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Youngland District

Description: Blueline print of survey map of Youngland District, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, and land grants. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map. No scale information given.
Date: 1857
Creator: Matthews, R. H.
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Brazos County

Description: Map of Brazos County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch)
Date: 1867
Creator: Stremme, C. C.
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Improvement in Gang-Plow.

Description: Patent for improvement in gang-plow by using an adjustable slotted cross-bar to enable the “plow-beams to oscillate, so that their landsides are always vertical, however uneven the ground may be.” (Lines 20-21) “This tool can also regulate the depth of the plows in the ground whereby the depth of furrow is adjusted.” (Lines 24-25) Illustration is included.
Date: April 20, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for improvement in cultivators by using adjustable screw-rods from the ends of short laterally-vibrating levers to suspend the cultivator-beams in the front; the levers are arranged to be operated by an attendant’s feet. Illustration is included.
Date: September 28, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
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Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Description: Patent for "constructing and arranging a gang or series of plows in one frame that they may have an adjustment on the supporting-runners, and a means of self-adjustment vertically, so that they may be set for furrow-slices of any given depth, and any one of the series may give way to an undue resistance in the line of the furrow without disturbing any other of the plows." (Lines 20-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
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Coffee-Roaster.

Description: Patent for a coffee roaster that intends to "supply a ready and cheap means of effectually stirring the grains of coffee while being roasted in any convenient and suitable vessel...(lines 6-9). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date: November 23, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
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Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Description: Patent for "a gang-plow, which is so arranged that the beams can be adjusted sideways and up and down at will, and can be permanently secured in any desired position in either movement." (Lines 17-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 30, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
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Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for improvement in plows: "The invention consists in so attaching a revolving disk, cutter, or colter to the beam of the plow that it will rotate on its own axis, and vibrate laterally, to accommodate itself to the line of draft or direction of the beam of the plow; also, in the means used by which the revolving cutter or colter is attached to the beam of the plow, and having the means of swiveling or turning in the beam to accommodate itself to the line of draft of the plow" (lines 22-3… more
Date: December 28, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brazos County

Description: Map of Brazos County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1871~
Creator: Lungkwitz, Herman
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Bryan 1877 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bryan in Brazos County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1877
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
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Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Improvement in Toilet-Cabinets

Description: Patent for improved toilet cabinets in order to better arrange "cabinets for containing sewing, writing, and shaving materials and various other articles" (lines 8-10). Provides instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1879
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato C.
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Improvement in Vises

Description: Patent for new construction for vises that will "enable the vise to be set and secutured in any desired position and thus hold the work in a position convenient to the operator" (lines 8-10).
Date: November 4, 1879
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato C.
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Game Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a game device, designed for any number of players and in a bowling alley setting or similar. Included are illustrations of the device and instructions for building the device and how to play the game.
Date: March 30, 1880
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
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Corn and Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton planter. This design "is an improvement in the class of rolling-hopper planters; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the devices whereby the hopper is attached to the beams or frame of the machine" (lines 8-12).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Howard, Joseph
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