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Map of Coryell Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Coryell County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. A handwritten note has been made on the published map in pencil to tentatively identify Honey Creek. Scale [ca. 1:213,333] (4000 varas to 5/8 of an inch).
Date: 1896
Creator: Pressler, Herman
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Bedstead.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bedstead. This design "consists in the provision of adjustable hangers for mattress-supports" (lines 12-13). To this end, it consists, "with the side and end rails having vertical mortises or grooves, the cap-plates covering the upper ends of the grooves or mortises and having threaded apertures, and a mattress-support, of the hangers respectively comprising the vertical shank or body seated in the grooves or mortises of the rails, and the horizontal branch extendi… more
Date: September 20, 1892
Creator: Currey, George Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combination Wire-Fence Tool.

Description: Patent for a tool that combines pincers, a hammer head, jaws, etc., to be used for fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1897
Creator: Rubarth, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brake-Lever.

Description: Patent for a brake lever that is locked by an arc-shaped ratchet-bar. There is "a pawl loosely mounted on the rear side of said lever and bearing against said side when the brake is set, said pawl being spring-actuated to move parallel with said side and project beyond the same and contact radially with the ratchet-teeth between said yoke" (lines 25-30).
Date: April 7, 1896
Creator: Burkett, Joseph B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a car-coupling that has a "simple construction which can be operated without going between the cars both in coupling and in uncoupling, and also to provide for adjusting the height of the coupler or draw head so that cars of different heights can be readily coupled" (lines 17-22).
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Duggan, Nicholas S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling

Description: Patent for a new and improved design concerning automatic car couplings that is novel in the some of its parts.
Date: June 17, 1890
Creator: Bullock, Henry Purnell
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chemise

Description: Patent for improvements in chemises which would relieve wearers “the annoyance of having the garment gather about the limbs while walking which often produces great embarrassment in public places.” (Lines 42-45) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Burt, Emma Ruby
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Lieutenant Colonel William Smith to Dr. Joseph Pound, June 20, 1898]

Description: Letter from Lieutenant Colonel William Smith to Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Pound discussing the upcoming reunion for veteran soldiers. At the end of the letter Smith tells the doctor to "bring along that stovepipe hat and the Little Brown Jug of Wine for Our Annual Banquet."
Date: June 20, 1898
Creator: Smith, Lt. Col. William
Partner: Dr. Pound Historical Farmstead

A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas.

Description: History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties in Texas, including geology, settlement, organization, courts, military, cities, schools, churches, and other categories for each county. Also included are biographical mentions of some of the pioneers and present prominent citizens, as well as full-page portraits of some of these people.
Date: 1893
Partner: Lena Armstrong Public Library

Map of Coryell County

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1896
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[1899 Graduating Class of Gatesville, Texas]

Description: Photograph of several rows of people expanding outward from the doorway of the Coryell County courthouse. The young men and women are the graduating class of students from Gatesville, Texas, from 1899. The women primarily wear skirts and white blouses, while the men wear dark slacks and jackets.
Date: 1899~
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Early Physicians of Coryell County, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a group of physicians wearing suits, vests, and ties. The men are arranged in front of a backdrop painted to resemble an ornate archway. A fur rug lies below them. Five of the men sit on a tasseled chaise longue. The man sitting in the center is identified as O. G. Gilder, and the man at the right end is E. B. Baker. The standing man is Andrew Graves.
Date: 1898~
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Eighteen Women in a Photography Studio]

Description: Photograph of a group of eighteen reunited school friends sitting in front of a photography studio's forest backdrop. The women are wearing dresses and are arranged in three rows. They are identified on the back of the photo. "Josey Girls of 1898 - 1899" is handwritten on the mat above the photo.
Date: [1898..1899]
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

Temple Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1896
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 31.25 -97.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hamilton Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 31.75 -98.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lampasas Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 31.25 -98.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Temple Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 31.25 -97.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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