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Gonzales 1891 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Gonzales in Gonzales County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Date: 1891

Creator: Sanborn Map Company

Item Type: Map

Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Gonzales 1891 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Gonzales in Gonzales County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Date: 1891

Creator: Sanborn Map Company

Item Type: Map

Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Patent for a new insecticide distributer using a bellows, a rotary fan, and a tube connecting the bellows to an insecticide reservoir; when pressure is applied to the bellows, the insecticide would pass through the reservoir to a flexible pipe that would distribute the insecticide to any direction without the operator breathing it.

Date: February 17, 1891

Creator: Preston, Leonidas A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Window-Curtain Holder.

Patent for improvements in window-curtain holders,in which the curtain holder has a upper and a lower socket, “with the lower socket having a central opening and mounted on a base-plate, of the upper socket having a side opening and mounted on a base-plate, and the U-shaped clasp pivoted at its lower end in the lower socket and having its upper end laterally bent and designed for insertion in the side opening of the upper socket” (lines 84-92). The curtains would be retained and giving them th… more

Date: March 17, 1891

Creator: West, Eugene B. & Finney, William D.