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[Galveston City Company Accounts: 1876-1909]

Description: Ledger containing summary information related to the finances of the Galveston City Company including monthly cash balances, dividends, bills payable and receivable, city bonds, stocks, loans, and other transactions. A name index is at the front of the volume.
Date: 1876/1909
Creator: Galveston City Company
Partner: Stewart Title Company

Carbureter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Pollard, James M. & Barton, Wallace R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-tie

Description: Patent for improvement in the construction of hooks used to join the ends of ties "for packages or bales of cotton, hemp, rags, or other substances in which a divided metallic band or hoop encircling the package or bale is used, and the ends whereof are joined by a hook at one end of said band, arranged to interlock with any one of a series of mortises in the other end of the band" (para. 2).
Date: August 8, 1876
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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