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Map of Stephens County

Description: Cadastral map of Stephens County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Some features and properties are marked in color including the center of the county. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 25, 1859
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Map of Stephens County, Texas.

Description: Map shows land plats for Stephens County, including original land grant patents for Peters Colony, with numbered blocks and parcels; some land ownership, towns; "Texas Emigration and Land Company's Premium Survey"; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Circle of approximately five inches at center of map encompasses town of Breckenridge. Scale [1:133,334].
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Stephens County, Texas.

Description: Map shows land plats for Stephens County, including original land grant patents for Peters Colony, with numbered blocks and parcels; some land ownership, towns; "Texas Emigration and Land Company's Premium Survey"; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Circle of approximately five inches at center of map encompasses town of Breckenridge. Scale [1:133,334].
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Stephens County

Description: Cadastral map of Stephens County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Some features and properties are marked in color. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date: August 1879
Creator: Meyer, C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Stephens County

Description: Cadastral map of Stephens County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Some borders, features, and notes are marked in color. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: August 1879
Creator: Appell, P. F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Spinning-Wheel

Description: Patent for "an improvement in domestic spinning wheels; and it consists in the combination of parts whereby the spindle or whirl is supported from above so as to hang down within the operator's reach, and is made to constantly revolve at the same time that the whirl is moved from and toward the operator" (lines 12-19) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1880
Creator: Church, Joshua G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Balanced Piston Engine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved balanced-piston engine. This design "relates to that class of steam or other engines which are constructed with two pistons receiving the pressure in opposite directions, each connected with cranks set at opposite positions, whereby the strain occurs simultaneously in opposite directions upon the crank-shaft and balances the same within its bearings, and thus obviates great friction on the journals and thereby economizes power" (lines 7-15).
Date: February 15, 1881
Creator: Peebles, William D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Harvesters and Mowing Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and improved attachment for harvesters and mowers. This design is "to afford means whereby a mowing or reaping machine may be enabled easily to travel over soft or marshy ground; . . . the novelty consists in a shoe proper for each driving-wheel of the machine, each shoe made of a curved piece of metal . . . and provided with a long narrow slot running lengthwise of the shoe, . . . and so adapted that under each wheel one of the shoes shall be placed in such a manner that one … more
Date: June 28, 1887
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C. & Marshall, Sumner B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Franco-Texan Land Co.

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and text reading: "The Company Has a large amount of lands for sale or lease in Parker, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Shackelford, Callahan, Jones, Taylor, Nolan, Fisher and Mitchell counties"; "Lands Will be sold in Tracts to suit purchasers, and either for cash or long credit. The Company has no Local Agents. Apply direct to this office." Letterhead includes the names A. J. Hoo… more
Date: 1889
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Breckenridge 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: 1890
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 32.75 -98.75
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton-choppers by using a crown-wheel attached to one of the ground-wheels of the chopper. When the ground wheels impart motion to the crown wheel, which in turn communicates motion to the pinions of the shaft. This shaft drives the two sprocket-wheels; the sprocket wheel that located in the rear portions of the crank-shaft imparts motion to the crank-shaft, which drives the vertical choppers. Illustration is included.
Date: May 12, 1891
Creator: Baggett, Neil Jefferson
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Albany 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 32.75 -99.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Albany 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: 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 32.75 -99.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Live Stock Agency

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes cattle illustration and stylized business name with text reading: "We Refer, By Permission, To Merchants and Farmers National Bank, Weatherford Texas. First National Bank, Cisco, Texas. City National Bank, Corsicana, Texas. Texas Loan Agency, Corsicana, Texas. Stock Traders Bank, Strawn, Texas. Ward & Black, Bankers, Breckenridge, Texas. Burton, Lingo & Co., Fort Worth, Texas"; "Cattle Bought and Sold … more
Date: 1896
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Breckenridge 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: 1897
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 32.75 -98.75
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Map of Stephens County.

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1897
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Rabbit Hunt in Gunsight, Texas]

Description: Copy slide of a photograph of mostly men wearing lined up to begin a rabbit hunt. Some of the men are seated on the ground and others are standing holding leaves. There is text below the photograph reading "Club 2243 Scalps May 27, 1897".
Date: May 22, 1897
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: McMurry University Library
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