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Music Band

Description: Copy negative of the Abilene Town Band of the 1880s. The men are sitting and standing, holding their instruments. From left to right they are T. A. Lipps, Pete Kauffman, Adolph Heyck, Dave Kauffman, J. T. Tarpley, Will Woodward, Turner Lesslie, and Wilson. Printed below is a paragraph about the band.
Date: 1880~
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Music Band

Description: Copy negative of the Abilene Town Band of the 1880s. The men are sitting and standing, holding their instruments. From left to right they are T. A. Lipps, Pete Kauffman, Adolph Heyck, Dave Kauffman, J. T. Tarpley, Will Woodward, Turner Lesslie, and Wilson. Printed below is a paragraph about the band.
Date: 1880~
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Abilene 1885 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Abilene in Taylor County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: March 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Abilene 1885 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Abilene in Taylor County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: March 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Abilene Police Chief John J. Clinton]

Description: Photograph of Abilene Police Chief John J. Clinton. He has a horseshoe-shaped mustache and is wearing a button-down coat and a hat with a patch on the front. He is sitting down with his right arm by his side and his left arm resting on a chair and two people wearing button-down coats are partially visible behind him.
Date: [1888..1922]
Partner: Abilene Library Consortium

[Portrait of Police Chief Hill]

Description: Photograph of Abilene Police Chief John Thomas Hill, visible from the chest up. He has a mustache and goatee, medium-length dark hair parted in the middle, and is wearing a dark jacket with a star-shaped badge pinned on his chest.
Date: [1881..1886]
Partner: Abilene Library Consortium

Earth-Auger.

Description: Patent for an earth-auger that allows a hole to "be bored in ordinary soil in much less time than with the ordinary auger. It readily bores in ground in which the ordinary auger will not bore - viz., dry, hard, and packed soil, gravel, and concrete beds."
Date: September 12, 1882
Creator: Porter, Thomas & Gillilland, George Washington
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dish Drier.

Description: Patent for a new and improved dish-drier. This design consists in "[t]he body having perforations and having side projection and spout, in combination with the cover, false bottom supported from the main bottom of the drier, and having the uprights and cross-pieces" (lines 75-80).
Date: September 10, 1889
Creator: Wilson, Alice J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Killing Rodents

Description: Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Palmer, Austin D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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