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Bowie Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Bowie County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, Trammel's Trace, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil to denote the addition of the Spanish Bluffs and the crossing on Trammel's Trace. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (2000 varas to 3/8 of an inch).
Date: 1899
Creator: Pressler, C. W.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[T&P Train #148]

Description: Copy photo of a group photo in front of T&P train #148. The image on the text says "This photograph of Texas and Pacific switch engine No. 148 was taken in Texarkana in August 1896 and was the first T&P engine in Texarkana equipped with air brakes. Those appearing in the picture, beginning at the front end of the engine, as follows: C. W. Kipple, Foreman, Frank Sountag, Switchman, William Kelley, Switchman, Frank Cromwell, Engineer, William McClain, Switchman, Frank Young, Fireman, Jim Jackson,… more
Date: August 1896
Creator: Southwest Collection
Partner: The Grace Museum

Bowie County.

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: 1897
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 5

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 12

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 10

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 8

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 11

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 6

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 7

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texarkana 1896 Sheet 9

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Lumber-Stacker.

Description: Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in lumber stackers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 23, 1899
Creator: Coleman, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Turnstile-Gate.

Description: Patent for a turnstile-gate meant "to provide a gate of novel construction to be used at the intersection of a number of fences that access may be had through the gate from one to the other of the inclosures formed by said fences" (lines 13-17). It is especially meant for stockyards when several fences come together in one place.
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Cowley, Benjamin T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pad for the Backs of Horses.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pad for horses. This design consists in "the air-tight cushion composed of opposite blanks of elastic air-tight material secured along their adjacent edges, and a central longitudinally-disposed dividing strip dividing the cushion into opposite compartments, and provided with openings affording communication between the compartments" (lines 62-68).
Date: April 22, 1890
Creator: Mudford, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Support for Cutter-Heads.

Description: Patent for a support for cutter-heads that allows the operator to easily sharpen, dress, and treat the bits or cutters of the head. It has a spindle that turns and slides in a bearing and supports a cutter-head a pin in the spindle that is seated inn the grooves in the bearings, and a spring loaded bolt in the end of the spindle.
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Kendig, Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin-Saw-Filing Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine that is meant to file circular saws. The invention files "saws while mounted side-by side upon a saw arbor, as cotton gin saws usually are; means for moving the file carriage along upon the frame of the machine to locate it in front of the individual saws which are to be filed; means for raising and carrying the file over the saws when the carriage is to be moved; means for securing the file sash on the file carriage and of securing the file carriage upon the main frame by … more
Date: December 19, 1893
Creator: McCurry, James C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electrode for Secondary Batteries.

Description: Patent for improvements in the manufacture of electrodes for storage batteries or accumulators by using “two corresponding plates, each having flanges on three sides of one face, said plates being united to form a central space open at top by securing together corresponding flanges on the respective plates.” (Lines 5-9, page 2) Illustration is included.
Date: June 23, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Boyd
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tension Device for Band-Saw Mills.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in tension devices for band-saw mills; and it consists, generally stated, in mounting the upper wheel in standards which are vertically movable in suitable guideways, said standards being secured to the plunger or cylinder of a direct-acting medium, such as compressed air." (Lines 24-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1897
Creator: Coleman, Thomas A. & Coleman, Nathan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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