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[The Justin family home]

Description: Photograph of the front of the Justin family home. The house is two stories high with a balcony that surrounds the entire second story of the house. The yard is mostly a paved dirt path with no grass and has two deck chairs along with a tall, wooden structure to the front right of the porch.
Date: [1890..1920]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The "Eclipse" Quilter. Assignment of Territory for State, County, Town or Shop Rights [Signed]

Description: Legal document assigning rights of the "Eclipse" quilting frame to L. D. Major, allowing him to sell the invention in “all of the states and territory of the United States _east_ of the Mississippi River, _except_ the states of _New York and Pennsylvania_.” A smaller statement is affixed with a seal, noting that the assignment has been registered with the U.S. Patent Office.
Date: {1897-05-19,1897-10-14}
Creator: Major, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Form Designating Sales Agents for the Great Diamond Quilter]

Description: Form document outlining the terms of an arrangement for Washington B. Click to authorize someone to become a sales agent for the "Great Diamond Quilter," an invention patented (596,616) by W. B. & Isaac A. Click. The document includes blank lines to fill in information about the seller and locations where the agent can make sales. Above the text, there is an illustration of a man seated at a large quilting machine, being watched by a woman on either side and a man in the background.
Date: 1896/1899~
Creator: Click, Washington B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Carry Nation wearing a black dress and holding a book]

Description: Photographic postcard of Carry Nation. Nation is dressed in a dark colored dress with buttons that run along the left side of the it. She has a matching cape over her shoulders. She has a long fabric headpiece covering the back of her graying hair. A white flower or bow is tied at the collar. She has three pins pinned to her cape - one is of a hatchet that is pinned on left side of cape. Nation is holding a book on her right hand and her left thumb is resting on a page.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Rules of Practice of the United States Patent Office

Description: Booklet outlining the rules related to the grant of U.S. patents for inventions, including explanations of the relevant regulations and forms. This edition includes the text published in 1892, with preceding text for updates and revisions through October 1895. There are a number of handwritten notes and markings in this copy. Index starts on page 95.
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: United States. Patent Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Letter to C. A. Snow Attorneys - March 1896]

Description: Letter written to patent attorneys C. A. Snow & Co. inquiring about a patent application for an invention using winding springs to store energy. It asks for the opinion of the attorneys regarding a possible title for the invention and other details about the process.
Date: March 1896
Creator: Click, John Jones
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Map showing route of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway]

Description: Hand drawn map showing routes of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway including Texas counties and cities, rivers and topography of part of Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Arkansas. On the back of the map is text in German encouraging German Catholic colonization to Pilot Point.
Date: 1891
Creator: Rand McNally and Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Cuban and Porto Rican campaigns

Description: This book covers the organization of warships during the Spanish American War, and discusses the battles in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Also mentioned in the book are the Rough Riders, General Miles, General Shafter, General Wheeler, General Sumner, Colonel Wood, General Young, the Red Cross, General Wilson, Key West, Admiral Sampson, Captain Chadwick, General Kent, General Lawton, Buena Ventura, Ensign Curtin, Captain Paget, Commander Davis, General Breckinridge, and General Chaffee.
Date: 1898
Creator: Davis, Richard Harding
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries
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