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Door-Saddle.

Description: Patent for new and improved door saddles, which consists "of a longitudinal and cross-grooved arrangement of parts coacting with inclined surfaces and shields to cause a perfect drainage of water" (lines 11-15), including instructions and illustration.
Date: July 13, 1897
Creator: Vogel, Thomas.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adding-Machine.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Brooks, Augustus J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wichita Falls, Texas, 1890

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Wichita Falls, Texas structures, street names, and businesses. Includes key to selected buildings and eight illustrations. Insets: "Wichita Co. Court House and Jail," "C.A. Souters Block & Opera House," "T.H. Wilson's Grocery Co.," "Wichita Roller Mil' Co. Mill & Warehouse," "Public School," "Keller & Durrett, Saddlery: Buggies & Hard[ware]," "Wagon & R.R. Bridges Across the Wichita River," and the "Panhandle Natl. Bank." Scale not provided.
Date: 1890
Creator: Fowler, T. M. (Thaddeus Mortimer), 1842-1922
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Wichita Falls, Texas, 1890

Description: Map of a birds-eye view of Wichita Falls, Texas in 1890. Illustrations of the Courthouse, Grocery Store, School, Bank, and other establishments surround the view of the town's buildings and it's lake.
Date: 1890
Creator: Fowler, Thaddeus Mortimer
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Articles of Agreement Between the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company and The Wichita Falls Railway Company]

Description: Contract between Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company of Texas and The Wichita Falls Railway Company detailing an agreement between the companies regarding a railroad line between Wichita Falls and Henrietta, Texas. The contract is unsigned and the last page has "Railroad" written on the back.
Date: June 12, 1894
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Wichita Falls Agreement, of June 12 1894, Between The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. Of Texas, and The Wichita Falls Railway Company

Description: Contract between Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company of Texas and The Wichita Falls Railway Company detailing an agreement between the companies regarding a railroad line between Wichita Falls and Henrietta, Texas. Also included is the Railroad Commission of Texas's approval of the contract. "Henry Sayles" is handwritten on the title page in pencil.
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Purdy, Thomas C.; Kemp, J. A.; Reagan, John H. & Foster, L. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Barwise Home]

Description: Photograph of Judge Joseph Hudson Barwise's home in Wichita Falls. Horses and buggies are standing by the white picket fence in front of the house. Various people are standing on the porch of the house.
Date: 1890~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midwestern State University

Wichita Falls 1898 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1898
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Wichita Falls 1898 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1898
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Wichita Falls 1892 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1892
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Wichita Falls 1892 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1892
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Wichita Falls 1898 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1898
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Wichita Falls 1892 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1892
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Wichita Falls 1898 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1898
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Wichita Falls 1898 Sheet 5

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1898
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Window-Shade Raiser.

Description: Patent for an improved way of raising, lowering, and locking window shades into place. "The operating-cord passes over a pulley located between two larger disks, one of which is screwed toward the other by a spring to clamp the folds of the cord and is screwed in the opposite direction by means of a lever, upon which the chord itself acts when drawn in the proper direction" (lines 14-20).
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: McCauley, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in wire stretchers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1899
Creator: Smith, William C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Extension-Brace for Ladders.

Description: Patent for an extension brace for ladders that improves on the inventor's previous patent (No. 416,413). The invention's parts "are positively raised and lowered by means of direct acting mechanism which is so constructed and arranged as to obtain the most beneficial results from a comparatively small application of power, the parts being strong and durable easily operated and readily understood" (lines 20-26).
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Crews, Dayton H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Panhandle National Bank of Wichita Falls

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and bank illustration in lithographic print by R. & T. A. Ennis Staty. Co. St. Louis. Letterhead includes names R. E. Huff, Prest.; H. Specht, V. Prest.; W. A. McCutchen, Cashier.
Date: 1891
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with company logo, business name, and text reading: "Office of A. Newby, Agent for Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, "The Anheuser Standard." Special Brewings: The Budweiser, Erlanger, Liebotschaner, The Faust Beer."
Date: 1896
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office
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