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[Transcript of minutes for a meeting held by the citizens of Lexington, Texas, April 23, 1836]

Description: Copy of transcript for minutes of a meeting held by the citizens of Lexington, Texas to discuss the ongoing revolution. The minutes also include a draft of a statement to be forwarded to the United States Congress, as well as a statement written by Sam Houston regarding military affairs.
Date: April 23, 1836
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Lee County

Description: Map of Lee County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. The center of Lee County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: July 1874
Creator: Jessen, A.
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Plow Gage.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow gauge. This design "may be adjusted as desired without loosening the connection of the share with the plow-stock, and that when it is desired to shift or change the stock, it may be readily done by running off [a] nut and swinging the bar and shoe forward on the hinge and entirely free from the bolt connections of the plowshare" (lines 73-80).
Date: September 18, 1883
Creator: Holt, Theodore
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bastrop Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1885
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 30.25 -97.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Giddings 1885 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Giddings in Lee County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Taylor Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1885
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 30.75 -97.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Taylor Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1887
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 30.75 -97.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Map of Lee County.

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1888
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Baling Press

Description: Patent for the "new and improved Baling-Press which is very simple and durable in construction, and is very easily operated by hand or other power" (lines 4-10) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new baling-press, including illustrations.
Date: April 10, 1888
Creator: Mattijetz, Andreas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tramper Attachment for Cotton-Presses

Description: Patent for "an improvement in tramper attachments for cotton-presses, and has for its object to provide a tramper of simple, durable, and economical construction, which may be readily applied to any press, and which is designed to be operated by steam" (lines 8-14).
Date: March 12, 1889
Creator: Schkade, August
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Map of Lee County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Lee County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, the Old San Antonio Road, and railroads. Hand drawn lines have been made on the published map in red ink. Scale [ca. 1:228,571] (6000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1890
Creator: Maxcy, J. W. & Wynne, Amos
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Baling-Press

Description: Patent for "an exceedingly rapid baling of the hay, to provide for the easy transportation of the press and the power employed in connection therewith, and to provide for the adjustment of the size of the baling-chamber" (lines 9-13).
Date: February 25, 1890
Creator: Mattijetz, Andreas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in a plow-beam "having a downwardly-projecting extension or arm at its rear end and a plow-standard pivoted to the beam in front of said extension, of a plate connecting said standard and extension and adapted to slide vertically thereon and an adjusting screw for operating said plate" (lines 1-7).
Date: September 9, 1890
Creator: Swiedom, Ernst J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riding Saddle.

Description: Patent for an improved design for the riding saddle, including illustrations.
Date: December 28, 1890
Creator: Northrup, Julius Don
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Giddings 1891 Sheet 1

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

Giddings 1891 Sheet 2

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

Car-Replacer.

Description: Patent for improvements in car-replacers by using a jack-screw with a swiveled rest secured on top. The swiveled rest consists of an oblong box having rollers projecting above its upper edge. A windlass with a rope is journeyed in the jack-screw, passing through the swiveled rest, over a pulley and out of one end of the rest; the rope end having a hook or other suitable means for connecting it with the car. When the windlass is turned, “the car-body is moved laterally upon the rollers until … more
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: White, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Fence Machine.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in wire-fence machines" (lines 12-13), including illustrations.
Date: October 6, 1891
Creator: Darden, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Trap.

Description: Patent for improvements in bait-trigger traps for catching small animals, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 15, 1891
Creator: Edwards, Joseph H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for improvements to a press that bales hay. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 15, 1892
Creator: Mattijetz, Andreas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Trap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved insect trap. This design is "for catching such insects as are attracted by light, more especially cotton-flies, potato-bugs, and the like" (lines 11-13). It consists "of a frame having a bottom provided with an approximately star-shaped opening, the transparent walls mounted in the frame and forming re-entrant angles and providing entrance-openings and being adjustable to vary the size of the entrance openings, a receptacle arranged beneath the opening in the botto… more
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Edwards, Joseph H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metallic Railroad-Tie

Description: Patent for an improvement on metallic railroad ties that is "simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to prevent the spreading of the rails and displacement of the ties in the railroad-bed" (lines 9-12).
Date: December 13, 1892
Creator: Mattijetz, Andreas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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