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Automatic Fire-Alarm System.

Description: Patent for an automatic fire alarm system with a simple arrangement of alarm devices (positioned throughout different rooms) with sound or visual indicators for fire awareness and closer thermal circuits (assisted with spring contact and circuit closer). The automatic fire alarm system will have a more immediate reaction by making an alert noise or visual and propping open the spring contact.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Ammons, John Burck; Ammons, Evander & McGaffey, Otis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Isaacson Cotton Gin Company, El Campo, Texas]

Description: Black and white photograph of a building known as the Isaacson Gin Company, where cotton is processed. The building is made of wood and has several different sections to it. The yard just outside the company is teeming with horse-drawn or animal-drawn wagons. Each wagon is filled with cotton; some of them are covered with a tarp. In the distance, several houses are visible, as are dirt roads that lead to and from the company yard.
Date: September 16, 1916
Creator: El Campo Studio Photo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

Ware House, Alpine, Texas: Floor Plan

Description: Floor plan for a warehouse building commissioned by J. M. Radford in Alpine, Texas. It includes measurements, labels, names, and wall boundaries. Notes, schedule of windows, and schedule of doors are included as separate sections.
Date: June 16, 1915
Creator: M. L. Waller & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Technical Drawing
Partner: Tittle-Luther/Parkhill, Smith and Cooper, Inc.

Ware House, Alpine, Texas: Foundation Plan

Description: Foundation plan for a warehouse building commissioned by J. M. Radford in Alpine, Texas. It includes measurements, labels, names, and column placement. A separate section includes 1/2" scale details of typical foundation piers & footings.
Date: June 16, 1915
Creator: M. L. Waller & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Technical Drawing
Partner: Tittle-Luther/Parkhill, Smith and Cooper, Inc.

[Postcard from W. B. Johnston to George Pendexter, August 16, 1912]

Description: Postcard from W. B. Johnston to George Pendexter saying that he has just returned from his vacation of 25 days. The photograph on the reverse side of the card shows a Quaker Oats Plant having been burned in March 1911; the building is still smoking at the time of this picture. There is also a train in the photograph with the words "Ann Arbor" written on the side.
Date: August 16, 1912
Creator: Johnston, W. B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

First M. E. Church, South, Marshall, Texas

Description: Black and white halftone postcard of the First United Methodist Church, located at 300 East Houston St., in Marshall, Texas, photographed around 1909. The building was constructed in 1861. It is a front gable brick masonry structure in a Greek revival style with a bell tower and steeple on top of the front gable. The entrance porch has four tapered square brick columns surmounted by a pediment. The view shows the facade and the east side of the building with stained glass windows in the east wa… more
Date: March 16, 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum
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