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DeWitt County

Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering DeWitt County, Texas. The road from Victoria to LaGrange, Texas is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

Date: November 1853

Creator: Pressler, Charles W.

Item Type: Map

Partner: Texas General Land Office

Preliminary survey of the entrance to the Rio Grande, Texas

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Includes text on soundings and tides. "I no. 2." "No. 40."

Date: 1854

Creator: United States Coast Survey

Item Type: Map

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Improved Mode of Regulating the Velocity and Furling the Sails of Wind-Wheels.

Patent for a new windmill using different parts to help regulate the sails and for folding and unfolding the sails, including illustration.

Date: March 24, 1857

Creator: Witting, F. W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for the improvement of the cotton press using a cam-lever for operating the side of the press-box with two different application of power, including illustration.

Date: February 16, 1858