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Map of the City of New York, Prepared Especially for the World Almanac, 1891.

Description: Map of New York City, covering all of Manhattan and much of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx (Morrisania) as well as adjacent parts of New Jersey. Ferry lines, streets, boroughs, community districts, and neighborhoods are also labeled. The map includes a red overprint of four Manhattan Elevated Railway lines in Manhattan and the Bronx. The sides and back of the map also include extensive directories of churches, financial institutions, insurance companies, and public officials collected January … more
Date: 1891
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Electric motor.

Description: Patent for improved electric motor used in motor vehicles "which may be associated directly with the driving-wheel of a motor-vehicle" (lines 40-41), bypassing the need for other power-transmitting mechanisms. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1897
Creator: Perret, Frank A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clip for Type-Writers.

Description: Patent for a clip for type-writers for Remington or similar type-writers that holds post-cards, envelopes, and similar short items in place. The invention prevents "the blurring or bad impression which is apt to be made, more particularly in machines having type bars with two types each, when the paper is not held firmly to the roller or platen" (lines 12-16).
Date: February 19, 1895
Creator: Gibson, Allen J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of Carry Nation standing near a table.]

Description: Photograph of Carry Nation. Nation is standing next to a round wooden table. She is holding an open book in her hands. Nation, who has graying hair pulled up into a bun and wears eyeglasses, is wearing a white dress with buttons that extend from her left shoulder to her thigh. The dress has long sleeves and a bow at the collar. The portrait ends at the knees. The photograph is mounted on a gray cardboard matte with bevel trim around rectangle of picture. Bottom of matte reads: WHITE 1261 BROADW… more
Date: 1890
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Carry Nation. Nation is seated in a decorative wooden chair.]

Description: Photograph of Carry Nation. Nation is seated in a decorative wooden chair next to a round wooden table. She has her right hand on the back of an open book and her left hand on the open page of the book and she is posed as if she were reading. Nation, who has graying hair and wears wire-rimmed glasses, is wearing a white dress that has buttons that extend from her left shoulder to the thigh area. The dress has long sleeves and a bow tied at the collar. The photograph is mounted on a gray cardboa… more
Date: 1890
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Rand, McNally & Co.'s New York.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century New York counties, railroads, post offices, cities and towns. Inset: Long Island and lower Hudson River region. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1893
Creator: Rand McNally and Company.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Rand McNally & Co.'s map of the southern portion of New York City.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century New York City railroads, street car lines, street names, military facilities, public institutions, train depots, and ferries. Inset: "Outline map of New York City." Includes explanation and index to streets and points of interest. Scale [ca. 1:22,400] and [ca. 1:28,200].
Date: 1895
Creator: Rand McNally and Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Century atlas, New York, western part.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century New York counties, canals, railroads, cities, towns, military posts, battle grounds; gas fields, points of interest, roads, canals, railroads, military facilities, city layouts, and Native American reservations on insets. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings and isolines. Includes notes and dates of historic events. Scale [ca. 1:1,013,760].
Date: 1897
Creator: Century Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Century atlas, New York, southern part. : New York City and vicinity.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century New York railroads, canals, roads, city layouts, county and borough boundaries, cities, towns, marshland, and notable physical features. Insets: "The Hudson from Yonkers to Kingston" and "Catskill Mountains." Relief shown by contours and hachures. Depths shown by isolines and soundings. Scale [ca. 1:253,440] and [ca. 1:1,013,760].
Date: 1897
Creator: Century Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Maps of New York and New Jersey]

Description: Map shows counties, railroads, canals, cities, and towns. Inset: "Long Island and southeastern part of New York." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:2,062,000] and [ca. 1:1,126,000].
Date: [1899..1914]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Maps of New York and New Jersey]

Description: Map shows railroads, canals, cities, towns, and rivers. Inset: "Southern Portion of New York." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,200,000] and [ca. 1:1,560,000].
Date: [1895..1915]
Creator: C.S. Hammond & Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to T. A. Bledsoe, December 2, 1898]

Description: Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to T. A. Bledsoe discussing the various types of men he had in his regiment and how he only cares about the character of men and not where they come from. The letter is written on paper with a Rough Riders Association header, which lists T. A. Bledsoe as the president.
Date: December 2, 1898
Creator: Roosevelt, Theodore
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Sarah Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout, August, 1898]

Description: Letter from Sarah Osterhout to her brother, John Patterson Osterhout, with news of how she had been doing. She and her sister had been spending time together lately and hoped that John's son, Paul, would move closer to the rest of the family. She quoted scripture to her brother and told him she expected to be home later in the fall.
Date: August 1898
Creator: Osterhout, Sarah
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Austin College

Map of the counties of Erie, Niagara, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston and Monroe, State of New York, shows the exchanges and toll lines of The Bell Telephone Company of Buffalo : Buffalo, N.Y.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century New York exchange or branch offices, toll line stations, and exchange and territory boundaries; county boundaries, roads, cities, towns, railroads, and lakes. Scale [ca. 1:399,802].
Date: 1897
Creator: Bell Telephone Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[The Guest Book]

Description: The guest-book: in which may be recorded the coming and the going of guests, with pages for autographs, incidents, and sketches pertaining to pleasant visits, social calls, and other gatherings designed and illustrated by Annie F. Cox. This book was part of the private library of Mrs. Delas A. Blodgett, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bound in olive green cloth over boards; gilt lettering and brown-stamped decorations. The signatures on the first page include that of Delas A. Blodgett, Daisy P. Blod… more
Date: 1891
Creator: Cox, Annie F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Envelope or Bag Machine

Description: Patent for a machine "for making envelopes, paper bags, and the like wherein the blank which is to form the envelope or bag is automatically fed into the machine at its receiving end by a suitable feeder and is folded and gummed on its way through the machine, being finally delivered in a marketable condition at the delivery end of the machine" (lines 10-17).
Date: June 24, 1890
Creator: Clarke, George R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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