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Map of Clay Co.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century railroads, land parcels, tract numbers, landowners, land patents, and towns; "Texas Emigration and Land Company's Premium Surveys"; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Territory of New Mexico.

Description: Map shows township grid, railroads, trails, Native American reservations, military reservations, forests, private land grants, and mining activity. Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:760,320].
Date: 1896
Creator: United States. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Clay Co.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century railroads, land parcels, tract numbers, landowners, land patents, and towns; "Texas Emigration and Land Company's Premium Surveys"; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Map of Wyoming]

Description: Map shows counties, Native American reservations, rivers, railroads, towns, and military posts; Yellowstone National Park. Includes notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:1,840,000].
Date: [1896..1909]
Creator: Rand McNally and Company
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Nell's topographical map of the state of Colorado.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Colorado land offices, Native American reservations, land grants, counties, township grid, cities, towns, timber reserves, railroads, roads, irrigation canals, and natural features. Relief shown by contours, hachures and spot heights. Includes text and index. Scale [1:633,600].
Date: 1896
Creator: Nell, Louis
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Log-Loading Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a machine that hauls and loads logs upon cars from either side of the track, or both sides at once. The machine can easily be transported on a car. The machine "consists, essentially, in a platform of about the length of an ordinary log-car and of a height and width to enable it to span the same, mounted upon which are a steam engine and a boiler and a rotating crane, said platform being provided with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with pivoted legs for holding it above… more
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Fletcher, William Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hand-Car.

Description: Patent for an improvement on the construction of the driving mechanism and brake on hand-cars.
Date: September 8, 1896
Creator: Small, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for rail-joints that are a "firm and secure support for the abutting ends of rails to maintain their treads in the same horizontal plane and prevent them from being mashed down at the ends" (lines 13-17). This makes train passengers more comfortable and lengthens the rail's and the fish-plates' lives, and makes fish-plates more stable.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Wambaugh, Mahlon W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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