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Map of Asylum Lands

Description: Survey map of land grants for "blind and lunatic asylums" in Shackelford, Jones, Taylor, and Calhoun Counties, showing blocks of land and plat numbers. The map also includes rivers, creeks, and areas of elevation. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:70,000] (2000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1857
Creator: Creuzbaur, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Haskell County, Young Land District

Description: Cadastral map of Haskell County and the Young surveying district, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, rivers, and creeks. No scale indicated.
Date: July 20, 1859
Creator: Von Rosenberg, W.
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Jones County

Description: Map of Jones County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: August 5, 1859
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Jones County

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Jones County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, and blocks of land. A diagram and scale information of a section is included in the upper-right corner. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil about field notes pertaining to labeling and drawing plots of land. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1874
Creator: Gast, August
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Map of Jones County, Texas.

Description: Map shows land tract boundaries and block and tract numbers, land ownership, land district boundary line, roads and trails; portions of adajcent counties where property lines extend beyond county limits. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:133,334].
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Jones County, Texas.

Description: Map shows land tract boundaries and block and tract numbers, land ownership, land district boundary line, roads and trails; portions of adajcent counties where property lines extend beyond county limits. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:133,334].
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Jones County

Description: Cadastral map of Jones County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Some properties are outlined in color and marked, including the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the Orphan Asylum, and the Blind Asylum lands. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: May 1879
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Jones County

Description: Map of Jones County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Orphan Asylum and Blind Asylum Lands are marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: May 8, 1879
Creator: Wise, Louis C.
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Jones County

Description: Map of Jones County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Orphan Asylum and Blind Asylum lands are marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1884
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "the sill-beams, grooved . . . the trip-bars secured in said grooves and pivotally supported at one end, and connections between the opposite ends of the trip-bars and the gate" (lines 83-87).
Date: September 14, 1886
Creator: Tipton, Phylander S.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate Hinge.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists of "the post or base section, having a perforated plate, the edges of which are bent up and formed with flanges and notches, and provided with the plate connected with the body of plate and separated . . . from the portions thereof, the gate-section having a depending arm, fitted to enter the perforation in the base, and having a second arm fitted for connection with the gate, and the roller, journaled on second said arm" (lines 90-99).
Date: December 7, 1886
Creator: Olinger, David J.
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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
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Cotton-Harvester

Description: Patent for improvements in construction and arrangement of machines that harvest cotton.
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Cunningham Sr., James Franklin
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Anson 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: 1891
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 32.75 -99.75
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame.

Description: Patent for an improvement in quilting-frames by making one roller adjustable in which it can be turned in either direction from the opposite side of the device. Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Martin, Enoch
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[Letter from Henry Sayles to Tax Collector in Roby, Fisher County, January 11, 1892]

Description: Letter from Henry Sayles to a tax collector in Roby, Texas inquiring about purchasing land that may partially be located in Fisher county, expressing the desire to purchase the land and pay any taxes necessary on the Fisher county section. On the back of the letter is a stationary header from Buie and Hanna's Land Agency, upon which several section and certification numbers for different pieces of land have been written in pencil along with a calculated price.
Date: January 11, 1892
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Cotton-Harvester.

Description: Patent for improvements to cotton harvesting devices, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 15, 1892
Creator: Cunningham, James F. & Dingee, William W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Anson 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 -99.75
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Roby 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 -100.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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