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Callahan County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Callahan County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map to denote the addition of Phantom Hill-Crogan and to emphasize various plots of land. Scale [ca. 1:290,909] (6000 varas to 11/16 of an inch).
Date: 1918
Creator: Blucher, Carl & Anthony, P. J.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Callahan County, Texas.

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Callahan County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land. A diagram of a section is included in the upper-right corner. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Date: 187u
Creator: Gast, August
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Callahan County, Texas

Description: Cadastral map of Stephens County, Texas showing lands owned by the Texas & Pacific Railway Company. The county is marked to show individual properties; each piece of land is numbered and several are labeled with property owners. Geographic features are also noted on the map. Scale ca. 1:133,333 (4000 varas to 1 inch).
Date: 187X
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway. Land Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oil map of Callahan County [Texas].

Description: Map shows oil well locations, property tracts, towns, railroads, and land ownership in Callahan county; counties, railroads, major towns, and oil fields in North Texas on two smaller maps. Includes promotional text. Scale not given.
Date: 1919
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter

Description: Patent for a new and improved combined cotton seed and corn planter. The invention has "relation to improved means for adjusting the wheels laterally to provide for increasing or diminishing the width of the rows" (lines 13-16).
Date: August 16, 1898
Creator: Kile, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bell-Ringer.

Description: Patent for a bell ringer for use in locomotives, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 1, 1892
Creator: Baker, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Stretching Fence-Wires.

Description: Patent for a portable manually operated apparatus that is designed to stretch wire-fence strands at right angles to tighten the full length of the strand without "kinking or twisting the fence-strand or driving staples or analagous fastenings into the fence-post" (lines 16-21) while the fence strand is tight. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Pyeatt, Jessie Newton.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Description: Patent for a boll-weevil exterminator comprised of a wheeled frame with a tank containing insect poison and a means to gradually distribute the poison through a field. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 1, 1914
Creator: Griffin, Willis F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[T&P Train Wreck]

Description: Photograph of a T&P train wreck being inspected by a large group of people of all ages. The train number is obscured by a few of the people. Written below the image is "J. C. McDaniel - (Callahan County Museum - Baird, Texas)."
Date: unknown
Creator: McDaniel, J. C.
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Representative Clyde L. Garrett - May 14, 1938]

Description: A letter written to the Honorable Clyde L. Garrett, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. from T. N. Carswell, Sec.-Mgr. [Abilene Chamber of Commerce] dated May 14, 1938. Carswell advises Garrett that Leon Kendrick, 18, is desirous of entering the Merchant Marines. Carswell requests that Garrett send information to Kendrick regarding a school and the conditions of appointment.
Date: May 14, 1938
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Wire Tightener

Description: Patent for new and improved construction of wire tightener allows for post in place while wire is being fastened.
Date: November 20, 1900
Creator: Short, William Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Tightener

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in wire tighteners. This design "consists in features of construction and novel combinations of parts in a wire tightening device for repairing wire fences and attaching wires to fence-posts" (line 13-16).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Short, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tug.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hame tug. This design consists in "the carrier . . . adapted for connection with the belly and back bands, constructed with a recess for the spring and provided with guides or ways for the tug-bar, such guides or ways leading forward and back from the spring-recess, whereby the tug-bar may extend entirely through and beyond the opposite ends of the spring-receiving recess, combined with the tug-bar and the spring" (lines 68-77).
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Fence Tool

Description: Patent for tool "which may be used for various purposes in connnection with wire fences" (lines 16-17) including an illustration.
Date: June 3, 1902
Creator: Neeb, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Yoke for Connecting Animals.

Description: Patent for a new improvements in animal yoking. Patent for "a new and improved yoking or coupling for connecting two animals together when grazing which allows automatic disconnection in case either of the animals gets a foreleg over the coupling" (lines 8-12) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new animal yoking design, including illustrations.
Date: April 17, 1888
Creator: Carmichael, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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