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[Central and West Texas (2)]

Description: Map of U.S. Postal Service mail stations and routes in central Texas and Indian Territory, showing the beginning and end of routes, the frequency of the mail delivery (e.g. two times a week), special supply routes, and discontinued offices. The map also includes railroads, major towns, bodies of water, and county lines.
Date: 1880?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Surveyor's transit]

Description: Surveyor's transit, mounts with spring-action pin to tripod (1999.012.001b). Face is engraved with cardinal directions, with a star replacing North. Two bubble levels built into face. Degrees and minutes marked around circumference of face. Dial on side changes display on face to read numbers between 1 and 16. Manufacturer: T.F. Randolph, Cincinnati, Ohio. Patent date June 24, 1879. Scope mounts to compass body with screw pins from underneath. Needle tightens by screw action on "W" side… more
Date: 1880
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Red wooden station staff]

Description: Red wooden station staff to surveyor's transit set. Round staff is capped at base with pointed iron end piece. Brass tip at top swivels. The object is called a "Jacob's Staff" and is used by surveyors to support a compass. The pointed end is jabbed into the ground and the compass is attached to the threaded piece at the top. The ball at the top allows the compass to be levelled.
Date: 1880
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Map of scouting expeditions from camps at the Chinati Mountains from Jan 12th to May 12th 1880.

Description: Map shows camps, springs, roads and trails taken from Fort Davis through the Chinati Mountains in the Big Bend area of Texas; denotes ownership of area ranches. Includes a key to the map under "Note." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1: 506,880].
Date: 1880
Creator: Beck, William H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 30.122324 -104.024336
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the lower Mississippi, Gulf and frontier Pacific railroad and its proposed connections, from Galveston, New Orleans, Vicksburg and Memphis via El Paso, across the territories to the California coast cities.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century rail routes and proposed rail routes across the Gulf Coast and Southwestern United States. Includes "Table of Distances." Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1880?
Creator: Rand McNally and Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Monkey Wrench]

Description: Starting at the bottom, the handle of the monkey wrench is a flat oval shape with two holes, it probably had two wooden pieces, one on each side attached with screws or nails. The neck has a vice that extends all the way to the head to the top of the handle. The head is rectangular with a sloping side. The back of the head is square and looks as though it was used as hammer.
Date: 1880
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

County map of the state of Texas : showing also portions of the adjoining states and territories.

Description: Map shows counties and major cities and towns, military posts, railroads, major roads, areas of Native American reservations in Texas and portions of New Mexico and "Indian Territory." Streets, roads, and railroads in city of Galveston and Galveston Island are shown in the inset. Inset: "Plan of Galveston and Vicinity." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,265,000].
Date: 1880
Creator: Gamble, W. H. (William H.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mexico.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century geography and state boundaries in Mexico. Verso: "Index list to Mexico's railroads, islands, lakes, mountains, rivers, states and towns." Relief shown by hachures. No scale indicated.
Date: [1880..1900]
Creator: Rand McNally and Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Sue Lottie Emery at piano]

Description: Tintype photograph of Sue Lottie Emery seated at a piano. She sits facing sideways with one hand on the keys. She wears a long black dress with long sleeves and white lace at the cuffs. She wears a white lace collar that covers her chest, shoulders and back. A piece of white paper with blue handwritten inscription is taped to the back of the photograph. The inscription reads, "(Sue) Lottie Emery / Daughter of / James Wallace Emery."
Date: [1880..1899]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Archives

[J. W. Allen and friend as young boys]

Description: Tintype photograph of Dr. James Walter Allen and a friend as young boys. Dr. Allen is seated on the right. Both boys wear dark jackets and plaid ties. They lean their heads together. The top and bottom left corners of the photograph have been cut off at a diagonal angle. Inscriptions written in black ink above their heads read "friend" and "J W Allen."
Date: [1880..1899]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Archives

[Young man wearing hat]

Description: Tintype photograph of a teenaged young man (possibly Dr. James Walter Allen) wearing a light suit, vest and tie, and a dark fedora style hat. The man looks into the camera. The surface of the photograph is damaged, so the image is not very clear.
Date: [1880..1899]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tarrant County Archives
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