Improvement in the Manufacture of Black Bottle-Glass.
Date: September 2, 1856
Creator: McCully, John F.
Description: Patent for manufacturing black bottle-glass by using "combination with other ingredients, an earthy slate of a peculiar character, called "clay-slate," for the purpose of furnishing the coloring-matter of the glass,as well as forming one of the bases of the glass itself."(line 10-15) Instruction only, no illustration.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Group of Hispanic Church Attendees]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a group of Hispanic church goers in front of their place of worship. The group consists of children in the front dressed in suits and light dresses, men in the back on the left side of the image dressed in dark suits, and women on the right side of the image wearing light dresses and floral sun hats. In front of the children there is a sign that is handwritten in Spanish. The church behind the group is a simple, one-room light brick building with one window at the front and three at the side. There is a wooden bench at the front of the church next to the group of people. Above the church power lines are connected to the roof close to the chimney. This image is mounted on gray cardboard.
Contributing Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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[Two Men Visiting in Gonzales, Texas]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of two middle-aged men talking and visiting outside at the front of a church, which is not visible. The two men have been identified as Lalo Reyes on the far left side of the image, and Santiago González on the right. Both men are wearing business casual attire; light long-sleeved shirts, light trousers, dark shoes and belts. Behind the men trees and a grassy field are visible. On the back of the photograph there is handwriting that reads, "Gonzales, Tex. Santiago González & Lalo Reyes".
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Window-Curtain Holder.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: West, Eugene B.
Description: Patent for improvements in window-curtain holders,in which the curtain holder has a upper and a lower socket, “with the lower socket having a central opening and mounted on a base-plate, of the upper socket having a side opening and mounted on a base-plate, and the U-shaped clasp pivoted at its lower end in the lower socket and having its upper end laterally bent and designed for insertion in the side opening of the upper socket” (lines 84-92). The curtains would be retained and giving them the proper draping and prevent them from flapping and tearing, includes illustration.
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Insect-Power Distributer.
Date: February 17, 1891
Creator: Preston, Leonidas A.
Description: Patent for a new insecticide distributer using a bellows, a rotary fan, and a tube connecting the bellows to an insecticide reservoir; when pressure is applied to the bellows, the insecticide would pass through the reservoir to a flexible pipe that would distribute the insecticide to any direction without the operator breathing it.
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Improvement in Cotton-Seed and Corn Planters
Date: November 6, 1877
Creator: Palmero, Joseph Rafael
Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton seed and corn planters which lists the design specifications.
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Gonzales County
Date: 1871~
Creator: Lungkwitz, Herman
Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Gonzales County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Contributing Partner: Texas General Land Office
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Gonzales County
Date: 1869
Creator: unknown
Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Gonzales County, Texas. The road to Halletsville, Texas is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Contributing Partner: Texas General Land Office
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Gonzales County
Date: 1880
Creator: unknown
Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Gonzales County, Texas. The center of Gonzales County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Contributing Partner: Texas General Land Office
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth88594/
Gonzales County
Date: December 13, 1853
Creator: Pressler, Charles W.
Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Gonzales County, Texas. The road to Halletsville, Texas is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Contributing Partner: Texas General Land Office
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