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[Camp Cotton]

Description: Aerial view of Camp Cotton, El Paso, Texas. This photograph was taken south to north with the Franklin Mountains in the background. A soldier riding an Indian Motorcycle is visible in the center of the photograph.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: El Paso Public Library

Bailey County

Description: Cadastral map of Bailey County, Texas, in the Panhandle Plains region. Bodies of water are marked as well as the center of the county and capitol lands. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: November 1913
Creator: Pritchett, John W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Brazoria County

Description: Map of the Gulf Coast region covering Brazoria County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:166,667 (5000 varas per inch).
Date: 1918
Creator: Stevens, P. W. & Stevens, F. K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

T. and P. Hospital, Marshall, Texas

Description: Color tinted halftone postcard of the Texas & Pacific Railway Hospital, in Marshall, Texas, from around 1916. The view shows a grassy area in the foreground with a curving path and two trees. A man stands at the foot of one of the trees. The hospital appears to be a grouping of small residential-scale buildings with wood siding. The largest, on the left side of the card consists of two stories with a hipped roof and a cross gable roof extending on one side. A one story porch extends across the … more
Date: 1916~
Creator: Curt Teich & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Improvement to Bridle-Rods

Description: Patent for the improvement of Bridle-Rods “of means whereby the device may be adjusted to accommodate itself to rails of different sizes” (lines 18-20). Instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Simpson, Charles M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Track-Laying Machine

Description: Patent for Tracking Laying machine.The combination of train of cars, sectional tramway, and extending along the sides of the car gives means for disconnecting the connection. The fore-mentioned applications improves tack laying machines.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Simpson, Charles, M. & Smith, Howard F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spout for Railroad Water Tanks

Description: Patent for improvements to railroad water tank spouts which allow for valve shut-off. The valve shut-off function controls the flow of water by suction force into the spout which will prevent wasting water.
Date: August 13, 1918
Creator: Metzger, Frederick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tie Mold

Description: Patent is for new molds to hold in place railway ties inexpesively.
Date: September 19, 1916
Creator: Shearer, F. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Tie

Description: Patent for a railway tie with hollow and plastic filled portions. Illustrations included.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: Stratton, Steuben T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Scrip Holder.

Description: Patent for "a scrip holder, designed particularly for housing in a conveniently accessible manner the usual railroad scrip" (lines 8-11).
Date: July 14, 1914
Creator: Cleveland, George H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Joint

Description: Patent for improved rail joints to lock rail sections together against accidental displacement with illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1918
Creator: Stewart, Amon Leslie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Tie and Fastener

Description: Patent for "a novel and improved rail-tie and fastener which will support and hold the rails in a substantial manner and prevent displacement and spreading thereof, so as to avoid wrecks or accidents and consequent loss of lives and property" (lines 11-16), including illustrations.
Date: August 13, 1918
Creator: Felton, Thomas W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Tie

Description: Patent for an improved railroad tie. The improved railroad tie will be more resilient, with a housing made of pressed metal.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Autrey, Benjamin P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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