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Delta County

Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Delta County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

Date: November 1870

Creator: Klappenbach, L.

Item Type: Map

Partner: Texas General Land Office

Delta County

Cadastral map of Delta County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).

Date: November 1870

Creator: Klappenbach, L. & Lungkwitz, Herman

Item Type: Map

Partner: Texas General Land Office

Memories of Martha Elizabeth Gibson Anglin

A transcript of a 1963 oral history with Martha Elizabeth Anglin (née Gibson), recalling her childhood in Alabama, her family's move to Texas in 1895, and her marriage and life on a farm in Commerce, Texas. Footnotes are provided to add context to the narrative.

Date: 1887/1963

Creator: Anglin, Michael W.; Anglin, Reba; Barnett, Robert & Barnett, Patricia

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Delta County

Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Delta County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:66,667 (2000 varas per inch).

Date: August 1889

Creator: Blain, J. L.

Item Type: Map

Partner: Texas General Land Office

Hay Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists "[i]n a double-acting baling-press, the combination, with the two followers having the apertured end lugs, of the sliding casting having the curved shoulders, the central aperture, and the apertured end lugs, the top plate having the apertured end lugs and central opening, the drive-wheel having the handle-socket and formed with the tapering opening and the central opening, the central pivot, and the king-bolt" (lines 13-22).

Date: February 4, 1890

Creator: Hill, Abraham J.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hen's Nest.

Patent for a new and improved hen's nest. This design "relates to that type of hen-nest wherein a tilting platform is employed to protect the setting hen from intrusion while permitting her to freely pass to and from the nest. The objects of [the] invention are to improve the prior construction and to provide novel means whereby the hen setting or hatching chamber is separated from the passage containing the tilting platform by a division-wall having a rear doorway, in such manner that the eggs… more

Date: September 9, 1890

Creator: Manlove, John H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal-trap. This design consists "[i]n a trap comprising a well having ingress-openings in diametrically-opposite sides, the combination, with a cage constructed to move vertically in the said well, of plates mounted in ways and constructed to slide past and cover the said openings and having connection with the cage to counterbalance the same" (lines 86-93).

Date: April 5, 1892

Creator: McLeod, Charlie Mike

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Stalk Puller

Patent for a new and useful cotton stalk puller.

Date: December 14, 1897

Creator: Harwood, Benjamin F.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adjustable Table.

Patent for a new and useful adjustable table, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 12, 1899

Creator: Congour, Presley Alpheus

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Delta County, States of Texas.

Blue line print of survey map of Delta County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and drilling locations. A legend indicating locations of wells, rigs ups or drilling sites, oil wells, gas wells, and dry holes is included in the lower-right corner. A handwritten note has been made on the published map in pencil to denote the addition of Dowdle Crossing. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (2000 varas to 1/2 of an inch).

Date: 1900

Item Type: Map

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library