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Jones County

Description: Map of Jones County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Orphan Asylum and Blind Asylum lands are marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1884
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Gate Hinge.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists of "the post or base section, having a perforated plate, the edges of which are bent up and formed with flanges and notches, and provided with the plate connected with the body of plate and separated . . . from the portions thereof, the gate-section having a depending arm, fitted to enter the perforation in the base, and having a second arm fitted for connection with the gate, and the roller, journaled on second said arm" (lines 90-99).
Date: December 7, 1886
Creator: Olinger, David J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Franco-Texan Land Co.

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and text reading: "The Company Has a large amount of lands for sale or lease in Parker, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Shackelford, Callahan, Jones, Taylor, Nolan, Fisher and Mitchell counties"; "Lands Will be sold in Tracts to suit purchasers, and either for cash or long credit. The Company has no Local Agents. Apply direct to this office." Letterhead includes the names A. J. Hoo… more
Date: 1889
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "the sill-beams, grooved . . . the trip-bars secured in said grooves and pivotally supported at one end, and connections between the opposite ends of the trip-bars and the gate" (lines 83-87).
Date: September 14, 1886
Creator: Tipton, Phylander S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Harvester

Description: Patent for improvements in construction and arrangement of machines that harvest cotton.
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Cunningham, James Franklin, Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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