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Titus County [Texas]

Description: Map shows plats and ownership, railroads, towns, creeks and rivers; boundaries for adjacent counties where property lines cross Titus County limits; bullseye rings centered on Mount Pleasant. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1919
Creator: W. A. Burton and Co.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Combined Broom and Cloth Hanger.

Description: Patent for a combined broom and cloth hanger, which allows a broom to be quickly engaged and supported at any desired elevation above the user's floor. It can also be folded against the wall when the broom is not in use, "...whereby the ordinary broom cover...can be conveniently clamped and held securely in position between the lower end of the bracket and against the support by passing the broom cover over and through the rods when the hanger is in a receiving position" (lines 24-30).
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Ussery, Walter R. & Cook, Enoch J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mount Pleasant 1911 Sheet 6

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1911
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Mount Pleasant 1911 Sheet 5

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1911
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Mount Pleasant 1911 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1911
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Mount Pleasant 1911 Sheet 7

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1911
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Mount Pleasant 1911 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1911
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Mount Pleasant 1911 Sheet 8

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1911
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Mount Pleasant 1911 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1911
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Mount Pleasant 1911 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1911
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Box-Cabinet

Description: Patent for cabinets which are "adapted to hold boxes of the kind used by druggists, as containers for medicines and small objects" (lines 9-11).
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Hines, Bascom L. & Johnson, Mannon G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing Machine

Description: Patent for a washing machine. This invention consists of cooperating rotary rubbers.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Hollingsworth, James Hollis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Terrace-Marker.

Description: Patent for a terrace-marker that has "improved means for quickly and conveniently marking or laying out and leveling terraces which shall be light and consequently easily portable, durable and inexpensive to manufacture" (lines 13-17) including an illustration.
Date: January 15, 1918
Creator: Norris, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Cattle-Gate

Description: Patent for a gate or guard to be positioned on a railroad track to prevent cattle or persons crossing the railroad track from turning up or down the track, and so avoid injury or death to cattle or persons. It is designed to be automatically activated by the passing train, and is of a simple design that is inexpensive to construct.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Seay, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Frog

Description: Patent for railway frog which "will tend to minimize the danger of train derailment at switch crossings" (lines 12-13).
Date: July 30, 1918
Creator: Jackson, George Ferris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for a device which effectively burns "kerosene, gasoline, naphtha or crude oil" (lines15-16) in a bunsen-burner fashion that is also easy to manufacture and cheap to maintain.
Date: July 20, 1915
Creator: Veach, Joshua H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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