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Improvement in the Manufacture of Black Bottle-Glass.

Description: Patent for manufacturing black bottle-glass by using "combination with other ingredients, an earthy slate of a peculiar character, called "clay-slate," for the purpose of furnishing the coloring-matter of the glass,as well as forming one of the bases of the glass itself."(line 10-15) Instruction only, no illustration.
Date: September 2, 1856
Creator: McCully, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Map of the State of Texas

Description: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Inset: Map of the vicinity of Galveston City. Includes text on railroads in Texas, El Llano Estacado, the Rio Grande, the Grand Indian Crossing, and the population of Texas according to the census of 1850. "25".
Date: 1856
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton) & Hazzard, J. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Texas.

Description: A color coded map of Texas from 1856. The map is color coded by county. Many Texas cities and landmarks are present on the map.
Date: 1856
Creator: Morse, Sidney Edwards
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

A new map of Central America / by J.L. Hazzard ; engrd. by Th. Leonhardt.

Description: Prime meridian: Greenwich. Relief shown by hachures. Insets: Map of the communication by railroad across the Isthmus of Darien: from Aspinwall to Panama -- The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: showing the proposed route from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. From an edition of S.A. Mitchell's A new universal atlas. no. 40. Hand colored. Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the UNT Libraries.
Date: 1856
Creator: Hazzard, J. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[New map of the state of Texas]

Description: Hand drawn color-shaded map showing counties, cities, rivers, creeks, railroads, roads, and topographical features of Texas as of 1856. Insets of Plan of the northern part of Texas, Plan of Galveston Bay and Plan of Sabine Lake.
Date: 1856
Creator: Colton, J. H., & Co.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Hand-Machines for Gathering Cotton in the Field" (lines 3-5), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 16, 1856
Creator: Shields, B. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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