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Tarrant County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Tarrant County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:166,667] (5000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1885
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Arc Lamp

Description: Patent for improvements arc lamps that "will be uninfluenced by the jar of the locomotive" (lines 17-19). Consisting of carbon-carriers rotated by clock-train.
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Gaston, E. James
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Anti-Freezing Tank Valve.

Description: Patent for a new and improved tank valve. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the tank, its valve and lever, and valve-rod, of the frost-chamber having an annular space to receive the non-freezing compound, the stuffing-box around the rod and screw-threaded at the ends, and the screw-threaded caps . . . having necks and flanges" (lines 7-13).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: Barrett, William Henry
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Cotton-Press

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of steam cotton presses using a change in the frame and use of hydraulic-pressure pumps to operate the press. The pumps are driven by steam
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Turnpaugh, James William
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Corn Sheller.

Description: Patent for a new and improved corn-sheller. This design, "[o]n its rear face, at the upper end of the body of the corn-sheller . . . provide[s] a hinged nubber-plate, which serves as a supporting-arm, and is constructed . . . for use in breaking or cutting off the smaller end of the ear of corn, at which end unsound kernels of corn are frequently found. The nubber-plate is hinged . . . to the upper end of the rear face of the body, and when opened out extends at nearly a right angle from the b… more
Date: September 13, 1887
Creator: Price, Benjamin B.
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Child's Crib

Description: Patent for new "suspended cribs or cradles for the use of children" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1880
Creator: Brown, Fred Harvey
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Tarrant County, State of Texas

Description: Map shows land patents, landowners, property boundaries, railroads, and towns for Tarrant County and portions of adjacent counties where property lines extend beyond county limits. Reliefs shown by hachures. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1888
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Fort Worth, Tex., "The Queen of the Prairies," county seat of Tarrant County.

Description: Map shows street names, buildings, railroads, churches, and businesses; course of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. Includes number key to businesses and churches; illustrations and railway map. Insets: "The Martin Brown Co.," "Henry & Peak." "Max Elser," "B. C. Evans Co.," "W.A. Huffman Implement Co.." "City National Bank," "Casey & Swasey," "W.F. Lake," "North End and Driving Park," "Fort Worth Opera House," "Joseph H. Brown, Wholesale Grocer," "Texas Wesleyan College," "Fort Worth's railw… more
Date: 1886
Creator: Wellge, H. (Henry)
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Gray's new map of Fort Worth Texas.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Fort Worth, Texas railroads, street names, structures, businesses, and property ownership. Includes population statistic for 1885 and assessed valuation. Inset: "Reduced plan of entire city." Scales [1:9,600] and [1:4,800].
Date: 1885
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Commerce Street Scene in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1888

Description: Aerial photograph of Ft. Worth at Commerce Street in 1888. In the center is a large strip of buildings, homes and businesses, surrounded with dirt roads and more homes across those streets. A store on the right corner of the black has a sign that reads, "Black Smith Shop". In the foreground are dirt trakcs, a telephone pole, and a few horse-drawn wagons.
Date: 1888
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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