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[T&P Shops in Marshall, Texas]

Description: 2 photographs of the T&P shops in Marshall, Texas. There is a train car pulled up beside the building. Written next to the top photo is "Shows architecture of building to good advantage." Below the bottom photo are written "T&P Shops at Marshall, Texas 1870-1880's with 'Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Car' parked beside shop" and "Harrison County Historical Museum."
Date: 1870/1889
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[T&P Roundhouse in Marshall, Texas]

Description: 4 photographs of the T&P roundhouse and shops in Marshall, Texas. In the bottom left photo a man is posing next to a wagon, and there is construction debris throughout the area. Written below the images are "T&P Roundhouse and shops at Marshall, Texas very early view 1870's" and "Harrison County Historical Museum."
Date: 1870~/1879~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Views of the Texas & Pacific General Office]

Description: Four photographs showing various views of the Texas & Pacific Railway buildings in Marshall, Texas. Two images at the top show a wide view of railroad tracks in front of three buildings: a tall, two-story building with wrap-around porches to the left; a smaller, one-story building in the center; and a long building with a covered loading bay where several train cars are parked. The lower images show a close-up view of the first two buildings (left) and of the third building (right). Text at … more
Date: [1873..1884]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

Harrison County

Description: Map of the Piney Woods region covering Harrison County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 21, 1871
Creator: Lungkwitz, Herman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

[Portrait of Sarah L. Slaughter Rankin]

Description: Photograph of Sarah L. Slaughter Rankin (Mrs. John M. Rankin) (1818-1886). The portrait shows the sitter in a three-quarter pose from head to waist, and it is mounted on a carte de visite. Her hair is parted and pulled back behind her ears. She is wearing a dark dress with buttons up the front and a lace collar pinned at her neck. The photographer's imprint on the back of the card is: "J. H. Webster, Photograph Galleries, Marshall and Jefferson, Texas." Mrs. Rankin was a teacher in the private … more
Date: 1874/1883
Creator: Webster, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Description: Patent for "revolving-cylinder seed-planters; and its object is to furnish a strong and durable implement adapted to plant with precision various kinds of seed, and the wheels of which are not liable to become clogged with earth." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 13, 1877
Creator: Burris, John W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Baling Presses.

Description: Patent for improvements to "the construction and combination of the levers, rack-bars, and pawls with each other, and with the follower and baling-box" (lines 15-17).
Date: May 10, 1870
Creator: Stroud, Bryant F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Grinding-Mills

Description: Patent for an improvement in grinding-mills, combining the operative mechanism with spindles - in which the both the grinding stones obtain relative surface speeds only half the actual speed of the stones.
Date: May 9, 1871
Creator: Hensley, Henry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Hand-Cultivators.

Description: Patent for "hand-cultivators; and the novelty consists in the improved construction and arrangement of the stock, tongue, and plows; and in the application to the end of the tongue of a shoulder-strap to assist in working the implement." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1872
Creator: Jones, William G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.

Description: Patent for improvements in baling-presses. It consists of movable followers and a sliding drum that has a ratchet secured to a clutch and a shaft. It includes illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1879
Creator: Smithson, Richard T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Harmony Attachments for Piano-Fortes.

Description: Patent for, "an attachment for piano-fortes, whereby the musician may play the melody upon an instrument like the violin with his hands in the usual manner, and the accompaniment or harmony by operating the attachment with his feet."
Date: November 11, 1879
Creator: Radinsky, Gustav A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent to improve the construction of the mold-board of the plow described in Letters Patent No. 163,352, "to make it more effective in preventing the black lands of Texas and other sticky and waxy soils from adhering to it, and to enable a proper furrow to be turned, however sticky and waxy the soil may be." (Lines 17-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 20, 1876
Creator: Bell, Francis R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for a "new and improved cotton-press" (line 5) relating to "improvements in friction-clamping apparatus used on vertical bars or rods of presses for holding the follower and lever in working the follower in passing the bale" (lines 11-14) including instructions and an illustration.
Date: December 26, 1871
Creator: Simpson, Thomas D. & Lamkin, William S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Land grant] : Austin, [Tex.], 1873 August 27.

Description: Original Land Grant for 272 1/3 acres in Harrison county. Grant for two hundred seventy two and one-third acres of land in Harrison county to J. P. McDaniel. Signed by Edmund Jackson Davis and Jacob Kuechler.
Date: August 27, 1873
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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