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Somervell Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Somervell County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, and towns. Scale [ca. 1:118,518] (4000 varas to 1 1/8 of an inch).
Date: 1884
Creator: Thielepape, George F.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Somervell County [Texas]

Description: Map shows numbered plats and ownership, townships, adjacent county boundaries where property lines extend beyond county limits; watershed for the Brazos River in Somervell County. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1884
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Somervell 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: 1884
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Granbury 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: 1889
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 32.25 -97.75
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Somervell County

Description: Cadastral map of Somervell County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:66,667 (2000 varas per inch).
Date: August 1884
Creator: Thielepape, George J.
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the hopper having the bottom board provided with the slot and the groove, the slide bearing on the bottom board and having the slot, the depending stud engaging the groove, and the oscillating stirrer above the slide and having the arm engaging the slide" (lines 46-53).
Date: August 3, 1886
Creator: Whitehurst, Esir David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Scraper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton scraper. This design consists in "the vertical standard having the horizontal reardwardly-extending arm at its lower end, the cotton-scraper attached to the said arm and extending rearwardly and outwardly therefrom, and having the upturned curved broadened rear end forming the blade, and the clip-bolts and clamping-plate to secure the standard to the plow-standard and permit the said standard to be vertically adjusted" (lines 82-91).
Date: October 19, 1886
Creator: Basham, Wesley Houston
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton Chopper and Scraper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists of "the frame, the arms or standards pivoted to the said frame and carrying the chopping hoes or plows, the rock-shafts having the arms connected to the standards or [other] arms, and the [third] arms, and the rotating crank-shaft connected to the [third] arms, whereby the standards or arms will be caused to alternately approach and recede from each other as the machine advances" (lines 52-61).
Date: September 14, 1886
Creator: Basham, Wesley Houston
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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