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Political Map of North America.

Description: This map shows North America and the surrounding areas. The United States (including Alaska) and Mexico are shaded in pink, and Canada (British America) is shaded in purple. Major cities are labeled (and most are marked with a red 'x'); bodies of water and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures). There is an inset in the bottom left corner shows the state of Ohio next to a scale block of 40,000 sq. miles. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. There is text o… more
Date: 1885
Creator: Harper & Brothers
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the Texas & Pacific Railway and connections.

Description: Map shows railroad connections across the United States and into Mexico, steamship routes in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. Oklahoma is shown as "Indian Territory." Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1889..1890]
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mexico.

Description: Map shows Mexican state boundaries, cities and towns, roads, and railroads. Includes index and text. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:6,471,000].
Date: [1880..1900]
Creator: Rand McNally and Company
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte, Mexico Business Directory for 1885]

Description: Directory for El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte, Mexico includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. Separate introductions give narrative histories and descriptions of El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte (later called Ciudad Juárez) with lists of major public buildings and officials.
Date: 1885
Partner: El Paso Public Library

Dumping-Car.

Description: Patent for a dumping car in "which contents of the car may be readily discharged" (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date: December 3, 1889
Creator: Bogusch, Gustav & Zincke, August
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clinical Thermometer.

Description: Patent for a new and improved thermometer. This design has "[u]pon the body of the instrument a scale, preferably equivalent to the centigrade . . . in which the zero-sign is placed at the normal temperature of the body, each degree being divided into five or ten parts according to the size of the instrument and reading supernormal and subnormal degrees" (lines 20-26).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: Hunstock, Robert H. & Chávez, Emigdio
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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