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Gregg Co., Texas

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Gregg County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map to denote the addition of Cherokee Crossing and to highlight Cherokee Trail. Scale [1:118,518] (4000 varas to 1 1/8 of an inch).
Date: 1890
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Gans Residence]

Description: Photographic postcard of the family home of Dave Gans of Longview, Texas. There are six unidentified individuals sitting on the large, wrap-around porch, and there is an African American woman standing in the yard.
Date: 1890~
Creator: Culpepper, Cody B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Longview Public Library

[First National Bank of Longview]

Description: Photographic postcard of the First National Bank in Longview, Texas. The bank was located on Tyler Street. There are two signs with the name of the bank on either side of the door. From left to right, the men pictured are W. K. Eckman, Elbert Morgan, Crawford Morgan and Rogers Rainey, as noted on the back of the postcard.
Date: 1890~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 32.495008 -94.739273
Partner: Longview Public Library

Longview 1890 Sheet 5

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1890
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Longview 1890 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1890
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Longview 1890 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1890
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Longview 1890 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1890
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Longview 1890 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1890
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Longview 1896 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg 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

Longview 1896 Sheet 5

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg 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

Longview 1896 Sheet 6

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg 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

Longview 1896 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg 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

Longview 1896 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg 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

Longview 1896 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Longview in Gregg 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

Gregg County

Description: Map of the Piney Woods region covering Gregg County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: September 1893
Creator: Pressler, Charles W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Lumber-Truck.

Description: Patent for a simple and durable lumber truck that is "arranged to conveniently load and carry lumber to and from kilns and other places" (lines 9-11). It has double flanged wheels in independent frames that are connected by crossbars.
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Dodge, Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Cleaning Seed-Cotton.

Description: Patent for an improved machine that cleans and transfers seed cotton to a gin. It combines exhaust fans and a cleaning mechanism, and is less expensive than similar machines.
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Cannon, Burrell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a plow that improves on turning plows. The improvement turns soil completely during operation, through a newly designed moldboard.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Kelly, George A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Roll Box for Cotton Gins.

Description: Patent for a new and improved roll-box for cotton gins. This design "is to provide for a cleaning of the seed-cotton at its first stage of ginning, and thus prepare the same for a more effectual cleaning at the second stage of the process after the same leaves the saws" (lines 24-28). It consists, "with the gin-ribs and the revolving saws working between said ribs, of an unyielding perforated breast-board arranged in front of said ribs and a supplemental perforated cleaning-board above said rib… more
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Scott, Eugene C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Times-Clarion

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs and business name with text reading: "The Times-Clarion, J. W. Johnson, Proprietor. Circulation Largest Ever Published in Gregg County"; "The Clarion Established 1886, The Times Established 1893"; "$1.60 a year"; "Job Work a Specialty."
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Dry-Kiln Furnace.

Description: Patent for improvements in dry-kiln furnaces by using “a series of furnaces alternating with a series of heating or radiating drums parallel to and on a plane above the furnace,” (Lines 116-119, p. 2) and valved connected flues. This arrangement allowed the “heat being regulated and so distributed through the kiln as to produce a varying temperature, highest at the end where the lumber is introduced and gradually diminishing toward the opposite end, where it is taken out.” (Lines 21-26) Illus… more
Date: September 22, 1891
Creator: Ketcham, William
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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