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Alabama.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Alabama travel routes, cities, and towns. Scale [1:3,200,000].
Date: [1890..1910]
Creator: C.S. Hammond & Company
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Battlefield of Dinwiddie C.H. fought Friday, March 31st, 1865: Union Calvary Forces commanded by Maj. Gen. P.H. Sheridan, U.S.A.

Description: Map shows Union and Confederate fortifications in Dinwiddie area of Virginia, the Columbus area of Georgia, and the Montgomery and Plantersville areas of Alabama; landowners, roads, and railroads; layout and street names for Montgomery and Columbus. Includes reference and notes. Inset, map of Montgomery: Profile of works on line marked (b). Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1891..1895]
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Campaign maps (numbers 1 to 11 inclusive): showing position of 20th Army corps on march from Atlanta, Ga. to Savannah, Ga. with dates and Union and Rebel defenses.

Description: Map shows troop locations, fortifications, railroads, canals, roads, cities, towns, settlements, ferries, and bridges. Includes index and notes. Inset [map no. 4]: "Milledgeville and its defenses." Relief shown by hachures. Scales differ.
Date: [1891..1895]
Creator: United States. Topographical Bureau.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Gulf Coast of the United States : Key West to Rio Grande.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Gulf of Mexico coastal detail. Includes notes and and tables: "Gulf Stream currents," "Abbreviations of Bottoms," "Light Houses," and "Weather Signal Stations." Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:1,200,000].
Date: 1892
Creator: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Genealogy by Blanche Perry]

Description: Unbound compiled genealogy of various branches of the families related to Blanche Perry with various transcribed documents about several key family members. Also included are a copy of the funeral program for Blanche Perry, and obituaries of James Dewitt Garrett, Hattie Garrett Rivers, and Mrs. J. W. Rivers.
Date: 1895/1990
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

Post route map of the State of Florida with adjacent parts of Georgia and Alabama also the neighboring West India Islands showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of February 1891.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century counties, railroads, mail routes, swamps, cities, and towns in Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, and the West Indies. Includes "explanation of mail service." Scale [1:760,320].
Date: 1891
Creator: United States Post Office Dept.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Genealogy by Blanche Perry #2]

Description: Unbound compiled genealogy of various branches of the families related to Blanche Perry with various transcribed documents about several key family members. Also included are a copy of the funeral program for Blanche Perry, and obituaries of James Dewitt Garrett, Hattie Garrett Rivers, and Mrs. J. W. Rivers.
Date: 1895/1990
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

Mechanical Movement.

Description: Patent for improvements in mechanical movements by using the “combination of the frame comprising the base, the standard rising from one end of the base, the up-rights rising from the other end of the base, the horizontal bars connecting the standard ………….and reversely coiled around the shaft adjacent the operating-lever at points near the ends of shaft and having its ends secured to the ends of the cross-bar of the operating-lever.” (Lines 6-23, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date: October 27, 1891
Creator: Skaggs, Newton J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Railway.

Description: Patent for an electric railway that has the electric conductor on or under the ground, in a tube. The tube gets electricity to the trains via contact-pieces embedded in the tube, and it collapses whenever the train wheels go over it. The tube and conductor are kept safe in a u-shaped hanger underground.
Date: January 12, 1897
Creator: Lomb, George W. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Alabama & Texas Cattle Co.

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs, cattle illustrations, business name, and text reading: "Alabama & Texas Cattle Co., of Mobile Ala."; "Ranch in Borden and Scurry Counties, Texas"; "Brand kept up"; "Stock horses." Letterhead contains the names A. P. Bush; A. P. Bush Jr.; T. G. Bush.
Date: 1891
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Self Cigar-Lighter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved self-lighting cigar that has "[a]n attachment for cigars, consisting of a metallic holder having spring-arms . . . and a projecting portion adapted to hold the igniting composition, and a disk adapted to bear upon the outer end of the cigar" (lines 6-11).
Date: June 3, 1890
Creator: West, Thomas & Turner, Ephraim M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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