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Automatic Fire Extinguisher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fire extinguisher. This design is "to provide for automatically putting out a fire in any building in which [the] apparatus may be located, upon the temperature in said building or room reaching any predetermined degree. This result is accomplished by the action of an expansible fluid—such as mercury—in a contained vessel, which actuates certain . . . mechanism, causing the structure to be flooded with water or with a fire-extinguishing gas or fluid" (lines 22-32).
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Fuller, Wily Scott
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chart of Sabine Pass, Texas : From the survey of December, 1889, made under the direction of Captain W. L. Fisk.

Description: Map shows street layout, railroads, and docks for the town of Sabine Pass; navigational detail for the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to Sabine Lake; quarantine, lighthouse, and other points along the shoreline. Depths shown by soundings and contours. Scale [ca. 1:7,500].
Date: 1890
Creator: Bell, A. C
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Chart of Sabine Pass, Texas : From the survey of December, 1889, made under the direction of Captain W. L. Fisk.

Description: Map shows street layout, railroads, and docks for the town of Sabine Pass; navigational detail for the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to Sabine Lake; quarantine, lighthouse, and other points along the shoreline. Depths shown by soundings and contours. Scale [ 1:7,500 ].
Date: 1890
Creator: Bell, A. C
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

School Children in 1894

Description: Photograph of a group of twenty-five schoolchildren posed with their female teacher. There are fourteen girls and eleven boys. The girls wear dresses, four wear pinafores, and one has bows in her hair. The boys wear knickers with jackets and large collars. The school teacher wears a black dress. Behind the group is dark open doorway and a shuttered window.
Date: 1894
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Heritage House Museum

Orange 1896 Sheet 6

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1891 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1896 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1896 Sheet 7

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1896 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1896 Sheet 5

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1896 Sheet 10

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1891 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1891 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1891 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1896 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Orange 1896 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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