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["House In Richmond, Texas Across Road From Entrance To Morton Cemetary"]

Description: Postcard image of "HOUSE IN RICHMOND, TEXAS ACROSS ROAD FROM ENTRANCE TO MORTON CEMETARY C. 1895" as noted in handwriting on back of postcard. A fence is in the foreground with two women standing behind the fence in the front yard. A small tree is on the left side of the photo. The house is a one story building with a chimney on the right side.
Date: 1895~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Image
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Four Danevang Homes

Description: Postcard of a composite image of four homes belonging to the Danevang family. They are all two-story structures but vary in architectural details, number of windows, construction materials, and landscape elements. The two on top look to be more suburban in setting, while the two on the bottom appear to be located in a rural environment. There is no addressee on the back of the postcard, but various notes have been written on it. Rough, black patches of paper remain from wherever it was torn out… more
Date: 1895/1995
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Joyce Family Outside of a Home]

Description: Photograph of the Joyce family posing in front of a house. Three women and two men stand in the back row, with the two men holding very young children. Two elderly men and a woman sit beside a younger woman who is flanked by a standing boy and girl. The blurry image of a dog can be seen to the right. Two of the people present are identified as John Dell Joyce and Sarah Abigail Joyce.
Date: 1895~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[J.T. Dyer Home and family, Morton St, Richmond, TX.]

Description: Photo of J.T. Dyer Home and family, Morton St, Richmond, TX. Two story Victorian home with white picket fence around yard. Four lightning rods on top of house. Windmill and cistern in back of house at right. Horse-drawn surrey driven by African American man in left foreground. Group of three people--blond white child on a pony, African American boy, white man I(J.T. Dyer) in dark suit and hat--in right foreground. Boy on upper porch and heavy woman sitting on windowsill on second story. P… more
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

My Crysanthenums

Description: Photograph of Susan Bartholomew sitting at a table with multiple containers full of chrysanthemums. She is wearing a dark dress and has her hair tied up in a braid.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

[Trees in front of the J.H.P. Davis house]

Description: Photograph of the J.H.P. Davis house. The house is a white wooden two story home with first and second story porches. The porches have wooden railing and round white columns for support. This photograph shows the north/east fa�ade of the house. Note the water tank to the west (right of photo) side of the house that was built in September - October 1895 and was painted by December 21, 1895. Brick chimneys are visible on the east and west sides of the house. There is a portico on the east side… more
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

House-Moving Truck.

Description: Patent for a simple, easy to use house-moving truck that goes under the sills of a house after it has been lifted from its foundation. It has "a swiveled caster, which is held in place by means of removable plates and braced by removable rods held in eyes of screw-rods, which pass through the bed-plate of the device and engage in the sleepers or sills of the building to be moved" (lines 19-24).
Date: September 10, 1895
Creator: Davis, Mace
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Screen-Operating Mechanism for WIndow-Screens.

Description: Patent for a screen-operating mechanism for window-screens. It is meant to hide the mechanism from view and to improve the way the screen is raised and lowered. It also moves the "upper sash in one direction moves the screen in the reverse direction, the construction being such that the motion-transmitting gearing does not in any manner interfere with the use of ordinary window-sashes balanced by weights or springs, or the use of sashes of which the upper one only is movable" (lines 24-30).
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Leary, Frank S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Furnace.

Description: Patent for a simple, durable, and effective furnace that uses fuel economically and does not release smoke and gases besides out of the chimney. The furnace has a suction fan that draws the gases into the chimney.
Date: April 2, 1895
Creator: Wainright, Walter Wallace
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Residence of E. D. Harrington, 1895]

Description: Photograph of the recently-completed residence of E. D. Harrington, a one-story house with a pyramid roof, a wide awning along the front door, and a picket fence around the yard. Several boxes and a horse are in the left half of the yard, and the family stands under the awning on the front porch. A windmill is visible in the background. The house's roof was burned down later, and the Harringtons moved to a different house on Loraine Street.
Date: 1895
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Mims Home, Midland]

Description: Photograph of the Mims house on South Baird Street in Midland, a two-story wooden house with, two chimneys, an arched entrance extending over the entryway, gable roofing, and a bay window jutting out from the side of the structure. The Mims family stands against the picket fence, behind which are trees and large bushes.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[First Section House in Germania]

Description: Photograph of the first section house built in Germania, Midland County, for Texas and Pacific railway workers. The section house sits behind the railway, and is a narrow two-story wooden frame building with a gable roof and a picket fence next to the railway. Workers stand on the railway, a handcar on the rails, a child playing with a shovel next to the rails, and several women standing behind, nearer to the picket fence.
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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