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Maverick County

Description: Map of Maverick County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. The road from Eagle Pass to Laredo, Texas is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 1, 1863
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Maverick County

Description: Map of Maverick County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. The road from Eagle Pass to Laredo, Texas is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: May 1874
Creator: Jessen, A.
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Maverick County

Description: Map of Maverick County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. The road from Eagle Pass to Laredo, Texas is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1875
Creator: Arlitt, F. H.
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Maverick County

Description: Map of Maverick County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. The road from Eagle Pass to Laredo, Texas is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 1878
Creator: Langermann, A. B.
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Maverick County

Description: Map of Maverick County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. The road from Eagle Pass to Laredo, Texas is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 1878
Partner: Texas General Land Office

[Northern Mexico (1)]

Description: Map of the U.S. Postal Service mail stations and routes in parts of Texas and Mexico, showing the beginnings and endings of routes, the frequency of the mail delivery (e.g. two times a week), special supply routes, and discontinued offices. The map also includes railroads, major towns, and county and country lines.
Date: 1880?
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Post Route Map of the State of Texas with Adjacent Parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Indian Territory and of the Republic of Mexico 1881 (5).

Description: Map of U.S. Postal Service mail stations and routes in Presidio, Crockett, Kinney, and Maverick Counties and western Mexico, showing the beginning and end of routes, the frequency of the mail delivery (e.g. six times a week), special supply routes, and discontinued offices. The map also includes railroads, major towns, bodies of water, and county lines.
Date: 1881
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Shawl Strap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved shawl strap. This design "relates to shawl, book, and other straps, and has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, and efficient article, which can be used with packages of any size, and fastened thereto easily and quickly without applying buckles to the ends of the straps" (lines 8-13).
Date: August 19, 1884
Creator: Tharp, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Eagle Pass 1885 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Eagle Pass in Maverick 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

Map of Maverick County, Texas

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Maverick County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, pastures, roads, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in red pencil and appear to denote the addition of roads. Scale [ca. 1:266,666] (6000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1890
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Newspaper-File.

Description: Patent for improvements in newspaper-holders by using a long metallic “piece bent at its upper end to form a spring and a means of suspension for the holder, and also bent at its lower end to form a similar spring and a hand-grasp, an upper and a lower loop connected to the bent ends of the metallic piece, and a retaining-tongue pivotally connected to the lower loop and having a hooked end for engaging the upper loop” (lines 82-89) to hold the newspaper. Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Jaehnig, Charles H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chas. Fessmann

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name with text reading: "Dealer in Wines, Liquors and Cigars, And Agent for the Anheuser-Bush Keg and Bottle Beer."
Date: 1892
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Maverick County

Description: Map of Maverick County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 1892
Creator: Warren, W. H.
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Newspaper File.

Description: Patent for a new and improved newspaper file. This design "is adapted and designed to be laid upon a table or placed in the usual rack or suspended by a hook, and . . . it may be held in one hand by means of its handle at the base while perusing the paper" (lines 17-22). It consists, "with a standard formed at or near its upper and lower ends . . . with a suitable perforation extending through the same from the back to the front thereof, of springs arranged upon the back of the standard, one ne… more
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Jaehnig, Charles H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Desk Receptacle.

Description: Patent for a "novel, convenient, and ornamental bottle or receptacle, adapted to contain ink, a sponge, or the like, combined with a pin-cushion and a pen-wiper" (lines 11-14), with illustrations.
Date: January 17, 1893
Creator: Carolan, Eugene P.; Terrell, Edward H. & Terrell, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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