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[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~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a cultivator that is easily adjustable and works between rows of plants. It consists of two expansible side-beams, a fixed cross bar, sliding cross bars, pivoted rods, and a toothed lever latch.
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Robinson, Nelson B.
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Ditching Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ditching-machine. This design "consist[s] of the standards, block, handles, braces and round ears, axle and wheel having cogs, scoop provided with points, chute and side plates, elevator shaft, its upper end resting on the round band, elongated cups, rollers, and cog-wheels, shaft, inclined chute, [another] cog-wheel, arms, band, and rollers" (lines 87-95).
Date: November 4, 1890
Creator: Witt, William Carroll, Jr.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[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~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

Electric Railway.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in electric railways, and particularly to such railways as are adapted to use underground conduits, and has for its object to so construct such conduit and the line-wire connections therefor as to insure a constant connection between the line-wire and the motor of the car, and, further to greatly simplify and increase the efficiency of such systems." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Reid, Lemin Wallace
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gatesville 1891 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Gatesville in Coryell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Gatesville 1891 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Gatesville in Coryell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Gatesville 1896 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Gatesville in Coryell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Gatesville 1896 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Gatesville in Coryell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Gatesville 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.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 31.25 -97.75
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame Hook.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hame hook. This design "consists of a hook composed of two members hinged together and adapted to be clamped upon a hame-staple, one of the said members being provided with a pin adapted to project into an opening in the opposite member" (lines 14-19).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Dankworth, William J.
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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.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 31.75 -98.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness-Rack.

Description: Patent for a simple harness rack that can be attached to a wagon bed, and is meant to conveniently hold harnesses when the horses are not hitched. The device can be turned out of the way when not being used.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Kitching, John Thomas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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