martin, County Atty.; [?] Millington, Assessor; J. H. Ethridge, Surveyor; J. A. Formwalt, J. P. Pre. No. 1; W. H. Martin, Com'r Prect. No. 1; H. H. … more
Date: 1897
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Stephenville Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1897
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 32.25 -98.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rake.

Description: Patent for a rake that is meant for raking loose stumps, brush, and similar articles from fields. The rake is pulled along, and two wheels form an axle where the rake is balanced. There are two rake-lifting levers.
Date: October 20, 1896
Creator: McIlroy, Archibald Yell & McIlroy, Joseph Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mattress-Making Machine.

Description: Patent for a mattress-making machine that presses the material and forces it into a mattress. The mattress is "suitably held at one end of the machine, guide-strips being provided to hold the material forming the filling for the mattress straight and smooth while being forced into the tick" (lines 19-23).
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Bates, Frances Marian
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Granbury Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1896
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 32.25 -97.75
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Palo Pinto Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1896
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 32.75 -98.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for "a pipe-wrench with a pivoted jaw which shall rest at its rear end against a solid support when gripping the pipe, so that all strain shall be taken from its pivot, while the wrench shall also have a stationary jaw with two bearings for pipes of varying sizes to rest against and shall also have a setter to act against the rear of the movable jaw." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 3, 1895
Creator: Riza, Mike Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a kitchen-cabinet that is a "simple and convenient portable device provided with the necessary receptacles for flour, meal, spices and other condiments, as well as apparatus for grinding coffee, beating eggs, weighing, &c.; to provide means for adjusting such receptacles upon the frame of the cabinet to secure the desired height or distance from the floor; and furthermore to provide improved means for removing the flour and meal from the bins and sifting the same by the same operatio… more
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Shanley, Michael H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

McKinley Bros., Cattle Raisers

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs, cattle illustration, and business name with text reading: "Ranch on Lipan." Letterhead contains cattle brand description and the names Pete McKinley; Jas. McKinley
Date: 1895
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for a pipe-wrench that is a "pair of tongs [made] for holding rods or pipes of different diameter so that, when between the jaws, they will be held by an elastic cam pressure, without any further muscular exertion by the smith or expert mechanic who is about to work upon the rod or pipe" (lines 16-21).
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Riza, Mike H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Cream Freezer.

Description: Patent for an ice-cream freezer that "effectually and with slight labor freez[es] cream; to be so constructed as to freeze the cream into sticks of merchantable size and adapted for retail trade; and, furthermore, to provide for a simultaneous manufacture of ice, so that as the cream is frozen water may be congealed forming ice that may be subsequently employed in the freezer or otherwise" (lines 10-18).
Date: April 3, 1894
Creator: Skipper, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hood Co. [Texas]

Description: Map shows and tracts, land patents, landowners, towns, and railroads for Hood County and portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1894
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Hood Co. [Texas].

Description: 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: 1894
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Combined Plow and Harrow.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and effective combined plow and harrow that can be used as a plow and harrow at the same time, or the operator can detach one and only use the other. The machine can be adjusted to better suit different types of soil.
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Lee, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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