Photograph of a Delegates Certificate for the County Alliance of Denton, Texas from July 12th, 1886. A State Democratic Convention ribbon from Houston, Texas, 1892, is also visible. It is sign by J.W. cook, president and Charles A. McMeans, secretary.

Minutes of the Organization and First Annual Session of the Denton County Baptist Association. The booklet contains the list of delegates and the location of their churches, constitution, rules of order, and the declaration of faith of the association.

This delegates certificate includes the minutes of a meeting held on July 12th, 1886 in which the officers and representatives were selected. The certificate lists all of the representatives chosen.

Overview of the north Texas region encompassing Collin, Denton, Fannin, and Grayson Counties for potential visitors, including information about the landscape and climate, the farming and ranching industries, notable persons and businesses, and other information about the area. A description appeared in The Sunday Gazetteer [Denison, TX, Dec. 19, 1886, p.3] which described it: "This book is a quarto volume handsomely gotten up in pamphlet form, and elaborately illustrated with wood engravings. It gives short biographical sketches of prominent men of North Texas, and also pen and pencil pictures of various stock farms, business houses and private residences of the cities and surrounding country of Denison, Sherman Gainesville, Denton, Honey Grove, McKinney, etc., as well as the more important ones of the Indian Nation." Another article that appeared in the Denton Record-Chronicle on Feb. 19, 1927, section 9, p.1, hints to the provenance of the library's copy. It states that, the C. C. Bell household had a copy because "Bell is one of the land-owners who paid at the rate of about $30 per photo to be represented in the 40-page bulletin." The C. C. Bell homestead was, "east of what is now Bell Avenue...was later destroyed by fire." A …