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Denton 1885 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Denton in Denton County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Denton 1885 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Denton in Denton County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[The Maxwell family]

Description: Photograph of the Maxwell family, standing in front of the old Drye homestead in Pilot Point, Texas. The back of the photo reads: "The Drye homestead, built 1867 west of Pilot Point, called String Town then. Picture of Maxwell family, now residents of Fair View community, taken 1885."
Date: 1885
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Pilot Point 1885 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Pilot Point in Denton County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Feeder for Cotton Presses.

Description: Patent for a new and improved feeder for cotton presses. This design is "constructed with a receiving-box and a feed-box separated by a sliding plate attached to a follower secured to the piston-rod of a steam-cylinder, to adapt the said feeder to be interposed between a cotton-gin and a baling-press. The inlet and outlet valves of the steam-cylinder are connected by two pairs of connecting-rods with two levers, so that the movements of the piston can be readily controlled" (lines 19-28).
Date: March 10, 1885
Creator: Selz, Henry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well Bucket.

Description: Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the upper bucket and the lower external bucket, the former having a central vertical tube adapted to receive the rod for operating the valve of the lower bucket, and the spring arranged around the said rod" (lines 5-10).
Date: June 23, 1885
Creator: Arnold, James S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "is to provide a simple and improved fence which can be built with superior facility and economy, and utilize trees in range with the fence, and which will furthermore possess advantages in point of inexpensiveness, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 12-17).
Date: July 28, 1885
Creator: Ferguson, John Stephenson
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Picker.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton picker. This design has a spring-actuating "mechanism located upon the casing, and a hood for inclosing said mechanism hinged to one of the side walls of the casing and held closed by a fastening device . . . [and] the casing thereof, the endless picker-belt, flanged drums, and the toothed disks contained within said casing . . . and a pulley and belt for winding the spring" (lines 1-12).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Martin, John Tillman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Open Fire-Place

Description: Patent for improvements to an open fireplace making the different sections of the fireplace detachable and replaceable individually. Patent granted to Daniel E. Jones.
Date: September 25, 1885
Creator: Jones, Daniel E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Church register

Description: Register of pastors -- Register of marriages -- Register of infant baptisms -- Register of members. Some pages blank.
Date: 1886/1925
Creator: Krum United Methodist Church
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Krum United Methodist Church

Hand-Book of Northern Texas

Description: Overview of the north Texas region encompassing Collin, Denton, Fannin, and Grayson Counties for potential visitors, including information about the landscape and climate, the farming and ranching industries, notable persons and businesses, and other information about the area. A description appeared in The Sunday Gazetteer [Denison, TX, Dec. 19, 1886, p.3] which described it: "This book is a quarto volume handsomely gotten up in pamphlet form, and elaborately illustrated with wood engravings. … more
Date: 1886
Creator: C.S. Burch Publishing Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Denton Public Library

Seed planter.

Description: Patent for the improvement of seed planters, according to the inventor, "by providing the hopper of the same with regulating devices, whereby the seed may be planted in desired quantities and at desired intervals".
Date: February 9, 1886
Creator: Ratliff, John W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with a supporting-frame, of a revolving hopper, comprising circular heads connected by cross-bars having recesses, circular strips inclosing the cross-bars and leaving a space between their inner ends, flanges secured between and projecting through the circular strips and leaving a space between them, a slotted plate located on one of the bars of the frame and having its end located between the flanges, and a set-s… more
Date: November 30, 1886
Creator: Holland, Willis Asa
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

I.O.O.F. Cemetery Deed

Description: The deed contains C. C. Bell's purchase of the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, located in Denton, Texas, for the sum of twenty dollars on June 13th, 1887. The deed was drafted and signed in the Denton Lodge, No. 82, of the I.O.O.F.
Date: 1887-06-13?
Creator: Long, D.R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Denton Public Library

Hay Press.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design consists, "in combination with the plungers and their rack-stems, the cog, the brackets . . . curved as described, and having the flange, combined with the ways . . . and the anti-friction rolls, operating each on the rear of one of the rack-stems . . . [which are] combined with the brackets, detachably secured to the press, their forward ends constituting in connection with the rear plate of the press guide-ways for said stems" (lines 80-100… more
Date: June 14, 1887
Creator: Cope, Mason L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Harvesters and Mowing Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and improved attachment for harvesters and mowers. This design is "to afford means whereby a mowing or reaping machine may be enabled easily to travel over soft or marshy ground; . . . the novelty consists in a shoe proper for each driving-wheel of the machine, each shoe made of a curved piece of metal . . . and provided with a long narrow slot running lengthwise of the shoe, . . . and so adapted that under each wheel one of the shoes shall be placed in such a manner that one … more
Date: June 28, 1887
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C. & Marshall, Sumner B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pie Safe or Refrigerator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved refrigerator. This design consists in "[t]he improved portable pie-safe . . . comprising the body, the guide-rods arranged vertically in the said body, near the corners thereof, and extended through the top of the same to form the loops, the bail or handle secured to said loops, the cross-bars secured to said guide-rods, and the spring-actuated shelves mounted on the said cross-bars" (lines 78-86).
Date: October 4, 1887
Creator: Holt, Lucy Jane
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horseshoe.

Description: Patent for a new and improved horseshoe. This design "has for its objects, first, to fasten a shoe to the hoof in such a manner that it will be firmly held in place, and in a great measure overcome the jar and concussion incident to traveling on hard roads; second, in so providing a fastening that the shoe can be secured to the hoof and removed at will without the aid of a skilled work[person] and without the use of nails" (lines 18-26).
Date: October 18, 1887
Creator: Robertson, Alexander W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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