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Menard County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Menard County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks or land, cities, and towns. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1894
Creator: Warren, W. H.; Blane, F. G. & Ehlinger, L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Antifriction Clasp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved anti-friction clasp. This design "is to provide means whereby the wear due to the rubbing of inclosed rods or ropes against an inclosing casing may be reduced to a minimum and whereby the central alignment of the rods or ropes with respect to the inclosing casing may be accurately preserved" (lines 11-17). It consists in "a series of friction balls or rollers mounted therein and projecting from the periphery thereof and being divided into sections adapted to be cla… more
Date: October 25, 1892
Creator: Black, William L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Anti-Friction Sucker-Rod Coupling.

Description: Patent for an anti-frictioin sucker-rod coupling. This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in sectional sucker-rods for artesian, oil, and other wells, and has for its object to provide an improved construction of coupling-joint for connecting the sections of the rods together.
Date: January 26, 1892
Creator: Black, William L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Menard 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: 1894
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Eden 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 31.25 -99.75
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fort McKavett 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: 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 30.75 -100.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

San Angelo 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: 1898
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 31.25 -100.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

San Angelo 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 31.25 -100.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Eden 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.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 31.25 -99.75
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mason 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: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 30.75 -99.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Burbank & Babbitt

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative images, livestock illustrations, and business name in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston, Tex.
Date: 1891
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office

The Deervale Ranch Co., Limited

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes livestock illustration and business name, with text reading: "Deervale Ranch, Menard County." Letterhead contains the names Kennedy & Roberts, Managers.
Date: 1891
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office

J. W. White, Manager of Littlefield & White Pastures

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains cattle illustration and stylized business name with text reading: "Comprising 110,000 Acres in Mason, Kimble and Menard counties"; "Dealer in Steer Cattle." Letterhead includes the names G. W. Littlefield, Austin, Texas; J. W. White, Mason, Texas.
Date: 1898
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Sam'l. Wallick & Co.

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative images and business name with text reading: "Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries and Genr'l Merchandise."
Date: 1890
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a simple, efficient, and reliable car-coupling that is meant to be especially safe. When the cars become uncoupled, the coupling is automatically reset to couple another car, and it can be easily applied to a drawhead to a car in use.
Date: February 5, 1895
Creator: Schneider, Adolph
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compensating Pump-Spring.

Description: Patent for improvements in compensating pump-springs by “storing up in the downward or idle stroke of the suction-rod, a power which is expended during the upward stroke to assist the crank in lifting the rod; and at the same time reducing the power required to drive the pump, equalizing the resistance, increasing the efficiency and generally prolonging the life of the entire mechanism.” (Lines 36-40) Illustration is included.
Date: April 21, 1891
Creator: Black, William L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compensating Pump-Spring.

Description: Patent for an improvement on the inventor's previous patent (No. 450,657). The improvements include getting rid of the sleeve, and "employ[ing] volute springs instead of the straight flat springs formerly used; [the inventor] also dispense[s] with the links and connect the inner ends of the springs to long pitmen which have a pivotal connection with the suction rod at a point above the springs; [the inventor] furthermore provide[s] a means for adjusting the tension of the springs without alteri… more
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Black, William L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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