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The "Eclipse" Quilter. Assignment of Territory for State, County, Town or Shop Rights [Signed]

Description: Legal document assigning rights of the "Eclipse" quilting frame to L. D. Major, allowing him to sell the invention in “all of the states and territory of the United States _east_ of the Mississippi River, _except_ the states of _New York and Pennsylvania_.” A smaller statement is affixed with a seal, noting that the assignment has been registered with the U.S. Patent Office.
Date: {1897-05-19,1897-10-14}
Creator: Major, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Envelope Addressed to Mrs. Chambers]

Description: Envelope from the Portales National Bank in New Mexico, addressed to Mrs. J. S. Chambers in Dallas. Several notes are handwritten across the front of the envelope: "New Mexico land"; "This is land my Granddaddy homesteaded, land was sold in 1947, but part of mineral rights were retained"; "Important Mineral lease"; "This is recorded in Elida, New Mexico --> Info given to Abstract office in June of 1991 giving my address, Betty Jean Johnson."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Form Designating Sales Agents for the Great Diamond Quilter]

Description: Form document outlining the terms of an arrangement for Washington B. Click to authorize someone to become a sales agent for the "Great Diamond Quilter," an invention patented (596,616) by W. B. & Isaac A. Click. The document includes blank lines to fill in information about the seller and locations where the agent can make sales. Above the text, there is an illustration of a man seated at a large quilting machine, being watched by a woman on either side and a man in the background.
Date: 1896/1899~
Creator: Click, Washington B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Form Used as Scratch Paper]

Description: Order form with the logo for "J. M. Wilcox & Son, Dealers in Lumber, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Shingles, Paints, &c." that appears to have been used as scratch paper for math equations.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

The Garden of the Gospel: Restland Memorial Park. Dallas, Texas

Description: Landscaping map of a segment of the Restland Memorial Park in Dallas, designated as the "Garden of the Gospel." It denotes cemetery plots with notations for various types of plants (trees, shrubberies, flowers, etc.), benches, and other features of the garden. There appears to be a small, handwritten box marking a set of plots.
Date: September 12, 1952
Creator: Kennedy, James F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Technical Drawing
Location: None
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Handwriing Scratch Paper]

Description: Pages of scratch paper that appear to have been used to practice copperplate handwriting with a fountain pen, including specific letters that are repeated, words, and names.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Headshot of Unidentified Woman]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman, visible from the shoulders up, posing with her body facing the right side of the image and looking toward her right shoulder at the camera. Her clothing is light-colored with a green collar.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Hotel in Anna]

Description: Photograph of a group of unidentified people posing in a line on the porch of a hotel, along with two little girls standing in the yard, near the picket fence around the property. The hotel is a two-story building with light-colored wooden siding and a series of windows that have darker trim; scalloped wooden siding decorates the visible gable ends. Handwritten on back: “This is Grandpa Dunlap’s Hotel In Anna Tex.”
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[House in Amarillo]

Description: Photograph of the front of a bungalow-style house, with a small yard enclosed by a decorative short metal fence identified by handwritten text as "Residence of Mrs. Moore, 17th Fillmore St. Amarillo, Tex." The front part of the house is octagonal with a horseshoe-shaped porch held up by Doric columns. Two people are partially visible, sitting on the far edge of the porch in the left side of the image.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Invoice for Grocer: May 1912]

Description: Invoice for purchases at the J. M. Donohoe grocery store totaling $36.75, including an amount that appears to be carried forward, an entry for 5/14 labeled "Ticket failed to get" and an entry for 5/27 listing butter & bread.
Date: May 1912
Creator: J. M. Donohoe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

[Invoice for Grocer: May-June 1912]

Description: Running invoice for purchases at the J. M. Donohoe grocery store by Mrs. James S. Chambers, starting March 22 and totaling $36.25 when it was marked partially paid ($30 in cash) on June 4.
Date: June 1912
Creator: J. M. Donohoe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson
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