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Cattle Guard

Description: Patent for a cattle guard that will turn horses, cattle, mules, etc.
Date: December 3, 1901
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Waller County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Waller County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1900
Creator: Pressler, Herman & Morris, J. W.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Autograph Book of Maggie Hampton]

Description: Signature and address book used by Maggie Mayfield Hampton during her time teaching at the Fred Douglas school in Prairie View, Texas. Various friends at the school wrote notes to Maggie in the book. The journal has a purple fabric cover with a flower pattern; decorative embellishments are on the front, including flowers and the letters "Auto."
Date: 1906-09/1907-05~
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Hempstead 1906 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Location: None
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Hempstead 1906 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Location: None
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Hempstead 1901 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Location: None
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Hempstead 1901 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Location: None
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Hempstead 1901 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Location: None
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Hempstead 1906 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Location: None
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Letter to Esther Pennington, December 4, 1902]

Description: Letter to Esther Pennington responding to the letter she sent to the writer earlier, inquiring about other family members, sharing details of her recent activities and the weather situation in their town. The writer also reminds Esther of how much she is missed and wishes to see her soon.
Date: December 4, 1902
Partner: Angelina County History Center

Well-Auger.

Description: Patent for a well-boring auger is designed to improve the drilling process by multi-functional features of the auger that can be placed inside of a well-casing to cut a hole or can be used itself to cut through the casing.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Hutchins, Charles N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Level.

Description: Patent for a spirit level, which measures more accurately than other models and allows quicker calculation of where the wood needs to be moved to be level.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Brittain, Thomas H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for an improvement to "shovel-plows" that "is adapted to cultivate between the rows of corn, &c., and one in which the rearwardly-extending moldboards can be adjusted [...] in case the rows are close together or far apart. The cultivator is also arranged so that the depth of the furrow can be regulated" (lines 14-21).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Dinkins, James Oscar
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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