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Bonham 1888 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bonham in Fannin County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Honey Grove 1888 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Honey Grove in Fannin County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Bonham 1888 Sheet 5

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bonham in Fannin County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Bonham 1888 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bonham in Fannin County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Bonham 1888 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bonham in Fannin County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Honey Grove 1888 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Honey Grove in Fannin County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Honey Grove 1888 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Honey Grove in Fannin County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Bonham 1888 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bonham in Fannin County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1888
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Spring-Motor for Fans

Description: Patent for "a device for operating a fan or other object to which it is desirable to give a continuous reciprocating motion" (lines 12-15).
Date: October 2, 1888
Creator: Houston, George Webster
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Laying the Cornerstone of the Fannin County Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of the laying of the cornerstone of the Fannin County Courthouse in May, 1888. The ceremony was performed by a Masonic order, and they are identifiable in the photograph as individuals wearing white aprons around their waists. A man standing in a platform at center guides the cornerstone down to its place. The stone, a giant beige brick, hangs from above. A crowd of spectators, many wearing hats, are gathered around the ceremony.
Date: May 1888
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.577553 -96.178630
Partner: Fannin County Museum of History

Plow Point.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow-point. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the double mold-board rigidly fixed to the curved beam in the rear of the lower end thereof, of the point having symmetrical corners and lugs adapted to pass beneath the front edge of said mold-board and prevent rocking of the point upon the beam, to which alone it is attached, and bolts securing said point in position" (lines 65-73).
Date: May 22, 1888
Creator: Martin, Isaac Jasper
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Power Fan.

Description: Patent for a new and improved power fan. This design consists in "the combination of the slowly-revolving spring-barrel and the toothed gearing, the pitman-rod operated from the revolving gearing by a crank, the fan-lever connected to the pitman-rod, a weight sliding upon the fan-lever, and a ratchet mechanism for automatically raising the sliding weight" (lines 78-84).
Date: January 10, 1888
Creator: Mason, James Alexander; Mulkey, Elijah F. & Houston, George W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting Frame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved quilting-frame. This design consists in "the combination, with a suspended track-beam, of a block carrying at the upper end journaled wheels which travel on said beam, a quilting-frame swiveled to said block and having inside loops at the lower end, and the quilting-roll end plates movable through said loops, as shown, whereby the quilt may be balanced, turned in a horizontal plane to a greater or less degree, and fed to the sewing machine" (lines 52-61).
Date: June 26, 1888
Creator: Vestal, Charles A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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