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Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties.

Description: This book gives an overview of the twelve Blackland Counties of Texas in alphabetical order. For each county, a brief description of the geographic and agricultural characteristics is given as well as statistics on population and county income. Additionally, a geological description of the Black Prairie Region gives more specific aspects of the area and the soil compositions and a final chapter discusses the property market of the area.
Date: 1895
Creator: Crawford, Wilbur F. & [Moore, Monta J.]
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Partner: UNT Libraries

Calvert 1896 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Franklin 1899 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Franklin in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1899
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Hearne 1891 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Calvert 1896 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Calvert 1891 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Calvert 1891 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Hearne 1896 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Calvert 1896 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Calvert 1896 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Hearne 1891 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Calvert 1891 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Calvert in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Franklin 1899 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Franklin in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1899
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Hearne 1896 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hearne in Robertson County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Portrait of the Holbert Family]

Description: Portrait of the Holbert family. Seated are Rowland, Lark, and Mrs. Janie Lark Holbert, and standing behind them are Reginald, Leonard, and Willie Holbert. The photograph was purchased at the Thomas W. Whaley, Jr. estate sale in Waco, Texas.
Date: 1890~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Thill-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive thill-coupling that "can be conveniently applied to any ordinary vehicle, which is arranged in such a way that rattling is positively prevented, and which, when the thills are dropped, permits them to be freely lifted from the coupling; also to a modified form of the device designed to prevent rattling only" (lines 12-18).
Date: December 25, 1894
Creator: Parker, Daniel
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for "an improved plow of simple and inexpensive construction employing two shovels so arranged and attached that either one may be quickly and easily removed to convert the plow into either a right or left hand plow, and has for its further object to provide a plow especially designed for opening new ground wherein the plowing is rendered difficult by the presence of roots and similar growth" (lines 9-18).
Date: December 15, 1896
Creator: Stephens, William
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trolley Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a trolley mechanism that is a pivoting "yoke adapted to normally follow being swerved out of line when the car is going around curve of the trolley wire; to prevent catching on cross-wires in case the trolley wheel should leave the line-wire; and to adjust the amount of pivotal action of said yoke with regard to the trolley pole" (lines 13-20).
Date: November 21, 1893
Creator: Fuller, James T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Muzzle-Yolk.

Description: Patent for a cattle-yolk that stops the animals from jumping or breaking through fences. The yolk "will bind upon him, thus effectually stopping the animal from any further effort" (lines 12-15) if it tries to jump or break through a fence.
Date: March 10, 1896
Creator: Courtney, Thomas Lafayette
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Coupling.

Description: Patent for the invention for new and useful improvements on the thill-coupling along with illustrations and instructions.
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Tanner, David Wilmer
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grate-Bar.

Description: Patent for an improved grate-bar that has a "semicylindrical journal rounded below, and its upper surface forming part of the grate-surface, with draft-spaces between the cross-walls forming the bearing portions, in combination with a supporting bar matching with said cross-walls and open under said draft-spaces, substantially as described" (lines 13-19). It is meant to sift ashes.
Date: October 13, 1896
Creator: Fuller, James T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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