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Washington County

Description: Cadastral map of Washington County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Some boundaries are marked in color. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: April 1871
Creator: Klappenbach, Louis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Washington County

Description: Cadastral map of Washington County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Some notes are marked in color.
Date: April 19, 1863
Creator: Gieseche, Albert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Franklin County

Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Franklin County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:66,667 (2000 varas per inch).
Date: April 1897
Creator: Pressler, Charles W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Gregg County

Description: Map of the Piney Woods region covering Gregg County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: April 1874
Creator: Cousins, R. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Jackson County

Description: Map of Jackson County, Texas, including the Gulf Coast region. The Atascosita Road crossings of Navidad and Lavaca Rivers are shown on map. A color legend for colony surveys is also shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: April 1896
Creator: Appell, P. F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Bastrop County

Description: Map of Bastrop County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: April 1872
Creator: Lungkwitz, Herman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office
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[News Clip: Injured man]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 30, 1952
Duration: 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

T. and P. Hospital, Marshall, Texas

Description: Color tinted halftone postcard of the Texas & Pacific Railway Hospital, in Marshall, Texas. The image was probably taken not long after the building was opened in 1928, but this card was probably printed in the 1930s, based on the linen style paper. It was sent through the mails and postmarked on April 24, 1940. The view shows a drive in the foreground curving in front of the building. The building is a long horizontal two-story structure with a slightly projecting entrance section. Three autom… more
Date: April 24, 1940
Creator: Curt Teich & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Nut Lock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists "[i]n a nut-lock, the combination, with a screw-threaded bolt and nut, of a pair of arms pivoted or hinged together, said arms having annular screw-threaded grooves formed therein adapted to register with the threads on the bolt, and means for locking the arms together" (lines 76-81).
Date: April 27, 1886
Creator: Clark, Fred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for "nut-locks especially adapted for use in securing nuts upon bolts at the joints of railway-rails." (Lines 10-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1897
Creator: Dodson, Roy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for "improvements in railroad ties [...] which will prevent the rail from spreading, sinking, or creeping" (lines 13-16). It also "is the provision of a tie in which the resilient qualities of the old type of wood tie are retained and combined with the advantages which are present in the use of a metallic tie" (lines 17-21), including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Shearer, Frederick C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for the "improvements in rail joints, the object being to so construct and arrange the meeting ends of two railway rails as to provide interlocking members..." (lines 8-12). The patent includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: April 14, 1914
Creator: Evans, James B., Sr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Placing Torpedoes.

Description: Patent for "a device especially adapted for placing torpedoes on railroad tracks and at the same time fixing the torpedo in position, the work being accomplished in a simple and expeditious manner while the train is in motion, whereby one train following another may be signaled without stopping the first train, thus preventing rear end collisions." (Lines 7-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Seamands, James D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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