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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard, which is made up of a wedge shaped piece of metal that allows a cows leg to be caught rather than the foot to allow easier removal of the leg by the cow.
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Mosher, Benjamin E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard for railroad tracks, which is activated by the pressure of a cow stepping on its platform and raises bars to block the the cow from crossing the track. It goes back down automatically when the pressure is removed off the platform.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Crouch, Jim L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Sugar Land Sugar Mill And Railroad Lines]

Description: Photographic postcard of Sugar Land, TX, showing sugar mill and railroad lines. Message on back reads "Three hours till train time". Post marked Sugar Land Feb. 6, 1909. Engine to far left has three men standing in front of it, one to the right of it, and two men on the top of it. The engineer has his upper body out of the window. Box cars (empty) on far right. Horse and cart (horse eating grass) between tracks on right and left.
Date: February 6, 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Longview Texas & Pacific Railroad Station Depot]

Description: Photograph of J. H. Hurst and L. L. Eddins at work at the Longview Texas & Pacific Railroad Station Depot in Longview, Texas. Mr. Eddins is seated at a desk to the left of the room, and Mr. Hurst is standing next to him, as noted on the back of the photograph. There is a furnace in the center of the room, and there is a book press on the right side of the room, sitting on top of a desk. This photograph was taken before the depot was moved to its current location at 905 East Pacific Avenue.
Date: February 1909
Creator: Culpepper, Cody B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.49381 -94.72887
Partner: Longview Public Library

Plano de Vera Cruz.

Description: Map shows early twentieth century street names, railroad lines and stations, buildings, and port configuration in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Scale [1:44,000].
Date: [1909..1911]
Creator: Terry, T. Philip (Thomas Philip), 1864-1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Plano de Monterey.

Description: Map shows early twentieth century Monterey, Mexico street names, railroad lines, and buildings. Includes legend to buildings. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:31,200].
Date: [1909..1911]
Creator: Terry, T. Philip (Thomas Philip), 1864-1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Arizona.

Description: Map shows early twentieth century Arizona counties, notable geographic features, rivers, railroads, cities, and towns. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:2,977,920].
Date: [1909..1929]
Creator: C.S. Hammond & Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Three new towns on the "Great New Orient Way" (Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway) : under the immense Imperial irrigation lake, in the fertile Pecos Palisades (Pecos Valley of Texas).

Description: Map shows street and plat layout for the towns of Redlands [modern-day Imperial], Fruitdale, and Palisade along the Pecos River Valley in Pecos County including parks, street names, block and lot numbers, and dimensions; exaggerated overview of region as situated in Texas and in relation to the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway. Includes text, statistics, land prices, and application. Scale not given.
Date: 1909
Creator: United States & Mexican Trust Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Part of Texas Short Line Railway Force]

Description: Photograph of a train engine and attached car on railroad tracks, viewed from the side. Seven men stand beside it along the tracks. Just behind the train is a tall building with a prominent bay window. Typed text below the image says, "Part of Texas Short Line Ry Force--June8 1909," with the names of the seven men pictured as follows: "1 R.H.Chaney Sec Foreman. 2 Ben Lowthorp Car repairer. 3 F. E. Whittemore, Agent. 4 Jeff Gammon Fireman. 5 Jeff Sparks Brakeman. 6 Bob Springer Engineer. 7 EA Fa… more
Date: June 8, 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Letter from M. A. Spoonts to Henry Sayles, June 5, 1909]

Description: Letter from M. A. Spoonts to Henry Sayles discussing the Sante Fe Railway Extensions missing Abilene in its plans. General Attorny Spoonts goes on to assure Mr. Sayles that this is not true, and to reach out to Mr. Harris, who is the president of the Burlington, Colorado & Southern Railway and Forth Worth & Denver Railway.
Date: June 5, 1909
Creator: Spoonts, M. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Document Relating to the Abilene & Southern Railway Company's Petition to Condemn Property in Abilene, Texas]

Description: Document relating the Abilene & Southern Railway Company's petition to condemn properties in Abilene, Texas which are necessary to construct and operate a railroad between Abilene and Winters, Texas. The document contains blank spaces to fill in the details of the case and is unsigned.
Date: August 7, 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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