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Coyote Wisdom

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Mexico and Texas, including animal folk stories, Navajo creation myths, discussions about folk characters, discussions about the philosophy of folklore, and other miscellaneous folk stories. The index begins on page 293.
Date: 1938
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
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Clothes Pin

Description: Patent for a single piece wire clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: February 27, 1906
Creator: Rumfield, Henry I. & Donaho, James R.
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General Highway Map Madison County, Texas

Description: Highway map of Madison County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, oil fields, utility lines, petroleum pipelines, and state prison farms. Map includes two inset maps - North Zulch and Midway - a key to counties diagram, and an extensive legend indicating geographical and human-made features. Handwritten notes and calculat… more
Date: 1961
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Youngland District

Description: Blueline print of survey map of Youngland District, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, and land grants. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map. No scale information given.
Date: 1857
Creator: Matthews, R. H.
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[Map of Madison County]

Description: Map of Madison County, Texas, showing towns, creeks, and blocks of land. Map includes a legend corresponding to the owners of the blocks of land in the lower-right corner.
Date: unknown
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La Bahia Road

Description: Map of the historic La Bahía Road, showing counties, towns, creeks, rivers, and blocks of land. Map includes compass rose and scale bar in the lower-right corner. Scale [ca. 1:1,520,640] (24 miles to the inch or 3 miles to 1/8 of an inch).
Date: unknown
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Madison Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Madison County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, and towns. Hand drawn lines have been added to the published map in red pencil to denote the addition of La Bahia Road and San Antonio Road. At the intersection of La Bahia Road and San Antonio Road, the annotation "Robbins Ferry" has been added. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1922
Creator: Matzow, Fr.
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Baling Press.

Description: Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the frame, drum, the power-ropes to be wound thereon, and the platen combined with the levers having rounded upper and lower ends to operate in rounded sockets in the said platen and the upper part of the frame and the toggle-joints near the centers of the said levers, comprising the rounded projection on one of the members adapted to fit a corresponding cavity or recess in the adjacent end of the other member, the lateral ear… more
Date: May 15, 1888
Creator: Bartle, John Nelson
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Automatic Railway Signal.

Description: Patent for a new and improved railroad signal. This design, "[w]hen the wheels of a passing train come in contact with the spring and bent end of the lever . . . said end is lowered or depressed, causing the movement in the same direction of the outer end of said lever, which, through the agency of the wire, will cause the ringing or sounding of the gong or bell as the wheels . . . come in contact with the end of the lever. . . .[A]fter the wheels of the last car of a train have passed the poin… more
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Ross, Albert James & Darter, John T.
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Corn or Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient adjustable corn or cotton planter. It has a frame, ground-wheel, furrow opening and closing apparatuses, a hopper, seeding devices, a crank-arm, an agitator shift, a set-screw, a crank-pin, and bearings on the sides of the hopper.
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Brown, Mathias
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