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- 2000 Census County Subdivison Block Map: Athens CCD, Texas, Index
- Index map for Athens Census County Division, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:60,638.
- Windmill
- Patent for "improvements in windmills." (lines 8-9) specifically a vertical windmill and includes five figures and an explanation of the device.
- Henderson County
- Blue line print of survey map of Henderson County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:266,666] (6000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
- Map of Henderson County
- Blueline format of survey map of Henderson County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, and blocks of land. No scale information given.
- Wire Stretcher
- Patent for a device that stretches wire, specifically for fence construction.
- Frankston Quadrangle
- 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 1:62500
- Frankston Quadrangle
- 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 1:62500
- Frankston Quadrangle
- 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 1:62500
- Frankston Quadrangle
- 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 1:62500
- Corn Planter
- Patent for a corn planter. This invention is simple and compact and does not require manual actuation of the drum for the dropping mechanism. It can be used for corn and similar seeds, including cotton and seeds with fibrous coating. Illustration included.
- Cutter Head and Bit
- Patent for a cutter head and bit. This invention are a combination of parts for use in woodworking. Illustration included.
- Design for a Tool.
- Design patent for a tool.
- Churn.
- Patent for a churn with an improved "construction of working body churns, to effect a rapid production of butter, and to enable the temperature of the contents of the churn to be readily controlled and regulated to facilitate churning" (lines 11-15).
- [News Clip: Beets funeral]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Beets]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- Cotton-Gin.
- Patent for an invention relates to cotton gins, and the principal object of this invention is to produce a cotton gin of small dimensions.
- Oral History Interview with John Nash, George Elmore, and Claretta Allen, June 30, 2015
- Interview with John Nash, George Elmore, and Claretta Allen, labor activists from Kilgore, Texas. In the interview, Nash, Elmore, and Allen discuss discrimination at the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, the Kilgore community, and labor organizing and unions in East Texas.
- [News Clip: Beets]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Beets junior]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Beets trial]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Beets trial]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Beets trial]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Beets trial]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Horses]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- Henderson County Lynchers
- Photograph of the Henderson County Lynchers in front of a jailhouse. Four Texas Rangers are also present in the picture, squatting down in front of the lynchers. Inscription on the back reads "Lynchers being transferred to Anderson Co. for trail. Lynchers who lynched the Humphries."
- [News Clip: Beets trial]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [Trading Card: Post Oak Savannah Ecoregion]
- Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Purtis Creek State Park, depicting a slice of a tree on a field of clover, with labels marking certain rings. There is information about the region on the back.
- Document pertaining to the case of The State of Texas vs. Joseph Redding, cause no. 1883, 1883
- Document relating to the case of The State of Texas vs. Joseph Redding, accused theft, filed September 1, 1883. Document is a bill of indictment signed by the presiding judge.
- Wire-Stretcher.
- Patent for a wire stretching device employed in fence construction. This device temporarily holds and stretches the wire between fence posts, while being secured. Through the operating lever and gripping jaw, the operator can effectively stretch the wire with minimal effort, while safeguarding against slipping.
- Wrench
- Patent for a wrench. Illustrations included.
- Trunk.
- Patent for a trunk meant for traveling that holds clothes and small articles. The trunk has "novel adjunctive features, which will render it more convenient, and better adapted for the stowage and removal of various articles of wear and use" (lines 11-14).
- Lock-Nut.
- Patent for a nut lock that secures two nuts of a pair within a tubular casing through opposing threading and rotation, where one nut is immobilized and the other remaining adjustable to meet situational need. Illustrations included.
- Wire-Fence Tool.
- Patent for a new wire fence tool for "applying binding members at the crossings of the strand and stay wires, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
- Variable Float-Shaft Bearing for Cotton-Seed-Linting Machines
- Patent for a shaft bearing designed to regulate and maintain the density of the cotton seed rolls in linting machines. Illustrations included.
- Mail-Bag Catching and Delivering Apparatus.
- Patent for a mailbag catching and delivering apparatus for trains that can be used by a train going either direction on the tracks.
- Mechanical Movement
- Patent for a mechanical movement. This invention is intended to producing more power. Illustration included.
- Trace-Carrier.
- Patent for "a simple, inexpensive, and efficient trace-carrier" (line 12) "capable of readily receiving and of securely holding the chain of a trace close to the back-band and of preventing the inner trace-chains form becoming hooked into each other when two horses are employed at a plow or the like" (lines 13-18).
- Stew-Pan.
- Patent for improvement in stew-pan by using a large size of stew-pan which having three separate compartments with different dimensions, to allow for large quantities of cooking materials to cook at one time without using separate cooking utensils. The heater designed to have fire-box in the front and at the rear, and the top portion of the heater being almost completely open. The elongated stew-pan placed on top of the open fire acted as a closure for the open top of the heater when food is being cooked. Illustration is included.
- Method of Making Concrete Tombstones.
- Patent for a method of making concrete tombstones which are waterproof and don't require wetting during the drying process to prevent cracking, reducing the drying time from 30 days in the shade to 4 days in the sun. This is achieved by adding salt to hold water which prevents cracking while drying, and a paint coat of aluminum powder and gasolene to waterproof the concrete and add a shine to it.
- Spittoon
- Patent for a spittoon for hospital use. Illustrations included.
- Nut-Lock.
- Patent for a nut lock that keeps bolts attached extra tightly.
- Nut-Lock.
- Patent for a nut lock that is easy to manufacture.
- Padlock
- Patent for a padlock. Illustration included.
- Horse-Arrester.
- Patent for a wagon tongue for horse-drawn wagons that is equipped with a spring triggered device that can be used to put the whole draft of the wagon on the horses bits to stop them if they are running away.
- Harrow Attachment
- Patent for a harrow attachment. Illustration included.
- Fire Extinguisher
- Patent for fire extinguisher improvements so as to use carbon dioxide to extinguish the flame.
- Harrow.
- Patent for a harrow for use in orchards that can be moved around easily to avoid trees.
- Road-Grader
- Patent for an improvement or update to a device called a road-grader. This patented upgrade will make the use of a road-grader easier.
- Fence-Anchor
- Patent for anchors, flukes and braces attached to the end of a fence post, pole, or similar that will shore and hold the post in the desired vertical position for installation.
- Seed Hopper.
- Patent for a seed hopper adapted to receive seed or cotton and control their distribution. Includes instructions and illustrations.