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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a railway cattle-guard that is simple, inexpensive, and efficient. It prevents the cattle "from traversing a railway-track in order to pass form one field or inclosure to another" (line 12-14). It has spurred rollers, and has a unique way of mounting rollers or rotary ties, in that they do not block the track.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Nevill, William Birt
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chicago Great Western Railway: "Maple Leaf Route"

Description: Map shows the extent of the Chicago Great Western Railway, additional railroads, counties, waterways, cities and towns for Iowa, southern Minnesota, northern Missouri, south and central Wisconsin, north and central Illinois, and portions of South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. Scale not given.
Date: 1897
Creator: Poole Brothers
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Concho County, Texas.

Description: Map shows property tracts boundaries, land grants, landowners, railroads, possibly trails/roads, towns, and watershed for the Concho and Colorado Rivers. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1897
Creator: Rosenberg, Evon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Concho County, Texas.

Description: Map shows property tracts boundaries, land grants, landowners, railroads, possibly trails/roads, towns, and watershed for the Concho and Colorado Rivers. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1897
Creator: Rosenberg, Evon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Century atlas, New York, western part.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century New York counties, canals, railroads, cities, towns, military posts, battle grounds; gas fields, points of interest, roads, canals, railroads, military facilities, city layouts, and Native American reservations on insets. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings and isolines. Includes notes and dates of historic events. Scale [ca. 1:1,013,760].
Date: 1897
Creator: Century Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Century atlas, New York, southern part. : New York City and vicinity.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century New York railroads, canals, roads, city layouts, county and borough boundaries, cities, towns, marshland, and notable physical features. Insets: "The Hudson from Yonkers to Kingston" and "Catskill Mountains." Relief shown by contours and hachures. Depths shown by isolines and soundings. Scale [ca. 1:253,440] and [ca. 1:1,013,760].
Date: 1897
Creator: Century Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Century Atlas: Texas, western part.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century geography, towns, and cities in the western half of Texas. Relief shown by contours. Inset: "Galveston Bay, Galveston, Houston and Vicinity." Scale [1:2,534,400].
Date: 1897
Creator: Century Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Oklahoma and Indian Territory.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century "Indian Territory" [Oklahoma] counties, township grid, areas of Native American habitation, railroads, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Inset: [Map of westernmost Beaver County in the Oklahoma panhandle]. Includes notes. Relief shown by hachures, contours, and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:1,647,360].
Date: 1897
Creator: Century Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Pennsylvania, Eastern Part.

Description: Map shows the counties, railroads, canals, cities, towns, and notable physical features in late nineteenth century Pennsylvania. Layout of streets, roads, and railroads in the Philadelphia area shown on inset. Relief shown by hachures, contours, and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:1,013,760].
Date: 1897
Creator: Century Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

New Jersey.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century New Jersey counties, railroads, interurbans, canals, marshes, cities, towns, and coastal details; greater detail of same on inset. Inset: "Jersey City, Newark, Paterson and Vicinity." Relief shown by hachures and contours. Depths shown by isolines and soundings. Scale [ca. 1:696,960].
Date: 1897
Creator: Century Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Geological map of the Black Hills of South Dakota & Wyoming.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century areas and types of mineral concentration, mines, county lines, towns, railroads, mountain peaks, rivers, and tributaries in the Black Hills. Towns and railroads in Deadwood region are also indicated. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [1:316,800].
Date: 1897
Creator: Scott, Samuel, 1846-1917
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the counties of Erie, Niagara, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston and Monroe, State of New York, shows the exchanges and toll lines of The Bell Telephone Company of Buffalo : Buffalo, N.Y.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century New York exchange or branch offices, toll line stations, and exchange and territory boundaries; county boundaries, roads, cities, towns, railroads, and lakes. Scale [ca. 1:399,802].
Date: 1897
Creator: Bell Telephone Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Railroad-Rail Joint.

Description: Patent for a specialized railroad joint that has a "novel combination of a T-shaped splice rail" (lines 12-13) in combination with other parts, "connected with downwardly-curved truss-bolts passing through the vertical member of the splice-rail in such matter as to hold all of the parts firmly together..." (lines 19-23).
Date: March 16, 1897
Creator: Trammell, Jefferson D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Weed-Burner

Description: Patent for "a railroad weed-burning device in which a large sheet-iron shield is suspended underneath and between the trucks of any ordinary railroad car for the purpose of confining the flame and heat produced by oil-atomizing burners or other means to direct and maintain continued contact with grass and weeds on the ground between and along the outside of the rails" (lines 9-18).
Date: May 11, 1897
Creator: Hancock, Geroge A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Bond For Electric Railroads

Description: Patent for improvement to rail-bonds for electrical railroads to aid in maintaining electrical contact, which will then reduce the loosening of parts which results in broken contact. Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date: August 17, 1897
Creator: Hunter, Victor Emmet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bolt Lock for Railways

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in bolt locks for railways. This invention is to "provide a simple, durable, and effective device of this class" (line 13-14).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Herrin, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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